CU Presents 2015-16 Season Brochure

2015 –2016 Season

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2015 – 2016 Season

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June 5 – Aug. 9 Colorado Shakespeare Festival

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Sept. 18– April 23 CU Theatre & Dance productions

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Sept. 20– April 25 Takács Quartet Series 14 Sept. 27 Twyla Tharp Dance: 50th Anniversary Tour 5 Oct. 9 SFJAZZ Collective: Tribute to Michael Jackson 6 Oct. 23 – 25 Cinderella (La Cenerentola) by Gioacchino Rossini 17 Nov. 6 Irish Chamber Orchestra: Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor 7 Dec. 4– 6 Holiday Festival

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Dec. 11 Soweto Gospel Choir 8 Jan. 21 Diavolo 9 Feb. 14 BodyTraffic 10 March 1 Rising Stars of the Metropolitan Opera

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March 11 and 13 Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc 18 March 31 Indigo Girls with the CU Symphony Orchestra

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April 15 Pablo Ziegler and Lara St. John: Piazzolla Central Park Concert Redux 13 April 17 Spring Swing

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April 21 – 24 The Tender Land by Aaron Copland 19 Colorado Shakespeare Festival / Artist Series / Takács Quartet / CU Performing Arts Photo credits: Bill King, Jay Blakesberg, Frank Ockenfels, M. Bosisio, Karli Cadel, Jamie Tanaka, Zachary Andrews, Ammerpohl and Ron Berard

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Irish Chamber Orchestra

3 easy ticketing options Season tickets—on sale now!

- Best prices - Guaranteed best seats year to year - Add-on Holiday Festival early - Free exchanges

Choice option—on sale now!

- Choose four or more performances and save 10% - Great flexibility, good savings - Add-on Holiday Festival early - Free exchanges

Single tickets—on sale Aug.17, 2015 (except Holiday Festival) - Discounts for seniors, youths, groups, CU-Boulder faculty, staff and students More ticket information on page 22

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The ARTIST SERIES takes you on an inspired odyssey with the world’s finest performers.

Classical, jazz, dance and world music come together in a brilliant mosaic of sound and color.

All ARTIST SERIES performances take place at 7:30 p.m. in majestic Macky Auditorium.

Season Ticket Options:

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• 9-concert Artist Series • 6-concert In Motion Series • 3-concert Classics Series • Choice Option—create your own series

BodyTraffic

Twyla Tharp Dance 50th Anniversary Tour

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Sunday, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $15

Twyla Tharp Dance returns to Boulder for the first time since 1979 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the choreographer’s incomparable career, featuring new works set to Bach, Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein and John Zorn. twylatharp.org

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SFJAZZ Collective

Tribute to Michael Jackson

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Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $15

The brilliant San Francisco-based ensemble takes the next step in its “transforming, expanding” tributes (New York Times) to pop and jazz legends—Coltrane, Monk, Stevie Wonder and others—with all-new originals and arrangements celebrating Michael Jackson. sfjazz.org/sfjazzcollective

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Irish Chamber Orchestra

Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor Friday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.

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Tickets start at $15

The “razor-sharp, fully-seasoned” Irish Chamber Orchestra (Chicago Tribune) returns to Boulder by popular demand, conducted by original Takács Quartet member Gábor Takács-Nagy and featuring internationally-renowned cellist Istvan Vardai. irishchamberorchestra.com

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Soweto Gospel Choir

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Friday, Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $15

South Africa’s 24-voice Soweto Gospel Choir—“Nothing less than an international treasure” (JazzTimes)—will bring light and spirit to your holiday season with a performance of classic Christmas songs and moving African gospel music. sowetogospelchoir.com

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Diavolo

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Thursday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $15

Equal parts Cirque de Soleil, brilliant choreography and architecture in motion, Diavolo turns death-defying dancers free in a super-sized playground of wheels, bowls and walls in a unique display of kinetic drama. diavolo.org

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BodyTraffic

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Sunday, Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $15

Drop gritty, contemporary New York and European choreographers into the fast-paced, freeway world of Los Angeles, sprinkle with energetic young talent, and you get the “super-fast, super-sexy, super-expressive intensity” (Dance View Times) of BodyTraffic. A super-charged occasion, perfect for Valentine’s Day! BodyTraffic.com

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Rising Stars of the Metropolitan Opera Tuesday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.

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Tickets start at $15

The Met has launched the careers of opera greats Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson and many others. Don’t miss this chance to hear the brightest new stars performing arias, duets and ensembles with piano accompaniment by the world’s greatest composers. metopera.com

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Indigo Girls with the CU Symphony Orchestra

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Thursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $20

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, the platinum-selling duo Indigo Girls, enrich a stellar quarter-century career with a symphonic performance of their moving, melodic music, including such hits as Closer to Fine and Land of Canaan. indigogirls.com

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Pablo Ziegler and Lara St. John

Piazzolla Central Park Concert Redux Friday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.

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Tickets start at $15

Composer-pianist Ziegler and violinist St. John perform beloved tunes from tango maestro Astor Piazzolla’s famous 1987 Central Park concert and originals by Ziegler, who takes the tango to heights “undreamed of by Piazzolla.” (Chicago Tribune) pabloziegler.com; larastjohn.com

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Takács Quartet The Grammy Award-winning chamber quartet has been selling out concerts for three decades at CU-Boulder with an irresistible blend of virtuosic technique and engaging personalities. takacsquartet.com Attacca Quartet Since its formation at Juilliard in 2003, the Attacca Quartet has become one of North America’s premier young ensembles. The quartet has received multiple honors, including first prize in the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and top prizewinners and Listeners’ Choice Award recipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. The New York Times described the Attacca Quartet’s Fellow Traveler: The Complete String Quartet Works of John Adams, (Azica Records, 2013) as “exuberant, funky … and exactingly nuanced.”

Attacca Quartet

Chamber Series Sold out!

Sunday, Sept. 20, 4 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 11, 4 p.m.

(Attacca Quartet) Sunday, Nov. 8, 4 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 10, 4 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 24, 4 p.m.

Encore Series

Limited availability!

Please call the box office for more Information.

Monday, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m.

(Attacca Quartet) Monday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 29, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 25, 7:30 p.m.

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Blue Mountain Arts presents:

Colorado Shakespeare Festival June 5 – Aug. 9, 2015 Tickets start at $20

Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Jim Helsinger, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre Othello, directed by Lisa Wolpe, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre Wittenberg by David Davalos, directed by Timothy Orr, University Theatre Henry V, directed by Carolyn Howarth, University Theatre Henry VI, Part 1, directed by Vanessa Morosco, University Theatre The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company in association with the University of Colorado Boulder. Since 1958, the festival has celebrated and explored Shakespeare and his continuing influence. For tickets and information visit coloradoshakes.org

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Holiday Festival Friday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 5, 4 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 4 p.m.

Tickets start at $15

A lively program of seasonal music and festive holiday decorations in Macky Auditorium inspire sold-out audiences and make the Holiday Festival a beloved annual tradition. Choirs, orchestra, ensembles and faculty soloists from the CU-Boulder College of Music invite you to share the joy and warmth of the season with your family and friends.

Avoid standing in line for your tickets to the popular Holiday Festival by becoming a 2015– 2016 CU Presents season ticket holder. Individual tickets for the Holiday Festival go on sale to the general public on Sunday, Sept. 20.

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Eklund Opera

Wide-ranging repertoire, lavish scenery, drama and amazing voices—the Eklund Opera program has it all. Director Leigh Holman and Music Director Nicholas Carthy showcase the talent of the future in three productions each season.

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Cinderella

(La Cenerentola) by Gioacchino Rossini

Friday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 25, 2 p.m.

Tickets start at $15 Macky Auditorium

First performed less than a year after the premiere of his enduring classic, The Barber of Seville, Gioacchino Rossini’s Cinderella (La Cenerentola) was just as big a hit with audiences. Full of upbeat humor and containing some of Rossini’s greatest writing for solo voice and ensembles, the beloved story of a scullery-girl-turned-princess will appeal to audiences of all ages.

Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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Dialogues of the Carmelites

by Francis Poulenc

Friday, March 11, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 13, 2 p.m.

Tickets start at $15 Macky Auditorium

Francis Poulenc’s dark, intense 1957 opera—based on the persecution of nuns at the convent at Campiegne during the French Revolution—fearlessly grapples with such timeless human emotions as fear, despair and faith. “As rich as a vintage port, the opera delivers a soft and melodic score that undulates with (dark) and complex themes … as tragically current as (they are) old.”—(Metro Weekly) Sung in English.

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The Tender Land

by Aaron Copland

Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 22, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 24, 2 p.m.

Tickets start at $20 Music Theatre

Copland was inspired to write his only full-length opera by the Depression-era photographs of Walker Evans and James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. This classic tale of smalltown America evokes everything from The Grapes of Wrath to Our Town and Oklahoma!

“Copland in his Americana mode. … (A)n affecting, honest and musically elegant work … bustling rhythmic intensity and pungent chromatic bite.” (The New York Times).

Sung in English.

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Spring Swing Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m.

Tickets start at $10 Macky Auditorium

Join the CU Concert Jazz Ensemble and guest artists for a swinging return to the Big Band era.

The program will feature music from the ensemble’s new recording—a tribute to the greatest bands and composers of the era, including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and more.

CU Theatre & Dance 2015 –16 Season

Single tickets start at $14

For full events listing: colorado.edu/theatredance From Tennessee Williams to student dance innovations, CU Theatre & Dance presents cutting-edge works by faculty, guest artists and stars of tomorrow.

University Theatre Series The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Sept. 25 – Oct. 4) Fiddler on the Roof music by Jerry Bock, book by Joseph Stein (Nov. 6 –15) Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton (March 4 –13) The Current (April 15 –17) Irey Dance Theatre [UN] W.R.A.P.: Undoing Writing, Research and Performance (Sept. 18 –20) The Otherland (Oct. 16 –18) un I covering me (Nov. 13 –15) Beautiful Human Lies (Feb. 12 –14)

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Our Town, 2014, CU Theatre & Dance

Attacca Quartet

funding partners CU Presents programs are sponsored in part by the following concert-level sponsors:

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3 easy ticketing options: 1 Season tickets—on sale now!

Outstanding seats and savings!

Series name Savings GC* O1 O2 O3 O4 Box L1 Artist Series 30% $389 $259 $196 $165 $102 $389 $259 9 performances

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25%

$281 $188 $145 $118 $70 $281 $188

Classics Series C

20%

$144 $96 $72 $60 $36 $144 $96

Eklund Opera

20% $96 $64 $56 $48 $40 $96 $64

6 performances 3 performances 3 performances

Takács Chamber and Takács Encore tickets available by waitlist only. Please call 303-492-8008.

University Theatre Series 20% (All seats are $64) 4 performances

Colorado Shakespeare Festival 10 – 40% Visit coloradoshakes.org to build your season ticket package.

2–4 performances

* GC = Gold Circle O = Orchestra (Main Floor) Box = Opera Box L = Loge (Balcony)

2 Choice Option—on sale now!

Choose four or more different Artist Series, Eklund Opera, CU Theatre & Dance and/or Spring Swing events and receive a 10% discount off single ticket prices (listed below). Choice Option cannot be combined with senior or other discounts. Choice Option does not guarantee the same seats for all performances. The Holiday Festival may be added on but not counted as one of your four discounted events.

3 Single tickets or add-ons—on sale Aug. 17, 2015

Artist Series

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GC* O1 O2 O3 O4 Box L1 L2 $75 $50 $40 $30 $20 $75 $50 –

Artist Series

$60 $40 $30 $25 $15 $60 $40 _

Eklund Opera

$45 $30 $25 $20 $15 $45 $30 –

(All others, Macky) Pages 4–13 (Macky) Pages 17–18

Eklund Opera $30 $20 – – – – – – (Music Theatre) Page 19

Holiday Festival evenings

$60 $40 $30 $25 $15 –

$40 $25

Holiday Festival matinees

$62 $42 $32 $27 $17 –

$42 $27

Spring Swing

$25 $20 $15 $12 $10 –

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(Macky) Page 16—on sale Sept. 20 (Macky) Page 16—on sale Sept. 20 (April 17, Macky) Page 20

CU Theatre & Dance Call or visit colorado.edu/theatredance to add CU Theatre & Dance tickets.

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Colorado Shakespeare Festival June 5 – Aug. 9, 2015 Visit coloradoshakes.org Page 15

Prices may increase as performance dates approach.

Programs, artists, prices and dates subject to change.

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2015–2016 Ticket order worksheet: Season tickets*

Series seating section # of seats price total

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Season ticket total = $ * For Eklund Opera, please choose Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday preference.

Add-ons—Choice Option—single tickets

PRICES MAY CHANGE AS CONCERT DATES APPROACH.

Event seating section # of seats price total

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DISCOUNTS: Seniors: 65+ = $2 off/ticket

Youth: 18 & Under = $5 off/ticket – OR – Choice Option: 10% off 4 or more different events (excludes Holiday Festival)

x x x

= $ = $ = $

(less Add-on/Choice Option/single ticket discounts**) = $ ** Choice Option discounts may not be combined with senior or youth discounts

Add-ons, Choice Option and single tickets total = $

Holiday Festival***

Date and time seating section # of seats price total

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***Prior to Sept. 20 Holiday Festival add-ons available to season ticket-holders only.

Please note, there is a $10 season ticket processing fee for all orders except those made in person.

Donation to  Artist Series  Eklund Opera  Takács Society  Jazz Club

= $ 10.00 total = $

For donation by check, please include separate check payable to CU FOUNDATION. Add all Total lines for the GRAND TOTAL

Place your order:

in person: CU Presents box office University Club, (972 Broadway) CU-Boulder Campus Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.

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online: cupresents.org

by phone: 303-492-8008

Prices may increase as performance dates approach.

Programs, artists, prices and dates subject to change.

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