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Oct

Logan Canyon Winds Recital: Autumn Music

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The Logan Canyon Winds perform Autumn Music with Jon Gudmundson, saxophone. The band will play pieces by Coleman, Dubois, Hidgon, and Taffanel. Jeiran Hasan, flute Marilyn Cole, oboe Thiago Ancelmo, clarinet Lauren Hunt, horn Leon Chodos, bassoon

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
04
Oct

Fry Street Quartet in Concert: 20th Anniversary Concert Series

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The 2022-2023 season is a celebration of the Fry Street Quartet's twenty years as quartet-in-residence at Utah State University. The opening program in the 20th anniversary season features a recent work by Iranian-Canadian composer Iman Habibi, as well as the ninth quartet of Shostakovich. Habibi's Beloved of the Sky takes its inspiration from iconic Canadian painter Emily Carr, and each short movement pays tribute to one of her individual works. The program closes with the sumptuous piano quintet of Nikolai Medtner, featuring USU Assistant Professor of Piano, Cahill Smith.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
07
Oct

Something to Lose: A New Musical

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Music, Lyrics, and Book by Aaron Nash

Come be the first to see a new one-act musical by USU student Aaron Nash. Set in a small city in suburban America, a young man attempts to deal with the mental anguish that accompanies his sister’s unexpected death. Through mistakes and self-discovery, he attempts to regain the life he once had.

Contains some mature content (allusions to sex)

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Caine Lyric Theatre |
08
Oct

Something to Lose: A New Musical

Arts/Entertainment

Music, Lyrics, and Book by Aaron Nash

Come be the first to see a new one-act musical by USU student Aaron Nash. Set in a small city in suburban America, a young man attempts to deal with the mental anguish that accompanies his sister’s unexpected death. Through mistakes and self-discovery, he attempts to regain the life he once had.

Contains some mature content (allusions to sex)

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Caine Lyric Theatre |
10
Oct

Autumn Voices

Arts/Entertainment

Join the USU Choirs for an awesome night of songs at one of USU's favorite concerts of the year!

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
11
Oct

Chamber Music Society of Logan: Dali Quartet with Olga Kern

Arts/Entertainment

The Dalí Quartet is acclaimed for bringing Latin American quartet repertoire to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon. The award-winning Dalí Quartet tours Classical Roots, Latin Soul programming to enthusiastic audiences across the U.S., Canada and South America. Its fresh approach has been sought out by distinguished series in New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Seattle, San Juan and countless communities beyond. The quartet has been called upon for return engagements at the National Gallery of Art, Friends of Chamber Music in Portland, and Chamber Music at Beall, among others. This season the Dalí tours from Philadelphia and DC all the way to Oaxaca, Mexico, and partners with the National Repertory Orchestra to give the Guarneri String Quartet Residency, awarded by Chamber Music America.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
12
Oct

Big Bands

Arts/Entertainment

TBA

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
18
Oct

Piano Area Concert: Dynamic Duos

Arts/Entertainment

Join us for an evening of piano ensemble pyrotechnics, presented by the students and faculty at Utah State University.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
19
Oct

Jazz Combos

Arts/Entertainment

This concert will feature the USU student jazz combos directed by Professors Max Matzen, Braun Khan, and graduate assistant Nate Baker. Students will be performing classic tunes from the jazz tradition as well as contemporary tunes from today’s jazz masters.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
21
Oct

USU Symphony Orchestra: Symphonic Treasures

Arts/Entertainment

Enjoy the USU Symphony Orchestra’s performance of favorite movements from
beloved symphonies. Featuring the children and youth players from Mountain West String Academy, Sistema Utah, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Haydn, Bologne, and Dvorak.

7:30 pm - 10:00 pm |
26
Oct

Jazz Jams

Arts/Entertainment

An eagerly awaited tradition around the Music Department is our series of monthly jam sessions, in which a guest artist (or two or three) from outside Cache Valley visits to perform jazz standards with USU students and community members in a relaxed environment. Come and sit in on a tune, or just sit back, relax, and enjoy the music. Jam sessions are completely unscripted, so you never know what exactly will happen, but it’s great fun watching musicians perform without a net!

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
28
Oct

Music Scholars Series: Melvin L. Butler

Arts/Entertainment

Melvin L. Butler is an associate professor in the Department of Musicology of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. A scholar-performer with broad interests in music and religion of the African diaspora, he has conducted field research on popular music and religion in Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States. In these transnational contexts, he interrogates the cultural politics of popular culture and religious worship while attending to the role of musical style in constructing individual and collective identities. His research explores black music-making, improvisation, and transcendence, with an emphasis on discourses of cultural authenticity and power that inflect Spirit-filled Christian worship. Dr. Butler's first book, Island Gospel: Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2019), examines the theological and experiential connections between Jamaican and African American Pentecostal music and gospel performance. His second book, tentatively titled Claiming Haiti: Music and the Cultural Politics of Transcendence in Haiti, is under contract with Oxford University Press. At the heart of his work lies a critic

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Family Life Building |
28
Oct

Wind Orchestra

Arts/Entertainment

Concerts are part of the band large ensemble curriculum. As capstone events, they typically occur twice per semester. Students are required to participate in these events as a large part of their grades, and these concerts are the culmination of several weeks of classroom rehearsals. All concerts are associated with one or more of the following ensembles: MUSC 4700: Wind Orchestra MUSC 3795: Wind Symphony MUSC 3790: Symphonic Band MUSC 3785: Marching Band

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
29
Oct

Monster Concert

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Come join the USU Youth Conservatory at our favorite yearly tradition - Monster Concert! Over 100 young pianists throughout Cache Valley and the USU piano majors come together to play music on over 20 pianos in the beautiful Daines Concert Hall. Our favorite YC monster mascot Frankensteinway and pianos galore will leave you and your family with amazing Halloween memories that will last forever. We can’t wait to see you there!

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
31
Oct

Koji Attwood, pianist

Arts/Entertainment

Koji Attwood made his solo debut at the age of ten, and one year later won 2nd prize at the Young Keyboard Artists International Competition. He earned 2nd prize at the Stravinsky and International Keyboard competitions and was a winner of Astral Artistic Services' 2003 International Auditions. Mr. Attwood has performed numerous solo recitals across much of the country, including concerts in Steinway Hall, Lincoln Center, and on the Kosciuszko Foundation Concert Series. Mr. Attwood partnered with Mikhail Baryshnikov for his 2002-03 solo tour of the United States, garnering praise for being "beautifully nuanced" [Cleveland Plain Dealer]. He is featured, along with pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, on the 2009 "Rarities of Piano" Danacord release, and as an avid transcriber, has over twenty arrangements to his credit.

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
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