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Tacoma Concert Band are going all out for their final performance for the season this Saturday night at the Pantages. The program is billed as East-meets-West: an American band playing both American and Asian pieces, and featuring young Korean concert pianist Eun Joo Chung.
Chung has made quite a career for herself since her Carnegie Hall debut in 2004, giving recitals in Berlin and Vienna and opening Seattle's Town Hall Virtuoso Piano Series. She's won international competitions like the Viotti, Schubert and World Piano Competitions, and has been called "striking and impressive" by pianist Leon Fleischer (a former teacher) and "a remarkable artist" by the Seattle Symphony's Gerard Schwarz.
This Saturday, Chung will be playing the solo in the concert band version of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," and the “Grande Polonaise Brillante” of Fredric Chopin. The 28-year-old Tacoma Concert Band will play a variety of pieces with Asian themes (Chinese, Korean, and Japanese), as well as a Gershwin medley, Holst’s “Jupiter” from “The Planets,” and Sousa (can you have a concert band show without it?)
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. Tickets from $15. 253-591-5894, 800-291-7593, www.broadwaycenter.org
Want an excuse to enjoy these balmy summer evenings? (Hah!) The Museum of Glass is hosting the 10th annual Jazz Under the Stars Gala from 7-9 p.m. tomorrow night. An annual free series organized by Pacific Lutheran University, the event features hot club jazz maestros Pearl Django (left) and singer Greta Matassa doing their thing on the museum's mezzanine plaza (up one level from the waterfront.)
It's a good chance, if you haven't seen it yet, to check out MoG's new installation, also there on the mezzanine: Joseph Rossano's "Mirrored Murrelets" (my review here.)
MoG is at 1801 Dock St, Tacoma.
And if you have to miss the show tomorrow, the series continues for the rest of the month: July 10 with vocalist Dennis Hastings, July 17 with duo Lance Buller and Stephanie Porter, July 24 with drummer Greg Williamson and his Pony Boy Records All Star Band, and July 31 with Hammond-organ trio Hip Bones. August 7 features vocalist Gail Pettis, August 16 is the David Joyner Trio. Shows are held in the Mary Baker Russell Amphitheater, near the entrance to the music building off 12180 Park Ave S. There's free coffee, and free star charts and tours of the W. M. Keck Observatory -- jazz stars plus real stars!
For more information, call 253-535-7787.
