April 18, 2018
Arts Roundup: Barry Liberman and Friends Master Class, Scholarship Chamber Group: Discovery Trio, Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist: Spanish Flamenco Artist Ricardo Garcia, and more
This week in the arts, attend a master class taught by Seattle Symphony artist, see Tony Kushner’s epic tale of AIDS in the 1980s, explore music throughout the past four centuries, hear 13-year-old violinist perform in UW Keyboard Program’s quarterly series, listen to a special blend of Flamenco music with a guest artist, visit the Burke Museum for free, and see the Henry’s new exhibition that explores the entangled relationships between the land, Native cultures, and colonial, capitalist economic and political systems .
Barry Liberman and Friends Master Class: Jordan Anderson
2:00 p.m., April 28 | Brechemin Auditorium
Principal Bass of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Jordan Anderson leads a master class with students of Barry Lieberman.
Seattle Symphony Principal Bass Jordan Anderson has soloed with the Seattle Symphony, Cascade Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Chamber Orchestra, and in recital around Washington state. In April 2013, Anderson performed his composition Traction for Solo Double Bass at [untitled], the Seattle Symphony’s new-music series. Anderson has also performed with the Emerson String Quartet and Leon Fleisher, as well as The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Angels in America
Angels in America Part II: Perestroika
April 24 – May 6 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
Part two of Tony Kushner’s epic tale of AIDS in 1980s America begins in a ruined place where the old orders are splintering and everything—and everyone—has come apart. Prior Walter is a prophet, and now the “great work” of rebuilding this devastated world can begin. We meet characters who, having faced annihilation, must now confront their own stubborn indestructability. Profoundly funny, magnificently theatrical, and startlingly timely, Perestroika is a story about locating hope in the midst of chaos. The New York Times called it “a true millennial work of art, uplifting, hugely comic and pantheistically religious in a very American style.”
Scholarship Chamber Group: Discovery Trio
Scholarship Chamber Group: Discovery Trio
7:30 p.m., April 28 |Brechemin Auditorium
Coached by UW Strings Chair Melia Watras, the Discovery Trio—UW graduate music students Gemma Goday, flute, Wyatt Smith, harpsichord, and Chris Young, cello—explores music from throughout the past four centuries, ranging from music of the early Baroque to contemporary compositions, performing both on period and modern instruments.
Catch a Rising Star: Yesong Sophie Lee, Violin
Catch a Rising Star: Yesong Sophie Lee, Violin
4:30 p.m., April 29 | Brechemin Auditorium
Promising young musicians from around the country are featured in this quarterly series hosted by the UW Keyboard Program. Yesong Sophie Lee, winner of the 2016 International Menuhin Competition, has performed extensively in the United States and Europe, including concerti with the London Philharmonia and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestras and a subscription series of concerts in the Seattle Symphony’s 2017-18 season.
Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist: Ricardo Garcia, Spanish Flamenco Artist
Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist: Ricardo Garcia: Spanish Flamenco Artist
7:30 p.m., May 3 | Brechemin Auditorium
Spring Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Ricardo Garcia, a Spanish guitarist and leader of the group Flamenco Flow, performs with UW students in this special performance of interpretations of Flamenco blended with other musical forms.
First Free Thursday
First Free Thursday at the Burke Museum
10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., May 3 | Burke Museum
On the first Thursday of every month, admission to the Burke Museum is FREE and the museum is open until 8 pm.
The Brink: Demian DinéYazhi´
The Brink: Demian DinéYazhi´
April 14 – September 9 | Henry Art Gallery
In this exhibition, transdisciplinary artist Demian DinéYazhi´ (born 1983) presents new work that expands upon their ongoing engagement with the entangled relationships between the land, Native cultures, and colonial, capitalist economic and political systems.
A group of analog slide projectors form the core of the installation, casting images and text throughout the space to create a multi-layered narrative of DinéYazhi´’s home place on Diné Bikéyah (Navajo Nation) in Arizona and New Mexico and its proximity to uranium mining industries and the popular US thoroughfare Route 66. Stories of exploitation—of people and of natural resources—as well as survival, weave together alongside an overarching concern with the legislation of borders imposed by the reservation system, and the resulting effects on the ways bodies move and form relations across its bounds.
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