Katzen Arts Center Calendar

The American University Jazz Ensemble explores jazz classics and new dimensions in contemporary jazz.

Selections by the AU Jazz Workshop include Sigmund Romberg's "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise", Louis Alter's "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans", and Chick Corea's "La Fiesta."

Selections by the AU Big Band include Freddie Green and Don Wolf's "Until I Met You", Miles Davis' ...more

Type: Performance
Host: Performing Arts

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Happy Birthday!: Celebrating the 100th Anniversery of the Modern Wind Ensemble.

American University Wind Ensemble presents traditional and contemporary music for winds, brass, and percussion.

Selections include James Clifton Williams' "Symphonic Suite," John Philip Sousa's "The Beau Ideal," and Gustav Holst's "First Suite in E-flat."

Tickets are $15 regular admission, $10 AU community and ...more

Type: Performance
Host: Performing Arts

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Melanie George, director

Join us for an evening of dance works-in-progress created by AU's burgeoning corps of student choreographers. A panel of local dance professionals will adjudicate the choreography. A discussion about the pieces, the choreographic process, and creativity will follow the performance.

Admission is free.

Type: Performance
Host: Performing Arts

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"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too¿."

With these words, Kipling might have been talking about founders of arts organizations--those bold and inventive, seemingly fearless, and always fascinating individuals who regularly "meet with Triumph and Disaster ...more

Type: Lecture/Speaker
Host: Performing Arts

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Daniel Abraham, conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat in D
Johann Christoph Bach: Sei getreu bis in den Tod
Johann Christoph Altnickol: Nun danket alle Gott
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Wohl dem, der den Herren fürchtet (U.S. modern premiere)

J. S. Bach's Magnificat in D stands as one of the masterworks of the choral repertoire. Join us in a tour-de-force performance with a full ensemble of ...more

Type: Performance
Host: Performing Arts

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