For the first time, Music of Remembrance is positioning jazz at the heart of our performance—honoring its legacy as a tradition born from resilience and cultural defiance.

The March 15 program includes:

Jacqueline Tabor performing songs made famous by Josephine Baker, the Harlem Renaissance icon who became a French Resistance operative.

UW Jazz Professor Michael Brockman playing Manuel Rosenthal's jaunty Marmalade Sonata, composed by an artist who organized concerts while imprisoned in a Nazi POW camp.

Donald Byrd's world premiere choreography to Darius Milhaud's La création du monde—a radical work from the 1920s blending jazz and classical tyles to imagine creation through African mythology.