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Dear Arts & Lectures’ Friends and Family, So often we live our lives facing forward, all eyes on the future, seeking out what’s on the horizon heading our way. Investigating the trends, introducing the next new artist-author-idealist. And this year we continue to do that, but we’re also keeping a keen eye on the past: we’re reflecting on our shared history, looking at how the past has shaped our world today and is likely to shape our future. We are pleased to announce a new thematic focus for the year: We Can Do It! A Century of Empowerment. We’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote, but that is just the beginning: we’re looking at ways that women are telling our stories, shaping our communities, and yes, holding us accountable for changes still to come. We are also launching our new History Matters lecture series, a fitting start for this collection of profound perspectives on American history and our place in the world. But we are still facing forward! Expect adventurous new work from Japan’s iconic dance artists Sankai Juku (Oct. 4), and the Santa Barbara debut of Dance Theatre of Harlem (Nov. 6). Enjoy our much-loved Danish String Quartet, this time with the 50-voice Danish National Girls’ Choir, a stunning ensemble of gorgeous voices (Nov. 12). Prepare for bliss and brilliance when composer Philip Glass joins Pico Iyer for our first Speaking with Pico event this year (Oct. 3). I hope you’ll join us often in the coming months, and take your place among this community of people who care deeply about art and ideas.
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We Can Do It!
A Century of Empowerment
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Tara Westover
Alex Morgan & Megan Rapinoe
Tue, Oct 1 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre
Tue, Oct 15 / 7 PM / Arlington Theatre
Tara Westover’s bestselling memoir explores the tension between loyalty to one’s family and loyalty to oneself and tells a universal story about the transformative power of education.
Powerful, playful and inspiring, soccer superstars Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe led the U.S. Women’s National Team to a monumental victory at this summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. Now, Morgan and Rapinoe are creating a groundswell of support for women athletes and equality across the globe.
Educated
An Evening of Achievement
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Elaine Weiss
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Sat, Oct 12 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall / FREE
Sun, Nov 3 / 3 PM / Campbell Hall
NY Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey reveal the gripping details of how they broke the Harvey Weinstein story, turning Hollywood’s “open secret” into a Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé that helped ignite the #MeToo movement.
Prize-winning journalist and author Elaine Weiss recounts the riveting story of one of America’s greatest battles: the ratification of the 19th constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote in 1920.
Martha Graham Dance Company: The EVE Project Fri, Jan 24 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre
Martha Graham’s company showcases masterpieces by (and inspired by) the mother of American modern dance in this collection that makes bold statements about female power.
Joy Harjo
U.S. Poet Laureate Wed, Feb 5 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall 10
A visionary poet of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, Joy Harjo’s wide-ranging body of work includes the landmark poetry collection She Had Some Horses, the acclaimed memoir Crazy Brave and her newest collection, An American Sunrise. In June, she became the first Native American to be named United States Poet Laureate.
1. Tara Westover 2. Alex Morgan 3. Megan Rapinoe 4. Elaine Weiss 5. Joy Harjo 6. Anita Hill 7. Jill Lepore 8. Rosanne Cash
This year-long series celebrates the evolution of women’s rights since the ratification of the 19th amendment, which gave women the constitutional right to vote. “We Can Do It!” highlights the incredible achievements of women from various disciplines who have made an indelible mark on U.S. society and advancements in gender equality and empowerment over the last 100 years.
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Anita Hill
From Social Movement to Social Impact: Putting an End to Sexual Harassment Wed, Feb 19 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
A women’s rights icon and powerful advocate for equality, Anita Hill inspires others to speak truth to power in order to foster true change.
Jill Lepore
This America: The Case for the Nation Fri, Feb 21 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Award-winning Harvard historian, New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the rise of America and an urgent reckoning with our divided nation.
Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
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She Remembers Everything
Wed, Mar 4 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
With an iconic sound that transcends country, pop, rock and blues, Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal summon powerful material rich with history, heartache, strength and humanity.
Elizabeth Strout
in Conversation with Pico Iyer Tue, May 12 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Elizabeth Strout’s lauded works of fiction include the Pulitzerwinning short story collection Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys and My Name Is Lucy Barton.
9. Elizabeth Strout 10. Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey 11. Martha Graham Dance Company
Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin Dick Wolf Major Sponsor: Zegar Family Foundation
Additional events to be announced.
What is it? Arts & Lectures’ Thematic Learning Initiative
extends the conversation from the stage into the community, inspiring lifelong learning opportunities that initiate change and empowerment. Join A&L and other knowledge seekers like you who want to learn more, know more and do more to improve ourselves and the world around us. Connect with others at intimate salon-style discussions, film screenings and added special public events. Receive online educational resources, sign up for book giveaways and more!
What does it cost? It’s FREE! Who participates? More than 2,000 community
members like you and local organizations like social services, health and wellness providers and civic organizations.
Get Involved! Visit www.Thematic-Learning.org or
email TLI@ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu to get updates and more information.
Fall 2019 Book Selection Each quarter, we select a book written by an A&L speaker that expands on one of the season’s themes, and provide free copies for the community.
Educated: A Memoir
“An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It’s even better than you’ve heard.” – Bill Gates FREE copies of Educated by Tara Westover are available at Arts & Lectures’ Campbell Hall Box Office at UCSB and the Santa Barbara Central Library (40 E. Anapamu St.). Books available while supplies last. Tara Westover public lecture, Oct 1 at the Granada Theatre (p. 12)
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With thanks to our visionary partners, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, for their support of the Thematic Learning Initiative A&L Council Member Lynda Weinman and A&L Program Advisor Bruce Heavin with photographer Annie Leibovitz
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We Can Do It! A Century of Empowerment Oct 12 PUBLIC LECTURE: Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey (p. 18)
FREE EVENTS
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harrassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Oct 14 FILM: Not For Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Part 1: Revolution 4 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery*
Related Event: Elaine Weiss public lecture, Nov 3 (p. 32)
Oct 21 FILM: Not For Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Part 2: Failure is Impossible 4 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery*
Related Event: Elaine Weiss public lecture, Nov 3 (p. 32)
Nov 7 FILM: Dolores
A film about rebel, activist, feminist and mother Dolores Huerta 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Nov 14 FILM: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
A film about women’s rights icon Anita Hill 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Related Event: Anita Hill public lecture, Feb 19
Nov 19 DISCUSSION: Social Justice Book Club
She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey (authors will not be present) 6 PM / SB Central Library, Faulkner Gallery East* Related Event: Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey public lecture, Oct 12 (p. 18)
Oct- EXHIBIT: Women’s Suffrage Dec Letters, manuscripts and original writings by Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others Wed - Sun / Noon - 4 PM Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 21 W. Anapamu St.
Oct- EXHIBIT: From Eunice Foote to UCSB
Jun A Story of Women, Science, and Climate Change Mon - Fri / 8 AM - 5 PM UCSB Library, Ocean Gallery
*Online registration recommended: www.Thematic-Learning.org
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Tara Westover Educated
Tue, Oct 1 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre Presented in association with the UCSB Writing Program
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Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin Dick Wolf
Tara Westover is an American author and historian known for her unique and courageous education journey. Born in Idaho to survivalist parents opposed to public education, Westover never attended school. She spent her days working in her father’s junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. Taught by an older brother, her education was erratic and incomplete. Westover taught herself enough mathematics, grammar and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. She was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom and continued learning for a decade, graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009 and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.
Major Sponsor: Zegar Family Foundation
Presented through the generosity of Diana & Simon Raab Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
Thematic Learning Initiative Book Selection
Her book, Educated, is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a story that gets to the heart of what education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes and the will to change it. Westover argues that education is not just about job training, but a powerful tool of self-invention. Educated was long-listed for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and has spent more than 80 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.
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Kristin Chenoweth in Concert Wed, Oct 2 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance No intermission
Presented through the generosity of Luci & Richard Janssen Additional Support: Mandy & Daniel Hochman Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth’s career spans stage, film, television and voiceover. In 2009, she received an Emmy Award for her role in Pushing Daisies. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and she was also nominated for her original role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked in 2004. Chenoweth has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and for a People’s Choice Award for her role on Glee. In 2015, Chenoweth earned a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for her lead role in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s On the Twentieth Century. She also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Drama League Award. Chenoweth has performed to sold-out audiences across the world, including at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall. Her album of American Songbook classics The Art of Elegance debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Current Jazz and Traditional Jazz charts and No. 1 on Amazon’s Vocal Pop chart. Chenoweth just released her new album, For the Girls, in September. Chenoweth was recently seen in the series American Gods, reuniting with executive producer Bryan Fuller to play the role of Easter. Notable television roles include appearances in The West Wing, Disney’s Descendants, The Muppets and NBC’s hit comedy series Trial & Error. She will star alongside Scott Wolf in the holiday film The Christmas Song, slated to debut on Hallmark Channel in November, and the film Holidate, which will premiere on Netflix in 2020. She will star as Madeline in the upcoming musical comedy Death Becomes Her, an adaptation of the 1992 film directed by Robert Zemeckis. She voiced the role of Gabi in the hit animated
film Rio 2, Fifi, Snoopy’s beloved French poodle in The Peanuts Movie, Princess Skystar in Lionsgate/Hasbro’s My Little Pony: The Movie and can be heard in the animated film The Star. Chenoweth formed a charity with the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center Foundation in her home state of Oklahoma, launching an annual Broadway Bootcamp in 2015 to provide young Broadway hopefuls with the opportunity to take classes, hold performances and learn from top mentors in the industry, including Chenoweth herself. She also created Places! The Kristin Chenoweth Tour Experience, an educational program for young singers that brings them on stage to perform next to her. Each concert in her tour features local participants from higher education conservatories, universities and colleges. Chenoweth earned a Master’s degree in Opera Performance from Oklahoma City University. She is an inductee into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Philip Glass
in Conversation with Pico Iyer
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Thu, Oct 3 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Speaking with Pico Series Sponsors: Martha Gabbert, Dori Pierson Carter & Chris Carter and Laura Shelburne & Kevin O’Connor
Philip Glass Born in Baltimore, Md., Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). In the past few years several new works were unveiled including an opera on the death of Walt Disney, a new touring production of Einstein, the publication of Glass’ memoir Words Without Music, and the premiere of the revised version of Glass’ opera Appomattox, in collaboration with librettist Christopher Hampton, by the Washington National Opera in 2015. In 2015, Glass received the U.S. National Medal of Arts and the 11th Glenn Gould Prize. Glass celebrated his 80th birthday on January 31, 2017 with the world premiere of Symphony No. 11 at Carnegie Hall. His 80th birthday season featured the U.S. premieres of operas The Trial and The Perfect American, and world premieres of new works, including Piano Concerto No. 3 and String Quartet No. 8. Glass received the 41st Kennedy
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Center Honors in 2018. In January 2019 the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented the world premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 12, based on David Bowie’s album Lodger and a completion of three symphonies based on Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. Recent projects include an original score for King Lear on Broadway and a theater collaboration, Tao of Glass, directed by Phelim McDermott. Glass continues to perform solo piano and chamber music evenings with worldrenowned musicians and regularly appears with the Philip Glass Ensemble.
Pico Iyer Pico Iyer is the author of two novels and 13 works of non-fiction and his books have been translated into 23 languages. He has also written the introductions to more than seventy other works as well as liner notes for Leonard Cohen and a screenplay for Miramax. A constant contributor to Time, The New York Times, the New York Review of books and more than 250 other publications for more than 37 years now, he has just published three new books, including Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide To Japan, both on his adopted home near Kyoto. In recent years he has given four talks for TED, and they have received more than nine million views so far. Special thanks to
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U.S. Premiere
Sankai Juku
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land Choreography, Concept and Direction by Ushio Amagatsu Fri, Oct 4 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre photo: María Cristina Moreno
Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance
Dance Series Sponsors: Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel, Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Bob Feinberg, Irma & Morrie Jurkowitz, Barbara Stupay and Sheila Wald
Choreography, Concept and Direction: Ushio Amagatsu Music: Takashi Kako, YAS-KAZ, Yoichiro Yoshikawa Dancers: Semimaru, Toru Iwashita, Sho Takeuchi, Akihito Ichihara, Dai Matsuoka, Norihito Ishii, Shunsuke Momoki, Taiki Iwamoto Realization of Sea Lilies (décor): Roshi Costume Realization: Masayo Iizuka Co-produced by: Theatre de la Ville (Paris, France), Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center (Fukuoka, Japan), Sankai Juku (Tokyo, Japan) North American Tour Produced by Pomegranate Arts Linda Brumbach, Executive Producer Alisa E. Regas, Associate Producer World Premiere: Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center, March 2015 Sankai Juku’s 2019 North American tour is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council and Shiseido Co., Ltd
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land I The Call from the Distance II Transformation on the Sea Bottom III Two Surfaces IV Premonition – Quietude – Tremblings V Forest of Fossils VI Weavings VII Return The word “meguri” is written with the Chinese character (pictograph) , which is read “meguru” as a verb and refers to phenomena like circulating water and all things that rotate. “Meguri” is thus used for things that move or circulate in accordance with some prescribed order or system, such as the passage of time, the cycle of the four seasons and transitions the earth has been through. The stage art on the wall is created in the image of fossils of the Paleozoic marine creatures known as sea lily (crinoid). – Ushio Amagatsu
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Ushio Amagatsu Born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1949, Amagatsu founded Sankai Juku in 1975. He created Amagatsu Sho (1977), Kinkan Shonen (1978) and Sholiba (1979) before the first world tour in 1980. Since 1981, France and Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, have become his places for creation and work. In 1981, he created Bakki for Festival d’Avignon. At Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, he has created successively Jomon Sho (1982), Netsu no Katachi (1984), Unetsu (1986), Shijima (1988), Omote (1991), Yuragi (1993), Hiyomeki (1995), Hibiki (1998), Kagemi (2000), Utsuri (2003), Toki (2005), Tobari (2008), Kara • Mi (2010), Umusuna (2012), Meguri (2015) and ARC (2019). ARC had its world premiere at Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center in March and was presented at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris in April and May of this year. Amagatsu also works independently outside Sankai Juku. In 1988, he created Fushi on the invitation of Jacob’s Pillow Foundation, with music by Philip Glass. In 1989, he was appointed artistic director of the Spiral Hall, where he directed Apocalypse (1989) and Fifth-V (1990). In February 1997, he directed Bluebeard’s Castle by Bartók conducted by Peter Eötvös at Tokyo International Forum. In March 1998, at Opéra National de Lyon, France, he directed Peter Eötvös’ opera Three Sisters (world premiere), which received a Prix du Syndicat National de la Critique. Three Sisters has been seen in the 2001-02 season at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra National de Lyon and Wiener Festwochen in Austria. In March 2008, Amagatsu directed Lady Sarashina, Peter Eötvös’ opera at Opéra National de Lyon (world premiere). Lady Sarashina also received a Prix du Syndicat National de la Critique and was seen at Opéra Comique in February 2009 and in Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera, in Warsaw in April 2013. Amagatsu has also presided over the jury of the International Meeting of Dance of Bagnolet in 1992, and in the same year was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Cultural Ministry. In February 2002, Hibiki won the 26th Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. In 2004, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology awarded the Geijyutsu Sensho Prize (Art Encouragement Prize) to Amagatsu for his outstanding artistic achievement. In 2007, Toki won the Grand Prix of the 6th Asahi Performing Arts Awards and Sanaki Juku received the KIRIN Special Grant for Dance. In July 2011, he presided over the jury of the 10th International Choreographic Competition of National Academy of Dance Grand Theater, Italy. In 2011, he received a Purple Ribbon Medal from the Japanese government. In October 2013, Sankai Juku received a Japan Foundation Award. In July
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2014, he received the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France. In July 2016, he was given the Flying Mercury Prize by the 27th international Florence Dance Festival. His latest book, Des Rivages D’enfance au Buto de Sankai Juku, was published in 2013 in France. It was published in 2015 in Japan as a special edition combining another book, Dialogue avec la Gravité, and adding a chapter of essays and drawings.
About the Company Sankai Juku is a Butoh dance company, founded by Ushio Amagatsu in 1975. It has toured internationally since 1980, and it world-premieres a new piece approximately once every two years at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. It is one of the few dance companies that Théâtre de la Ville, Paris has commissioned continuously for more than 35 years. Since its first world tour in 1980, it has performed in more than 700 cities in 48 countries throughout Europe, North, Central and South America, Asia and Oceania. The company has been highly praised in different cultures for more than 35 years, which demonstrates the universal nature of its work. Crossing over several geographical borders as well as generations, its work is an original form of aesthetics that leads the audience to grasp her/his inner movement. By performing for audiences from different backgrounds, it has continuously been developing its theme, searching for, and moving toward, a new realm. All of Sankai Juku’s works have been directed, choreographed and designed by Ushio Amagatsu, founder of the company. Amagatsu defines Butoh as a “dialogue with gravity.” He has developed his own method of pursuing themes universal to all human beings, such as birth and death. Amagatsu’s work has been recognized internationally for its choreographic language, universality of subject and aesthetics. “Each of the meetings with Sankai Juku is a promise of a vague beauty. Meguri is no exception to this rule. Ushio Amagatsu now gives us one of his strongest creations… Deep blue sea sand, glowing ridges on the walls, the artwork also reveals its atmospheres to embody different emotions. Rounds, jumps, floor work – the movements seem like they’re being suspended in the space of the theatre, making Meguri a long visual poem. In his way, and not so different to that of a painter, Ushio Amagatsu creates universes like interior worlds.” – Philippe Noisette, dance critic, Théâtre de la Ville 2015-2016 program
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“I have a vision that always exists inside of me of two plates searching for a balance on both ends of the scales by rotating and moving up and down. One plate carries culture, each of which has its own unique characteristics that might often appear mysterious and difficult for the others to understand. However, the difference is the basis of the culture, and thus, is important. The other plate carries universality that is common to all human beings. The difference and commonness are constantly moving for seeking a balance between two.” – Ushio Amagatsu, “Dialogue avec la Gravité,” Actes Sud
Pomegranate Arts For the past 20 years, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Founder and Director Linda Brumbach, along with Managing Director Alisa E. Regas, produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach, the multi-award-winning production of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the Drama Desk Award-winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo. Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced more than 30 major new performing arts productions and tours for Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Dan Zanes, London’s Improbable, Sankai Juku, Batsheva and Bassem Youssef and collaborated on new productions with the Kronos Quartet, Leonard Cohen, Robert Wilson and Frank Gehry. Pomegranate Arts hopes to continue to build a community of institutions and individuals that are inspired by the artists that help bring beauty and truth into the world, ask important questions and take bold risks.
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Artistic Director, Choreography, Design: Ushio Amagatsu Music: Takashi Kako, YAS-KAZ, Yoichiro Yoshikawa Dancers: Semimaru Toru Iwashita Sho Takeuchi Akihito Ichihara Dai Matsuoka Norihito Ishii Shunsuke Momoki Taiki Iwamoto Stage Manager: Kazuhiko Nakahara Lighting Technician: Satoru Suzuki Sound Technician: Junko Miyazaki Set Technician: Keisuke Watanabe Realization of Sea Lilies (décor): Roshi Costume Realization: Masayo Iizuka Administration: Midori Okuyama, Yasuko Takai North American Production Supervision: Doug Witney Production Management: Corps Liminis North American Company Manager: Pat Kirby Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
Pomegranate Arts is the North American Representation of Sankai Juku www.pomegranatearts.com info@pomarts.com Founder and Director: Linda Brumbach Managing Director, Creative: Alisa E. Regas General Manager: Rachel Katwan Production Manager: Jeremy Lydic Business Manager: Adam Thorburn Office Manager: Brit Katke Production Assistant: Willa Ellafair Folmar
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Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Sat, Oct 12 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
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Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Feminist Studies and the UCSB Women’s Center Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin Dick Wolf Major Sponsor: Zegar Family Foundation
Jodi Kantor Jodi Kantor is a prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times whose work has revealed hidden truths about power, gender, technology, politics and culture.
working mothers and breastfeeding inspired two readers to create the first free-standing lactation suites for nursing mothers, now available in hundreds of airports and stadiums.
In October of 2017, she and Megan Twohey broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse allegations. Their work helped ignite the #metoo movement, shift attitudes and spur new laws, policies and standards of accountability around the globe. Together with a team of colleagues who exposed harassment across industries, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, journalism’s highest award.
For their work on Harvey Weinstein, Kantor and Twohey also received a George Polk Award, the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the University of Georgia and honors from the Los Angeles Press Club and the Canadian Journalism Foundation. Along with other members of the Times sexual harassment reporting team, they were awarded the IRE Medal, from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., the Batten Medal from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, a Scripps Howard Award for Impact, a special citation from the Goldsmith Awards of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center and the Matrix Inaugural Incite Award from New York Women in Communications.
Before then, Kantor’s article about the havoc caused by automated scheduling systems in Starbucks workers’ lives sparked changes at the company and helped launch a national fair scheduling movement. After she and David Streitfeld investigated punishing labor practices at Amazon’s corporate headquarters, the company changed its human resources policies, introducing paternity leave and eliminating its employee ranking system. The article she wrote about Harvard Business School’s attempt to change its climate for women provoked a national conversation about women in business schools. Kantor’s report on
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Kantor is also a contributor to CBS This Morning. Kantor and Twohey’s book on the Weinstein investigation and sexual harassment, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, was released in September and will be adapted into a film by Plan B Entertainment, the makers of Selma and Moonlight.
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Megan Twohey Megan Twohey is a prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times who has focused much of her attention on the treatment of women and children. In 2017, she and Jodi Kantor broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged abuse towards women, helping to ignite a global reckoning on sexual harassment. The investigation shared in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the George Polk award for national reporting and won other national prizes. The previous year, during the 2016 presidential race, Twohey told the stories of women who accused Donald J. Trump of groping and other sexual misconduct.
Coming in Winter
Anita Hill
From Social Movement to Social Impact: Putting an End to Sexual Harassment
She uncovered an underground network where parents gave away adopted children they no longer wanted to strangers met on the Internet. Known as private re-homing, the illicit practice took place with no government oversight and at great risk to children. “The Child Exchange” series was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. It prompted states to pass new laws to protect children. Two of the main subjects were sent to prison. Twohey testified before a U.S. Senate committee. While reporting in Chicago, she exposed how police and prosecutors were shelving DNA evidence collected after sex crimes, robbing victims of the chance for justice. In response to her stories, Illinois passed the first state law mandating the testing of every rape kit. Twohey’s other investigations brought about separate legal protections for victims of stalking, domestic violence and sex-abusing doctors. Twohey is also a contributor to NBC and MSNBC. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
Thematic Learning Initiative Event (see page 11)
“Hill was transformed into a symbol and catalyst for the #MeToo movement in support of sexualharassment victims, decades before it had a name.” The New Yorker
Wed, Feb 19 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall Tickets start at $20 / $10 UCSB students Presented in association with the UCSB Feminist Futures Initiative and the UCSB Women’s Center
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Joel Sartore
Building the Photo Ark Sun, Oct 13 / 3 PM / Campbell Hall
Presented through the generosity of Crystal & Clifford Wyatt and an anonymous patron
Joel Sartore is a photographer, author, teacher, conservationist, National Geographic Fellow and a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. Sartore specializes in documenting endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. He is the founder of The Photo Ark, a multi-year documentary project to save species and habitats. In his words, “It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we’re actually saving ourselves.” Sartore has written several books, including RARE: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species, Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky and Birds of the Photo Ark. His new book, The Photo Ark Vanishing: The World’s Most Vulnerable Animals, was released in September.
The Photo Ark The interaction between animals and their environments is the engine that keeps the planet healthy for all of us. But for many species, time is running out. When you remove one, it affects us all. The National Geographic Photo Ark is a major effort to raise awareness of and find solutions to some of the most pressing issues affecting wildlife and their habitats. The Photo Ark’s three-pronged approach harnesses the power of National Geographic’s photography and the bold ideas of National Geographic explorers. Led by photographer Joel Sartore, the project aims to document every species in the world’s zoos
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and wildlife sanctuaries, inspire action through education and help save wildlife by supporting on-the-ground conservation efforts. Joel Sartore started the Photo Ark in his hometown of Lincoln, Neb., more than a decade ago. Since then, the worldrenowned photographer has visited 40 countries in his quest to create a photo archive of global biodiversity, which will feature portraits of an estimated 12,000 species of birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. To date, Sartore has photographed more than 9,500 species – from the massive African elephant to the tiniest bumblebee. Once completed, the Photo Ark will serve as an important record of each animal’s existence and a powerful testament to the importance of saving them. No matter its size, each animal is treated with the same amount of affection and respect. The results are portraits that are not just stunningly beautiful, but intimate and moving. “It’s the eye contact that moves people,” Sartore explains. It engages their feelings of compassion and a desire to help.” www.joelsartore.com/photo-ark Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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Alex Morgan & Megan Rapinoe
An Evening of Achievement Moderator: Catherine Remak, career broadcaster and co-host of KLITE’s Mornings with Gary and Catherine
Tue, Oct 15 / 7 PM / Arlington Theatre photo: Sam Maller/The Players’ Tribune
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Alex Morgan
Megan Rapinoe
Co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team, Alex Morgan is a blur on the pitch. Morgan overwhelms defenders with her graceful yet attacking style, bringing defenses to their knees and fans to their feet. A two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, UEFA Women’s Champions League Champion and NWSL Champion, Morgan is a proven winner at all levels. Businesswoman, author, social media phenom, marketing icon – she is all this and more, proof that Morgan’s ability to inspire and excite fans stretches far beyond the pitch.
Two-time World Cup Champion and co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), Megan Rapinoe is a fan favorite and one of the team’s most technical players. A vocal leader on and off the pitch, Rapinoe helped lead the USWNT to the 2019 Women’s World Cup Championship, scoring some of the biggest goals of the tournament. Rapinoe took home the tournament’s two top honors – the Golden Boot for top scorer and the Golden Ball for best player in the tournament. Rapinoe is an advocate for equality for all and has been able to amplify her passion for humanity and authenticity by creating Rapinoe SC, LLC. and co-founding Re-Inc., a purposeful lifestyle brand founded with fellow teammates. Rapinoe and her teammates are preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics next summer. Special thanks to
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Béla Fleck Zakir Hussain Edgar Meyer
with Rakesh Chaurasia Sat, Oct 19 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
photo: Jim McGuire
One intermission
Béla Fleck, banjo Zakir Hussain, tabla Edgar Meyer, bass Rakesh Chaurasia, bansuri The story begins around 1980 when Edgar Meyer’s friends Sam Bush and John Cowan told him about a guy they thought he’d enjoy playing with, Béla Fleck by name. “We first played together in Aspen, just busking, but we were pretty close pretty early. The thing we had in common was that both of us were completely comfortable talking about music 24/7 – playing, instruments, technology, the machinations of human beings involved, any part of music.” They played even more. “As players,” Meyer added, “we were at a formative stage, so to some degree we were shaped by each other. Béla’s inventive, he cares about the details and he’s willing to put rhythm above other things, to prioritize it.” And rhythm led to the next step. Fleck recalled, “I met Zakir at a workshop at a festival that he did with (Flecktone member) Future Man. Both Edgar and I thought we could learn a lot from him. When the Nashville Symphony built its new building, they asked Edgar and I to write a concerto. Since we’d recently premiered a double concerto, they suggested a triple concerto with someone special. Zakir immediately came to mind. At first, we only composed together, working on The Melody of Rhythm concerto. Then we
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Presented through the generosity of Marilyn & Richard Mazess added the six trio pieces to complete the album, but it was in the touring that we really started to develop a serious musical rapport.” Working on the concerto with Fleck and Meyer was “a revelation,” Hussain says, “an eye-opener, a whole other way to make music, especially for me as an Indian classical musician. I had not imagined that tabla could be incorporated into the world of Western classical music and bluegrass all at the same time. It opened up a whole new avenue for me to explore.” Fleck continues: “As a banjo player, with short percussive notes, I often feel like a percussionist. Playing with like beings who possess a powerful command of time can set me free. Zakir brings flow, support and an uncommonly strong sense of time to the playing, so I can relax and flow too. And he’s a forward leaner, by which I mean it feels natural to him to let the tempo pick up subtly, as we do in bluegrass music. “He brings a sense of effortless mastery to his art, so that he’s often not working at things, just flowing. He doesn’t feel he has to play at 100% difficulty rate at all times, and he knows how complicated to make it for the people that he’s playing with. He plays what’s appropriate and gives you just the level of stimulation you need.” Meyer concurs. “As to playing with Zakir, it’s still a honeymoon for me to be playing with him. He’s the most interesting musician I’ve encountered in the second half of my life. I try to enjoy it as well as seeing how much I can learn. He’s just a unique rhythmic force.”
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“This tour will include new music,” Fleck adds, “and ideally we’ll develop a new album out of it. And the new great thing is that this time we’ll also have Rakesh as a regular component, which really opens up the sonic palette. Edgar has a sustain buddy now. Rakesh came out and played with us a good number of times, and it was a profound connection – he’s easy to play with and fun to be around, and it balances the band not only culturally but in terms of sustain.” Meyer adds, “Each person in the band is clearly devoted to being a great accompanist as well as a strong soloist. Rakesh will be interacting with Béla and I all the time.” Hussain says: “Rakesh is one of a new breed of Indian classical musicians. We witness him being able to seamlessly flow and interact with many forms of music since he has been exposed to them since the time of his earliest training. Rakesh is the finest young bamboo flutist of Indian classical music and a natural fit with our trio.” Fleck sums it up: “We all provide things that differ from each other. Edgar brings in a powerful bass sense and accesses levels of harmony that neither Zakir nor I can offer; he’s really figured out how to interface harmony with Indian music. I don’t know what I bring, but I’m glad neither of them can play banjo! And Rakesh is just the frosting on the cake, or actually on a hipper level, the sherry in the she-crab soup. This is going to be fun.” Meyer concludes, “I’m looking forward to a great four-way dialogue, and it will be unique.”
Béla Fleck There are some who say Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player while others claim that Fleck has virtually reinvented the banjo through a remarkable career that has taken him all over the musical map. The 15-time Grammy Award winner has been nominated in more categories than any other artist in Grammy history and remains a powerfully creative force globally in bluegrass, jazz, classical pop, rock and world beat. His groundbreaking quartet Béla Fleck & The Flecktones celebrated 30 years with a North American tour in the summer of 2018. Fleck and his wife Abigail Washburn took home the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album and released the acclaimed follow-up LP, Echo in the Valley, in 2017. The impact of fatherhood sparked Juno Concerto, a piece for banjo and orchestra, recorded with the Colorado
Symphony and conducted by José Luis Gomez. Companion pieces to the Juno Concerto include “Griff ” (G riff), featuring Fleck with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet. Any world-class musician born with the names Béla (for Bartók), Anton (for Dvořák) and Leoš (for Janáček) would seem destined to play classical music. Fleck made the classical connection with Perpetual Motion, his critically acclaimed 2001 Sony Classical recording that went on to win a pair of Grammys, including Best Classical Crossover Album. Collaborating with Fleck on Perpetual Motion was his longtime friend and colleague Edgar Meyer, an amazing bassist/composer whose virtuosity defies labels. In 2009, Fleck produced the award-winning documentary and recordings Throw Down Your Heart, where he journeyed across Africa to research the origins of the banjo. In 2011, Fleck premiered his first stand-alone banjo concerto, The Impostor, with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, which commissioned the work. It has now been performed more than 50 times worldwide. These days, Fleck performs in an astonishing variety of contexts: his concertos, a duo with Chick Corea, tonight’s trio with Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain and guest Rakesh Chaurasia, with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet, in banjo duet with Abigail Washburn, banjo and mandolin duet with Chris Thile and occasionally back to bluegrass with his old friends Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton and others. He collaborates with African artists such as Oumou Sangare and Toumani Diabaté, in a jazz setting with The Marcus Roberts Trio and with Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. Fleck recently accepted a commission to create his third concerto, which premiered in 2018.
Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon and one of the greatest musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, and as one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors. Along with his legendary father and teacher, Ustad Allarakha, he has elevated the status of his instrument both in India and around the world. Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement, Hussain’s contribution to world music has been unique, with many historic collaborations, including Shakti, which he founded with John McLaughlin
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and L. Shankar, Remember Shakti, the Diga Rhythm Band, Making Music, Planet Drum with Mickey Hart, Tabla Beat Science, Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland and recordings and performances with artists as diverse as George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Airto Moreira, Pharoah Sanders, Billy Cobham, Mark Morris, Rennie Harris, Herbie Hancock and Kodo. His music and extraordinary contribution to the music world were honored in April 2009, with four widely heralded and sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall’s Artist Perspective series. In 2007, readers’ polls from both Modern Drummer and Drum! magazines named him Best World Music and Best Worldbeat Drummer respectively, and the Downbeat Critics’ Poll named him Best Percussionist in 2012. In 2009, Hussain received a Grammy in the Best Contemporary World Music category for Global Drum Project, his group with Mickey Hart, Giovanni Hidalgo and Sikiru Adepoju. A child prodigy, Hussain was touring by the age of 12. He came to the United States in 1970, performing his first U.S. concert at the Fillmore East in New York City with Pandit Ravi Shankar. In 1987, his first solo release, Making Music, was acclaimed as “one of the most inspired East-West fusion albums ever recorded.” In 1992, Planet Drum, an album co-created and produced by Hussain and Mickey Hart, became the first recording to win a Grammy in the Best World Music category, the Downbeat Critics’ Poll for Best World Beat Album and the NARM Indie Best Seller Award for World Music Recording. Hussain is the recipient of the 1999 National Heritage Fellowship, the United States’ most prestigious honor for a master in the traditional arts. He received the distinct honor of co-composing the opening music for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was commissioned to compose music for Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet (for which he received an Isadora Duncan Award) and to compose an original work for the San Francisco Jazz Festival, both in 1998. In 2002, his commissioned work for choreographer Mark Morris’ Kolam premiered as part of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project with Yo-Yo Ma and Hussain performing Hussain’s composition live for the performance. In September 2006, Triple Concerto for Banjo, Bass and Tabla, a piece co-composed by Hussain, Edgar Meyer and Béla Fleck, was performed by them with the Nashville Symphony. In January 2009, it was re-created with the Detroit Symphony, again under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. This performance and new original works composed by Hussain, Meyer and Fleck, were released as the Grammy-nominated The Melody of Rhythm in 2009.
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Hussain’s second concerto, Concerto for Four Soloists, a special commission for the National Symphony Orchestra, was performed at the Kennedy Center in March 2011. His third concerto, Peshkar, the first-ever tabla concerto, was premiered in September 2015 by the Symphony Orchestra of India, in Europe in January 2016, and in the United States in April 2017 by the National Symphony Orchestra. In 1992, Hussain founded Moment! Records, which features original collaborations in the field of contemporary world music and live concert performances by great masters of the classical music of India. Moment! Records’ 2006 release, Golden Strings of the Sarode with Aashish Khan and Zakir Hussain, was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional World Music category. www.zakirhussain.com www.momentrecords.com
Edgar Meyer In demand as both a performer and a composer, Edgar Meyer has formed a role in the music world unlike any other. Hailed by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument,” Meyer’s unparalleled technique and musicianship, in combination with his gift for composition, have brought him to the fore. His uniqueness in the field was recognized by a MacArthur Award in 2002. As a solo classical bassist, Meyer can be heard on a concerto album with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff featuring Bottesini’s Gran Duo with Joshua Bell, Meyer’s own Double Concerto for Bass and Cello with Yo-Yo Ma, Bottesini’s Bass Concerto No. 2, and Meyer’s own Concerto in D for Bass. He has also recorded an album featuring three of Bach’s Unaccompanied Suites for Cello. In 2006, he released a self-titled solo recording on which he wrote and recorded all of the music, incorporating piano, guitar, mandolin, dobro, banjo, gamba and double bass. In 2007, recognizing his wide-ranging recording achievements, Sony/BMG released a compilation of The Best of Edgar Meyer. In 2011 Meyer joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile and fiddler Stuart Duncan for the Sony Masterworks recording The Goat Rodeo Sessions which was awarded the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. Meyer was honored with his fifth Grammy Award in 2015 for Best Contemporary Instrumental album for his Bass & Mandolin collaboration with Chris Thile, a follow-up to their genre-bending 2008 CD/DVD, Edgar Meyer and
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Chris Thile. His most recent recording is a 2017 collection of Bach Trios with Thile and Yo-Yo Ma. As a composer, Meyer has carved out a remarkable and unique niche in the musical world. One of his most recent compositions is the Double Concerto for Double Bass and Violin, which received its world premiere in July 2012 with Joshua Bell at the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Meyer and Bell have also performed the work at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Aspen Music Festival and with the Nashville and Toronto symphony orchestras. In the 2011-12 season, Meyer was composer in residence with the Alabama Symphony, where he premiered his third concerto for double bass and orchestra. Collaborations are a central part of Meyer’s work and include performing and recording in a duo with Béla Fleck, a quartet with Joshua Bell, Sam Bush and Mike Marshall, a trio with Béla Fleck and Mike Marshall and a trio with YoYo Ma and Mark O’Connor. The latter combined to create the 1996 Appalachia Waltz release, which soared to the top of the charts and remained there for 16 weeks. Their follow-up recording, Appalachian Journey, was honored with a Grammy Award. In the 2006-2007 season, Meyer premiered a piece for double bass and piano performed with Emanuel Ax. Meyer began studying bass at the age of five under the instruction of his father and continued further to study with Stuart Sankey. In 1994, he received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and in 2000 became the only bassist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize. Currently, he is Visiting Professor of Double Bass at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Rakesh Chaurasia Rakesh Chaurasia, the nephew and child prodigy of flute maestro Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, has a famous name to live up to. Amongst the promising musicians of the second generation, Chaurasia has carved a niche for himself as an accomplished flautist. Infusing his personal style with the tradition of his renowned uncle, he has evolved an approach that maintains the purity of the flute while also managing to capture the attention of young listeners. The most accomplished of his uncle’s disciples, he promises to carry the Chaurasia legacy to new heights.
Chaurasia’s forte is in blending his flute without really losing its identity in mixed-instrument concerts. He has already globetrotted many times over, enthralling audiences at classical and non-classical concerts. He is also an accomplished studio musician, having recorded with most of the leading stalwarts of the Indian film industry. Chaurasia has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades. He received the Indian Music Academy Award presented by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in 2007, the Aditya Birla Kalakiran Puraskar in 2008, the Guru Shishya Award in 2011, IWAP-Pandit Jasraj Sangeet Ratna Award in 2013 and the Pannalal Ghosh Puraskar 2013. Despite his experimental work, Chaurasia has never deviated from his main goal of becoming a full-fledged classical musician. He has regularly appeared in prominent festivals such as the WOMAD festival in Athens and Womad Earthstation in Europe and his growing maturity and status has brought him invitations to perform solo at major events within India and abroad, including the Festival of Saint-Denis in Paris and the Leicester International Music Festival in England. Most notably, Chaurasia was invited to conclude the 24-hour live BBC Radio broadcast celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee, reaching audiences worldwide. Recently Chaurasia toured with legendary tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain both as a duo for classical concerts as well as for The Masters of Percussion at prestigious venues across the globe. He has also performed with such international names as Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Joshua Redman. His most recent venture is his fusion band Rakesh and Friends (RAF) which creates music that appeals to the young without sacrificing the essence of classical music. Belá Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer’s recording, The Melody of Rhythm featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin, Music Director, is available on E1 Music CDs and Digital Recordings. Béla Fleck is managed by David Bendett, artistsinc@aol.com and booked by Creative Artists Agency, (310) 278-5657. Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer and Rakesh Chaurasia are managed by IMG Artists. 7 West 54th Street, New York NY 10019. (212) 994-3500 Special thanks to
Chaurasia’s flute has matched note and rhythm with wind instruments of other cultures as well as having performed with Carnatic and world-famous instrumentalists.
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Chucho Valdés Jazz Batá
Sun, Oct 20 / 7 PM / Campbell Hall
photo: Alejandro Perez
No intermission
Chucho Valdés, piano Ramon Vazquez, bass Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé, percussion, vocals, batá Yaroldy Abreu Robles, percussion
Jazz Batá Jazz Batá, the new project of pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés, is both a look forward and a closing of pending business. In 1972, a year before he founded the transcendent AfroCuban jazz rock ensemble Irakere, Valdés experimented with a trio which, while largely ignored at the time, proved crucial for the development of his music. Comprising piano, acoustic bass and batá – the hourglass shaped drum that is essential in the ritual music of Yoruba religion, best known as Santeria – Jazz Batá expressed his deeper Cubanization of jazz and the classic piano jazz trio in both its instrumentation and its sound. “The recording company couldn’t understand it. They would tell me that it was ‘crazy jazz,’” recalled Valdés. “They would say, ‘Who thinks of a jazz trio without a drum kit?’ Well, I did. I was looking for the sound of our roots. The batá drums were not used in popular music then. Those drums, that music, were considered vulgar, something backward. Some dismissed it as just ‘a black thing.’ But that’s where our roots are.” Playing a repertoire written especially for the group by Valdés and featuring not only batá drums but a whole battery of percussion instruments including congas, maracas and guiro, the trio recorded only one album. But the idea “stayed with me,” said the pianist. “It really bothered me not to follow through with the work in Jazz Batá and I was
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listening to it recently and thought there was a lot there yet. At the time, we chose to follow another path – and Irakere was a great project – but it’s never too late, and now we can continue with that work.” The new Jazz Batá is comprised of Valdés on piano; Ramon Vazquez, acoustic bass; Yaroldy Abreu on congas; and Dreiser Durruthy on batá and voice. Valdés released a new record featuring the new Jazz Batá in 2018 to great critical acclaim. The album, Jazz Batá 2, claimed a prominent spot on Billboard’s list of Best Latin Albums of 2018. “It’s almost all new music,” said Valdés. “After all, while we are based on that original trio, we are doing something very different here. There are years of experiences and development in between. I believe this is going to be even better than the old trio.”
Chucho Valdés Winner of six Grammy and three Latin Grammy Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. In 2018 Valdés received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in a ceremony held during Latin Grammy week in Las Vegas. Valdés was also inducted in the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a DC Jazz Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. He also enjoyed another type of
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honor, personally satisfying as pianist and performer, as he debuted in the historic Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow in March of 2018. Valdés and pianist, composer and educator Rebeca Mauleón created Decoding Afro-Cuban Jazz: The Music of Chucho Valdés & Irakere (Sher Music Co.). This tome includes an overview of Cuban music, biographical information and a history of Valdés’ Irakere, a band that, with its bold fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music, popular AfroCuban music styles, jazz and rock, marked a before and after in Latin jazz. A very active performer, Valdés completed a two-year tour with Trance, a two-piano duo project in early 2018. Trance represented a dramatic change of sound for Valdés, as it followed the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the birth of Irakere, a group that for all intents and purposes, suggested a small big band. The extensive tour was highlighted by a live recording, Tribute to Irakere: Live at Marciac (Jazz Village / Comanche Music), which won a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album in 2016. Born in a family of musicians in Quivicán, Havana province, Cuba, on October 9, 1941, Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodríguez has distilled elements of the Afro-Cuban music tradition, jazz, classical music, rock and more into an organic, personal style that has both a distinct style and substance.
Valdés stayed with Irakere until 2005. Through the many changes the band experienced over the years, he remained the one, essential constant. But Irakere’s success had its personal costs, as Valdés’ talent as a pianist was largely obscured by his responsibilities as a leader. In 1998 – having won his second Grammy the previous year for Habana (Verve), this time as a member of trumpeter Roy Hargrove’s group Crisol – Valdés launched a parallel career as a solo player and small-group leader. An enormously fruitful period followed, highlighted by albums such as Solo Piano (Blue Note, 1991), Solo: Live in New York (Blue Note, 2001) and New Conceptions (Blue Note, 2003), as well as quartet recordings such as Bele Bele en La Habana (Blue Note, 1998), Briyumba Palo Congo (Blue Note, 1999) and Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 2000), which won a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. Since, Valdés also won Grammys for Juntos Para Siempre (Calle 54, 2007), the duet recording with his father, Bebo, and for Chucho’s Steps (Comanche, 2010), which introduced his new group, the Afro-Cuban Messengers. Special thanks to
His first teacher was his father, the great pianist, composer and bandleader Ramón “Bebo” Valdés. By age 3, Valdés was already playing the melodies he heard on the radio at the piano, using both hands and in any key. He began taking lessons on piano, theory and solfege at the age of 5 and continued his formal musical education at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música de la Habana, from which he graduated at 14. A year later, he formed his first jazz trio and in 1959 he debuted with the orchestra Sabor de Cuba, directed by his father. Sabor de Cuba is considered one of the great orchestras in modern Cuban music history. As it turns out, Valdés is perhaps best known as the founder, pianist and main composer and arranger of yet another landmark ensemble in Cuban music: Irakere (1973-2005). The original band featured future global jazz stars such as Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo Sandoval, but over its rich, long life, Irakere became a rolling university of Afro-Cuban music while also featuring influential musicians such as the late Miguel “Angá” Díaz; Jose Luis Cortés (who would later found NG La Banda) and Germán Velazco.
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Santa Barbara Debut
Z.E.N. Trio
Zhang Zuo, piano Esther Yoo, violin Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello Tue, Oct 22 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall photo: Marco Borggreve
Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Music
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Program Franz Schubert: Notturno in E-flat Major, op. 148, D. 897 Adagio Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, op.67 Andante Allegro non troppo Largo Allegretto - Intermission Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Vocalise” (arr. Gayane Akhnazaryan) Arno Babajanian: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor Largo – Allegro espressivo – Maestoso Andante Allegro Vivace
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The Z.E.N. Trio – pianist Zhang Zuo, violinist Esther Yoo and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan – met on the BBC New Generation Artists’ scheme in 2015 and have since performed concerts together for BBC radio as well as across the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe. While the trio’s name, Z.E.N., is an acronym for the three artists’ initials, it also represents the philosophy with which they approach chamber music making – the forgoing of the self for total togetherness.
Zhang Zuo An imaginative and electrifying performer, Zhang Zuo (“Zee Zee”) began her musical training in Germany at the age of 5. Upon returning to her native China, she became one of the most sought-after young artists in the nation, collaborating with leading Chinese orchestras with whom she retains a close link. From 2013 to 2015 she was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. In recent seasons, she has appeared with the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Cincinnati Symphony, among others. She has worked with leading conductors, including Paavo Järvi, Marin Alsop and Yan Pascal Tortelier and has appeared at festivals such as the BBC Proms and Ravinia Festival. She has also played solo recitals at notable venues around the world including the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Lincoln Center in New York, London’s Wigmore Hall and De Doelen in Rotterdam.
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Esther Yoo
Coming in Winter
Esther Yoo first came to international attention in 2010 when, at age 16, she became the youngest prizewinner of the 10th International Sibelius Violin Competition. From 2014 to 2016, she was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, culminating in her BBC Proms debut. Yoo plays regular return engagements with Philharmonia Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall as well as with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed in tours across Asia and South America. She has worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Pablo Heras-Casado and Osmo Vänskä, and as a recitalist she has performed across Europe and the U.S., including for New York’s Lincoln Center. In spring 2016, Deutsche Grammophon released her Tchaikovsky album with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy, following her 2015 debut on the label, featuring the Glazunov and Sibelius concertos.
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin Jay Campbell, cello
Narek Hakhnazaryan
photo: Marco Borggreve
Since winning the Cello First Prize and Gold Medal at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011 at the age of 22, Narek Hakhnazaryan has performed with most major orchestras across the globe and has established himself internationally as one of the finest cellists of his generation. From 2014 to 2016, he joined BBC’s New Generation Artists scheme and in August 2016 he made his BBC Proms debut. Hakhnazaryan has performed with orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Sydney Symphony and NHK Symphony and with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Mikhail Pletnev, Leonard Slatkin and Tugan Sokhiev. He made a hugely successful debut with the LA Philharmonic (Lionel Bringuier) at the Hollywood Bowl in 2015 and toured Spain with the WDR Symphony (Jukka-Pekka Saraste) in the same year.
Sat, Jan 25 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall Music Academy of the West $40 / $9 UCSB students Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Music
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John Kasich
It’s Up to Us: Bringing About Meaningful Change Wed, Oct 23 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
Presented through the generosity of Monica & Timothy Babich Two-term former Ohio Governor John R. Kasich is a politician, a New York Times bestselling author, a former FOX television host and ultimately an American citizen who believes that unity is the answer to our most common problems. Governor Kasich closed an $8 billion budget shortfall without a tax increase, reduced taxes by $5 billion and created an improved business climate that led to the creation of more than 500,000 new jobs in the Buckeye State. During his tenure, Ohio budget reserves grew from 89 cents to $2.7 billion. The Governor was a leading voice in promoting bipartisan solutions to health care reform, immigration and international trade. He has been one of the few Republicans to advocate for Medicaid’s expansion. Kasich has had a storied career in both the public and private sectors. He served as a member of Congress from central Ohio for 18 years. He was elected to the U.S. House at just 30 years old, after having become the youngest state senator in Ohio history. He went on to become the chairman of the House Budget Committee and balanced the Federal Budget four times – a feat not accomplished since. After leaving Congress in 2000, Kasich worked as a managing director in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers, where he helped companies secure the resources they needed to succeed and create jobs.
Senior Political Commentator for CNN, where he appears across a variety of programs. Kasich is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: Courage is Contagious; Stand for Something: The Battle for America’s Soul; Every Other Monday; and Two Paths: America Divided or United, which reflects on his 2016 run as Republican Primary Presidential candidate and his hopes for America’s future. His new book is It’s Up to Us: Ten Little Ways We Can Bring About Big Change. Kasich is a graduate of The Ohio State University, where he also served as a Presidential Fellow. No longer Ohio’s governor, he continues his roles as husband, father and American citizen, eager for the next chapter. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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Ensemble Mik Nawooj Fri, Nov 1 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
Led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj (EMN) creates Meta Music by sampling principles of both hip hop and classical. Executed with MC/lyricist Sandman, a lyric soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, drums and bass, the music is rigorous, nuanced, accessible and free from the dogmas of the Western European concert music aesthetic. The result is a seamless tête-à-tête with “textures swimming through the sound… like the world’s fastest ping-pong game” (Pitchfork) and is considered the “cutting edge of hip hop” (Huffington Post). After a successful performance of a novelty piece which featured an MC and chamber ensemble while JooWan Kim was completing his master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the MC at the time suggested they make an album together. Six months later Kim had a profound shift in the direction of his writing. He felt he found a way out of the stifling contemporary concert music aesthetic in this new way of composition. Kim crystallized his ideas into “method sampling,” a principle of borrowing or sampling of rationales from related as well as unrelated fields, then reframing them into one’s own system. In 2010, Kim recruited his best friend from college, EMN’s executive director Christopher Nicholas, to push the project forward in a serious way. Since then, EMN has attracted some of the most excellent classical musicians and MCs in the San Francisco Bay Area while gaining national attention from outlets such as National Geographic, ESPN, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, NPR, Pitchfork, NowThis, the Global People’s Summit in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnership and more.
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JooWan Kim, composer, pianist Sandman, lyricist, MC Anne Hepburn Smith, soprano Andrew Friedman, clarinet Joyce Lee, flute Clare Armenante, violin James Jaffe, cello Michel Taddei, bass Lyman Jerome Alexander II, drums Yung Phil, turf dancer Composer and pianist JooWan Kim began his formal training in composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.M. in composition in 2003. He continued his education in composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, from which he received a M.M. in 2006. Kim founded Ensemble Mik Nawooj in 2010. Prior to releasing a solo album titled The Art of Dreaming, Sandman was cultivated as an MC during his involvement with the dynamic hip-hop group The Attik. His association with the group began while he was teenager and eventually blossomed into something formal. In 2005, the group released the album Jungle Electric. Sandman has shared a stage with KRS-One, Dead Prez, E-40, San Quinn, Mr. FAB, Aceyalone, Zion I, Game Rebellion, Medusa and many more. A veteran to performing, he has rocked stages from the Bay Area to New York and Puerto Rico, and has shone at legendary venues such as the Fillmore, in front of sold-out crowds. Sandman joined EMN in 2013 and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, OZY and more. Oakland native Phillip Mays (aka Yung Phil) is a pioneer of turf dancing, a form of street dancing with roots in Oakland, Calif. He has collaborated with well-known hip-hop artists, including Lil Jon, E-40, G-Eazy, YG, DJ Snake, Tyga, Quavo and more, performing alongside them on tour and in music videos. In 2019, Yung Phil was featured on NPR (KQED) in a piece highlighting Oakland’s hip-hop dance culture.
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Elaine Weiss
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote Sun, Nov 3 / 3 PM / Campbell Hall Presented in association with the UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the UCSB Department of History Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin Dick Wolf
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Major Sponsor: Zegar Family Foundation
Elaine Weiss is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor, as well as in reports and documentaries for National Public Radio and Voice of America. Her magazine feature writing has been recognized with prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists. A MacDowell Colony Fellow and Pushcart Prize Editor’s Choice honoree, she is the author of the highly acclaimed narrative non-fiction book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, hailed as a “riveting, nail-biting political thriller” with powerful parallels to today’s political environment. The book tells how the seven-decade crusade to win the ballot came down to a pitched battle in Nashville, Tennessee to gain the final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment. Following a handful of remarkable women, both white and black, who led their respective forces into battle, The Woman’s Hour is an inspiring story of the fight for equality, a precursor to the great civil rights campaigns to follow. But it is also a cautionary tale of moral compromises made in the name of political expediency.
History Matters Series presented through the generosity of Loren Booth and Ellen & Peter O. Johnson Additional Support: Gretchen Lieff and Lisa & Christopher Lloyd Weiss is also the author of Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army in the Great War, the inspiring story of a long-forgotten women’s movement. The book was excerpted in Smithsonian Magazine online and featured on C-SPAN and public radio stations nationwide. Weiss holds a graduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University. She has worked as a Washington correspondent, congressional aide and speechwriter, magazine editor and university journalism instructor. Pre-signed books are available for purchase in the lobby
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The Danish String Quartet performs for students in BRAVO! at Monroe Elementary
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¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! brings people together to share the rich cultural heritage of Latin America, serving more than 15,000 each year throughout Santa Barbara County. Viva builds bridges through live performance, shared experience and joyful, personal discovery. Created in 2006 out of a commitment to arts access for all, Viva works with dozens of local partners to present high-quality touring artists – Grammy winners and recognized cultural ambassadors – who share their knowledge, passion and commitment. Neighborhood spaces in schools, afterschool programs and community centers come alive in these free programs for youth and families. Join our community partners and the many contributors whose hard work and generosity make Viva possible. 1. Martin Granados of La Patronal teaches Adams students to dance in the tradition of the Diablicos de Túcume 2. Quique Escamilla and McKinley students inspect details on his vintage guitar after an assembly 3. Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime
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Anonymous (3) Judy & Bruce Anticouni Monica & Timothy Babich Gary* & Mary Becker Barrie Bergman Loren Booth Meg & Dan Burnham Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Marcy Carsey Marcia & John Mike Cohen Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg Barbara Delaune-Warren Ralph H. Fertig* Erika & Matthew Fisher Genevieve & Lewis Geyser
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Rich Janssen, Co-chair Kath Lavidge, Co-chair Timothy Babich Barrie Bergman Dan Burnham Marcy Carsey Marcia Cohen Timothy O. Fisher Tom Kenny Patricia MacFarlane Susan McCaw Sara Miller McCune Natalie Orfalea Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Tom Sturgess Anne Towbes Milton Warshaw Lynda Weinman
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$100,000+ Anonymous (2) Jody & John Arnhold Marcy Carsey Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher ◊‡ Erika & Matthew Fisher William H. Kearns Foundation Sara Miller McCune ◊‡ Natalie Orfalea & Lou Buglioli Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree SAGE Publishing ‡ Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin ◊‡ Dick Wolf
$50,000+ Anonymous Loren Booth Marcia & John Mike Cohen ‡ Ellen & Peter O. Johnson Dorothy Largay & Wayne Rosing Susan McCaw Jillian & Pete Muller Diana & Simon Raab Heather & Tom Sturgess ◊‡
$25,000+ Anonymous Betsy Atwater Monica & Timothy Babich Mary Becker ‡ Albert & Elaine Borchard Foundation Meg & Dan Burnham ‡ Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Casa Dorinda Retirement Residence Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg Martha Gabbert Luci & Rich Janssen ‡ Irma & Morris Jurkowitz Marilyn & Dick Mazess Mission Wealth Montecito Bank & Trust Dori Pierson Carter & Chris Carter Stacy & Ron Pulice Justine Roddick & Tina Schlieske Jill & Bill Shanbrom Laura Shelburne & Kevin O’Connor Russell Steiner Barbara Stupay Sheila Wald Dr. Bob Weinman Susan & Bruce Worster Yardi Systems, Inc.
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Granting Organizations The Baker Foundation Albert & Elaine Borchard Foundation The Carsey Family Foundation Cohen Family Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation Matthew Hillman Fisher Foundation William J.J. Gordon Family Foundation William H. Kearns Foundation The Léni Fund National Endowment for the Arts Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture Santa Barbara Foundation UCSB Office of Education Partnerships
Arts & Lectures Endowments The Fund for Programmatic Excellence The Commissioning of New Work Fund The Education and Outreach Fund Beth Chamberlin Endowment for Cultural Understanding The Harold & Hester Schoen Endowment Sonquist Family Endowment
Thank You! Arts & Lectures is especially grateful to UCSB students for their support through registration and activity fees. These funds directly support lower student ticket prices and educational outreach by A&L artists and writers who visit classes.
Arts & Lectures Staff Celesta M. Billeci, Miller McCune Executive Director Roman Baratiak, Associate Director Meghan Bush, Deputy Director Ashley Aquino, Contracts Administrator Sarah Jane Bennett, Performing Arts Manager Michele Bynum, Senior Artist Lyndsay Cooke, Performing Arts Coordinator Marisa Flores, Financial Analyst Amanda Garcia, Development Analyst Kevin Grant, Senior Business Analyst Rachel Leslie, Manager of Ticketing Operations Mari Levasheff, Marketing Manager Dana Loughlin, Director of Development, Major Gifts Hector Medina, Marketing & Communications Production Specialist Bonnie A. Molitor, Chief Financial Officer /Chief Operations Officer Caitlin O’Hara, Senior Writer/Publicist James Reisner, Assistant Ticket Office Manager Sandy Robertson, Senior Director of Development & Special Initiatives
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choreographed Bodas de Gloria. In 1992, he had the honor of sharing the stage with his grandfather, at the inauguration of the Paralympic Games of Barcelona.
Soleá Soleá por bulerías Seguidilla Alegría Taranto Zapateo Sevillanas Farruquito (Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya), heir to the most renowned flamenco dynasty, is “one of the great flamenco dancers of this new century” (The New York Times). Son of flamenco singer Juan Fernández Flores “El Moreno” and dancer Rosario Montoya Manzano “La Farruca,” the eldest of three siblings Juan Antonio Fernández Montoya “El Farru,” Manuel Fernández Montoya “El Carpeta” and Alegría Fernández Montoya, Farruquito was immersed in the purest form of flamenco founded by his grandfather, “El Farruco,” one of the greatest dancers in the history of flamenco. His first international stage appearance was at the age of 4, on Broadway in New York City alongside his grandfather in the hit show Flamenco Puro. At the age of 11, he was featured in the film Flamenco, produced by the legendary director Carlos Saura, which launched his career and positioned him amongst the most elite flamenco artists of the world. That same year, together with the flamenco legends in his family, he created and
When Farruqito was 15, El Farruco, then-patriarch of the flamenco dynasty, passed, and Farruquito became the heir to the Farruco flamenco lineage. That same year he created his first show, Raíces Flamencas (Flamenco Roots) which not only distinguished his mastery as a dancer but also gave him the opportunity to showcase the traditions of his prodigious flamenco line. Raíces Flamencas debuted at the Royal Festival Hall in London and continued to tour with high acclaim around the world. In 2001, he received rave reviews in The New York Times after his performance of La Len Varo at the Flamenco Festival in the United States. The following year, Farruquito triumphed in his native city, Seville, with a full season at the Teatro Central. After his wildly successful performance at the third season of the Flamenco Festival, he embarked on a cross country tour of the U.S., where critics hailed not only his talent as a dancer but also his incredible personality as an artist. Farruquito was soon after voted one of the World’s 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine. In 2003, the Academy of Music in Spain honored him for his lyrics on “Dulce Canela” in the María de Niña Pastori album and for his zapateo accompaniment on the homage album to Jeros. In the meantime, Farruquito continued to lead his dance academy located in Seville, founded on the precepts of the Farruco school. The popularity of his following premiere, Alma Vieja, at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, led to a
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wildly successful European Tour. Due to tragic events in his personal life, Farruquito was absent from the performance stage but returned in summer of 2008 with his new production, Puro. In 2010, he premiered Sonerías at the Bienal de Flamenco in Seville, where audiences experienced the raw roots of Flamenco with a theatrical flair that they had never seen from him. Invited by the prestigious fashion label, Louis Vuitton, Farruquito later starred in Mirror of Passion. Farruquito triumphed again with Baile Flamenco (El Mundo), featuring costumes designed by Louis Vuitton and Berlutti. In 2013, Farruquito created Improvisao, a show returning to his roots and demonstrating what he learned in this profession: a fusion of singing, guitar and dance at the highest level. In 2015, Farruquito was invited to dance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in four sold-out gala concerts of an adapted version of Amor Brujo, directed by Gustavo Dudamel at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Farruquito returned to the U.S. for a coast-to-coast tour in 2016 and again received rave reviews from The New York Times. As the principal inheritor of one of the greatest flamenco bloodlines, Farruquito has made it his life’s mission to share the purest form of flamenco on stages all around the world while further broadening his influence by collaborating with the most paramount film directors, conductors and artists of our time.
Coming in Spring West Coast Premiere
Lyon Opera Ballet Yorgos Loukos, Artistic Director Trois Grandes Fugues “One of France’s national treasures.” San Francisco Chronicle
Global Exclusive Management by IMG Artists in collaboration with CAMI Music Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Dance Theatre of Harlem Wed, Nov 6 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre
Amanda Smith, photo: Rachel Neville
Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance
Founders: Arthur Mitchell, Karel Shook Artistic Director: Virginia Johnson Executive Director: Anna Glass Ballet Master: Marie Chong Interim General Manager: Melinda Bloom Artistic Director Emeritus: Arthur Mitchell
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Dance Artists: Lindsey Donnell, Yinet Fernandez, Alicia Mae Holloway, Alexandra Hutchinson, Daphne Lee, Crystal Serrano, Ingrid Silva, Amanda Smith, Stephanie Rae Williams, Derek Brockington, Darius Crenshaw, Kouadio Davis, Da’Von Doane, Dustin James, Choong Hoon Lee, Christopher McDaniel, Anthony Santos, Dylan Santos, Anthony V. Spaulding II
Fifty Years of Dance Theatre of Harlem The past half century of Dance Theatre of Harlem is a landscape of peaks and valleys inhabited by a race of dreamers, achievers, and yes, history makers. DTH co-founder Arthur Mitchell was all of the above as well as premier danseur, choreographer and teacher. We used to call him “our fearless leader” because he marched forward never thinking that what he sought to do would have been impossible for anyone else. His passing in September has left us bereft but determined that the institution he and Karel Shook incorporated on February 11, 1969, will endure and thrive. Arthur Mitchell believed in the power of art to change lives and open minds. The DTH Company, School, and “Dancing Through Barriers,” our arts education program, became the manifestation of that idea. While the School and DTB served the Harlem community, with the Company, Arthur Mitchell was able to take his vision across the globe. The DTH Company, a mix of African Americans like me, Hispanics, Asians and Caucasians, was a vivid demonstration of the premise that the art form of classical ballet belongs to us all.
The social impact of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s national and international touring over these 50 years is often noted, but as significant is the depth and breadth of the company’s artistic prowess. With a repertoire that ranges from Mitchell’s own neoclassical works (he learned his craft at George Balanchine’s knee, after all), historic Ballets Russes classics such as Scheherazade and Prince Igor, to great American narrative works such as Billy the Kid, Fall River Legend and the groundbreaking productions of Creole Giselle and Firebird that linger in the collective consciousness, throughout its history Dance Theatre of Harlem has expanded the notion of what ballet could be. Yes, there have been valleys along the way and, like the phoenix, Dance Theatre of Harlem rose again and again because the expression we bring to the art form is unique and necessary. The milestone of 50 is not an endpoint but a marker along the way. We glance backward at this moment, but our eyes are on the future. – Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director
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Orange
Passage
Choreography: Stanton Welch Music: Antonio Vivaldi Costume Design: Holly Hynes Lighting Design: Andrew DG Hunt Staging: Sean Kelly Costumes by arrangement with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
(World Premiere May 3, 2019)
Amanda Smith, Anthony Santos Alicia Mae Holloway, Derek Brockington Stephanie Rae Williams, Dylan Santos - Pause -
This Bitter Earth© (World Premiere: August 6, 2012, DTH Premiere March 10, 2018)
Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon Music: Clyde Otis Costumes: Katy Freeman Lighting: Will Cotton Crystal Serrano, Dylan Santos Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s sublime pas de deux, This Bitter Earth is set to a mashup of Max Richter’s minimalist “On the Nature of Daylight” and Dinah Washington’s soulful rendition of the 1960s rhythm and blues hit, “This Bitter Earth.” The resulting brief encounter between a man and a woman leads one to believe that “… this bitter earth may not be so bitter after all.” Music performed by Max Richter & Dinah Washington Permission by special arrangement with Mute Song Ltd. and Third Side Music Inc.
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Choreography: Claudia Schreier Music: Jessie Montgomery Costume Design: Martha Chamberlain Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Anthony Santos, Derek Brockington Yinet Fernandez, Daphne Lee, Crystal Serrano, Ingrid Silva, Amanda Smith, Stephanie Rae Williams Dustin James, Choong Hoon Lee, Da’Von Doane, Dylan Santos Passage was commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival in partnership with American Evolution for the 50th Anniversary of Dance Theatre of Harlem and the 2019 Commemoration, recognizing the 400th anniversary of a series of pivotal events in America’s history – including the first documented arrival of enslaved Africans. The ballet reflects, in abstract, the fortitude of the human spirit and an enduring will to prevail. Support for Passage was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional commissioning funds provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation through Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Women Who Move Us initiative, O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation and the Princess Grace FoundationUSA, the City of Norfolk, Virginia, the Friedrich Ludwig Diehn Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Virginia Arts Festival production residency for Passage was funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Balamouk
Arthur Mitchell, Co-Founder
(World Premiere October 5th, 2018)
Arthur Mitchell was known around the world for creating and sustaining the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the internationally acclaimed ballet company he co-founded with Karel Shook in 1969. Following a brilliant career as a principal artist with the New York City Ballet, Mitchell dedicated his life to changing perceptions and advancing the art form of ballet through the first permanently established African American and racially diverse ballet company.
Choreography: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Music: Les Yeux Noirs, Lisa Gerrard, René Aubry Costume Design: Mark Zappone Lighting Design: Les Dickert Ingrid Silva, Crystal Serrano, Amanda Smith, Stephanie Rae Williams, Lindsey Donnell Dustin James, Dylan Santos, Anthony Santos, Christopher Charles McDaniel, Choong Hoon Lee Commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival, the development of Balamouk was supported through 50th anniversary commissioning support provided by the Seattle Theater Group and by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation through Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Women Who Move Us Initiative. Support for new dance works at City Center is provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director A founding member of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Virginia Johnson was one of its principal ballerinas over a career that spanned nearly 30 years. After retiring in 1997, Johnson went on to found Pointe Magazine and was editor-in chief for 10 years. A native of Washington, D.C., Johnson began her training with Therrell Smith. She studied with Mary Day at the Washington School of Ballet, graduated from the Academy of the Washington School of Ballet and went on to be a University Scholar in the School of the Arts at New York University before joining Dance Theatre of Harlem. Virginia Johnson is universally recognized as one of the great ballerinas of her generation and is perhaps best known for her performances in the ballets Giselle, A Streetcar Named Desire and Fall River Legend. She has received such honors as a Young Achiever Award from the National Council of Women, Outstanding Young Woman of America and the Dance Magazine Award, a Pen and Brush Achievement Award, the Washington Performing Arts Society’s 2008-2009 Pola Nirenska Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2009 Martha Hill Fund Mid-Career Award.
Born in New York City in 1934, Mitchell began his dance training at New York City’s High School of the Performing Arts, where he won the coveted annual dance award and subsequently a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet. In 1955, he became the first male African American to become a permanent member of a major ballet company when he joined New York City Ballet. Mitchell rose quickly to the rank of principal dancer during his fifteen-year career with New York City Ballet and electrified audiences with his performances in a broad spectrum of roles. Upon learning of the death of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and with financial assistance from Alva B. Gimbel, the Ford Foundation and his own savings, Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem with his mentor and ballet instructor Karel Shook. With an illustrious career that spanned over fifty years, Mitchell was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, a National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the New York Living Landmark Award, the Handel Medallion, the NAACP Image Award and more than a dozen honorary degrees.
Karel Shook, Co-Founder Karel Shook played a key role as teacher and mentor to African American dance artists in New York in the 1950s. In addition to cofounding Dance Theatre of Harlem with Arthur Mitchell in 1969, he also was a ballet master, choreographer and author. Born in 1920, Shook was a native of Renton, Washington. Encouraged to study ballet, at age 13 he was a protégé of Nellie Cornish and received a scholarship to the Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle. While his performance career was brief, he appeared on Broadway and also danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and New York City Ballet. Shook’s brief performance career led to teaching and choreographing, mainly in Europe but also in New York. In the early ’50s he opened Studio Arts, one of the few dance studios in the city where African Americans could study ballet. Among his students were Carmen de Lavallade, Pearl Primus, Geoffrey Holder, Louis
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Johnson, Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, who first came to him at age 17. Shook left New York in 1959 to become the ballet master of the Dutch National Ballet, where he was when his former student, Arthur Mitchell, asked him to return to New York to help create the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Shook was an advocate of the universality of classical ballet. His book, Elements of Classical Ballet, explores the development of classical ballet in such countries across the globe as China, Turkey, Iran, Japan, Cuba and Mexico. In 1980 he was awarded the United States Presidential Award for “Excellence and Dedication in Education.”
Anna Glass, Executive Director
Marie Chong, Ballet Master
Glass has served as a consultant providing strategic planning and fundraising guidance to various non-profit arts organizations, including Urban Bush Women and the Weeksville Heritage Center. She currently serves on the board of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. She has served as a Hub Site for the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project grant program. After receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law, Anna became the artist representative for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, a company she performed with for three years (DCDC2). She is a licensed attorney in the State of New York and lives in Harlem with her husband and daughter.
Marie Chong is founding director of ARC Dance Company in Seattle, Wash., where she commissioned new work and re-staged pieces by choreographers such as Edwaard Liang, Wen Wei Wang and Alex Ketley. Her choreography has been presented at Seattle International Dance Festival, Men in Dance, Arts Umbrella and ARC Dance Company. She was the artistic assistant/director for Cirque du Soleil’s touring show KOOZA and integrated new artists into other shows at the company’s headquarters in Montreal. Chong has also worked with Disney Theatrical Group as a teaching artist. She is honored to join the Dance Theater of Harlem’s artistic team.
Glass has been involved in the performing arts as both an artist and arts administrator for over twenty years. She produced Carmen de Lavallade’s solo show, As I Remember It, an intimate portrait of this legendary artist. Glass previously served as the managing director of 651 ARTS, a presenting/producing arts organization dedicated to celebrating contemporary performing arts of the African Diaspora. While at 651 ARTS, she co-produced numerous projects, including the highly regarded national tour of FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance.
Robert Garland, Resident Choreographer Robert Garland was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem who achieved the rank of principal dancer. After creating a work for the DTH School Ensemble, Arthur Mitchell invited Robert Garland to create a work for the Dance Theatre of Harlem and appointed him the organization’s first resident choreographer. He is also director of the Professional Training Program of the DTH school, and the organization’s webmaster. In addition to choreographing several ballets for DTH, Garland has also created works for New York City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, Oakland Ballet and many others. His commercial work has included music videos, commercials and short films, including the children’s television show Sesame Street, a Nike commercial featuring New York Yankee Derek Jeter, the NAACP Image Awards, a short film for designer Donna Karan and the “Charmin Cha-Cha” for Proctor & Gamble.Garland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School in New York City.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. Everett Center for the Performing Arts 466 West 152nd Street New York, NY 10031-1814 (212) 690-2800, (212) 690-8736 fax www.dancetheatreofharlem.org
Board of Directors Michael D. Armstrong, Chairman Leslie Wims Morris, Vice-Chairman Ackneil M. Muldrow, III, Vice-Chairman Zandra Perry Ogbomo, Treasurer Don M. Tellock, Esq., Secretary Kendrick F. Ashton Jr. Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III Kevin M. Cofsky Isabel Kallman Spencer Means Jessye Norman
Dance Theatre of Harlem, National Advisory Board Dr. Ruby Herd Lena Horne* Judith Peabody* Leontyne Price Alex Radin Morleen Rouse
Jackie Rush Kerry E. Schaeffner Edward I. Tishelman, Esq. Cicely Tyson Ben Vereen *in memoriam
Booking Manager, Edward Schoelwer Physical Therapists, Alison Deleget & Joshua Honrado, Harkness Center for Dance Injuries Dance Theatre of Harlem School & Community Programs Director, Robert Garland Associate Director Lower/Upper School, Augustus van Heerden Associate Director, Tendu Program, Rachel Sekyi Student Affairs Officer, Karen Farnum-Williams Arts Education and Outreach Manager, Sophia Morris-Pittman Community Program Associate, Theara Ward Support for Dance Theatre of Harlem’s 2019-2020 professional Company and National Tour activities made possible in part by: Anonymous; The Arnhold Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; The Dauray Fund; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Elephant Rock Foundation; Ford Foundation; Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Howard Gilman Foundation; The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; The Klein Family Foundation; John L. McHugh Foundation; Margaret T. Morris Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project; Tatiana Piankova Foundation; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation; and Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
Administrative Staff Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director Anna Glass, Executive Director Jordan Oldham, Assistant to the Executive Director Sharon Duncan, Director, Individual Giving Trudi Cohen, Development Assistant Sallie Sanders, Grant Writer Keyana K. Patterson, Marketing Manager Neveah Rudder, Marketing Assistant Christopher Charles McDaniel, Social Media Coordinator Nicole Frisina, Controller, Your Part-Time Controller Mark Rowan, Staff Accountant Nejeree Wallace, Accountant Hero Doucas, Human Resources Manager Kenneth Thomas, Building Operations Manager LaShawn Wallace, Matthew Akins, Kanika Brown, Prema Cruz, Luidgine Faustin, Liz McAllister, Receptionists Alberto Recinos, Lillian Recinos, Marco Recinos, Altagraciá Tejada, Jennifer Tejada, Maintenance
The presentation of Dance Theatre of Harlem was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
Company Staff Ballet Master, Marie Chong Resident Choreographer, Robert Garland Interim General & Company Manager, Melinda Bloom Production Stage Manager, Heather Olcott Lighting Supervisor, William E. Cotton Wardrobe Supervisor, Katy Freeman
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Danish String Quartet Tue, Nov 12 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Wed, Nov 13 / 7 PM / Campbell Hall
photo: Caroline Bittencourt
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin Frederik Øland, violin Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, cello
Danish National Girls’ Choir Phillip Faber, Chief Conductor
Agnes Haugland Røkkum Alberte Hvidt Mogensen Alberte Marie Stage Alfa Veronica Jackson-Holck Alice Marie Weiss Kristensen Alma Esmeralda Holmberg Anna Strømsted Berg Asta Paaske Larsen Celina Myhre Wolfsberg Clara Rønde Dafne Stilund Nielsen Ditte Marie Afkjær Estrup Elise Bjørndal Lychou Ella Marie Benedik a van Gilse van der Pals Ellen Marie Ulrik Hansen Elvira Holmberg Emilie Guttman Andersen Emilie Tallov Karlsen Esther Pontoppidan
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Presented through the generosity of an anonymous patron
Frigg Joseffa Mariegaard Witt Hanna Takeuchi Thirstrup Helena Elise From Ida Pontoppidan Ida Marie Bjerg-Raft Johanne Sigfusson Paludan Johanne Munch Haagensen Julie Pedersen Julie Vind Lykkegaard Nielsen Juliet Zarrín Watson Karen Sebelin Skogø Kristine Inge Faurschou-Giversen Laura Louise Rigillo Lea Marie Vestergaard-Jørgensen Lea Ryge Høgh-Schmidt Liv Brix Kristensen Maja Wiberg Johansen Marie Toft Christensen
Marie Therese Nørby Marie Wendt Ketting Martha Anna Falch Rasmussen Martha Cæcilie Bach Gislinge Nanna Sophie Norling-Dahl Nikoline Bang Søndergaard Christensen Olivia Thérèse Voss Rebekka Eltang Lynbech Rigmor Marie Glipstrup Sara Amalie Heise Sara Enevold Hansen Shannon Sophie Damgaard Siri Sofia Glasdam Jakobsen Sofie Ravnholt Wenzel Suraya Rida Tea Julie Wolf Barder Theresa Sólrun Jansdóttir Abrahamsen
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November 12 Program Performing with the Danish National Girls’ Choir
November 13 Program
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, op. 144 Elegy – Adagio
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, op. 13 Adagio – Allegro vivace Adagio non lento Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto Presto – Adagio non lento
David Lang and Joseph Rolnick: I Lie Caspar Christian Hoffmann and Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig: Hil dig, frelser og forsoner (Hail You Savior and Redeemer) (arr. Phillip Faber) Alfred Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3 Andante Nordahl Grieg and Otto Mortensen: Kringsatt av fiender (To the Youth) (arr. Jakob Laegaard) Alfred Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3 Agitato - Intermission -
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue No. 16 in G minor from The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 861 (arr. Förster)
- Intermission Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op. 132 Assai sostenuto - Allegro Allegro ma non tanto Molto adagio - Andante Alla Marcia – Assai vivace Allegro appassionato
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Jexper Holmen: Puer natus est Johann Sebastian Bach: Fuga a 3 soggetti from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 Johann Sebastian Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Johan Henrik Nebelong: Nu falmer skoven trindt om land (Forest Leaves Falling) (arr. Phillip Faber) Alfred Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3 Pesante Karin Rehnquist: I himmelen (In Heaven’s Hall) Rune Sørensen: Various Danish traditional music and songs
Among today’s many exceptional chamber music groups, the Grammy Award-nominated Danish String Quartet (DSQ) continuously asserts its preeminence. The Quartet’s playing reflects impeccable musicianship, sophisticated artistry, exquisite clarity of ensemble and, above all, an expressivity inextricably bound to the music, from Haydn to Shostakovich to contemporary scores. Their performances bring a rare musical spontaneity, giving audiences the sense of hearing even treasured canon repertoire as if for the first time. They exude a palpable joy in music-making that has made them enormously in-demand on concert stages throughout the world. The recipient of many awards and prestigious appointments, including the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, the Danish String Quartet was named in 2013 as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and appointed to The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two). As part of a three-year residency, the Danish String Quartet brings a series of five concerts, which mirror the programs in its ongoing recording project with ECM New Series, PRISM, to La Jolla Music Society in November 2019. Each PRISM program is an exploration of the symbiotic musi-
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cal and contextual relationships between Bach fugues, Beethoven string quartets and works by Shostakovich, Schnittke, Bartok, Mendelssohn and Webern, forming an expertly curated musical evolution within each individual program and across the entire PRISM repertory. Prism I, the first disc of this five-album project for the ECM label, was released in September 2018 and garnered a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance for the group’s recordings of Beethoven’s Op. 127 in E-flat Major, Bach’s Fugue in E-flat Major (arranged by Mozart) and Shostakovich’s final string quartet, No. 15 in E-flat minor. The Danish String Quartet returns to North America in the 2019-2020 season as one of the most prominent musical voices in the monumental celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th year. With three sweeping North American tours, the Danish engages its expansive audience in programming centered around the towering Beethoven string quartets, as well as many important works which inspired, and were inspired by, these revered giants of the classical canon. The Quartet appears in Minneapolis, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, Rohnert Park, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Boston and Iowa City. The Danish returns to Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as the featured string quartet performing the entire Beethoven cycle over the course of six concerts in February 2020. In May, the Quartet returns to the United States to perform the cycle in St. Paul, Minn., as the 2019-2020 Featured Ensemble at the Schubert Club. European engagements include London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, multiple dates in Denmark, as well as tours of Germany, Brussels, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. The group takes an active role in reaching new audiences through special projects. In 2007, they established the DSQ Festival, now in its 12th year, which takes place in an intimate and informal setting at Copenhagen’s Bygningskulturens Hus. The 2019 DSQ Festival features an array of meticulously curated programs including such guests as pianists Vikingur Olafsson and Wu Qian, violinist Alexi Kenney and violist Jennifer Stumm. In 2016, they inaugurated a new music festival, Series of Four, in which they both perform and invite colleagues – the Ebène Quartet, mandolin player Chris Thile, among others – to appear at the venerable Danish Radio Concert Hall. Concerts this season include collaborations with pianist Gabriel Kahane and violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Since its debut in 2002, the Danish String Quartet has demonstrated a special affinity for Scandinavian composers, from Carl Nielsen to Hans Abrahamsen, alongside music
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of Mozart and Beethoven. The Quartet’s musical interests also encompass Nordic folk music, the focus of Wood Works, an album of traditional Scandinavian folk music, released by Dacapo in 2014. As a follow-up, the Danish String Quartet released Last Leaf for ECM, an album of traditional Scandinavian folk music. This recording was one of the top classical albums of 2017, as chosen by NPR, Spotify and The New York Times, among others. Named Artist-in-Residence in 2006 by the Danish Radio, the Quartet was offered the opportunity to record the Nielsen string quartets at the Danish Radio Concert Hall. The two CDs, released in 2007 and 2008 on the Dacapo label, garnered enthusiastic praise for their first recordings – “these Danish players have excelled in performances of works by Brahms, Mozart and Bartók in recent years. But they play Nielsen’s quartets as if they owned them,” noted The New York Times. In 2012, the Danish String Quartet released a recording of Haydn and Brahms quartets on the German AVI-music label, for which they also received critical notice. “What makes the performance special is the maturity and calm of the playing, even during virtuosic passages that whisk by. This is music-making of wonderful ease and naturalness,” observed The New York Times. Subsequently, they recorded works by Brahms and Robert Fuchs with clarinetist Sebastian Manz, released by AVI-music in 2014 and in 2017, an album with music of Thomas Adès, Per Nørgård and Abrahamsen, the Quartet’s debut album on ECM. The Danish String Quartet has received numerous citations and prizes, including First Prize in the Vagn Homboe String Quartet Competition and the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in the Netherlands, as well as the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in 2005. In 2009, the Danish String Quartet won First Prize in the 11th London International String Quartet Competition, now known as the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet competition, and the Quartet returns to the celebrated London concert hall frequently. The Quartet was the awarded the 2010 NORDMETALL-Ensemble Prize at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Germany, and in 2011, they received the Carl Nielsen Prize, the highest cultural honor in Denmark. Violinists Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørenson and violist Asbjørn Nørgaard met as children at a music summer camp where they played soccer and made music together. As teenagers, they began the study of classical chamber music and were mentored by Tim Frederiksen of Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2008, the three Danes were joined by Norwegian cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin. www.danishquartet.com
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Danish National Girls’ Choir Fifty girls aged 16-22, all with great musical talent, a singing tradition going back several centuries and a committed and ambitious conductor Phillip Faber: These are the essential ingredients in the Danish National Girls’ Choir – one of the best girls’ choirs in the world and under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. The Danish National Girls’ Choir (DR Pigekoret) is part of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and has existed since 1938. Today, the choir is considered a strong musical brand in Denmark and a powerful window into Danish culture. The choir stands firmly on the traditional Danish song book as the founding stone but, in recent years, worked purposefully on developing the treasure of tradition and song to modern audiences – with an eye for musical renewal, personal interpretation and innovative musical collaborations. The choir and chief conductor Phillip Faber have reached a remarkably high musical level over the recent years, with an impressive sound of strong, young and modern women. Not only has the choir artistically reached new grounds – the choir has also become a strong symbol of youth empowerment and community through song in Denmark. Without hesitation, the choir always challenges itself: New and old, familiar and unfamiliar – many genres of music are performed with loving care. The young elite ensemble possesses a unique talent for moving from hymns to contemporary compositions, folk, pop and community songs, maintaining its musical spark and infectious enthusiasm. The choir’s ability to combine a unique professionalism, a modern sound, immediate and infectious musical joy and a sense of visual expression, invites both Danes and other nationalities into the living Danish culture and has made the choir an invaluable ambassador for Denmark internationally.
In 2018, in Strasbourg, France, the choir was part of the official cultural program during Denmark’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers Council of Europe. In 2016, the choir was part of a comprehensive Danish cultural program during the Rio Olympic Games, and the choir has been invited to be part of the official Danish cultural program connected to the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020.
Phillip Faber, Chief Conductor Phillip Faber (born 1984) trained as a composer and conductor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He was appointed chief conductor of the DR Danish National Girls’ Choir in 2013, and since the beginning has left his distinctive imprint on the sound and expression of the choir. Faber has recently functioned as guest conductor of the DR Danish National Vocal Ensemble, the DR Danish National Concert Choir and the DR Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and in 2016, he was a co-founder of the Malka School of Conducting for young conducting talents. Most recently Faber has also been a familiar face on TV as host and conductor in DR K’s The Classical Music Quiz and as an expert adjudicator in DR l’s Child Prodigies. Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Sergio Mendes & Bebel Gilberto
The 60th Anniversary of Bossa Nova Sun, Nov 17 / 7 PM / Campbell Hall
Sergio Mendes Producer, composer, keyboardist and vocalist Sergio Mendes is one of the most internationally successful Brazilian artists of all time. His hit single, “Mas Que Nada,” is the first Portuguese-language song to ever hit Billboard’s U.S. Pop chart, and Mendes’ signature mix of bossa nova and samba and distinctive pop instrumentation have ultimately come to define Brazilian music. With a career spanning five decades, his enduring influence on the music industry continues to evolve. A three-time Grammy Award winner, with three additional Grammy nominations, he has recorded more than 35 albums, with numerous gold and platinum albums among them. In 2012, Mendes received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for “Real in Rio” from the animated film Rio. Mendes’ career began with his 1961 album Dance Moderno and the groups Bossa Rio and the Sergio Mendes Trio. In the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, Mendes began to establish his legendary status as his albums and singles rose to the top of the charts. However, it was his group, Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 which sparked global stardom. After performing “The Look of Love” at the 1968 Oscars, their version rose to the top 10, quickly followed by such hits as “The Fool on the Hill” and “Scarborough Fair.” In the 1980s, Mendes’ popular single, “Never Gonna Let You Go” became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit and pop top-10 chart-topper. In 1992, Mendes’ record Brasileiro was awarded the Grammy for Best World Music Album,
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and since then, Mendes has been honored with two Latin Grammy awards for Best Brazilian Record: Timeless (2006) and Bom Tempo (2010) – which was also nominated for a 2010 Grammy award. Mendes’ innovation and versatility have enabled him to collaborate with a wide a range of artists. In 2006, he collaborated with contemporary pop, rock, urban and hip-hop artists for his record Timeless. The record featured a re-recording of his famed hit “Mas Que Nada,” accompanied by Gracinha Leporace, Mendes’ wife. The project’s other collaborators include Justin Timberlake, John Legend and The Black Eyed Peas. In 2011, Mendes released his 39th album, Celebration: A Musical Journey, commemorating his 50 years as a recording artist. The record included both classics from his career as well as new recordings with Ivete Sangalo and Siedah Garrett – among them a remake of “The Fool on the Hill,” which he performed the same year at the 2011 MusiCares Gala honoring Sir Paul McCartney. Mendes’ most iconic album, Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011, joining Bruce Springsteen’s legendary Born in The U.S.A., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. in the class of historically-significant recordings.
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His most recent album, Magic (2014), is a collection of new songs, recorded with a host of friends and special guests including John Legend, will.i.am and Carlinhos Brown and features the 2014 World Cup hit single “One Nation.” Mendes continues to tour worldwide and maintains his work as a film composer and producer, while also always working on and developing his own album projects.
Bebel Gilberto Multi-Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto has been enchanting fans and critics worldwide since her solo debut release in 1986. She belongs to a family that is considered musical royalty in Brazil: her father, João Gilberto, one of the most iconic figures of Brazilian music and one of the creators of bossa nova; her mother, the famous singer Miúcha; and her uncle, the poet and singer-songwriter Chico Buarque. Bebel Gilberto catapulted onto the global music scene with a track on the celebrated compilation Red Hot + Rio, followed by the worldwide success of her hit breakout album Tanto Tempo in 2000. The album featured her trademark electronic bossa nova, taking over clubs around the world and positioning Gilberto as one of the top-selling Brazilian artists in the U.S. since the 1960s. Critically-acclaimed albums to follow included Bebel Gilberto (2004), on which she refined her sound to create an acoustic lounge style that showcased her strengths as a Brazilian composer, and Momento (2007), which masterfully displayed her skills at fusing all her musical styles. Gilberto’s 2009 Grammynominated album All in One highlighted more of her personality and love for organic rhythms. In 2014, she released a beautiful concert DVD called Bebel Gilberto in Rio in Brazil, featuring a superb live concert on the beaches of Rio. Returning to her trademark sultry Brazilian rhythms infused with electronic beats, Gilberto followed up with the gorgeous new studio album Tudo, released in August 2015 on Sony to great media acclaim.
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In 2019, Gilberto has been touring Europe and North America while writing and recording new material; she’s been working on her next album with New York-based producer Thomas Bartlett for release in early 2020. Special thanks to
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A Tuba To Cuba:
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
photo: Josh Goleman
with Yusa and special guests
“We went to Cuba in prayer position,” says Preservation Hall band leader and bass player Ben Jaffe when he speaks of the pilgrimage he and the group took to Cuba in December 2015. “We went to receive and offer at the same time. We had never experienced a moment like this; it felt as though all roads were intersecting at once.” The critically-acclaimed 2019 documentary A Tuba to Cuba documented the band’s journey as they explored the links that connect New Orleans and Cuba so indelibly – their shared, tragic history as destinations where enslaved Africans struggled to simply survive, and their current status as places where the cultural inheritance from those ancestors is kept alive in both song and deed – but that was only half the story. This collection of songs, a musical account of a generations-in-the-making reunion of musical families separated by time, politics and distance, tells the other half. When asked to describe the collection of songs assembled on A Tuba to Cuba, Jaffe sums it up by saying, “It’s like listening to the radio.” And yes, A Tuba to Cuba actually feels less like an ordinary soundtrack and more like a living document, a recording of a broadcast that’s been waiting to exist, a modern version of the staticky radio signals that were broadcast across America to the Caribbean in the early and mid-20th century, sending the sounds of jazz and mambo and R&B and more back and forth across the vast divides of water and culture and politics. It’s a story, this album, and the tale being told mirrors the band’s experience. Some songs, like “Yesteryear,” began as improvisations during the trip, in this case originating while saxophonist Clint Maedgen was recorded while playing in a Havana alcove; “Keep Your Head Up” began as a chant started by Hall drummer Walter Harris during a street jam in Santiago and draws on Harris’ background as a member of
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Thu, Nov 21 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall Ben Jaffe, upright bass, tuba, percussion Clint Maedgen, tenor saxophone, percussion Ronell Johnson, trombone Walter Harris, drums, percussion Kyle Roussel, piano, Wurlitzer, organ Branden Lewis, trumpet
the Hardhead Hunters Mardi Gras Indians. Then there are classic vintage recordings, like “Las Palomas,” which dates back to the 1940s and was composed by the father of Alejandro Almenares, the luthier featured in the film; “El Manicero,” a song with deep roots in Cuba that has been absorbed and adapted into the New Orleans repertoire and which is performed by Billie and De De Pierce on an archival recording from Preservation Hall’s vaults. Then there are original compositions directly inspired by the trip: “Malecon” recalls the glorious sunrises and sunsets on its namesake, the thoroughfare in Havana where locals gather to dance, eat and socialize. The Fender Rhodes and tenor saxophone meditation “Corazon” derives its title from the literal source of its beat, the steady heart rate of Preservation Hall elder Charlie Gabriel. And “Kreyol” (the Cuban pronunciation of what New Orleanians would call “Creole”) captures the glorious mixture of culture and sound that makes both places so paradoxically unique and similar. The resulting collection of songs is what Jaffe describes as “a beautiful conversation.” The music of A Tuba to Cuba is an ecstatic expression of that ongoing conversation, a restless and lush trip up and down strange FM wavelengths bridging thousands of miles and hundreds of years, where all involved are talking with each other and over each other in excitement, charged with the thrill of recognition of the evidence of their shared familial roots, an undeniable kinship rooted in bloodlines, rhythm and melody. Special thanks to
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An Evening with
Esther Perel
photo: Karen Harms
Wed, Dec 4 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre
Presented through the generosity of Diana & Simon Raab
Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 20 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 25 languages. Her most recent book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. Perel is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcast Where Should We Begin? Since arriving as a graduate student in the United States, Perel has examined this concept from myriad angles: the nature of cultural and religious identity, the negotiation between tradition and modernity, the ebb and flow between individualism and collectivism. She observed interracial and interreligious couples; the cultural forces that affect gender roles; practices of childrearing; and ultimately, the tensions, obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for love and security conflicts with our pursuit of adventure and freedom. Today, Perel is best known as the host of the wildly popular podcast Where Should We Begin? This fascinating, inside look at Perel’s sessions with real-life couples has unlocked a deep-seated cultural interest in hashing these issues out openly in order to live better lives. However, it has also unlocked within Perel the understanding that her years of study and practice go beyond the romantic and that the lessons she has learned can be applied to relationships of all
kinds, in all environments. The same principles used to create an open, balanced relationship with one’s significant other can be applied to our co-workers, our bosses and our world at large. Perel has said, “I enjoy exploring the complexity of human connection in simple ways. My goal is to help people all over the world feel understood and less alone – to confront their pains and provide tools and motivation to change.” Her singular ability to do just that has made her a world-renowned authority on prioritizing communications and community in pursuit of a better world. EstherPerel.com Instagram: @Esther-PerelOfficial Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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Douglas Brinkley
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race Thu, Dec 5 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall
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Presented in association with the UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the UCSB Department of History
History Matters Series presented through the generosity of Loren Booth and Ellen & Peter O. Johnson
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He has received seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. He works in many capacities in the world of public history, including for boards, museums, colleges and historical societies. Six of his books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year and seven became New York Times bestsellers. His The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2007), received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award. He was personally selected by Nancy Reagan to edit President Ronald Reagan’s presidential diaries (2011). His 2012 book Cronkite won Fordham University’s Ann M. Sperber Prize for outstanding biographies. His two-volume annotated The Nixon Tapes (2016), won the Arthur S. Link - Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He received a Grammy Award in 2017 as co-producer of Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom (Best Jazz Ensemble). The New-York Historical Society selected Brinkley in 2017 as their official U.S. Presidential Historian. He is on the Board of Trustees at Brevard College and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. He is a member of the Century Association, Council of Foreign Relations and James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Six of Dr. Brinkley’s books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year: Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years (1992), Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal, with Townsend Hoopes (1992), The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the
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White House (1998), Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress (2003), The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2006) and The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (2010). Seven of his most recent publications have become New York Times bestsellers: The Reagan Diaries, (2007), The Great Deluge (2006), The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion (2005), Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War (2004), Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944 with Ronald J. Drez (2004), The Wilderness Warrior (2010), Cronkite (2012), and Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America (2016). The Great Deluge (2006) was the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Brinkley won the Benjamin Franklin Award for The American Heritage History of the United States (1998) and the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for Driven Patriot (1993). He was awarded the Business Week Book of the Year Award for Wheels for the World (2004) and was named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. For his work as an Americanist he has received honorary doctorates from numerous institutions of higher learning including Nova Southeastern University (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut); Hofstra
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University (Hempstead, New York); University of Maine (Orno, Maine); St. Edwards University (Austin, Texas); and Allegheny College (Allegheny, Pennsylvania). In 2002 Brinkley received Ohio State University’s Humanities Alumni Award of Distinction.
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A side passion of Brinkley’s has long been jazz, folk, and rock ’n’ roll music. He won a Grammy Award (Best Jazz Ensemble) in 2007 for co-producing Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom and was nominated for a Grammy for “Gonzo”, his collaboration with Johnny Depp on the soundtrack for an Alex Gibney documentary on Hunter S. Thompson. Other Brinkley music projects include writing the liner notes for Chuck Berry’s last CD titled Chuck and producing Fandango at the Wall with Arturo O’Farrill. Brinkley is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Century Association, Society of American Historians, and James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He is on the Board of Trustees at Brevard College and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. CNN recently honored Brinkley as “a man who knows more about the presidency than any human being alive.” www.douglasbrinkley.com Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
This America: The Case for the Nation
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
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Pink Martini Sun, Dec 8 / 7 PM / Arlington Theatre
Presented through the generosity of Patricia Gregory, for the Baker Foundation Corporate Sponsor:
Thomas M. Lauderdale, piano China Forbes, vocals Gavin Bondy, trumpet Robert Taylor, trombone Nicholas Crosa, violin Phil Baker, upright bass Dan Faehnle, guitar Timothy Nishimoto, vocals, percussion Brian Davis, drums, percussion Miguel Bernal, conga, percussion Reinhardt Melz, drums
In 1994, in his hometown of Portland, Ore., Thomas Lauderdale was working in politics, thinking that one day he would run for mayor. Like other eager politicians-in-training, he went to every political fundraiser under the sun… but was dismayed to find the music at these events underwhelming, lackluster, loud and un-neighborly. Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop – and hoping to appeal to conservatives and liberals alike, he founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in 1994 to provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for causes such as civil rights, affordable housing, the environment, libraries, public broadcasting, education and parks. One year later, Lauderdale called China Forbes, a Harvard classmate who was living in New York City, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together. Their first song, “Sympathique,” became an overnight sensation in France, was nominated for Song of the Year at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards, and to this day remains a mantra (“Je ne veux pas travailler” or “I don’t want to work”) for striking French workers. Says Lauderdale, “We’re very much an American band, but we spend a lot of time abroad and therefore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America… the America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world… composed of people of every country, every language, every religion.” Featuring a dozen musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with sym-
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phony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with more than 50 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London.
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Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return for biannual engagements for New Year’s Eve; four sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; three sold-out shows with the Sydney Symphony at the Sydney Opera House; multiple sold-out appearances, and a festival opening, at the Montreal Jazz Festival; two sold-out concerts at Paris’ legendary L’Olympia Theatre in 2011; and Paris fashion house Lanvin’s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012. In its 20th year, Pink Martini was inducted into both the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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“This is feel-good party jazz, harking back to the ’20s and ’30s. It’s brassy, stomp your feet and dance music, and it’s got the raw, uplifting vibe of a New Orleans street parade.” SF Weekly Miller, a Grammy-nominated, Juilliard-trained, Los Angeles native has become known for his relentless focus on making music that feels good. As a band, The Congregation shares the power of community through their globally conscious music – joyful jazz – spreading joy throughout the world.
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Tommy Emmanuel, CGP with very special guests Jim & Morning Nichols
photo: Simone Cecchetti
Sat, Dec 14 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
Tommy Emmanuel has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. Or at least they would if he was the kind of artist who was ever satisfied. At the age of 6, he was touring regional Australia with his family band. By 30, he was a rock ’n’ roll lead guitarist burning up stadiums in Europe. At 44, he became one of five people ever named a Certified Guitar Player (CGP) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins. Today, he plays hundreds of sold-out shows every year from Nashville to Sydney to London. All the while, Emmanuel has hungered for what’s next. When you’re widely acknowledged as the international master of the solo acoustic guitar, what’s next is Accomplice One, an album of collaborations with some of the finest singers, songwriters and, yes, guitarists alive today – a list including Jason Isbell, Mark Knopfler, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Douglas, Amanda Shires, Ricky Skaggs, J.D. Simo, David Grisman, Bryan Sutton, Suzy Bogguss and many more. Since Emmanuel and his brother Phil taught themselves to play as toddlers, the guitar has been his real first language – and he’s more articulate on his signature Melbourne-made Maton acoustics than most people are with words. Influenced by the Merle Travis/Chet Atkins fingerstyle of guitar picking, Emmanuel developed a style of solo guitar playing that encompasses the range of a whole band – covering drums, bass, rhythm and lead guitar and a vocal melody simultaneously. No loop pedals, no overdubs, just one man and 10 fingers. While some artists take 10-piece bands on the road and still fill out the sound with backing tracks, Emmanuel builds a complete sonic world entirely on his own.
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For many players, the technical mastery of the technique would overwhelm the emotion of the music, but not for Emmanuel. His idols are not just the great players, but also the great pop songwriters and singers – Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, The Beatles and their ilk. While thousands of fans have spent years trying to unpack and imitate Tommy’s technique, for him it’s just the delivery system. His approach is always song and emotion first, his music the embodiment of his soulful spirit, sense of hope and his love for entertaining. Which is not to say he dismisses the CGP, the Guitar Player awards, the Grammy nominations or the numerous magazine polls naming him the greatest acoustic guitarist alive. He’s grateful for it all, and the incredible journey that’s led him to the most invigorating period of his career – six decades into it. For Emmanuel though, the greatest reward is always the same – to make the next great record and to see the beaming audience at the next great show. “When I was a kid, I wanted to be in show business. Now I just want to be in the happiness business – I make music, you get happy. That’s a good job.” Special thanks to
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