THURSDAY DECEMBER 1

LADIES MUSICAL CLUB
Soprano Regina Thomas sings "songs of the night" by Mozart, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, and Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947), a German-Venezuelan composer and lover of Marcel Proust. In addition, violinist Helena Emery capers through a solo violin partita by J. S. Bach. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St, 622-6882, 12:10 pm, free.

JANIS MANN
One of our burg's best jazz singers, Mann delivers standards with sass, brass, and class. The Triple Door, 216 Union St, 838-4333, 7:30 pm, $13 adv/$15 DOS.

JAMES BENNINGTON
In this ongoing series, drummer Bennington collaborates with a rotating cast of improvising musicians. On the House, 1205 E Pike St, 324-3974, 8 pm, donation requested.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 2

COMPOSERS WORKSHOP
UW student composers present their works. I'm intrigued by Joshua Parmenter's Cadence, which transforms the last few seconds of a Schubert quartet movement into a massively elongated decrescendo, dissolving the sound into silence. Alan Licht explored similar territory a couple years ago with his gradual album-length crescendo of Led Zeppelin IV. Unlike Licht, who mainly messed with the volume, Parmenter tussles with the spectral components of Schubert too. Also on the docket: Wyatt Fletcher's "Meminisse exquis," Donald Craig's Intrombouversion for trombone and interactive video, and Douglas Niemela's Blue Ridge, an aural impression of Southern Appalachia. Brechemin Auditorium in the Music Building, UW campus, 685-8384, 7:30 pm, $5.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 3

MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE
My nominee for sleeper gig of the week. MoR not only preserves music composed by Holocaust victims and survivors but also champions and commissions contemporary composers. Director Mina Miller discusses and presents two MoR commissions: Lori Laitman's song cycle The Seed of Dream, based on the poetry of Vilna Ghetto poet and resistance fighter Abraham Sutzkever; and Paul Schoenfield's Camp Songs, which draw upon the dramatic texts of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, a Polish dissident imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. I'm still hoping for Luigi Nono's caustic 1965 masterpiece Remember what they did to you at Auschwitz or a reprise of Steve Reich's Different Trains. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, corner of Cherry and Terry, 365-7770, 2:30 pm, free.

BAROQUE NORTHWEST
The pianist and scholar Charles Rosen once sagely suggested that musicians, not audiences, keep classical music alive. Musicians will always play music they love or want to explore. Baroque Northwest spreads the love with music by Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de Saint-George (dubbed the "Black Mozart"), Ignatio Sancho, an African born into slavery who became a freedman and composer in England, and many other unknowns. Pre-concert talk at 7:15 pm. Bethany Lutheran Church, 7400 Woodlawn Ave NE, 368-0735, 8 pm, $10–$22.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 6

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY
The musicians are good, but Meany Theater, which is perfect for mid-size orchestral music, makes this gig a treat. Pianist Regina Yeh is the soloist on De Falla's picturesque Nights in the Gardens of Spain. The rest of the band scampers through Berlioz's Hungarian March and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (AKA the weepy Pathetique). Meany Theater, UW Campus, 543-4880, 7:30 pm, $10.