This week in the arts, attend a master class taught by Seattle Symphony artist, see Tony Kushner鈥檚 epic tale of AIDS in the 1980s, explore music throughout the past four centuries, hear 13-year-old violinist perform in 蘑菇视频 Keyboard Program鈥檚 quarterly series, listen to a special blend of Flamenco music with a guest artist, visit the Burke Museum for free, and see the Henry鈥檚 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.,听April 28 |听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鈥檚 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 Part II: Perestroika
April 24 – May 6听|听Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
Part two of Tony Kushner鈥檚 epic tale of AIDS in 1980s America begins in a ruined place where the old orders are splintering and everything鈥攁nd everyone鈥攈as come apart. Prior Walter is a prophet, and now the 鈥済reat work鈥� 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,听Perestroika听is a story about locating hope in the midst of chaos. The听New York听Times听called it 鈥渁 true millennial work of art, uplifting, hugely comic and pantheistically religious in a very American style.鈥�
Scholarship Chamber Group: Discovery Trio
7:30 p.m., April 28 |Brechemin Auditorium
Coached by 蘑菇视频 Strings Chair Melia Watras, the Discovery Trio鈥斈⒐绞悠� graduate music students Gemma Goday, flute, Wyatt Smith, harpsichord, and Chris Young, cello鈥攅xplores 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
4:30 p.m., April 29 | Brechemin Auditorium
Promising young musicians from around the country are featured in this quarterly series hosted by the 蘑菇视频 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听Konzerthaus听Orchestras and a subscription series of concerts in the Seattle Symphony’s 2017-18 season.
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 蘑菇视频 students in this special performance of interpretations of听Flamenco听blended with other musical forms.
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 Din茅Yazhi麓
April 14 – September 9 |听Henry Art Gallery
In this exhibition, transdisciplinary artist Demian Din茅Yazhi麓 (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听to create a multi-layered narrative of Din茅Yazhi麓鈥檚听home place on听Din茅 Bik茅yah (Navajo Nation) in Arizona and New Mexico听and its proximity听to uranium mining industries and the popular US thoroughfare Route 66.听 Stories of exploitation鈥攐f people and of natural resources鈥攁s well as survival, weave together alongside an overarching听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.