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Kris Davis Trio, featuring Robert Hurst & Johnathan Blake

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<p>University of Washington Jazz Studies presents a free show by the Kris Davis Trio— Grammy winning pianist/composer Kris Davis, bassist Robert Hurst, and drummer Johnathan Blake—performing in support of Davis’s new album "Run the Gauntlet,” out on Sept. 27 from Pyroclastic Records. Students from the Jazz Studies program open. </p>
<p><em>This performance is made possible with generous support from Seattle's Raynier Institute and Foundation.</em></p>

Campus, Concert, and University Bands: Passages

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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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New Music Festival: Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

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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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Percussion Ensemble: Credo in US (you and me)

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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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Chamber Singers & University Chorale with UW Opera Workshop, Baroque Ensemble, and Shoji Kameda: “Scatter, Gather"

<p>In the first half of this program, the Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and singers from the UW Opera Workshop, along with the UW Baroque Ensemble, perform Marc-Antoine Charpentier's <em>Les arts florissants. </em>In the second half of the program, the Chamber Singers and<em> </em>University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present “Scatter, Gather,” a celebration of choral music traditions of the Pacific Rim and beyond. With special guest, Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Shoji Kameda.</p>
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THEME lecture series: Charles Kronengold, Stanford University, "The Chaka Khanplex, 1977–1983" 

<blockquote><span><span>Charles Kronengold, faculty member at Stanford University, presents "The Chaka Khanplex, 1977-78." </span></span>This paper focuses on R&B singer Chaka Khan to argue that theorists should move from the causal models of actor-network theories toward Black feminist concepts of friendship, relationality, and what Jennifer Nash calls “the side-by-side-ness of the beautiful and loss.”</blockquote>
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