Through their patronage of Seattle bands, Sonic Youth " inadvertently nurtured " the grunge scene, and reinforced the fiercely independent attitudes of its musicians.

Other Los Angeles-area hardcore and punk groups included Wasted Youth, UXA, The Hollywood Squares, The Mau-Mau's, The Gears, Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, Vom, Dr. Know ( featuring former child star Brandon Cruz ), Legal Weapon and The Mentors ( originally from Seattle ), along with future underground stars NOFX.

Vilem Sokol of the Seattle Youth Symphony hosted Suzuki in Seattle.

The Homelessness Project, Seattle Youth Garden Works and YMCA's Working Zone help the homeless get training, jobs and housing.

Born in Seattle, Damon graduated from Tacoma, Washington's historic Stadium High School, moved to New York City at age 16 to pursue ballet and ultimately appeared in several Broadway productions, including Shinbone Alley, Foxy, Flora, The Red Menace, The Boys from Syracuse, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Cherry Orchard.

The Seattle Youth Symphony is the largest symphonic youth organization in the United States, and among the most distinguished.

From 1958 to 1989 it was home to the Seattle Youth Symphony's Pacific Northwest Music Camp and Marrowstone Music Festival every August.

United Methodist Youth from the Seattle / Tacoma district enjoy a weekend retreat there in mid-late fall.

Other screenwriting credits include Vanity Fair, The Tourist and From Time to Time, which he also directed, and which won Best Picture at the Chicago Children's Film Festival, the Youth Jury Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Picture at the Fiuggi Family Festival in Rome and the Young Jury Award at Cinemagic in Belfast.

He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Oregon Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, Chamber Music Northwest, the Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland and Oregon Ballet Theatre ( where he collaborated with choreographer James Canfield and visual artists Storm Tharp and Malia Jensen on a ballet based on the original story of Bambi, written by Felix Salten in 1923 ).

He was a French horn player in the Seattle Youth Symphony.

The station's playlist consisted of grunge rock ( which was called the " Seattle sound "), then-current national Alternative chart-toppers, and aforementioned rhythmic tracks, as well as songs from artists that modern rock station KNDD wouldn't play, such as Sonic Youth, The Meat Puppets, Stereolab, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

451 From ( Glenn Branca's ) group they learned to use unconventional tunings to bend otherwise standard pop songs completely out of shape, a trademark of Sonic Youth that, in Seattle, resonated as well as the dark side of their musical vision.

The Engberg family's affiliation with the Seattle Symphony has been subject to many subsequent embellishments, some of which have come from the Seattle Symphony organization itself ( including literature celebrating the Symphony's 2003 centennial ), that Mary Davenport Engberg was the Seattle Symphony's first female conductor, the first and only female conductor in the nation, that the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Civic Symphony merged in 1921, and that her son, Paul, played cello in the Seattle Symphony.

To retire the US $ 35, 000 debt from the Symphony's production of Aida, Seattle arts patrons founded PONCHO.

Benaroya occupies an entire city block in the center of the city and has helped double the Seattle Symphony's budget and number of performances.

The most famous of these projects are the Experience Music Project, Seattle Cinerama Theatre, the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, the Flying Heritage Collection ( airworthy vintage military aircraft ) and the Allen Telescope Array ( ATA ).

IWW organizing drives in recent years have included a major campaign to organize Borders Books in 1996, a strike at the Lincoln Park Mini Mall in Seattle that same year, organizing drives at Wherehouse Music, Keystone Job Corps, the community organization ACORN, various homeless and youth centers in

Another notable Seattle Center building, the Experience Music Project, was built nearly 40 years later and deliberately designed to fit in with the fairground atmosphere.

Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles ; Experience Music Project in Seattle ; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis ; Dancing House in Prague ; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany ; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto ; the Cinémathèque française in Paris ; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.

Uematsu at the Final Fantasy concerts # Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy | Distant Worlds concert on July 11, 2009 in Seattle, Washington

Robby replicas are currently on display at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington, and at the Metreon entertainment complex in San Francisco.

The EMP Museum ( formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame or EMP | SFM ) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of popular music, science fiction and pop culture located in Seattle, Washington.

" Frank Gehry ," remarked British-born, Seattle-based writer Jonathan Raban, " has created some wonderful buildings, like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, but his Seattle effort, the Experience Music Project, is not one of them.

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The Olympic Music Festival was voted " Best Classical Music Festival " by readers of The Seattle Weekly.

* December 2-Warner Music Group acquires a 49 percent share of Seattle record label Sub Pop in a deal believed to be worth over $ 30 million.

* Experience Music Project, original name of the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington, USA

A one-hour children's musical was recently adapted by Chad Henry and premiered in Seattle, Washington followed by a run at the North Shore Music Theatre.

Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in the Denny Triangle and Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, USA that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, Theater, Performance Production, Design, and Fine Art, as well as the Bachelor of Music degree.

* Lang, Morgan: " Futuresound: Techno Music and Mediation " University of Washington, Seattle, 1996.

Seattle, WA: Music Source Studios ( September 1989 )

* Music of Seattle

Stops included the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Exile on Bowery @ Bowery Electric in NYC and the GRAMMY Museum at L. A Live in Los Angeles. At the end of a week long RFTT tour in December 2011, Chrome announced to the band that he had decided to stop touring extensively after 2012. This has been misconstrued as his " retirement ", which is not the case. While he planned to honor any shows they booked in 2012, they chose to get another guitar player for the upcoming European tour in May 2012. Chrome remains a non-touring member of RFTT, and will record and perform with the band in the future.

Music Festival outside of Seattle, Washington which was recorded for broadcast and archive by NPR Music and KEXP-FM.

Though they insisted the reunion was short-term, the band regrouped once again in 2007 to perform Spiderland in its entirety in Barcelona as part of the Primavera Sound Festival, in London as part of the ATP Don't Look Back series of shows, as well as at a handful of dates in Europe, the U. S. ( at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, the Showbox in Seattle, and the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood ), and Canada.

He was involved with a spat with Australian prime minister Paul Keating, who called him a " recalcitrant " after he refused to attend the APEC summit in Seattle.

In 2010, an independent documentary film called Plug & Pray premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival, in which Kurzweil and one of his major critics, the late Joseph Weizenbaum, argue about the benefits of eternal life.

After the 2000 ALCS game against the Mariners where he knocked down future teammate Alex Rodriguez and then argued with him, Seattle Mariners manager Lou Piniella called Clemens a " headhunter.

The team was originally going to be called the Seattle Kings, but the name was dropped.

Electric buses, which use twin trolley poles ( one for live current, one for return ) but have wheels with tyres rolling on a hard surface rather than tracks, are called trolleybuses, trackless trolleys ( particularly in the Northeastern U. S .), or sometimes ( in the UK, as well as in Seattle and Vancouver ) simply trolleys.

Robert Christgau gave the album an A +, and Seattle Rocket critic Bruce Pavitt called Let It Be " mature diverse rock that could well shoot these regional boys into the national mainstream ".

Taking advantage of their proximity to Seattle and other urban centers, they opened casino and bingo parlor in Auburn, Washington called Muckleshoot Indian Casino and Muckleshoot Bingo.

The site, slightly expanded since the fair, is now called Seattle Center ; the United States Science Pavilion is now the Pacific Science Center.

Six months after the railroad reached Seattle came the depression called the Panic of 1893.

It also had a short lived ( 7 episode ) online television show, prior to the recent surge in videocasting and podcasting, called Seattle Wireless TV.

* South Lake Union, a neighborhood in Seattle, often called Allentown because of redevelopment led by Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc.

Microsoft's first operating system, MS-DOS, was originally called Quick and Dirty Operating System ( QDOS ), prior to its purchase from Seattle Computer Products.

In 2007, Del Naja and Davidge scored three soundtracks, In Prison My Whole Life ( which featured a track called " Calling Mumia " with vocals by American rapper Snoop Dogg ), Battle In Seattle and Trouble the Water.

Recently they've been competing in a game called the Battle in Seattle taking place at Seattle's CenturyLink Field before the even more traditional Cascade Cup game, although because of conference scheduling the two games were combined starting 2006.

While the IWW participated in the Seattle General Strike, that action was called by the Seattle Central Labor Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor ( AFL, predecessor of the AFL-CIO ).

The Seattle Central Labor Council called for a city-wide strike in support.

That same year, the women of Hunts Point formed the charitable organization-The Eastside Circle of the Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission ( later called The Overlake Service League ) which continues to this day.

Ravensdale was originally called Leary, after the name of Leary Coal Company, in turn named for John Leary, a Seattle coal speculator.

The treaty ceded land to the United States from Point Pully ( now called Three Tree Point south of Seattle ) to the British ( Canadian ) border in exchange for a variety of benefits, including land, education, health care and hunting and fishing rights.

A feud between the musicians and the board surfaced in 1948, and a majority of the musicians divorced themselves from the board and created a new orchestra called the Seattle Orchestra, a partnership ( collective ) operated by the musicians themselves, who chose Linden as their conductor.

The play then went on to a six-city tour, during which it was videotaped for film on the stage of the Moore Theater in Seattle, Washington, using a live editing process called Theatrovision.

In the 1996 grunge documentary, Hype !, Seattle engineer Jack Endino called Wood " the only stand-up comedian frontman in Seattle ," a reference to Wood's playful style of interacting with Mother Love Bone fans.