Chris Thile, mandolin - Playbill 03/27/24

MODLIN ARTS PRESENTS

CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN

March 27, 2024 | 7:30 PM

Camp Concert Hall

UNIVERSITY of RICHMOND

MODLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

PHOTO CREDIT: JOSH GOLEMAN

Thank You

THIS ENGAGEMENT OF CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN

IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF

Louis S. Booth Arts Fund

H. Gerald Quigg Arts Endowment

THANKS TO OUR 2023 -2024 MODLIN ARTS PRESENTS SEASON SPONSORS & COMMUNITY PARTNERS

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Cultural Affairs Committee

Department of Music, University of Richmond Dewitt Fund for the Arts

A. Dale Mayo Fund

Virginia B. Modlin Endowment

Clinton Webb Fund

Norman and Gay Leahy

William and Pamela O’Connor

Welcome

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE OUR 2023-2024 SEASON!

At Modlin Center for the Arts, we are committed to providing the University of Richmond campus and our broader community with the best in diverse, thought-provoking, and captivating performances. Each season is cultivated with our attention to showcasing artists who provide insight into our shared humanity. At the University of Richmond, we pledge to you—our patrons and partners, on campus and in our region—that the arts will provide broad access to rich voices, creative passion, and unforgettable experiences.

Modlin is more than our presenting series. We operate as the home for our academic partners within the School of Arts & Sciences, providing spaces for conversation, connection, and collaboration across disciplines. Explore the full range of opportunities from the Department of Music, Department of Theatre & Dance, and University Museums. Don’t miss the extensive calendar of FREE concerts, performances, and exhibits, and make plans to join us.

I hope that you will also consider a contribution to the Modlin Center for the Arts. Your backing is a vital endorsement of the value that Modlin contributes to our cultural landscape. We are deeply grateful to have you include Modlin in your cultural investments. Thank you for being a valued member of our community of the arts. I look forward to seeing you at Modlin performances in 2023-24 and to hearing what moves you this year!

Paul Brohan, Executive Director

MODLIN ARTS

2023/24 Calendar

FALL

 P Ticketed: Paid

 F Free: Tickets/Registration Required

 F Free: No Tickets/Registration Required

 Modlin Arts Presents

 Department of Theatre and Dance

 Department of Music

 University Museums

 Tucker Boatwright Festival

AUGUST 2023

Queer Pioneers: LGBTQ+ History Through the Photographs of Robert Giard

On view 28 Aug - 8 Dec   F

Making Your Mark: Prints and Drawings from the Hechinger Collection

On view 28 Aug - 8 Dec   F

Crystals: Minerals from the Collection

On view through 4 May   F

Therefore I Am: Portraits from the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center

On view through 30 Jun   F

SEPTEMBER

David Esleck Trio

Thu 7 Sep 7:30pm   F

Marty Stuart

Thu 14 Sep 7:30pm   P

Volcano Theatre, Book of Life

Sat 23 Sep 7:30pm   P

We All Break & Leyla McCalla

Thu 28 Sep 7:30pm   P

Family Weekend Concert

Fri 29 Sep 7:30pm   F

OCTOBER

Rhiannon Giddens & The Legendary Ingramettes

Sun 1 Oct 7pm   P

White Pearl

Thu-Sat 5-7 Oct 7:30pm

Sun 8 Oct 2pm   F

Company SBB // Stephanie Batten Bland, Embarqued: Stories of Soil

Fri Oct 6 7:30pm   P

The Acting Company, Odyssey

Wed 11 Oct 7:30pm   P

Sankai Juku, KŌSA–between two mirrors

Thu 19 Oct 7:30pm   P

Davison Plays Davison

Fri 20 Oct 7:30pm   F

13th Annual Celebration of Dance @ UR!

Sat 21 Oct 7:30pm   F

Family Arts Day:

Barefoot Puppet Theatre, New Squid on the Block

Sun 22 Oct 1pm-4pm   P

Kenny Barron Voyage Trio

Wed 25 Oct 7:30pm   P

Inon Barnatan, Alisa Weilerstein & James Ehnes, Swan Song, The Schubert Project

Fri 27 Oct 7:30pm   P

Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale

Sun 29 Oct 3pm   F

NOVEMBER

ShoutHouse

Fri 3 Nov 7:30pm   P

Jazz & Contemporary Combos

Wed 8 Nov 7:30pm   F

J’Nai Bridges, Mezzo-Soprano

Thu 9 Nov 7:30pm   P

Terence Blanchard, Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Sun 12 Nov 7:30pm   P

Sky Hopinka: Masterclass and Film Screening

Mon-Wed 13–15 Nov   F

Popular Music Ensemble

Tue 14 Nov 7:30pm   F

Jazz Ensembles: Little Big Band with Black & White

Wed 15 Nov 7:30pm   F

Kiara Vigil: Keynote Lecture

Thu 16 Nov 4:30pm   F

Fairview

Thu-Sat 16-18 Nov 7:30pm

Sat 18 - Sun 19 Nov 2pm   F

Global Sounds

Sun 19 Nov 3pm   F

UR Wind Ensemble

Mon 20 Nov 7:30pm   F

Canadian Brass, Holiday Show

Wed 29 Nov 7:30pm   P

DECEMBER

50th Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols

Sun 3 Dec 5pm, 8pm   F

Chamber Ensembles

Mon 4 Dec 7:30pm   F

University Symphony Orchestra Wed 6 Dec 7:30pm   F

MODLIN ARTS

2023/24 Calendar

SPRING

 P Ticketed: Paid

 F Free: Tickets/Registration Required

 F Free: No Tickets/Registration Required

 Modlin Arts Presents

 Department of Theatre and Dance

 Department of Music

 University Museums

 Tucker Boatwright Festival

JANUARY 2024

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Max Roach Centennial

Thu 25 Jan 7:30pm   P

Richard Becker Piano Concert

Wed 31 Jan 7:30pm   F

FEBRUARY

Hamid Rahmanian, Song of the North

Fri 2 Feb 7:30pm   P

Paul Hanson Piano Concert

Sun 4 Feb 3pm   F

Layale Chaker & Sarafand, with Kinan Azmeh

Fri 16 Feb 7:30pm   P

Emily Riggs, soprano

Sun 18 Feb 3:00   F

Zuill Bailey, Cello

Wed 28 Feb 7:30pm   P

Yiman Wang: Keynote Lecture

Tue 20 Feb 12pm   F

Alexa Joubin: Keynote Lecture

Thu 22 Feb 12pm   F

MARCH

MOVING | BODIES

BODIES | MOVING

University Dancers

39th Annual Concert

Fri-Sat 1-2 Mar 7:30pm

Sun 3 Mar 2pm

Doris Wylee-Becker

Piano Concert

Sun 3 Mar 3pm   F

Richmond Piano Trio

Mon 4 Mar 7:30pm   F

Martha Graham

Dance Company

Fri 22 Mar 7:30pm   P

Brad Mehldau, Piano   P

Sun 24 Mar 7:30pm

Chris Thile, Mandolin

Wed 27 Mar 7:30pm   P

APRIL

Emanuel Ax, Piano

Fri 5 Apr 7:30pm   P

UR Wind Ensemble

Mon 8 Apr 7:30pm   F

UR Jazz & Contemporary Combos

Thu 11 Apr 7:30pm   F

Natu Camara

Fri 12 Apr 7:30pm   P

Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale

Sun 14 Apr 3pm   F

Popular Music Ensemble

Tue 16 Apr 7:30pm   F

UR Symphony Orchestra

Wed 17 Apr 7:30pm   F

Everybody

18-20 Apr 7:30pm 21 Apr 2pm   F

Danish String Quartet

Sat 20 Apr 7:30pm   P

Global Sounds

Sun 21 Apr 3pm   F

UR Chamber Ensembles

Mon 22 Apr 7:30pm   F

Cuban Spectacular

Thu 25 Apr 7:30pm   F

MODLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS

CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN

Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage, and the performance will run approximately 90 minutes without intermission.

PHOTO CREDIT: JOSH GOLEMAN

ARTIST BIO

MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter Chris Thile, who the Guardian calls “that rare being: an allround musician who can settle into any style, from bluegrass to classical,” and NPR calls a “genre-defying musical genius,” is a founding member of the critically acclaimed bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek. For four years, Thile hosted public radio favorite Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion). With his broad outlook, Thile creates a distinctly American canon and a new musical aesthetic for performers and audiences alike, giving the listener “one joyous arc, with the linear melody and vertical harmony blurring into a single web of gossamer beauty” (New York Times).

Most recently, Chris recorded Laysongs, which was released in 2021 on Nonesuch. The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs’ centerpiece is the three-part “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot” based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens’ “Won’t You Come and Sing for Me,” and “Ecclesiastes 2:24,” original instrumental loosely modeled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin in E Major.

PHOTO CREDIT: JOSH GOLEMAN

Modlin Arts Presents

EMANUEL AX, PIANO

Fri 5 April 2024

Camp Concert Hall

Emanuel Ax is know for his range of elegance, power and precision. A program of Beethoven and Schoenberg is sure to inspire in the intimate Camp Concert Hall.

SOLD OUT

NATU CAMARA

Fri 12 April 2024

Camp Concert Hall

If you merged Miriam Makeba with Nina Simone, added a dose of Tracy Chapman, and sprinkled in some Tina Turner, you might begin to describe the vibrant singer/ songwriter Natu Camara.

DANISH STRING QUARTET

Sat 20 April 2024

Camp Concert Hall

The Danish String Quartet brings their impeccable musicianship to classical masterpieces and Scandinavian folk tunes alike. Their joy in music-making is palpable to audiences worldwide.

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