Transport Concerts Series

STEPHEN DRURY 

Friday, April 18, 7:30pm

Chapel Performance Space
4469 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor, Seattle
$5-$15 sliding scale 

Nonsequitur brings pianist Stephen Drury to perform music of Frederic Rzewski and other American composers. Named 1989 Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe, Drury has concertized throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has given solo performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C., New York's Symphony Space, and from Arkansas to California to Hong Kong to Paris.

A champion of 20th century music, Drury's performances of music ranging from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by John Cage and György Ligeti have received the highest critical acclaim. He has appeared at the MusikTriennale Koln in Germany, the Subtropics Festival in Miami, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, and the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo as well as at Roulette and the Knitting Factory in New York.

All concerts take place at the Chapel Performance Space, located at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor, in Seattle. Tickets are $5-15 sliding scale, available at door. Each Transport concert includes recorded music chosen from a call for scores and accompanied by video created by Northwest filmmakers ForeignAmerican Pictures, as part of Washington Composers Forum's Interval series.

JACK STRAW ARTIST SHOWCASE



Jim Page and Artis the Spoonman with Friends
One World Taiko
Thursday, May 1, 8pm

Chapel Performance Space
4469 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th Floor, Seattle
$5-15 sliding scale

Jack Straw Productions presents folksinger Jim Page and iconic percussionist Artis the Spoonman and percussion ensemble One World Taiko for the spring Jack Straw Artist Showcase featuring recording projects of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. This unique double bill features folk and percussion "traditions" from two very different groups.

Jim and Artis will perform from Folk Punch, a collection of songs in the American folkie tradition. This is the first full-length CD recording of these longtime collaborators. One World Taiko will perform traditional pieces and original compositions infused with contemporary rhythms from their love of jazz and world music. Click here for more information.

Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.

Bill Smith, clarinetist and composer, studied at Juilliard, Mills College, the Paris Conservatory and the University of California. He is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Prix de Paris, the Prix de Rome, Guggenheim fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Smith’s first recordings were made in the 1940s with Dave Brubeck’s experimental Octet and ever since Smith has been creating exciting, daring music that elegantly crosses the “boundaries” between jazz and concert music.

June Composer Spotlight: TOM BAKER
Wed., June 11, 7:30pm

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month. For more information about Composer Spotlight artists and the series, click here.


Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.

RESONANCES

Performance + Sound Installation

by DORSEY DUNN

April 4-June 20, 2008

Solo Performance/Opening night
Friday, April 4, 7pm

Artist Lecture
Saturday, April 5, 11am

Jack Straw Productions presents Resonances, a sound installation that begins with a live electro-acoustic improvisational performance in the gallery and continues as an extended aural ‘dying-away’ of the event itself over the course of the exhibition. Music and sound captured during the opening will slowly disappear in a long series of disintegrating reverberations, from an intense beginning to a final period that is spare and minimal. Dorsey Dunn, based in Los Angeles, works in sound, text and image in the form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works. Click here for more.


Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.

Merna Ann Hecht
Jennifer Munro
Kevin Craft
Wendy Call

Janna Cawrse
Ghida Sinno
Waverly Fitzgerald
Brian McGuigan

Judith Skillman
Michael Spence
Sharon Cumberland
Rebecca Hoogs

Jack Straw Literary Podcasts Now online at www.jackstraw.org/blog Jack Straw Productions produces bi-monthly podcasts featuring live readings, interviews, and other audio programs highlighting literary artists from the Jack Straw Writers Program. The companion Jack Straw Writers Blog will be your direct line to what's going on with the podcasts and the Writers Program. The blog will feature program news and the latest from all Writers Program participants past and present. You'll find links to their websites, event announcements, and hopefully random outbursts of literary genius.

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