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Wagner meets Adele. Beethoven meets Beyoncé. Stravinsky meets Kanye and Daft Punk. Get ready for the most ambitious pop-classical concert mash-up yet from Steve Hackman, the composer-producer behind wildly popular mashups like Brahms V. Radiohead and Beethoven V. Coldplay. This brand new mash-up — Harder, Better, Faster, Stravinsky — weaves together pop-classical matches like Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture with Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way,” and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony with Muse’s “Uprising” and Chance the Rapper’s “Paranoia,” creating a compelling musical landscape that is both strikingly modern and enchantingly classical...

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Wagner meets Adele. Beethoven meets Beyoncé. Stravinsky meets Kanye and Daft Punk. Get ready for the most ambitious pop-classical concert mash-up yet from Steve Hackman, the composer-producer behind wildly popular mashups like Brahms V. Radiohead and Beethoven V. Coldplay. This brand new mash-up — Harder, Better, Faster, Stravinsky — weaves together pop-classical matches like Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture with Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way,” and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony with Muse’s “Uprising” and Chance the Rapper’s “Paranoia,” creating a compelling musical landscape that is both strikingly modern and enchantingly classical. Mash-up creator Steve Hackman conducts this special Seattle Symphony presentation, joined on stage by three vocalists and the full orchestra.

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