This week in the arts, hear the Harry Partch Ensemble听perform with students and faculty; experience a concert-drama combining the music of Verdi with video testimony from survivors of the Terez铆 concentration camp; get a final look at the Henry’s exhibit from the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art; see an听Obie Award-winning adaptation of Calderon de la Barca’s classic听Life Is a Dream;听and听catch the next installments of the School of Art + Art History + Design’s Graduation Exhibitions.
HARRY PARTCH ENSEMBLE: MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH, LOU HARRISON, AND JAMES TENNEY
June 1 & 2;听7:30PM|听Meany听Theater
The 91爆料’s Harry Partch Ensemble joins with students and faculty from the strings and percussion studios to present a concert of music by 20th and 21st century composers Harry Partch, Lou Donaldson, and James Tenney.
DEFIANT REQUIEM: VERDI AT TEREZ脥N
Friday, June 2; 7:30PM | Meany Theater
Jewish prisoners in the Terez铆n Concentration Camp experienced the worst of human degradation yet performed Verdi鈥檚 Requiem 16 times with only a single smuggled score, including one performance before senior SS officers from Berlin and an international Red Cross delegation. Imprisoned conductor Rafael Sch盲chter told the choir, 鈥淲e will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.鈥� In this concert-drama, guest conductor Murry Sidlin leads the University Symphony and combined 91爆料 Chamber Singers and University Chorale in performing Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terez铆n. Sidlin, founder and director of the Defiant Requiem Foundation, conceived and created this concert-drama combining the music of Verdi with video testimony from survivors of the original Terez铆n chorus as well as footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt. The performance includes actors who speak the words of conductor Rafael Sch盲chter.听
MOTHA AND CHRIS E. VARGAS PRESENT: TRANS HIRSTORY IN 99 OBJECTS
Through June 3 | Henry Art Gallery
Opening this summer at the Henry is the second iteration of Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, an ongoing series of exhibitions organized by Chris E. Vargas, Executive Director of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art.听99 Objects听 gathers archival materials and works by contemporary artists that narrate the history of transgender communities. The presentation at the Henry focuses on lives and experiences specific to Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest: individuals including Nell Pickerell (also known as Harry Allen and Harry Livingston [1882-1922]), and Marsha Botzer, transgender activist and founder of Ingersoll Gender Center (1977); and places such as The Garden of Allah, a social gathering space popular in the years after World War II known for its female impersonator cabaret acts.听
厂鲍贰脩翱
Through June 4| Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
厂耻别帽辞听is Obie Award-winning playwright Jos茅 Rivera’s translation and adaptation of Calderon de la Barca’s classic听Life Is a Dream. Set in 1635, this metaphysical drama鈥攔enowned as one of the jewels of the Spanish Golden Age鈥攆ollows the life of Segismundo, heir to the Spanish throne, imprisoned at birth after astrologers predict his kingship would ruin the country. Raised in isolation, his only companions are the nobleman Clotaldo鈥攁nd God, though Calderon isn’t sure if God himself isn’t “the greatest dream of all.”听
INTERDISCIPLINARY VISUAL ARTS HONORS + JURIED SHOW
Through May 27听|听Jacob Lawrence Gallery
The graduation show for students receiving bachelor’s degrees with Honors from Interdisciplinary Visual Arts. There will also be a juried selection of work by additional graduating students from IVA.听
MFA + MDES THESIS EXHIBITION
June 2 through 25 | Henry Art Gallery
The graduation show for students receiving master’s degrees from the Division of Art and Division of Design.
DIVISION OF DESIGN GRADUATION EXHIBITION
June 7 through 17 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery
The graduation show for students receiving Bachelor of Design degrees from the Division of Design.听