Tag: Music
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CAHSS presents What You Should Be Listening to: Japanese Breakfast
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UW-Green Bay Professor Michelle McQuade Dewhirst (Music) does a deep dive into the Indie band, Japanese Breakfast. She explains the lyrics and meaning behind them as well as covers a brief history of the band. Read the article here.
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Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: ‘Swing for the Holidays’ has its moments in Green Bay
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – In baseball, Tinker to Evers to Chance was a famous combination.Thursday night, Tchaikovsky to Ellington to Strayhorn worked wonders.That combination shone in the instrumental element of “Swing for the Holidays with the Green Bay Jazz Orchestra” in Cofrin Family Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the…
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Tonight! Thursday, Dec. 2 – 6:30 Concert Series
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UW-Green Bay’s Contemporary Percussion Ensemble (led by Dr. Bill Sallak, Associate Professor of Music) forms the core ensemble for a performance of two iconic works of American minimalism. Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together/Attica is a relentless meditation on a powerful text by Sam Melville; the performance will feature narration by Associate Lecturer of Theatre Alan Kopischke. The program is…
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Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ blossoms in Green Bay’s Weidner Center
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – The gentle overture sounds recorded. It’s not. The hall is built for such lovely, live music.People from a time gone by, each dressed in finery, flow past a colorful backdrop. The spectacle befits the hall, too.These are impressions of the opening moments of what has been called “The Green Bay…