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New Music Festival: Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

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<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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Percussion Ensemble 

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<p>The University of Washington Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) performs early and recent works for percussion ensemble in its Autumn Quarter concert, including all three of John Cage's Constructions, plus brand new works from the Everybody Hits consortium. </p>
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Fantasies, Folk, and Fairy Tales

<p>Piano Professor Robin McCabe produces this quarterly series highlighting music by composers influenced by folk and fairy tales. Each concert features a pre-concert lecture by a UW faculty scholar and music performed by top UW Music students.</p>
<p><strong>Lecture: Professor Denyse Delcourt</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>“</em></strong><strong><em>And the Wolf Ate Her: The Dark Side of Fairy Tales”</em></strong></p>
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THEME lecture series: Sarah Bartolome, Northwestern University:  "From Idea Incubation to Implementation: The Trauma, Music, and the Breath Initiative"    

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<p><span>Sarah J. Bartolome, associate professor at Northwestern University, provides an overview of the Trauma, Music, and the Breath (TMB) initiative, an interdisciplinary research project at Northwestern investigating the use of music as an intervention for trauma. </span></p>
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UW Symphony 

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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann. </p>
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<h3>Note: An appearance by Robin McCabe, piano, previously announced for this program, will be rescheduled for a future date.</h3>
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Guest Orchestra Concert: Harmonia with UW Piano Students

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<p>Guest orchestra Harmonia (William White, director) performs winning concerto excerpts by Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, Brahms, and Grieg with UW piano students <span>Jeffrey Tso, Jiayi Wang, Alex Fang, and Katherine Lee.</span></p>
<p><em>This performance is made possible with support from the Willard Schultz Piano Fund in the School of Music. </em></p>
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