Tag: Music

  • FUN HOME Will Be Performed at UW-Green Bay Next Week

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    University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Theatre & Music programs have come together to produce the Broadway hit musical Fun Home. Running for one weekend only, Fun Home will open Nov. 18, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. with additional performances on November 18, 19 & 20 at 7:30 p.m. Performed by UW-Green Bay students, Fun Home is directed…

  • Coming ahead, 6:30 Concert Series, ‘Maximal Minimalists’

    Coming ahead, 6:30 Concert Series, ‘Maximal Minimalists’

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    UW-Green Bay’s Contemporary Percussion Ensemble (led by 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…

  • It’s time to ‘Swing for the Holidays’

    It’s time to ‘Swing for the Holidays’

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    Green Bay, Wis. – The Weidner Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce that Swing for the Holidays is back for a third, extra festive year. The Weidner Center’s jazzy holiday tradition will be held in Cofrin Family Hall on Thursday, ­­Dec. 16, 2021­ at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale at WeidnerCenter.com or…

  • Passing of former UW-Green Bay professor Lois Blackburn

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    UW-Green Bay learned that former music instructor, Lois Antoinette Hinton Blackburn, musician, teacher, and civic activist, passed away in her home recently. Blackburn taught music at UW-Green Bay for a period of time and contributed greatly to the campus community. Throughout her lifetime, Blackburn taught private music lessons and was actively involved in all the communities…

  • ‘Swing for Holidays’ Returns to Green Bay Stage | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM · 1360 AM | Green Bay, WI

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    GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Holiday music is back and it’s live at the Weidner Center. Swing for the Holidays is back for its third year at Cofrin Family Hall on Thursday, Dec. 16 at 6:30 p.m. The Green Bay Jazz Orchestra with guest vocalist Courtney Sherman will perform swinging renditions of favorite holiday tunes…

  • Just Announced: SWING FOR THE HOLIDAYS With Green Bay Jazz Orchestra Now On Sale

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    The Weidner Center for the Performing Arts has announced that Swing for the Holidays is back for a third, extra festive year. The Weidner Center’s jazzy holiday tradition will be held in Cofrin Family Hall on Thursday, ­­Dec. 16, 2021­ at 6:30 PM. Tickets go on sale ­­­­­­­­­­­­Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021­­­ at 11 a.m. at…

  • Swing for the Holidays 2021 Announcement

    Swing for the Holidays 2021 Announcement

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    Green Bay, Wis. – The Weidner Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce that Swing for the Holidays is back for a third, extra festive year. The Weidner Center’s jazzy holiday tradition will be held in Cofrin Family Hall on Thursday, ­­Dec. 16, 2021­ at 6:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale ­­­­­­­­­­­­Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021­­­…

  • UW-Green Bay’s 6:30 Concert Series Welcomes Audiences Back | Seehafer News

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    University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Music’s 6:30 Concert Series is back this Fall season at the Weidner Center.The 6:30 Series will welcome a distanced live audience in Fort Howard Hall in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, while simultaneously streaming live on UW-Green Bay Music’s YouTube Channel.6:30 Concert Series Curator and Coordinator, and UW-Green Bay…

  • 6:30 Concert Series will be live and streamed live, Oct. 19

    6:30 Concert Series will be live and streamed live, Oct. 19

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    The first 6:30 Concert Series Event of the year, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19, 2021, features UW-Green Bay Music faculty performing an evocative array of modern music. Violinist Luis Fernandez, pianist Michael Rector, and Percussionist Bill Sallak combine to perform John Cage’s pointillistic Six Melodies for violin and piano, Tigran Mansurian’s free-floating Three Medieval Taghs for…

  • UW-Green Bay’s 6:30 Concert Series Welcomes Audiences Back With A Varied Trio

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    University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Music’s 6:30 Concert Series is back this Fall season at the Weidner Center. The 6:30 Series will welcome a distanced live audience in Fort Howard Hall in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, while simultaneously streaming live on UW-Green Bay Music’s YouTube Channel.”This season, the (6:30) Series reaffirms an ongoing…