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<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present "Blue Planet," a program of works demonstrating multiple cultures through crossover genre, syncretic styles, and the African diaspora in the United States. With special guest Professor Marc Seales, piano.</p>
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<p>The UW Voice Program presents an adaptation of Haydn’s 1773 one-act <span>singspiel</span> <em>Philemon und Baucis,</em> a tragicomic tale in two parts inspired by Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses.</em></p>
<p>Stage direction by Kelly Kitchens. With members of the UW Symphony Orchestra, Daren Weissfisch, conductor.</p>
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<p><span><span>The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) presents a year-end performance shared with the UW Steel Drum Band (Shannon Dudley, director).</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>The Steel Drum Band performs arrangements of calypso, salsa, reggae, soca, and other dance styles.</span></span></p>

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<p><span> </span>Faculty pianists Craig Sheppard and Cristina Valdés, faculty percussionist Bonnie Whiting, and Seattle principal timpanist James Benoit perform Béla Bartók's exhilarating and popular <span>Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, </span><span>Sz. 110, BB 115</span>. Also on the program: Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448 and Brahms' Waltzes, Op. 39.</p>
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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Igor Stravinsky, and Bizet/Shchedrin.</p>
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<p><strong>Monteverdi: </strong>Overture (Toccata) from <em>L´Orfeo </em></p>
<p><strong>Stravinsky: </strong>Pulcinella Suite</p>
<p><strong>Bizet/Shchedrin: </strong>Carmen Suite </p>
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<p>The Campus Band (Solomon Encina, conductor) and Concert Band (David Stewart, Yuman Wu, conductors) present "Passages," a program of music by Clifton Williams, Frank Ticheli, Masanori Taruya, Rossano Galante, Samuel Hazo, Fred J. Allen, and others. This concert also includes the debut of a new community ensemble, the University Band. </p>
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<h4>Concert Band</h4>

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<p><span>David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University of Washington Symphony and special guest, Michelle Cann, piano, in a program of music by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. With acclaimed pianist Michelle Cann, performing Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 with the orchestra. </span></p>
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<p>Faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday joins composer and virtuoso bandoneonist JP Jofre in his original nuevo tango compositions. The duo is joined by faculty pianist Cristina Valdés on several pieces arranged for piano trio.</p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>This performance has been cancelled.</strong></p>
<p class="p1">Faculty artists Cristina Valdés, Bonnie Whiting, Richard Karpen, Ben Lulich, Rachel Lee Priday, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, and Cyndia Sieden are joined by members of the UW Modern Music Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble in this performance of Steve Reich's seminal 1976 work for percussion. </p>
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<p><span>The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director), explores </span>North American Experimentalism from 1942-present in its collage concert "Credo in US (you and me)," performing John Cage's <em>Credo in US,</em> as well as works by Jonathan Bingham, Rich Burkhardt, Randolph Coleman, inti figgis-vizueta, Edward Miller, Juri Sea, and Sebastian Zhang.</p>
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