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School of Music hosts contemporary guest artist eighth blackbird, a contemporary music sextet founded at Oberlin Conservatory in 1996 that won the 2000 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Music for flutes, clarinets, violin/viola, cello, percussion and keyboards by late 20th century composers. All works in this program written 1995- 2000. Mills Hall, Mosse Humanities, 8 p.m. Information: 263-9485.

Faculty concert features Moses
Kenneth Moses, bassoon, with Vincent Fuh, piano, Linda Bartley, clarinet, and Anthony Di Sanza, percussion. Music by Vivaldi, Strauss and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Mills Hall, Mosse Humanities, 8 p.m. Cost: $8 general, $6 seniors and non-UW-Madison students. Information: 263-9485.

Galleries display African photos
“Village and City: Photographs of Sierra Leone, West Africa” by Vera Viditz-Ward, on display through March 9 in the Class of 1925 and Theater galleries of Memorial Union. Viditz-Ward’s photographs are selected from work produced over the past decade during prolonged stays in Sierra Leone. The images document people living through an ongoing war and surviving continuing political and economic crisis. A slide presentation and lecture by the artist is planned Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in Memorial Union (check TITU for location).