Enjoy refreshments with a side of jazz Friday at the Jazz Café. The School of Music and Dance will present five combos with works from Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and others. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. in room 178 of the music school. Tickets are $5 and available at the door.
On Sunday, the University Symphony and Oregon Wind Ensemble will perform a joint concert. Conducted by professor Wayne Bennett, the symphony will preview its upcoming performance at the Northwest Music Educators Conference in Washington. The program will feature “Roman Carnival Overture” by Hector Berlioz, “Variations on a Theme of Haydn” by Johannes Brahms, and “Tarantella” from “Gazebo Dances” by John Corigliano.
The University’s prestigious Oregon Wind Ensemble, directed by professor Robert Ponto, will perform a piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner. “New Morning for the World” combines orchestra with the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Narrating will be jazz musician and professor emeritus of English Edwin Coleman II. The author of publications such as “Black Rage, Black Identity” and “Black Literature for Teachers,” Coleman has performed hundreds of concerts at San Francisco jazz clubs like the Purple Onion and Hungry I.
The concert begins at 3 p.m. in Beall Hall, and tickets are available at the door. General admission is $7; students and seniors get in for $5.
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