From the Feb 12 – Feb 18, 2004 issue

Music

Concerts

by Christopher DeLaurenti

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12



GOINGS/CALIMAN QUINTET

Led by two eminent jazz veterans, vocalist Reggie Goings and tenor saxophone stalwart Hadley Caliman, this quintet fires up Earshot Jazz's Art of Jazz series at SAM. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St, 547-6763, 5:30 pm, free with $7 museum admission.

LOVE & MADNESS

This concert of seldom-sung vocal chamber music highlights Robert Schumann's settings of Spanish renaissance poetry, the Spanische Liebeslieder, as well as four excerpts from his Spanisches Liebespiel, op. 74. Pre-concert lecture starts at 6:45 pm with Fred Hauptman. Town Hall, Eighth Ave and Seneca St, 652-4255, 7:30 pm, $13-$18.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13



THE DANCING MASTER

Dance historian Anna Mansbridge moves to music from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, including courantes, sarabands, and gigues by Marais, Hotteterre, and J. S. Bach. Downstairs at Town Hall, Eighth Ave and Seneca St, 325-7066, 8 pm, $10/$15.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14



TRIO MEDIAEVAL

I wish I had been writing this column back in 1994, when the Pulp Fiction line "I'm gonna get medieval on your ass" was the catch phrase du jour and yielded bales of fodder for mildly sarcastic music writers like me. Touring in support of the fine CD Soir, dit-elle, this a cappella trio brings its calming, dove-pure voices to Olympia's stepsister city, Lacey. Highly recommended. St. Martin's Abbey, 5300 Pacific Ave SE, Lacey, 360-491-4700, 8 pm, donation requested.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15



ORCHESTRA SEATTLE

How often does recently composed music, especially an oratorio with seven featured soloists, get another hearing? Just about never. Shangrow & Co. premiered Seattle composer Carol Sams' The Earthmakers, a setting of Egyptian, Polynesian, Inuit, and Zuni creation myths, back in 1987. I missed the second performance in 1990; this time I really have no excuse. Meany Theater, UW campus, 682-5208, 3 pm, $14-$25.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17



UW CONTEMPORARY GROUP

Music by Toru Takemitsu, Elizabeth Hoffman, Joël-FranŸois Durand, Pierre Boulez, and others conducted by Jeremy Briggs-Roberts and Ryan Hare. Meany Theater, UW campus, 543-4880, 7:30 pm, $5/$8.

ORCHID ENSEMBLE

Aw rats, another college new-music ensemble gig, and on the same night, too. Mei Han (zheng--a zither with moveable bridges), Lan Tung (erhu--a two-stringed fiddle), and Jonathan Bernard (marimba and other percussion) perform traditional and contemporary Chinese music. This visiting ensemble also presents works by assorted Canadian composers scored for Chinese instruments. PONCHO Concert Hall, 710 E Roy St, 325-6500, 8 pm, $6/$12.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18



WAZU/STEPHEN PARRIS

Despite the geographically misleading moniker, WaZu hail from north of Seattle, not Pullman. This husband-and-wife duo fashions lo-fi sound sculptures. Stephen Parris, a central component of the Monktail Creative Music Concern, serves up a solo guitar set. Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 861-8233, 7 pm, donation requested.

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