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Singing your pandemic heart out, whatever it takes
Each week, the UW chorale practices for a half-hour in a parking garage, standing 6 feet apart while wearing masks. The story includes audio of the chorale singing a South African Sesotho wedding song.
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Lifelong Fascination Inspires Gift
Paul Fritts, whose company built the UW's Littlefield Organ three decades ago, has now made a major gift to the School of Music.
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ArtSci Roundup: Bambitchell: Dolphins, ships and other vessels, Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print, and More
This week at the UW, attend the final lecture in the Protest, Race, and Citizenship Across African Worlds series, UW Dance Presents, and more.
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Origins of music and the effects of sound on a developing mind
Ethnomusicology professor Shannon Dudley discusses sound and music immersion.
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ArtSci Roundup: UW Museums Reopen, Uncharted Waters, UW Dance Presents, and More
This week at the UW, join music history Professor Dr. Anne Searcy for a lecture about the dance of Hamilton, and visit UW museums that have recently reopened.
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Deems Tsutakawa, in-demand Seattle jazz pianist, dies at 69
Deems Tsutakawa, a superb pianist who studied ethnomusicology at the UW, has passed away.
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You’ve heard of garage bands – now you can hear the ‘UW garage chorale’
Giselle Wyers, chair of the Voice & Chorale departments explains how the UW Chorale has found an unlikely practice space in the campus parking garage.
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ArtSci Roundup: Katz Distinguished Lecture: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Contemporary Environmental Issues In Taiwan, Global Perspectives on Restorative Justice & Race, and More
This week at the UW, attend the Katz Distinguished Lecture, the 2021 Biamp PDX Jazz Festival with Ted Poor and Cuong Vu, and more.
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UW books in brief: Historian Anand Yang explores British ‘penal transportation’; world music textbooks by Patricia Shehan Campbell
Anand Yang, professor of history, and Patricia Shehan Campbell, professor of music education and ethnomusicology, have both authored new books.
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Faculty/staff honors: Holocaust commemoration, new compositions, a top local album of 2020
Devin Naar, professor of history and Jewish studies, Melia Watras, professor of music, and Ted Poor, assistant professor of drums, have all received honors for their work recently.
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ArtSci Roundup: Monsen Photography Lecture, Meany On Screen: Martha Graham Dance Company, and More
This week at the UW, join Deborah Willis for the Monsen Photography Lecture, attend the 2021 Critical Issues series, and more.
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ArtSci Roundup: Meany On Screen: Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Maria Gaspar: Disappearance Landscape, and More
This week at the UW, attend virtual Meany on Screen events, a lecture in the History Lecture Series, and more.
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ArtSci Roundup: Meany On Screen: Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Maria Gaspar: Disappearance Landscape, and More
This week at the UW, attend the History Lecture Series, Meany On Screen events, and more.
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Two historic gifts for organ performance announced at the University of Washington School of Music
The UW has received a $1.5 million gift from organ builder and artist Paul B. Fritts to provide support to organ degree programs, and a gift of $250,000 from an anonymous donor to create a four-year organ competition for early-career organists.
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The Value of a Non-STEM Major, with Dean Stacey
College of Arts & Sciences Dean Stacey explains that there is an important civic, political, social, and cultural element to an education and that you can get that in a wide variety of majors.