Tacoma Youth Symphony select small ensembles Jan 11, 2022, at 7:00pm in Slavonian Hall

Welcome the new year by celebrating our youth. 
A year full of aspirations, action, and achievements!

Select members of the 8 orchestras comprising the Tacoma Youth Symphony Assoc. - ages 6 to 21 - have been invited to perform in small chamber ensembles and they are coming to Slavonian Hall in Old Town Tacoma to perform for our community!
We will hear groups of string players, woodwind and brass. 

As usual during the Covid-19 pandemic, you will be asked to show proof of vaccination before entering the hall and to wear a mask at all times when in doors. Pre-register to secure one of the 50 allotted chairs!

The event will be posted on our social media sites at a later time:
https://www.youtube.com/user/classicaltuesdays
facebook.com/classicaltues




When: January 11, 2022; 7:00pm
Where: Slavonian Hall, 2306 N 30th St., Tacoma WA 98403
Cost: Free


December 14 : Annual Wine & Song Benefit: Accordion and Seasonal Sing-Along!

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

at Old St Peter’s Church,
 
2910 N Starr Street in Old Town Tacoma

Lyle Schaefer on Accordion!  Our Voices in Song!

Lyle Schaefer, accordion
Between 6:15 and 7:00pm, join us at the fire pit outside Old St Peter’s Church for a mug of hot apple cider to greet each other before entering the church for our music-making.

At 7:00pm, join us for music and singing at Old St Peter’s Church in Old Town Tacoma, 2910 N. Starr St., Tacoma, Wash.

$25 ticket includes gift coupon packet

Sold at: Old Town Wine Skins2208 N 30th St, Tacoma (253-267-5325)

or at door (only 50 seats available!)

Please come prepared:

Welcome back! Come prepared to show proof of vaccination (a photo on your phone will do the trick) and wearing a mask.

A maximum of 50 guests will be seated in the pews, spread out at appropriate distance so we are all comfortable and confident of our health safety.

Great write-up in The News Tribune/Great performance by Trio Guadalevin

On November 9, we were enthralled by Trio Guadalevin's colorful, heart-warming music - and insights into some historical origins of the music. Our thanks to Trio Guadalevin members Tony Gomez (on panderos, cajĆ³n, teponaztli, jarana and additional percussion)Abel Rocha (on voice, harp, jarana, guitar, quinta) and Gus Denhard (on baroque guitar, oud, jarana, theorbo and vihuela), and collaborator Ke Guo (voice, harp, and dizi).

A video of the October string quartet concert and a write-up of the Classical Tuesdays series ran in The News Tribune and the TNT's blog, and Q13 FOX played a video on their morning local news segment.


You might enjoy reading and listening to these items - you just may learn something about our series that you hadn't heard before!



Nov 9, 7:00pm Classical Tuesdays: A Musical Trip from Spain to Mexico

Next on our calendar! Classical Tuesdays is excited to feature Trio Guadalevin for our gathering on November 9, 7:00pm in Slavonian Hall, Old Town Tacoma. Because word is out that the series is live in Slav Hall, we recommend that you pre-register – by mailing prryker@gmail.com.  Again, we will ask for proof of vaccination and that you all wear a mask during the event. Arrive by 6:50 to claim your seat. 

Join TrĆ­o GuadalevĆ­n for a musical journey that will travel from Spain/the Mediterranean to Veracruz, La Huasteca and the Pacific coast of Mexico, with novel arrangements shaped from son huasteco, baroque melodies, son jarocho, Sephardic Jewish balladry, Zapotec songs and more. 

Tony, Abel, Gus

Many instruments and sonorities new to our experience will be heard! The trio features Abel Rocha (voice, harp, jarana, guitar, quinta) with Gus Denhard (baroque guitar, oud, jarana, theorbo and vihuela) and Antonio GĆ³mez (panderos, cajĆ³n, teponaztli, jarana and additional percussion). 

This concert debuts a new collaboration with Ke Guo, (voice, harp, dizi) which harks back to the Manila-Acapulco trade route that connected China with Mexico, by way of the Philippines. A student of Spain's Paco Diez, Ms. Guo will also perform a selection of Sephardic Jewish music.

Ke Guo, voice, harp, dizi



Next in our series: December 14, 2021
For our annual Wine & Song Benefit we will gather at Old St Peter's Church in Old Town Tacoma. Lyle Schaefer will delight us on his accordion and then we'll enjoy a community sing! More details later!!

Video of the October 12 String Quartets in Slavonian Hall, Old Town

Thanks to our fabulous string players and socially distanced audience! It was wonderful to bring Puget Sound musicians to a live audience again.

In 2021-22, Classical Tuesdays is delighted to host a hybrid season of live concerts and video. Below is the video of this performance on YouTube.  The video is also on Facebook.

Performed by
Maria Sampen and Svend Ronning, violin
Timothy Christie, viola
and Alistair MacRae, cello

Program
Boulogne, Joseph, Chevalier de Saint-Georges ………. Quartet No. 5 in G major
I. Allegro Assai
II. Gratioso

Haydn, Joseph……. Quartet Op. 74, No. 3; “Apponyi, The Horseman (‘Rider’)”
I. Allegro
II. Largo assai
III. Minuet. Allegretto
IV. Finale. Allegro con brio

Prokofiev, Sergey…………………Quartet No. 2, Op. 92 (1941)
I. Allegro sostenuto
II. Adagio—Poco piu animato—Poco meno—Tempo I
III. Allegro—Pochissimo meno—Tempo I—Andante molto—Quasi Allegro I, ma un poco piu tranquillo



Program for October's String Quartets

October 12, 2021 in Slavonian Hall, Old Town Tacoma

String Quartets

 

Performed by

Maria Sampen and Svend Ronning, violin

 Timothy Christie, viola and Alistair MacRae, cello

 

Program

 

Boulogne, Joseph, Chevalier de Saint-Georges ………. Quartet No. 5 in G major

I.                 Allegro Assai

II.               Gratioso 

Haydn, Joseph……. Quartet Op. 74, No. 3; “Apponyi, The Horseman (‘Rider’)”

  • I.       Allegro
  • II.     Largo assai
  • III        Minuet. Allegretto
  • IV            Finale. Allegro con brio

 

Prokofiev, Sergey…………………Quartet No. 2, Op. 92 (1941)

  1. I.                 Allegro sostenuto
  2. II.               Adagio—Poco piu animato—Poco meno—Tempo I
  3. III.              Allegro—Pochissimo meno—Tempo I—Andante molto—Quasi Allegro I, ma un poco piu tranquillo

 

                                                                

This evening’s performers:

Timothy Christie, Violinist and violist, enjoys a multifaceted career as performer, teacher, public speaker and recording artist. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (WWCMF). He is on the faculty of the Community Music Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and is a member of IRIS Orchestra in Memphis, TN and Brave New Works. Christie regularly collaborates with Third Coast Percussion, Spektral Quartet, PRISM Quartet, PROJECT Trio, Sybarite5, Turtle Island Quartet, the Harlem Quartet, The Westerlies. He can be heard on recordings of William Bolcom’s Piano Quintet and William Albright’s Clarinet Quintet on AMP Records.

Christie earned dual undergraduate degrees in Music and English Literature at the University of Michigan, and a Master of Music degree, also from U of M.

Cellist Alistair MacRae is the Cordelia Wikarski-Miedel Artist in Residence at University of Puget Sound School of Music and the cellist of the Puget Sound Piano Trio. He has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. He is Principal Cello of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and also performs with his wife, soprano Allison Pohl, in the voice and cello duo Soprello. In addition, he is a member of the Artist Faculty at the Brevard Music Center. Alistair’s playing has been praised for its "rich sound and lyrical phrasing" (Palm Beach Daily News) and his performances have been featured in radio broadcasts across the United States on WQXR, WWFM, WDAV, WCQS, KING FM, and Vermont Public Radio. 

Svend RĆønning, violinist, is Chair of the String Division at Pacific Lutheran University and Professor of Music. Dr. RĆønning a native of the Pacific Northwest, holds a degree in violin performance from PLU,  and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Yale University. He is Concertmaster of Symphony Tacoma, and performs frequently as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist.  Dr. RĆønning is Artistic Director of the Second City Chamber Series. He has appeared at Aspen, Eastern, Harkness, Jerusalem, Methow, Pacific, Rhode Island, Spoleto and Wintergreen Music festivals and served as Concertmaster of the Charlottesville Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, the Spoleto U.S.A. Chamber Orchestra, and the Tacoma Opera Orchestra.  As soloist, he has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Charlottesville Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, and Symphony Tacoma. 

Maria Sampen, violinist, performs both standard repertoire and new experimental works, including concertos, concerts and masterclasses, in Europe, Asia, Canada and throughout the United States. Dr. Sampen has commissioned and premiered recent concertos and chamber works by composers David Glenn, Marilyn Shrude, Robert Hutchinson, and by Marcos Balter, Andrew Mead, Robert Morris, Nico Muhly and Forrest Pierce. She performed solo recitals and masterclasses at the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, China and recently performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and the premiere of David Glenn’s “Romantic Rhapsody on Themes of Mozart” with the Walla Walla Symphony, performances with the Turtle Island Quartet in Seattle and as a featured chamber musician at the Icicle Creek Summer Chamber Music Institute and the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival. She has been featured as a soloist on KING FM and other public radio stations across the country and has released recordings on AMP Records, Block M Records and Perspectives in New Music/Open Space. In addition to her work as a soloist, Sampen concertizes frequently with her new music group, Brave New Works, as well as the IRIS Orchestra of Tennessee, and the Puget Sound Piano Trio.

 

 

Classical Tuesdays’ next event: November 9 at 7:00pm in Slavonian Hall and virtual

Trio Guadalevin with guest artist Guo Ke for a musical journey from Spain to Mexico!

October 12: String Quartet! Live and Virtual

Tuesday October 12th at 7:00pm,

join us in Slavonian Hall, Old Town Tacoma for

An evening of string quartets

performed by

Maria Sampen and Svend Ronning, violins;
Tim Christie, viola; and
Alistair MacRae, cello.

Classical Tuesdays will be live, in person, in Old Town and a video will be available later on YouTube and Facebook.

For the in-person audience:

Welcome back!  Come prepared to show proof of vaccination (a photo on your phone will do the trick) and wearing a mask.

We will set out a maximum of 49 chairs spread out at appropriate distance so we are all comfortable and confident of our health safety. 

As much as we have enjoyed our intermissions over these many years – getting to know each other and the musicians – we will not take an intermission and will not serve coffee. Let’s play it safe so that we can enjoy this and many more live performances!




September 14: Clan Gordon celebrates Old Town Tacoma

To open our 2021-22 season, the Clan Gordon Pipe Band helped us celebrate the Old Town neighborhood and Old Town businesses that support the Classical Tuesdays series of musical events. The pipers played traditional folk tunes and dances for patrons gathered at Connelly Law Offices, Ginkgo Winery, The Spar, and Old Town Wine Skins - all businesses on North 30th Street.


Clan Gordon celebrates Old Town Tacoma:

Watch for announcements of upcoming events on October 12, November 9, December 14, January 11, and February 8. Classical Tuesdays is thrilled to offer four live, in-person concerts in Slavonian Hall - and also online for those of you who prefer to watch these concerts from home.

Next in our series: The October 12 concert will showcase string players Maria Sampen, Timothy Christie, Svend Ronning, and Alistair MacRae.



Videos of Classical Tuesdays 2020-21 season on YouTube & Facebook

Many thanks to Tacoma Creates, Old Town Tacoma's Connelly Law Offices, Ted Brown Music, and many individual sponsors for sustaining Classical Tuesdays through the challenging 2020-21 season. And thanks to you, our audience, for your unwavering support! We were able to bring you a full season through Zoom, Youtube, and Facebook. In fact, because of the pandemic we have a lovely cache of videos for your further enjoyment!

Below are the 2020-21 season's videos, with links to fuller information on each event.

May 2021 - Elizabeth CD Brown performs

Music for healing and comfort

Performing on lute, baroque guitar, original 19th century guitar and modern classical guitar, PLU Guitar and Lute faculty member Elizabeth CD Brown brings us a program based around the themes of healing and comfort, in response to the pain and stress we have experienced in the last year.  Featuring music by Thomas Flippin, including a brief introduction by Thomas himself, as well as music by John Dowland, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Fernando Sor, Justin Holland, and Ida Presti. Recorded by Paul Brown. 

More on Elizabeth and her performance

March 2021 -  Songs for the Spring of Waiting
by Tacoma composer Greg Youtz and Tacoma Poet Laureate emerita Josie Emmons Turner

Tacoma Poet laureate emerita Josie Emmons Turner and composer Gregory Youtz discuss and then premiere “Songs for the Spring of Waiting.” Josie’s response to the pandemic shutdown of March 2020 was an explosion of poems that ranged from gardening to students to thinking about the poet Walt Whitman and his response to crisis. Greg’s response to the poems was to set them to music as documents of this unique time. Soprano CyndiaSieden, mezzo-soprano Soon Cho and pianist Oksana Ezhokina premiere the five songs in a way that is also a document of these times- socially distanced and online!

More on the performers and the event

February 2021 - Greg Youtz and Zhang Er discuss their opera about the expulsion of Chinese-Americans from Tacoma in 1885

Greg Youtz, composer and professor of music at Pacific Lutheran University, and Zhang Er, poet, librettist, and professor at The Evergreen State College, discuss their collaboration on a 2016 opera titled "Fiery Jade" that tells of the lives of women across time and around the world, struggling in times of upheaval. And now, in 2020-21, they have again collaborated to produce a second opera titled "Tacoma Method" which portrays the 1855 expulsion of Chinese laborers, businessmen and families from Tacoma, Washington.

More on the performers and the event

January 2021 - Pianist Joe Williams leads
A Guided Music-Meditation

Pianist Joe Williams showcased Tacoma’s Black arts community in a meditation of music, dance and poetry intended to foster reflection during the hard times of the pandemic. Recorded at the Lakewold Gardens January 2021 by Joe, dancer Celeste Reed, and videographer/producer Serena Berry.

More on the performers and the event

December 2020 - Srivani Jade leads a Classical Tuesdays concert honoring Diwali, India's Festival of Lights

This was our annual benefit evening in support of Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma. Our theme this year was the celebration of love and light, featuring performances from the Puget Sound region and Hyderabad, India, by Satyajit Limaye on bamboo flute, Ashim Bhaumik on Baul vocals, Rahul Deshpande (Harmonium), Manoj Biswas (Tabla drums), and Srivani Jade (Classical Vocals).

More on the performers and the event

November 2020 - Violinist Maria Sampen Previews the Future of Classical Music

Maria Sampen, Professor of Violin at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, performs a concert of the classical music of our times, including music of women composers and composers of color. Accompanied by pianist Isabella Jie.

More on the performers and the event

October 2020 - Torch and Scott Kolbo present a Multimedia Event

This live multimedia Zoom event was not fully captured on video, but the trailer is on Vimeo:

Each season, Classical Tuesdays features a “new music” event by Northwest musicians.  This performance provided colorful sounds from Torch layered with story-telling and visuals in Scott Kolbo’s video “Passages: A Fable in Six Cycles”.

More on the performers and the event

September 2020 - Steel Pan Performance at Chinese Reconciliation Park

Classical Tuesdays hosted Steel Pan performing the music of Trinidad. Led by Miho Takekawa, the group performed several selections outdoors in Tacoma’s Chinese Reconciliation Park.

More on the performers and the event



May 18: Elizabeth CD Brown: Music for healing and comfort

 

 Elizabeth CD Brown performs

Music for healing and comfort

Performing on lute, baroque guitar, original 19th century guitar and modern classical guitar, PLU Guitar and Lute faculty member Elizabeth CD Brown brings us a program based around the themes of healing and comfort, in response to the pain and stress we have experienced in the last year.  Featuring music by Thomas Flippin, including a brief introduction by Thomas himself, as well as music by John Dowland, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Fernando Sor, Justin Holland, and Ida Presti. 

Elizabeth's Bio:

Elizabeth CD Brown, lutenist, guitarist

A specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes, Elizabeth C. D. Brown is a very active performer in the United States. Highlights from recent seasons include being a featured soloist at the Northwest Guitar Festival, performing concertos by Vivaldi and Sierra and premiering a new work for guitar and orchestra with the Seattle Symphony. She has performed in operas by Purcell, Blow, Paisiello, Rossini and Verdi, as well as all of Monteverdi's surviving operatic works. Elizabeth's first solo recording, La Folia de EspaƱa: Dances for Guitar, features works for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars, and has been praised for its "...apparently effortless ease." (Lute News, UK) She is also featured in the recording Dolce Desio as a member of the early music trio Le Nuove Musiche, and in the recording Navidad: Christmas in the New World with Seattle Pro Musica. Her second solo recording, In Her Honor, includes music from the Princess [Queen] Anne Guitarbook and the Elisabeth of Hesse Lutebook, as well as her own arrangements of works by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. An enthusiastic advocate for the guitar and lute, Elizabeth has given numerous outreach performances at schools, senior centers, and community centers for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society and the Early Music Seattle, as well as by arrangement while on tour. She is head of the Guitar and Lute program at Pacific Lutheran University, and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Pacific University.  See her on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/ElizabethCDBrown or for more information visit: www.elizabethcdbrown.com

 Available May 18, 2021, onward: www.youtube.com/classicaltuesdays



 

 

Premiere: Songs for the Spring of Waiting will be available for our listening March 16

 Available from March 16 onward,  we welcome the premiere of songs reflecting our reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic, Watch for the posting at YouTube.com/classicaltuesdays

Join Tacoma Poet laureate emerita Josie Emmons Turner and composer Gregory Youtz as they discuss and then premiere “Songs for the Spring of Waiting.”  Josie’s response to the pandemic shutdown a year ago was an explosion of poems that ranged from gardening to students to thinking about the poet Walt Whitman and his response to crisis. Greg’s response to the poems was to set them to music as documents of this unique time.  Soprano CyndiaSieden, mezzo-soprano Soon Cho and pianist Oksana Ezhokina will premiere the five songs in a way that is also a document of these times- socially distanced and online!

Cyndia Sieden, soprano
Oksana Ezhokina, piano


Soon Cho, mezzo soprano

Gregory Youtz, composer








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Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma: a conversation between poet and composer

Our next Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma event, a conversation between 2 artists, is available from February 8 onward at https://www.YouTube.com/classicaltuesdays.

Listen in as Greg Youtz, composer and professor of music at Pacific Lutheran University, and Zhang Er, poet, librettist, and professor at The Evergreen State College, discuss their collaboration on creating an opera - or two!

Together they produced, in 2016, an opera  titled "Fiery Jade" that tells of the lives of women across time and around the world, struggling in times of upheaval. And now, in 2020-21, they have again collaborated to produce a second opera titled "Tacoma Method" which portrays the 1855 expulsion of Chinese laborers, businessmen and families from Tacoma, Washington, led by the mayor. Perhaps our artists will discuss the recurrence of similar issues and events throughout history, especially as observed again in recent times.  

Zhang Er, poet, librettist


Greg has stated: I feel my composing is … in service to social/cultural ideas that I think need to be discussed. Although I respect the view that art can be a safe, attractive antidote to the troubles of the world, I am usually more interested in art as a medium for discussion of great ideas, whether they be humorous, deadly serious, or simply wonderfully interesting.

Greg Youtz, composer




January 2021 video-concert: Pianist Joseph Williams and Friends

For our January 2021 performance, Classical Tuesdays is delighted to present Tacoma pianist Joe Williams in a meditation of music, dance and poetry.

Joe is assisted by dancer Celeste Reed; filming took place at Lakewold Gardens with Serena Berry behind the camera.


Learn more about Joe, Celeste, and Serena here.

Joe's program includes music by 15 living composers! Below are links to help you explore the composers:

#collaborativepiano #classicalpiano #womancomposers #composersofcolor

The video above may be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/classicaltuesdays and
https://www.facebook.com/classicaltues/

Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma welcomes Pianist Joseph Williams Jan 2021

On January 19, 2021, Tacoma pianist Joseph Williams offers "a guided music-meditation".

Joe Williams, pianist
The video will be available from January 19th onward at www.youtube.com/classicaltuesdays and www.facebook.com/classicaltues

Joe is assisted by dancer Celeste Reed; filming will take place at Lakewold Gardens with Serena Berry behind the camera.

Joseph Williams is a celebrator, artistic director, producer, teacher, advocate, pianist and coach. With the support of Lakewold Gardens, Williams founded Music from Home in 2019. The mission of this concert series is to celebrate the live musical expression of womxn and people of color. As artistic director, he is intent on supporting the work of numerous living composers, under-resourced performing artists, and arts institutions authentically committed to anti-racism, equity and belonging. Last summer, Music from Home proudly sponsored mezzo-soprano J’nai Bridges’ appearance at a fundraising event for Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center. T.U.P.A.C.’s goal is to provide our most deserving racially and socioeconomically diverse youth with world class opportunities to achieve Artistic Excellence in the performing arts. He recently provided musical performances for a fundraising event on behalf of the International Florence Price Festival.

In 2018 he founded Tukwila Kids Make Music, a free after-school music instruction program situated in the most diverse zip code in the country. Williams regularly judges regional Washington Music Educators Association Solo and Ensemble Contests and is looking forward to judging this year’s Houston Forum Jazz Competition. He has presented piano masterclasses at Seattle University, Jackson State University and Canadian University Dubai. He has presented guest lectures at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Community College, Lorain County Community College and University of California, Irvine. In addition to being a coach and pianist for Portland Opera’s Resident Artist Program, he also assists with curation and teaches a course focusing entirely on operas and art songs written by Black composers.

Joe has performed at venues across the country, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and abroad in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. He has performed on numerous series highlighting composers of African descent: Celebrating Art/ists of the African Diaspora curated by Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney, 253 SOULfood sessions curated by Kellie Richardson, Sundae Sermon: A Celebration of Black Folks curated by Chevon Powell, Renaissance & Remembrance: A Musical Celebration of Black History curated by Stephanie Ann Ball, Opera... From a Sistah's Point of View curated by Angela Brown, and Let the Strings Speak Love curated by Mona Terry & Lesa Terry. In 2017, he was invited to perform at Gateways Music Festival in Rochester, NY. This beautiful organization connects and supports professional classical musicians of African descent and enlightens and inspires communities through the power of performance. He is a member of the International Society for Black Musicians.

In 2020, Williams was honored to produce a docu-concert featuring pianist and scholar Dr. William Chapman Nyaho. This film explores Nyaho’s most recent album “Kete” as well as his monumental 5 volume anthology “Piano Music from Africa and the African Diaspora.” Featured contributors include Music Teachers National Association President Martha Hilley and distinguished scholar Dr. Kofi Agawu, among others. He then served as creative director for “A Long Way from Home,” a docu-concert examining the subject of African-American spirituals in an art song context. He appears in “Still Dreaming: Frances Walker at 93,” a documentary which chronicles the life of his beloved late mentor, legendary pianist Frances Walker-Slocum. He is a juror for the 2021 Seattle Black Film Festival.

SERENA BERRY is an award winning independent filmmaker and producer from Tacoma, Washington. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Washington-Tacoma. Serena has been working in independent cinema Pacific Northwest for nearly a decade. Her debut short film Shards was shown at HollyShorts Film Festival and won Best Narrative Short at the Synimatica Short Film Festival. Before penning Shards she worked as a freelance producer for PBS affiliate KCTS9 as well as multiple projects for Puget Sound non-profits organizations such as the Museum of Glass, America’s Car Museum and the Hilltop Artist Program . Her goal has always been to create stories that often don’t get told about real people.

CELESTE REED is an artist native to Tacoma, Washington. She is a dancer, performer, and teacher. Her earliest years of formal dance are influenced by the YMCA and Tacoma School of the Arts. In 2018, Reed earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. Reed is passionate about the moving body--its functionality and beauty--and its political position in society. She is also deeply interested in the healing powers of movement. This year you might find her teaching dance to Tacoma youth and making work with her fellow creatives. You might also find her dancing in her yard or at a park or on a sidewalk, just because it feels good to move. You'll never find her eating an orange.

A video recording of Joe's Classical Tuesdays performance will be available January 19, 2021 onwards. at:

www.youtube.com/classicaltuesdays and
www.facebook.com/classicaltues/

Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma celebrated Love & Light Dec 2020

In December Classical Tuesdays celebrated Diwali, India's Festival of Lights! With songs and instrumental music by Srivani Jade and friends, performing live from the Puget Sound region and India!

This was our annual benefit evening in support of the Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma series of free musical events. Our theme this year was the celebration of love and light, featuring performances by:
  • Satyajit Limaye on bamboo flute
  • Ashim Bhaumik on Baul vocals
  • Rahul Deshpande (Harmonium)
  • Manoj Biswas (Tabla drums)
  • Srivani Jade (Classical Vocals).
We warmly thank Connelly Law Offices for their continued support, and Old Town Wine Skins for hosting our pre-concert distribution of treats and savories. As always, we thank Tacoma Creates, Ted Brown Music Co., Slavonian Hall and many generous neighbors and friends for their support of the arts community and their continued financial and volunteer support of the Classical Tuesdays series.

The video above may be found at: