THURSDAY AUGUST 3

COMPLINE BY CANDLELIGHT
Members of the renowned Tallis Scholars, the Tudor Choir, and students of the Tallis Scholars Summer School sing the Compline service in one of our burg's most underutilized musical spaces. St. Ignatius Chapel, Seattle University Campus, 296-5587, 10 pm, freewill donation.

FRIDAY AUGUST 4

SCMS SUMMER FESTIVAL
Adventurous music sneaks into the Seattle Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival in Redmond. For the free 7 pm recital, pianist Shai Wosner performs a triptych of "Variations"—Mozart's Variations for Piano, K. 455 and the "Variations," op. 27 of (gasp!) Anton Webern, without whom Boulez, Stockhausen, Berio, and an entire raft of postwar composers would not exist. There's even a living composer on the program, one of the few who actually merits opus numbers: Oliver Knussen and his Variations for Piano, op. 24. The main concert has a Beethoven trio (op. 70, no. 2) and a sextet for strings by Frank Bridge, but the real reason to show up is the infrequently essayed two-piano version of Stravinsky's epochal The Rite of Spring. Although the main thrill of The Rite stems from its swarming, agitated accumulation of stampeding brass, strings, and percussion, this version, arranged by Stravinsky and played with Debussy, still delivers a ferocious kick. Overlake School, 20301 NE 108th St, Redmond, 283-8808, 8 pm, $16/$38.

DOVE/CARTER/BRUCKMANN
At the last Seattle Improvised Music Festival, Wally Shoup mentioned in passing a telling phrase: "the new austerity." Carefully considering pure tone, many improvisers seek to find new sounds in slowness, either in a gradually intensifying burn or by freezing in glacial stillness. Oakland guitarist Tom Carter, trombonist Dave Dove, and Kyle Bruckmann, who plays perhaps the rarest instrument in freely improvised music, the oboe, team up to plumb the depths of sound. Gallery 1412, 1412 18th Ave , 322-1533, 8 pm, $5–$15 sliding-scale donation.

GRETA MATASSA QUINTET
A superb and sassy vocalist, Matassa sings standards, old chestnuts, and snazzy originals. Tula's, 2214 Second Ave, 443-4221, 8:30 pm, $12.

SATURDAY AUGUST 5

DER ROSENKAVALIER
Richard Strauss helped lay the groundwork for the neoclassicism of the 1920s with this 1910 opera complete with waltzes, comedic farce, and a sparkling score. Runs through Sat Aug 26; see www.seattleopera.org for details. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St, 389-7676, 7 pm, $49–$135.

SUNDAY AUGUST 6

MACH ONE JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Of all the big-band jazz outfits in town, this one has the coolest name. Ballard Locks, 3015 NW 54th St, 783-7059, 2 pm, free.

MONDAY AUGUST 7

JOSEPH ADAM
For Benaroya's regular noontime organ recital, Adam, the cathedral organist at St. James, plays organ transcriptions of operatic works. On the program: the "Prelude" to Act I of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, "Variations on the Last Rose of Summer" by Dudley Buck, and Rossini's overture to William Tell, which found new life as the theme to The Lone Ranger in the golden age of radio. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 215-4747, 12:30 pm, free.