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Young Artists competition winners concert

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bettye lavette

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phil kline's zippo songs

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ust a few days after the first show in this playbill, we will be announcing all the details of our Mondavi Center 10th Anniversary season. So, I have focused this column on what to look for in the season, a kind of field guide to 2012–13: A constellation of stars: From jazz to blues to classical we have filled next season with so many favorites like Wynton Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma, alongside artists like violinist Sarah Chang (who will play for the first time at UC Davis since she was 14 years old) and the MC debut of the great singer-guitarist Bonnie Raitt.

A commitment to American artists: Speaking of Bonnie Raitt, she is part of our American Heritage Series that, since 2006, has showcased the finest artists from around our nation; from country to folk to bluegrass to soul and R&B. While our scope remains diverse and international, we are proud to bring our audiences the best from our own heritage, whether it is the “sacred steel” of Robert Randolph or the urban soul of Charles Bradley and The Extraordinaires.

A spotlight on what is new: In our 10th anniversary season, we will feature the world premiere of a brand new song cycle from the lyrical contemporary opera composer Mark Adamo, written especially for baritone Thomas Hampson (a returning MC artist) and the Jupiter String Quartet (making its debut). Adamo, Hampson and the Jupiter will be in residence in Davis for three days as they put this new song cycle together for the very first time.

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Great artists in residence: Besides Thomas Hampson and company, we will have our first extended orchestra residency (funded by the Mellon Foundation as is the Hampson residency) with the return of the St. Louis Symphony directed by David Robertson. Robertson and his colleagues will be ubiquitous in our region for three days giving special concerts outdoors and at the Crocker Art Museum, performing for elementary school children and ending with a full orchestra concert in the Western Health Advantage Orchestra Series.

Exploring the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre: In addition to our magnificent Jackson Hall, with its 1801 seats, the Mondavi Center also houses the intimate and flexible “black box” Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Since the opening of the center we have hosted weeklong runs of jazz artists with the VST converted into a comfortable nightclub. During the last few seasons we added Studio Classics in addition to our Capital Public Radio Studio Jazz Series. For our 10th season we expand with Studio Dance, highlighting small-scale works by major choreographers (including Sacramento’s own Ron Cunningham) in this beautiful, intimate space. And theater returns to the VST in 2012–13 with National Theater of Scotland’s poignant and wickedly funny The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

There is more of course—a great speakers series, a focus on film and on filmed opera, the Debut Series highlighting young artists and the Rising Stars of Opera, a free event in honor of Barbara K. Jackson. As is our habit, we have put performances together in affordable and discounted packages, to encourage everyone to try a variety of events in or across genres.

I am proud of the 10th anniversary season that we have put together for you and look forward to hosting you throughout this celebratory season.

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SFJAZZ Collective

The Music of Stevie Wonder A Capital Public Radio Jackson Hall Jazz Series Event Thursday, March 29, 2012 • 8PM Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, UC Davis Opening Band: Mondavi Center SFJAZZ High School All-Stars

There will be one intermission.

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Question & Answer Session With members of the SFJAZZ Collective and Mondavi Center SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, moderated by Jeremy Ganter, Associate Executive Director and Director of Programing, Mondavi Center, UC Davis.

Question and Answer Sessions take place in the performance hall after the event.

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question & answer moderator: jeremy ganter Jeremy Ganter became the associate executive director and director of programming at the Mondavi Center in September 2006 after serving as the artistic administrator and then director of programming for five years.

Ganter is on the Board of Directors of the Western Arts Alliance (WAA), serves as the chair of the WAA Communications Committee and served several terms on the board of California Presenters, both as a director and as treasurer.

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At the Mondavi Center, Ganter oversees the implementation of a season consisting of more than 80 productions and 100 performances. During the 2007–08 season, Ganter directed the Mondavi Center’s Creativity Project, a year-long, multidisciplinary look at the creative spark, including the commissioning of five new works, an extensive residency with the UC Davis campus and community and performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Kronos Quartet, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Sideshow Physical Theatre Company and the Empyrean Ensemble. In recent seasons, Ganter has led the Mondavi Center’s development of more in-depth performance and residency programs in jazz, including a two-week performance and teaching residency for Sacramento and Davis area students with trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis and the development of the Mondavi Center SFJAZZ High School All-Stars program.

Ganter lives in Davis with his wife Allison and their two sons.

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SFJAZZ Collective

The Music of Stevie Wonder Antonio Hart, Alto Saxophone Mark Turner, Tenor Saxophone Avishai Cohen, Trumpet Robin Eubanks, Trombone Stefon Harris, Vibraphone and Marimba Edward Simon, Piano Matt Penman, Bass Eric Harland, Drums

Opening Band: Mondavi Center SFJAZZ High School All-Stars

Joey Cozza, Piano Nick De La O, Bass Emery Mesic, Saxophone Jeric Rocamora, Trumpet Paul Slater, Drums Michael Wang, Trombone Noah Wolfe, Guitar Jared Yakel, Saxophone Mike McMullen, Rehearsal Director

Each year the SFJAZZ Collective honors the work of an acknowledged master by revisiting classics from that artist’s repertoire. For 2012, Stevie Wonder is the ensemble’s featured composer.

The group approaches the work of Wonder, an artist outside of the jazz tradition, but one whose sophisticated songcraft and timeless melodies are more than worthy of exploration.

Songs by Stevie Wonder “Superstition” arranged by Miguel Zenon “Sir Duke” arranged by Avishai Cohen “Blame it on the Sun” arranged by Mark Turner “Look Around” arranged by Stefon Harris “My Cherie Amour” arranged by Edward Simon “Race Babbling” arranged by Robin Eubanks “Creepin” arranged by Matt Penman “Do I Do” arranged by Eric Harland In addition to the works above, each band member is commissioned by SFJAZZ to write a piece specifically for the ensemble.

Original Compositions “Young and Playful” - Edward Simon “Family” - Avishai Cohen “Life Signs” - Stefon Harris “The Economy” - Matt Penman “Orpheus” - Mark Turner “Metronome” - Robin Eubanks “Eminence” - Eric Harland

Program is subject to change.

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High school students are welcome to apply to be a part of our second season of the Mondavi Center SFJAZZ High School All–Stars.

This program provides advanced training for serious jazz students through rehearsals, master classes with members of the SFJAZZ Collective and regular performance opportunities.

Audio applications will be accepted until September 28, 2012.

Guidelines and application are available at http://www.mondaviarts.org/jazzallstars/.

Questions? Contact Ruth Rosenberg, Artist Engagement Coordinator rrosenberg@ucdavis.edu or (530) 752-6113.

If you’re not already familiar with the eight artists who comprise the SFJAZZ Collective, you will be. As soloists, composers and bandleaders they represent what’s happening now in jazz. They also demonstrate that jazz has truly become an international language. Hailing from New York, Venezuela, Israel, Houston, Berkeley and New Zealand, the Collective’s multi-cultural lineup mirrors the explosion of jazz talent around the globe. However, the jazz community only reached its current state by maintaining its traditions while simultaneously embracing innovation. This, too, is the essence of the SFJAZZ Collective. These exceptional artists come together in the name of jazz as a constantly evolving, quintessentially modern art form. Prior to going on tour, the band engages in a multi-week residency in San Francisco where they rehearse the year’s repertoire.

This includes rearrangements of work from a modern music master (this year, Stevie Wonder), plus all-new original compositions, commissioned exclusively for this ensemble by SFJAZZ. In addition, they mentor promising young musicians, including the acclaimed SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, through workshops and other outreach. The residency is a rare opportunity in the jazz world for such focused creativity, collaboration and preparation, and would not be possible without SFJAZZ institutional backing.

Each of the Collective’s annual tours is documented on a live, limited-edition multiple-CD set. Over the past seven years these recordings have received extensive critical acclaim. After exploring the work of Ornette Coleman (2004), John Coltrane (2005), Herbie Hancock (2006), Thelonious Monk (2007), Wayne Shorter (2008), McCoy Tyner (2009) and Horace Silver (2010), the Collective takes on the material of pop music icon Stevie Wonder for its spring 2012 tour.

The idea for the Collective arose from discussions between SFJAZZ’s founder and executive director, Randall Kline, and saxophonist and founding Collective member Joshua Redman. While deeply respectful of jazz’s origins and early traditions, SFJAZZ was concerned that the modern side of jazz, from roughly the mid-20th century to the present day, was often overlooked in the public eye in comparison with the music of jazz’s so-called “Golden Age.” Both Kline and Redman were eager to showcase, in a manner that would resonate with jazz aficionados and newcomers alike, the artistic continuum from modern masters to today’s new generation of players. Much like chamber music, the music is designed for a small group of instruments to be performed in intimate settings and atmospheres including performing arts centers, concert halls and salons.

Past Collective members have included Joshua Redman, Bobby Hutcherson, Dave Douglas, Nicholas Payton, Joe Lovano, Josh Roseman, Renee Rosnes, Robert Hurst, Brian Blade and other jazz stars.

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Antonio Hart (alto saxophone—subbing for original member Miguel Zenón) is holding down the alto chair for Zenón during the Collective’s spring 2012 tour. From Baltimore, Maryland, Hart is currently a professor of jazz studies at Queens College City University of New York. He received a 1997 Grammy nomination for his solo on “The Community” from his Impulse CD, Here I Stand. Hart has released eight albums as a leader and has recorded as a guest on more than 80 recordings with artists such as McCoy Tyner, Roy Hargrove, Donald Byrd, Jimmy Heath, Cyrus Chestnut, Robin Eubanks, Slide Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Terence Blanchard, the Dave Holland Big Band and the Mingus Big Band.

Mark Turner (tenor saxophone, member 2010–present), described

by JazzTimes as “an extremely thoughtful and cerebral player,” has been quietly building a reputation as a musician’s musician. He attended Berklee College of Music in the late 1980s, where he met musicians that would figure prominently in his later work, including Kurt Rosenwinkel and Joshua Redman. Turner has recorded five critically acclaimed albums as a leader, and he has also performed or recorded with artists such as Dave Holland, Brad Mehldau, Dave Douglas and Lee Konitz. His latest project is the trio FLY with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard.

Their album Sky And Country appeared on ECM in 2009.

Stefon Harris (vibraphone and marimba, member 2008–present) is committed to exploring the rich potential of jazz composition and blazing new trails on the vibraphone. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Harris has received numerous accolades including the Jazz Journalists Association’s “Best Mallet Player” for four years running (2000–03) and “#1 Rising Star Vibraphonist” in the 2006 DownBeat Critics Poll. His string of Grammy-nominated albums for Blue Note includes Kindred, Black Action Figure and The Grand Unification Theory. His latest release, Urbanus (2009), was nominated for a “Best Contemporary Jazz Album” Grammy.

Edward Simon (piano, member 2010–present), 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, was born in the coastal town of Punta Cardón, Venezuela, where he grew up in a family of musicians surrounded by the sounds and rhythms of Latin and Caribbean music. Settling in New York City in 1989, he played with numerous jazz masters, including Herbie Mann, Paquito D’Rivera, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Watson, Terence Blanchard and Don Byron. He has produced seven critically acclaimed albums as a leader, including two New York Times top ten jazz records of the year: Edward Simon (Kokopelli, 1994) and Simplicitas (Criss Cross, 2005). Simon leads his own trio, Ensemble Venezuela, collaborates with saxophonist David Binney in the quartet Afinidad and also appears alongside his brothers in the group Simon, Simon & Simon.

Matt Penman (bass, member 2005–present), originally from New Zealand, studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music before relocating to New York in 1995. In addition to releasing his own critically acclaimed CDs as a leader, Catch of the Day (2007) and The Unquiet (2002), he has recorded as a sideman on some 70 other discs and has performed with Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Gary Bartz, Kenny Werner, Nnenna Freelon, Madeleine Peyroux, Brian Blade, John Scofield and Guillermo Klein.

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Eric Harland (drums, member 2006–present) is a Texas-born leading drummer on the national scene. He has performed with jazz legends like Betty Carter, Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner, and has played on more than 70 recordings with such artists as Terence Blanchard, Greg Osby, Charles Lloyd and Zakir Hussain.

He released his debut CD, Voyager, live by night, in 2010.

Avishai Cohen (trumpet, member 2010–present) is a leading figure on the international jazz scene and one of the most soughtafter players of his generation—“an assertive and accomplished trumpeter with a taste for modernism” according to The New York Times. Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, Cohen began performing at age 10 and toured the world with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Relocating to the U.S. to attend the Berklee College of Music, he placed third in the prestigious Thelonious Monk Trumpet Competition in 1997. After developing his craft at New York’s Smalls jazz club alongside contemporaries such as pianist Jason Lindner and bassist Omer Avital, Cohen has expanded his sonic palette to include African music (with Lionel Loueke), funk (Me’shell Ndegeocello), folk/pop (Keren Ann) and effects-laden avant-garde explorations.

Robin Eubanks (trombone, member 2008–present), a five-time “Trombonist of the Year” in the DownBeat Critics Poll, is the premier jazz trombonist of his generation. In addition to leading his own groups, EB3 and Mental Images, Eubanks has performed and composed on Grammy-winning recordings with Dave Holland and Michael Brecker. In addition, he has worked with music legends Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and the Rolling Stones, to name a few. The native Philadelphian, an acclaimed composer, is the recipient of composition grants from Chamber Music America and ASCAP. Robin is a sought-after educator and is now a tenured professor of trombone at the renowned Oberlin Conservatory.

SFJAZZ SFJAZZ, founded in 1983, is the largest nonprofit presenter of jazz in the western United States. SFJAZZ presents more than 100 concerts a year to more than 100,000 fans and is dedicated to advancing the art form of jazz and cultivating new jazz audiences through artistic and educational programming including the San Francisco Jazz Festival, SFJAZZ Spring Season, SFJAZZ Collective, SFJAZZ Summerfest, SFJAZZ Education, SFJAZZ Membership and SFJAZZ Hotplate.

The organization is currently building the SFJAZZ Center as a permanent home for SFJAZZ. This remarkable new facility, to be located in San Francisco’s vibrant Hayes Valley neighborhood, will be a 35,000 square-foot, transparent, free-standing structure designed by renowned architect Mark Cavagnero. With the SFJAZZ Center, jazz will take its place alongside major arts institutions such as the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet in the Civic Center performing arts district. For more information, please visit www.sfjazz.org.

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Mondavi Center SFJAZZ High School All-Stars The Mondavi Center SFJAZZ High School All-Stars is an eightperson ensemble composed of the Sacramento region’s most talented high school musicians. This program provides advanced training for serious jazz students through rehearsals, master classes with members of the SFJAZZ Collective and regular performance opportunities.

Joey Cozza (piano) is a sophomore at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento where he plays in the AM Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band under the direction of Josh Murray. He studies piano with Joseph Gilman, the director of the Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific. Cozza also participates in many different small jazz groups at his school and has played at many jazz festivals, including the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2011. In his spare time, Joey likes to play sports and compose music.

Nick De La O (bass) is a senior at Rio Americano High School and performs in the top jazz band and in a small ensemble course led by instructor Josh Murray. He plays privately in a jazz combo that will represent Rio at the Folsom, Sacramento State and (pending acceptance) Mingus jazz festivals. De La O has studied with local bass players Rob Lemus, Jimmy O’Shea, Shelley Denny and currently with Tom Derthick. Throughout his years in middle school and high school jazz bands he has achieved individual awards at the Folsom, Sacramento State, Reno and Santa Cruz jazz festivals.

In his spare time he likes to hang out with his “compadres” and eat terrible food.

Emery Mesic (saxophone) is a sophomore at Rio Americano High School. He plays in the honors concert band and AM Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Josh Murray and Max Kiesner.

He studies privately with Mike McMullen and also plays with his combo somebody’s cousin, previously known as Take 5. In his spare time he duck hunts and practices his saxophone.

Jeric Rocamora (trumpet) is a sophomore at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, where he is part of the Honors Concert Band, directed by Max Kiesner, and is a member of the AM Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Josh Murray. He has had the privilege of studying with many private teachers, including Keir MacMillan, Dr. Steve Roach and Tom Peron, and he is currently taking lessons with Larry Lunetta. Rocamora won Best Middle School Trumpeter at the 2010 Reno Jazz Festival. He has participated in state and regional honors bands, won several outstanding soloist awards and, more recently, received a composition award at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He has had the honor of world premiering one of his big band compositions at the first annual Composers and Schools in Concert performance, alongside wellrespected composers. In his spare time, Jeric enjoys learning new instruments, composing music, Frisbee and playing video games.

Paul Slater (drums) is a junior at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, where he plays in the AM Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Josh Murray. He also studies drums privately with Rick Lotter. Slater also plays with his jazz combo comprised of members from the AM Jazz Ensemble and his rock group. He has won awards from Downbeat Magazine, CSUS Jazz Festival and the Folsom Jazz Festival, and he has attended summer jazz programs such as the Stanford Jazz Residency and the CSUS Jazz Camp.

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Subscriptions for the 2012–13 season go on sale Saturday, April 7!

Join us in the Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for our annual Open House. Our staff will be available to help you place your order for our tenth anniversary season, one of the most robust and memorable in the Mondavi Center’s history.

During the Open House we’ll guide you through: • Placing an order for multiple series, whether you are a new or renewing subscriber.

• Adding on (at a nice discount!) tickets for additional shows to your subscription.

• How to take advantage of the many benefits of subscribing including ticket exchanges, seat renewals and much more.

Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served.

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Noah Wolfe (guitar) is a junior at Davis Senior High School. He has been playing guitar since third grade and has been performing in a variety of places ever since. He is currently a member of the jazz big band at Davis Senior High School, Frankie and the Fabletones, the Baby Pandas jazz combo, and he has previously played with the Davis Klezmer Group among other musical groups. Wolfe would especially like to thank his teacher Steve Homan for his help over the years with music. In his free time Wolfe enjoys mountain biking and snowboarding.

Jared Yakel (saxophone) is a senior at Folsom High School. He plays saxophone in the concert band, big band and jazz combo under the direction of Curtis Gaesser. He also studies privately with Grant Reeves. Jared plays in the RHAA school of the arts band, under the direction of Curtis Gaesser. He has won awards at many jazz festivals including Reno Jazz Festival and Delta Jazz Festival. In his free time he likes to play football and practice his saxophone.

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Michael Wang (trombone) is a senior at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento where he plays trombone in the top jazz ensemble under the direction of Josh Murray. He also studies privately with Ron Cunha of Jesuit High School. Wang is also a member of a student-run jazz combo and has been awarded accolades including soloist awards from the Folsom, Reno and Santa Cruz jazz festivals and two full-tuition scholarships to the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and he has also been selected as lead trombone for the 2012 Grammy Jazz Ensemble. In his free time, Wang enjoys scootering, spending time with friends and writing tunes.

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Mike McMullen (rehearsal director), a highly regarded musician and educator, studied saxophone with Joe Henderson, composition and arranging with Dick Grove and studio woodwinds with Phil Sobel. He has worked throughout Europe and North America with many jazz greats, including Dave Liebman, Bobby Shew, Kenny Wheeler, Randy Brecker, Norma Winstone, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole and Doc Severinson. Mike has worked commercially with radio orchestras in Denmark, Belgium and Ireland, as well as for Johnny Mathis, Frankie Valli, the Temptations, the Moody Blues and on television’s Taxi. McMullen served as director of jazz ensembles at UC Davis for 11 years and currently teaches at CSU Sacramento. He is a founding member of Capital Jazz Project, a regular in the pit for California Musical Theater and has a large private student roster.

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Presents

Young Artists Competition Winners Concert A Mondavi Center Special Event Sunday, April 1, 2012 • 2PM Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center, UC Davis

There will be one intermission.

Individual support provided by Barbara K. Jackson, Mary B. Horton and John and Lois Crowe.

Special thanks to the jurors of the 2012 Mondavi Center Young Artists Competion: Lara Downes; Charles Letourneau, IMG Artists and Festival del Sole; Richard Aldag, Napa Valley Symphony; and Sheri Greenawald, SF Opera Center.

The Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition is directed by Mondavi Center artist-in-residence Lara Downes, who founded the competition in 2004 with the generous support of founding sponsors Barbara K. Jackson, Mary Horton and Lois and John Crowe. The Young Artists Competition attracts pre-professional young musicians at the highest level from throughout the United States, offering scholarships and performance opportunities for pianists, instrumentalists, chamber ensembles and vocalists ages eight–21.

The 2013 competition will be held at Mondavi Center beginning in January 2013.

The artists and your fellow audience members appreciate silence during the performance. Please be sure that you have switched off all electronic devices.

Videotaping, photographing and audio recording are strictly forbidden. Violators are subject to removal.

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young artists competition winners concert

Young Artists Competition Winners Concert Contestants who participated in the final round of the Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition included:

ENSEMBLE CATEGORY Echappe String Quartet Elara String Quartet INSTRUMENTAL CATEGORY Junior Division Elena Ariza Phoenix Avalon Ashwin Krishna Alex Zhou Senior Division Yujin Ariza Daniel Baeg Travis Chen Leah Hansen Alina Kobialka PIANO CATEGORY Junior Division Christopher Son Richardson Elliot Wuu Eric-Bohan Yap Senior Division Rachel Breen Jonathan Mamora Brian Zeng VOCAL CATEGORY Anush Avetisyan Kelsey Lauritano

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Presents

Sherman Alexie The Partially True Story of the True Diary of a Part-Time Indian A UC Davis Campus Community Book Project Event Wednesday, April 11, 2012 • 8PM Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, UC Davis

This program is presented in affiliation with Office of Campus Community relations

Individual support provided by Lawrence and Nancy Shepard.

Question & Answer Session Question and Answer Sessions take place in the performance hall after the event.

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Sherman Alexie The Partially True Story of the True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. was born in October 1966. A Spokane/ Coeur d’Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane. Approximately 1,100 Spokane Tribal members live there.

Born hydrocephalic, which means with water on the brain, Alexie underwent a brain operation at the age of six months and was not expected to survive. When he did beat the odds, doctors predicted he would live with severe mental retardation. Though he showed no signs of this, he suffered severe side effects, such as seizures and uncontrollable bed-wetting, throughout his childhood. In spite of all he had to overcome, Alexie learned to read by age three and devoured novels, such as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, by age five. All these things ostracized him from his peers, though, and he was often the brunt of other kids’ jokes on the reservation.

As a teenager, after finding his mother’s name written in a textbook assigned to him at the Wellpinit school, Alexie made a decision to attend high school off the reservation in Reardan, Washington, about 20 miles south of Wellpinit, where he knew he would get a better education. At Reardan High he was the only Indian, except for the school mascot. There he excelled academically and became a star player on the basketball team.

In 1985, Alexie graduated Reardan High and went on to attend Gonzaga University in Spokane on scholarship. After two years at Gonzaga, he transferred to Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman.

Alexie planned to be a doctor and enrolled in pre-med courses at WSU, but after fainting numerous times in human anatomy class, he realized he needed to change his career path. That change was fueled when he stumbled into a poetry workshop at WSU.

Encouraged by poetry teacher Alex Kuo, Alexie excelled at writing and realized he’d found his new path. Shortly after graduating WSU with a B.A. in American Studies, Alexie received the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship in 1991 and the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1992.

Not long after receiving his second fellowship, and just one year after he left WSU, two of his poetry collections, The Business of Fancydancing and I Would Steal Horses, were published. Alexie had a problem with alcohol that began soon after he started college at Gonzaga, but after learning that Hanging Loose Press agreed to publish The Business of Fancydancing, he immediately gave up drinking, at the age of 23, and has been sober ever since.

Alexie continued to write prolifically and his first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1993. For this collection he received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of

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Fiction and was awarded a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. In 2005, Grove Atlantic Press reissued the collection with the addition of two new stories.

Alexie was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists and won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize for his first novel, Reservation Blues, published in 1995 by Atlantic Monthly Press.

His second novel, Indian Killer, published in 1996, also by Atlantic Monthly Press, was named one of People’s Best of Pages and a New York Times Notable Book. This book was published in paperback

by Warner Books in 1998.

In the past, Alexie has done readings and stand-up comedy performances with musician Jim Boyd, a Colville Indian. He and Boyd collaborated to record the album Reservation Blues, which contains the songs from the book of the same name. In 1996, Boyd and Alexie opened for the Indigo Girls at a concert to benefit the Honor the Earth Campaign.

In 1997, Alexie embarked on another artistic collaboration. Chris Eyre, a Cheyenne/Arapaho Indian, discovered Alexie’s writing while doing graduate work at New York University’s film school.

Through a mutual friend, they agreed to collaborate on a film project inspired by Alexie’s work. The basis for the screenplay was “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” a short story from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Shadow Catcher Entertainment produced the film. Released as Smoke Signals at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, the movie won two awards: the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy.

After success at Sundance, Smoke Signals found a distributor, Miramax Films, and was released in New York and Los Angeles on June 26 and across the country on July 3, 1998. In 1999, the film received a Christopher Award, an award presented to the creators of artistic works “which affirm the highest values of the human spirit.” Alexie was also nominated for the Independent Feature Project/West (now known as Film Independent) 1999 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

In the midst of releasing Smoke Signals, Alexie competed in and won his first World Heavyweight Poetry Bout competition in 1998, organized by the World Poetry Bout Association (WPBA) in Taos, New Mexico. He went up against then world champion Jimmy Santiago Baca. Over the next three years he went on to win the title, becoming the first and only poet to hold the title for four consecutive years. The WPBA closed its doors in early 2005.

Known for his exceptional humor and performance ability, Alexie made his stand-up debut at the Foolproof Northwest Comedy Festival in Seattle in 1999 and was the featured performer at the Vancouver International Comedy Festival’s opening night gala. He continues to pursue his work in comedy.

In 1998, he participated with seven others in the PBS Lehrer NewsHour “Dialogue on Race” with President Clinton. The discussion was moderated by Jim Lehrer and aired on PBS. Alexie has also been featured on Politically Incorrect, 60 Minutes II and NOW with Bill Moyers, for which he wrote a special segment on insomnia and his writing process called “Up All Night.”

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In 2003, Alexie participated in the Museum of Tolerance project, “Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves,” an exhibit showcasing the diversity within the personal histories of several noted Americans, and celebrating the shared experiences common to being part of an American family, encouraging visitors to seek out their own histories, mentors and heroes. This project was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, “Our Big American Family with Billy Crystal and Dr. Maya Angelou,” which aired in 2003, and on which Alexie was a guest.

Alexie was the guest editor for the Winter 2000-01 issue of Ploughshares, a prestigious literary journal. He was a 1999 O. Henry Award Prize juror, was one of the judges for the 2000 inaugural PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award and a juror for both the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Shelley Memorial Award and the Poets and Writers “Writers Exchange 2001” Contest. He most recently was a juror for the 2005 Rae Award and has served as a mentor in the PEN Emerging Writers program.

He was a member of the Independent Spirit Awards Nominating Committees (2000–06) and has served as a creative adviser to the Sundance Institute Writers Fellowship Program and the Film Independent Screenwriters Lab.

Alexie was the commencement speaker for the University of Washington’s 2003 commencement ceremony. In 2004 and 2006, he was an Artist in Residence at the university and taught courses in American Ethnic Studies.

His recent honors include receiving the 2007 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature for The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian. Other awards and honors include the 2007 Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award and the 2003 Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award, Washington State University’s highest honor for alumni. His work was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2004 and Pushcart Prize XXIX of the Small Presses. His short story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” was selected by juror Ann Patchett as her favorite story for the The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005. He holds honorary degrees from Seattle University (doctor of humanities, honoris causa 2000) and Columbia College, Chicago (1999).

Alexie’s other books include Flight (2007, Grove/Atlantic) which is a sci-fi novel and a parable of war featuring an edgy teen outcast named Zits on the verge of committing a colossal act of violence and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is Alexie’s first young adult novel. This novel is a coming-of-age, interracial comedy for young adults based on Junior’s first year at an all-white high school.

In 2009, Hanging Loose Press released his first full collection of poems in nine years, Face. He released War Dances, a book of short stories, in 2009, which won the PEN Faulkner Award. He is currently working on a sequel to The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Fire with Fire, and a sequel to True Diary, The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb, about Junior’s sophomore year in high school. He is also at work on a documentary on hydrocephalus, Learning to Drown, which is currently in production.

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bettye lavette by jeff hudson Bettye LaVette comes from that great generation of what you might call “You-take-no-nonsense, girl!” female soul singers from the 1960s that also produced Mavis Staples (who has performed at the Mondavi Center and before that in Freeborn Hall) and Aretha Franklin (who is reportedly averse to airplanes, which impacts her touring range). LaVette, Staples and Franklin were all born within six years of each other, and they grew up in the Midwest (LaVette and Franklin in Detroit, Staples in Chicago), and they each have a distinctive, powerful voice.

My Own Hell to Raise (2005, featuring material by female songwriters ranging from Dolly Parton and Roseanne Cash to Fiona Apple and Sinéad O’Connor) and Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, (on which LaVette gave a soulful African American interpretation of tunes made famous in the 1960s and 1970s by the Who, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues and others.) Lavette sang the Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors, with Pete Townsend (who wrote the song) and Roger Daltry (who originally sang it) in the audience; there’s a lovely clip on YouTube.

But many of the similarities end there. Staples and Franklin began singing in churches—Franklin’s father was the fiery Rev. C.L. Franklin, Staples’s dad was Roebuck “Pops” Staples, who led the Staple Singers (a gospel/blues/R&B group that included his kids), and their family friends included Mahalia Jackson.

LaVette’s bio indicates that she grew up in a home where “the living room was oft-times visited by the Soul Stirrers, the Blind Boys of Mississippi and many other traveling gospel groups of the day.” So she undoubtedly knew gospel tunes, but she got her start singing R&B as well as country/western.

There’s a touch of irony in LaVette gaining fame by doing such British material. As she recently told an interviewer from the Louisville Courier-Journal, “These weren’t the songs of my youth. These were the nemesis of my youth.” LaVette is a black American artist whose career was undercut at intervals by the British Invasion; “I was just trying to fight these guys to get some airplay somewhere, and I’ve told them that, the ones that I’ve met. Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, every one of them,” she told an interviewer.

Her career as a recording artist got started in the early 1960s and includes a single here, an album there, as she moved from label to label, sometimes going for years between recordings.

But you know what folks say: Living long, and living well, can be the best revenge. And I’d wager that Bettye LaVette would have a thing or two to say on that subject, if you asked her.

In 1979–82, she worked in the touring company of the Tonywinning Broadway musical Bubbling Brown Sugar, a show that included pioneers Cab Calloway and “Honi” Coles (who came up in the 1930s and 1940s) in the cast.

LaVette’s career finally clicked in a big way in the new millenium, with albums including A Woman Like Me (2003), I’ve Got

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Bettye LaVette Bettye LaVette, Vocals Alan Hill, Keyboards and Music Director Brett Lucas, Guitar Charles Bartels, Bass Darryl Pierce, Drums Bettye LaVette Betty Jo Haskin was born January 29, 1946, in Muskegon, Michigan. The family moved to Detroit when she was six. Her parents sold corn liquor and her living room was oft-times visited by the Soul Stirrers, the Blind Boys of Mississippi and many other traveling gospel groups of the day. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Bettye did not get her start in the church, but in that very same living room, where there was a juke box, filled with the blues, country & western and R&B records of the time. The “5” Royales, Dinah Washington, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Red Foley ... these were her roots.

By 16, LaVette had become enamored with showbiz. She decided to change her name to something more dramatic. She knew a local groupie by the name of Sherma Lavett, liked the sound of the name, and thus, Bettye LaVette was born. Singer Timmy Shaw brought her to Johnnie Mae Matthews, notorious Motor City record producer. LaVette’s first single was “My Man--He’s a Loving Man,” released in the fall of 1962. The record was quickly picked up by Atlantic for national distribution. The record charted #7 R&B and put her on her first national tour, with Ben E. King, Clyde McPhatter and another newcomer, Otis Redding.

After a brief spell at Detroit’s Lupine label, LaVette went back to New York and became the featured singer in the Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford Review, whose Small’s Paradise shows became the talk of the town. Her association with Don and Dee Dee spawned her next big record, for the Calla label. “Let Me Down Easy,” written by Dee Dee Ford, was an atmospheric masterpiece. LaVette’s pleading voice, set against the moody string arrangement by Dale Warren, produced a record that is on many “greatest soul songs of all time” lists. It went #20 R&B in 1965 and led to an appearance on the television show, Shindig. It also put her on a tour with the James Brown Revue.

Then she went back to Detroit for a one-off single on Big Wheel and a series of singles for Ollie McLaughlin’s Karen label. One of these songs, “Hey Love,” was written expressly for her by Stevie Wonder. In 1969, Kenny Rogers heard her cover of his group’s “What Condition My Condition Was In” and suggested to his brother, producer Lelan Rogers, that he record her. This led to her signing with Silver Fox and a trip to Memphis, where she made a string of records with a then-unknown studio group, who went on to become known as the Dixie Flyers. The recordings were augmented by the Memphis Horns. The first release, “He Made a Woman Out of Me,” went #25 R&B, even though it was banned by some stations due to its risque content. It later was a hit for Bobbie Gentry. In 1970, the follow-up “Do Your Duty” went #38 R&B. She recorded a number of other songs for the label, some of which were issued on 45s. The LP that was to come never did, due to a falling out between label head Shelby Singleton and Lelan Rogers.

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After a few recordings in L.A., they sent her down to Muscle Shoals Sound, where, under the guidance of producer Brad Shapiro and accompanied by the famed MSS studio band, cut what was going to be her first released full-length LP. The Memphis Horns were dubbed on, as well as strings at Criteria Studios in Miami. The recordings were mastered and readied for release under the title Child of the Seventies. A publicity tour was booked, but at the last minute LaVette was called and told, “We have decided not to go forward with the project. Please return the plane tickets.” She was never given an explanation, and the devastation stayed with her for years to come. However, a 45 from the sessions, “Your Turn To Cry,” was released and ranks high on the lists of most deep soul collectors.

In 1978, she cut a disco record, Doin’ The Best That I Can, with 19-year-old producer Cory Robbins, for the West End label (Cory went on to fame as the creator/producer of Run-DMC). LaVette wanted a release from her contract, and they agreed to it if she signed away all of her rights to the song. She did, and weeks later the record became a huge dance-floor hit, selling more than 100,000 copies.

In 1979–82, she appeared in the touring company of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Bubbling Brown Sugar, in the role of Sweet Georgia Brown. She learned to tap dance and worked with Charles “Honi” Coles and Cab Calloway while with the show.

It was here that she learned more about staging than she had ever known.

In 1982, LaVette got a call from Motown. Lee Young, Sr. was president of the label at the time, and he liked her. She was signed and sent to Nashville and recorded the Tell Me A Lie album. Produced

by Steve Buckingham, the studio players were augmented by the Memphis Horns. Two 45s were released, the first of which, the Sam Dees-penned, “Right in the Middle (Of Falling in Love),” went to #35 on the R&B charts. It also allowed for another television appearance, this time on Soul Train. However, a corporate shake-up removed Lee Young, Sr., and the LP itself was never promoted properly.

In 1989, LaVette recorded a CD’s worth of songs for English DJ Ian Levine’s Motor City label. Although most of the instrumentation was synthesized, her vocals were, as always, impeccable. The year 1997 saw a wonderful, but unauthorized, release of LaVette’s version of Etta James’s “Damn Your Eyes,” on cassette only by the Bar/None label.

In 2000, French collector/label owner Gilles Petard, while searching the Atlantic tape vaults, came up with the long-thought-lost tapes to the 1972 Child of the Seventies Atco LP. He licensed the tracks and released them in France on his own Art & Soul label as Souvenirs.

In 2002, thanks to Shanachie Records president Randall Grass, Bettye was introduced to Grammy Award-winning producer Dennis Walker. Walker got her signed to fledgling label Blues Express, and they made her comeback CD, A Woman Like Me. In late 2002, John Goddard, owner of Mill Valley Records, decided to give himself a birthday party. Being a fan of LaVette’s recordings, he contacted her and asked if she would come and perform at his party. He told her that he would make sure that everybody who was anybody in the area would be there. Among the many famous musical guests was Mike Kappus, president of the Rosebud Agency. Although she hadn’t had a record out in years, his belief in the power of her live show prompted him to sign her for bookings.

After signing with Rosebud, A Woman Like Me was finally released in 2003. LaVette won the coveted W.C. Handy Award in 2004 for “Comeback Blues Album of the Year” as well as the Living Blues critics’ pick as “Best Female Blues Artist of 2004.”

After her contract with Blues Express expired, Mike Kappus invited Anti- Records president Andy Kaulkin to see one of her shows. On the strength of her live show, Kaulkin asked Bettye to sign a threerecord contract.

For the first project, Kaulkin paired her with Grammy Awardwinning producer Joe Henry and suggested an entire album of songs written by women. The resulting CD, I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise, was on many critics’ “Best of 2005” lists. Due to an unfortunate error, the CD was never submitted to the Recording Academy for Grammy consideration. In 2006, she received a well-deserved “Pioneer Award” from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

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At the same time, Dutch fan Ben Mattijssen recorded LaVette at a live show in Utrecht, Holland, and released Let Me Down Easy—In Concert, on the Munich label. These two CDs, released almost simultaneously, created a renewed interest in Bettye and showed that she was still in excellent voice.

In 2009, a six-song EP, Change Is Gonna Come Sessions, was released as a download-only available on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Rhapsody, etc. It consisted of songs that were composed by black writers.

In 2010, her third Anti- CD, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, was released to rave reviews. The concept was conceived by her husband, music maven Kevin Kiley, who was inspired by the critical acclaim that she received after her performance of “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. As the title implies, she re-invents songs from the British bands who were initially influenced by American R&B music. LaVette coproduced the record along with Rob Mathes and Michael Stevens, a relationship born at the Kennedy Center Honors and the We Are One events. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Contemporary Blues Album.”

She has appeared on National Public Radio’s World Cafe, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me and performed a Tiny Desk Concert. She has appeared in a Mississippi Public Broadcasting series, Blues Divas, and is in a film of the same name, both produced by award-winning film maker Robert Mugge. She has also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, The Conan O’Brien Show, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Lopez Tonight, Austin City Limits, Prairie Home Companion, The Artist’s Den, Good Morning America, The Today Show and The Tavis Smiley Show.

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Her second Anti- album, The Scene of the Crime, was recorded in Muscle Shoals’s FAME Studios with alt-rockers Drive-By Truckers.

On it, she transforms country and rock songs written by Willie Nelson, Elton John and Don Henley, among others, into devastating mini-dramas. The title of the disc references the now infamous Child of the Seventies LP, which was also recorded in Muscle Shoals. The Scene of the Crime was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Contemporary Blues Album” and landed on numerous “Best of 2007” lists. In 2008, she received a BMA (Blues Music Award) for “Best Contemporary Female Blues Singer.” In December she performed a critically acclaimed version of “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors in a tribute to the Who. In January 2009, she had the honor of performing “A Change Is Gonna Come” with Jon Bon Jovi for President-elect Barack Obama on HBO’s telecast of the kick-off Inaugural celebratory concert, We Are One. In April, she shared the stage with Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Radio City Music Hall for David Lynch’s Change Begins Within benefit concert. A theatrical film release is planned.

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Phil Kline’s Zippo Songs: Poems from the Front with Theo Bleckmann Theo Bleckmann, Vocals Todd Reynolds, Violin Phil Kline, Guitar David Cossin, Percussion

Three Rumsfeld Songs (2003) As We Know That Many Vases Near-Perfect Clarity Zippo Songs (2003) Ours is Not Been to Hell Away from You If I Had a Farm We Came Because My Dead Ass You’ve Never Lived The Funeral of Jan Palach (2001) (Poem by David Shapiro)

Program Notes I’m skeptical about communicating political ideas through art, and I have doubts as to whether a piece about the Vietnam War might change your mind about that conflict. I derive my political views through direct observation of life. Yet art inevitably enters the political process, as it reminds me what it means to be alive. They say all politics is local, and art helps me locate myself.

Zippo Songs originated when I found out about the poems American G.I.s scratched on their lighters in Vietnam. It’s interesting that this hadn’t happened during World War II or the Korean War, since Zippos had long been widely available through Army PX stores; but in the 1960s, personalized poems on the sides of soldiers’ lighters became the norm. These inscriptions contain a world of emotion that spoke purely and directly to me without the baggage tag of political commentary. I saw the poems as a vital little body of literature and began to think of a way to work with them as dramatic material, not propaganda.

Wartime Zippos are highly collectible, so I was able to find them on eBay and through collector catalogs, which read almost like books of poetry. Once I had more than 100 poems I began sorting and culling them, eventually hitting upon the idea of grouping them by themes: drugs, sex, fear, peace, etc. As the themes accrued, they seemed to mark the coordinates of a journey from life to death.

At this point, I realized that I wanted a prelude to the Zippo poems, and I looked to General William Westmoreland, the equivocating director of the Vietnam War. In classical terms I saw him as the underworld god who sent these souls on their dark journey.

But I couldn’t find any quotes I liked. However, right there in the news was Donald Rumsfeld’s ridiculous circumlocution. Different time, same game: I’d found my great prevaricator. Of course this implied a connection to the war in Iraq, which I chose not to avoid. So Zippo Songs begins with a suite of three Rumsfeld songs.

People frequently ask about making art in the post-9/11 world, and I always say the impulse is the same. The pain and anxiety was in the air before that particular Tuesday and was already in the art. But the commitment to get it done, to communicate, is greater now. There is a sense of urgency, of time running out, and the upcoming election only heightens that.

These days, choosing an insecure income source such as music is in itself a revolutionary act. How much more strikingly can an intelligent person opt out of popular value systems? I do what I do because, really and truly, I need to. In advance of any project, I don’t really know what I want to say other than, “Here is the world I see, a world that I find painful and baffling and hilarious and ravishing, that I want to continue to live in and maybe meet you in.” And when I hear voices of authority telling me that I should be fearful and angry, I want to say “screw you” and be confident and joyful. Those are my politics.

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Fauré: Prelude to Pénélope Bauer: Concerto for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra (world premiere) Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) Wolfgang Brendel, baritone Kodály: Dances of Galánta Wolfgang Brendel is an operatic German baritone. In 1997 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany).

His most recent appearances have been as Scarpia, Mandryka, Sachs, Eisenstein, and Holländer. Brendel regularly conducts master classes and courses in the United States (including at the Boston and San Francisco Conservatories of Music) and is professor of voice at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater. He began studies at the Wiesbaden Conservatory of Music at the age of 16.

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In Charles Munch, D. Kern Holoman provides the first full biography of this giant of twentieth-century music, tracing his dramatic survival in occupied Paris, his triumphant arrival at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his later years, when he was a leading cultural figure in the United States, a man known and admired by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. He turned to conducting only in middle age, after two decades as a violinist and concertmaster, a background which gave him special insight into the relationship between conductor and orchestra. At the podium, his bond with his musicians unleashed something in them and in himself. "A certain magic took wing that amounts to the very essence of music in concert," the author writes, as if "public performance loosed the facets of character and artistry and poetry otherwise muffled by his timidity and simple disinclination to say much."

Following the Symphony's performance on May 6, D. Kern Holoman will be available for a special book-signing at which Charles Munch will be made available at 20% off of the listed price. Please reserve your copy by calling Phil Daley at (530) 752-7896 or via pedaley@ucdavis.edu by April 15.

Zippo Songs

Three Rumsfeld Songs

1 Ours is not To do or die Ours is to smoke And stay high

1 As we know, There are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know There are known unknowns.

That is to say We know there are some things We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don’t know We don’t know.

2 It’s the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase and you see it 20 times and you think, my goodness, were there that many vases?

Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?

3 Things will not be necessarily continuous.

The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous Ought not to be characterized as a pause.

There will be some things that people will see.

There will be some things that people won’t see.

And life goes on.

I think what you’ll find, I think what you’ll find is, Whatever it is we do substantively, There will be near-perfect clarity As to what it is.

And it will be known, And it will be known to you.

In life we Often have to Do things that Just are not Our bag Always ripped Or always stoned I made it a year I’m going home No hope without dope

If I had a Farm in hell And a house I Vietnam I would sell Them both Please Don’t tell me About Vietnam Because I have Been there 5 When I’m dead And in my grave No more pussy Will I crave

Yea though I walk Through the valley of The shadow of death I fear no evil for I’m the evilest son of A bitch in the valley

When I die bury Me face down so The whole world Can kiss my ass

Death is my Business And business Has been good

If you got This off My dead ass I hope it brings you The same luck It brought me

Let me win your Heart and mind Or I’ll burn Your hut down 3 Rebecca My beloved wife Away from you I so much hunger For your touch When the Power of love Overcomes the Love of power The world will Know peace Printed on recycled paper. Please recycle this playbill for reuse.

4 If I had a farm In Vietnam and a Home in hell I’d sell my farm And go home

2 Been to hell Lived to tell

If you don’t Know what Hell is like Fuck with Me and you’ll Find out

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Zippo Songs Text

When I die I’ll go to Heaven because I’ve spent my Time in hell When I know I’m dead I’ll fear No war no combat No fighting because The god appears Behind me 6 We came because We believe We leave because We are disillusioned We come back because We are lost We die because We are committed We are the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the unnecessary For the ungrateful

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7 You’ve never Lived Until you’ve Nearly died You only live Twice Once when you’re Born and Once when you’ve Looked death in The face Yesterday is History Tomorrow is A mystery Today is the Golden age Between For those who have To fight for it Life has a flavor The protected will Never know

The Funeral of Jan Palach (Poem by David Shapiro) When I entered the first meditation, I escaped the gravity of the object.

I experienced the emptiness, And I have been dead a long time.

When I had a voice you could call a voice,

My mother wept to me: My son, my beloved son, I never thought this possible, I’ll follow you on foot.

Halfway in mud and slush the microphones picked up.

It was raining on the houses; It was snowing on the police cars.

The astronauts were weeping, Going neither up nor out.

And my own mother was brave enough she looked And it was all right I was dead.

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Theo Bleckmann (vocals) has released a series of gorgeous and irreverent albums on Winter & Winter, including recordings of Las Vegas standards, Berlin Kabarett and popular “bar songs” (all with pianist Fumio Yasuda), a recording of newly arranged songs

by Charles Ives (with the improvisational jazz/funk collective Kneebody), his acoustic Solos for Voice I dwell in possibility and his latest project: Hello Earth—the Music of Kate Bush.

He maintains an ongoing creative relationship with guitar phenomenon Ben Monder; with John Hollenbeck and Gary Versace, he makes up Refuge Trio; and with singers Peter Eldridge, Kate McGarry, Lauren Kinhan and Luciana Souza, he forms Moss, a vocal all-star collective. Bleckmann has additionally collaborated with musicians and composers including Laurie Anderson, Uri Caine, Philip Glass, Sheila Jordan, Phil Kline, Michale Lang, Kirk Nurock, Michael Tilson Thomas, Julia Wolfe, Kenny Wheeler, John Zorn, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and, most prominently, Meredith Monk, with whom Bleckmann worked as a core ensemble member for 15 years.

Bleckmann’s joyous, mischievous sensibility is also manifest in his compositional work, settings of Rumi, Emily Dickenson and Kurt Schwitters and building ineffable soundscapes with just his voice and loop pedals, including a recent string quartet for JACK String Quartet, commissioned by the Slought Foundation.

Bleckmann’s approach to music and performance have led to recognition in unusual quarters, including a Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross and an article on vocal technique solicited for John Zorn’s Arcana series, Volume III. Bleckmann’s adventurous and extravagantly beautiful choices have led his work to be described as “from another planet” (The New York Times), “magical, futuristic” (AllAboutJazz), “limitless” (Citypaper, Philadelphia), “transcendent” (Village Voice) and “brilliant” (New York Magazine), and left one critic wondering, “Does he eat people food?” (AllAboutJazz). He has a gift for creating sounds listeners have never heard before but pine to hear again.

In 2010, Bleckmann received the prestigious JAZZ ECHO award from the Deutsche Phono-Akademie in his native Germany and also appeared on Late Night with David Letterman with Laurie Anderson.

Todd Reynolds (violin), violinist, composer, educator and technologist is known as one of the founding fathers of the hybridmusician movement and one of the most active and versatile proponents of what he calls “present music.” The violinist of choice for Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Bang on a Can and a founder of the string quartet known as ETHEL, his compositional and performance style is a hybrid of old and new technology, multidisciplinary aesthetic and pan-genre composition and improvisation. Reynolds’s music has been called “a charming, multi-mood extravaganza, playful like Milhaud, but hard-edged like Hendrix” (Strings Magazine), and his countless premieres and performances of everything from classical music to jazz to rock and roll seem to redefine the concert hall and underground club as undeniably and unavoidably intertwined. He has just released his double-CD set, Outerborough, on Innova Recordings, featuring InSide, a collection of his own music, paired with OutSide, music written by a veritable who’s who of contemporary composers.

Reynolds is a founder of the band known as ETHEL, a critically acclaimed amplified string quartet, with which he wrote and toured internationally for seven years. He has also produced Still Life With Microphone, an ongoing theater piece which incorporates his own written and improvised music, compositions written for him and elements of video and theatrical arts. Nuove Uova [new eggs], new works for violin and electricity, another Todd Reynolds production, is a new-music cabaret of sorts, having as its home Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. The Todd Reynolds String Quartet and Typical Music, an avant piano trio featuring Ashley Bathgate and Vicky Chow from the Bang on a Can All-Stars, continue to commission, perform and record music from contemporary music’s brightest stars.

Phil Kline (guitar) makes music in many genres and contexts, from experimental electronics and sound installations to songs, choral, theater, chamber and orchestral music.

Raised in Akron, Ohio, he came to New York to study English literature and music at Columbia. After graduation, he joined the downtown New York arts scene, founding the rock band the DelByzanteens with Jim Jarmusch and James Nares, collaborating with Nan Goldin on the soundtrack to The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and playing guitar in the notorious Glenn Branca Ensemble.

His early compositions grew out of his solo performance art and often used boombox tape players as a medium, most notably in the Christmas piece Unsilent Night, which debuted in the streets of Greenwich Village in 1992 and is now performed annually in dozens of cities around the world.

Other notable compositions include The Blue Room and Other Stories, written for string quartet ETHEL, and Exquisite Corpses, commissioned by the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

More recent works include the choral Mass John the Revelator written for vocal group Lionheart; a piano sonata, The Long Winter, written for Sarah Cahill; and scores for three evening-length dance pieces by Wally Cardona: Everywhere, Site and Really Real.

The sound installation World on a String opened the season at the Krannert Center in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 2007, and SPACE for string quartet and electronics was performed by ETHEL at the gala reopening of Alice Tully Hall in 2009.

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A forerunner in the expansion of the violin beyond its classical and “wood-bound” tradition, Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaves together composed and improvised segments and makes use of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk musics into his own sonic blend. As a cross-genre improviser and collaborator, he has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Coleman, Joe Jackson, Dave Liebman, Yo-Yo Ma, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts and Todd Rundgren and has commissioned and premiered countless numbers of new works by America’s most compelling composers, including John King, Phil Kline, Michael Gordon, Neil Rolnick, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Evan Ziporyn and Randall Wolff. His interdisciplinary work includes ongoing collaborations with SoundPainter Walter Thompson as well as media artists Bill Morrison and Luke DuBois and sound artist Jody Elff.

The year 2011 saw the premieres of A Dream and its Opposite, written for the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, Canzona a due Cuori, commissioned by the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and a book of organ pieces commissioned for the gigantic Kotschmar Organ of Portland, Maine. The recently completed Partita for Solo Violin will be premiered by Jennifer Koh in 2013. Kline is currently working on an opera, Tesla in New York, in collaboration with writer-director Jim Jarmusch, as well as a song cycle for Theo Bleckmann, Out Cold, to be presented at the BAM Next Wave Festival. He has also been commissioned to write a new work celebrating the 100th birthday of John Cage for the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival. His music is available on the Cantaloupe, CRI and Starkland labels.

Recordings: John The Revelator (2009) Cantaloupe; Around the World in a Daze (2009) Surround DVD, Starkland; Zippo Songs (2004) Cantaloupe; Unsilent Night (2001) Cantaloupe; and Glow in the Dark (1998) CRI. Awards: Meet the Composer Commissioning USA (2000, 2003, 2006, 2010); Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund (2010); Rockefeller NY State Music Fund (2007); Aaron Copland Fund (2005); NYSCA (2002, 2005, 2008); Mary Flagler Cary Trust (1999, 2002) and Jerome Foundation (2000).

David Cossin (percussion) is a specialist in new and experimental music. He has worked across a broad spectrum of musical and artistic forms to incorporate new media with percussion.

Cossin has recorded and performed internationally with composers and ensembles including the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich and Musicians, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Meredith Monk, Tan Dun, Cecil Taylor, Talujon Percussion Quartet and the trio Real Quiet. Numerous theater projects include collaborations with Blue Man Group, Mabou Mines and director Peter Sellars. David was featured as the percussion soloist in Tan Dun’s Grammy- and Oscar-winning score to Ang Lee’s film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Most recently, David joined Sting for his world tour, Symphonicities Cossin has performed as a soloist with orchestras throughout the world including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra Radio France, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Sao Paulo State Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Hong Kong Symphony and the Singapore Symphony.

Cossin ventures into other art forms include sonic installations, which have been presented in New York, Italy and Germany. He is also a composer and has invented several new instruments that expand the limits of traditional percussion. Cossin is the curator for the Sound Res Festival, an experimental music festival in southern Italy, and also teaches percussion at Queens College in New York City.

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Anoushka shankar by jeff hudson Back in January, I caught a performance in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre by Caminos Flamencos—fiery music for guitar, percussion, singers and dancers, part of the UC Davis Music Department’s Guitar Festival.

Perhaps you caught the January 19 performance of Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca, presenting some of the same kind of music and dance in Jackson Hall.

I mention these in the context of Anoushka Shankar because her most recent album (Traveller, 2011) and her performance this evening both focus on a very interesting fusion of flamenco and sitar, in which she explores the links between Indian music and Spanish flamenco, the result of ancient Gypsy migration, which is thought to have originated in India and eventually reached Spain, by way of other lands. The music changed along the way, but there are still some striking common features shared by the classical Indian and flamenco traditions, which makes this fusion project rather inventive—it feels like a pretty “natural fit,” even though the combination is novel.

Anoushka Shankar’s discography includes early albums featuring traditional Indian ragas (her debut Anoushka in 1998; Anourag in 2000); as well as concert albums (Live at Carnegie Hall, 2001; Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000; Live in Concert at the Nehru Park, New Delhi, 2005).

She’s also got a penchant for pop crossover recordings. Her album Rise (2005) draws on jazz and other world music sources. Breathing Underwater (2007) works in a bit of electronica and dance music

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and includes collaborations with Sting, Norah Jones, guitarist Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and others.

You could say she’s a chip off the old block. Her famous father Ravi Shankar started spreading Indian music through work with international artists decades ago. Ravi Shankar and violinist Yehudi Menuhin met back in 1952 when Menuhin was visiting India, and their friendship led to the landmark album West Meets East in 1966—I’ve still got a scratchy LP vinyl disc in my living room.

Projects involving Ravi Shankar and western pop and jazz musicians followed, the most famous being the long association with George Harrison. In 1996, Harrison helped put together Ravi: In Celebration, a handsome four-disc survey (with photos and text) that offers an excellent overview of Ravi Shankar’s career. Following Harrison’s passing in 2001, Ravi Shankar helped organize the “Concert for George,” a tribute at which he and Anoushka Shankar played, which provided material for an album and a film (both available as downloads).

Anoushka Shankar and her father performed in Jackson Hall in 2009. He’s now 91, and doesn’t do a lot of touring. Anoushka is barely 30, lives in London and appears all over the world—who knows what sounds may catch her ears along the way, and work their way into her albums in the future?

Jeff Hudson contributes coverage of the performing arts to Capital Public Radio, the Davis Enterprise and Sacramento News and Review.

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Anoushka Shankar Traveller: A Raga-Flamenco Journey A Mondavi Center Crossings Series Event Tuesday, April 17, 2012 • 8PM Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, UC Davis

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Anoushka Shankar Traveller: A Raga-Flamenco Journey Anoushka Shankar, Sitar Sandra Carrasco, Vocals Sanjeev Shankar, Shehnai Pirashanna Thevarajah, Mridangam, Ghatam, Kanjira and Moorsing Melón Jimenez, Flamenco Guitar Bernhard Schimpelsberger, Cajon & Spanish Percussion Dennis Fernandez, Front of House Sound Engineer Julian Hepple, Monitor Engineer

Traveller

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o one embodies the spirit of innovation and experimentation more evidently than Anoushka Shankar. With her deep-seated understanding of Indian classical form and the rich heritage of her father’s innovative genius, Anoushka is constantly pushing boundaries on every level. In Traveller she finds her way into the nuances of modern flamenco through the vivid lens of Hindustani technique. In essence, Traveller charts the spiritual link across time and space of two highly evolved forms of musical expression, from their ancient gestation to their modern zenith.

This is an album of innovation and rebirth—a perfect culmination of old and new.

Flamenco has its roots in India. Many of the great modern exponents of this fiery tradition are keen to emphasize and rediscover that connection. Dancers from Joaquín Cortés to Sandra La Espuelita have, at the beginning of their shows, stated that cultural origin very clearly. Guitar masters Pepe Habichuela and Paco de Lucía, the latter notably in his work with John McLaughlin, have brought strong references to that cultural history into their compositions. The modern, popular Spanish band Ojos de Brujo and the lesser known Indialucía ebulliently elebrate flamenco’s Eastern heritage.

Little is known about the real history of that connection. It is largely supposed that flamenco has its roots in the exodus of “Untouchables” from the Punjab around 800–900 AD. These people became the Gypsies/Romanies of lore, traversing Asia and the Middle East, eventually settling in Europe. Today Rajasthani Gypsies can be seen using ancient castanets to embellish their songs about nomadic existence and spiritual devotion. It is through these songs that the origin of flamenco can be clearly identified. A defining element of flamenco music is undeniably the singing, cante. In fact, flamenco initially consisted purely of cante, with handclapping—palmas sordas—or knuckle rapping providing percussive accompaniment.

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Anoushka Shankar, a sitar player and composer, is one of the leading figures in world music today.

She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, from the age of nine.

Thriving as a composer, she has been exploring fertile ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of genres including flamenco, electronica, jazz and Western classical music. Among her various accolades she has been twice-nominated for a Grammy Award and is the youngest and first female recipient of a House of Commons Shield from the British House of Parliament, in 1999. Shankar began performing at the age of 13, and by the age of 15, she had already performed at the iconic Carnegie Hall. Before turning 20, she made three classical Indian sitar records for Angel/EMI under the guidance of her father and established herself as one of the foremost classical sitarists on the world’s stage.

In 2011, Shankar signed to the prestigious classical music label Deutsche Grammophon Records and released her sixth album, Traveller, to critical aclaim. Traveller is an exciting exploration of two musical traditions: Spanish flamenco and Indian classical music. This is the third in a series of explorative albums from Shankar following the hugely-successful, self-produced Rise (2005) and Breathing Under Water (2007), a unique collaborative venture between Shankar and multi-instrumentalist and composer Karsh Kale.

Over the years Shankar has maintained active, creative careers outside of music: in 2002, she authored the book Bapi: The Love of My Life, a biographical portrait of her father, and has served as columnist for prestigious publications like New Delhi’s First City magazine and the Hindustan Times. She earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination from India’s National Film Awards for her role in Dance Like a Man in 2004.

Today, from her home in London, where she lives with her husband and son, Shankar’s career reflects her aim to constantly stretch herself creatively. As award winning musician Nitin Sawhney wrote in the sleeve-notes of Traveller, “no one embodies the spirit of innovation and experimentation more evidently than Anoushka Shankar.”

Carrasco has collaborated in many projects, both in the studio and on stage. She is now presenting her own live shows, as well as singing on Anoushka Shankar’s current Traveller tour and also as part of the big musical Flamenco Hoy.

Sanjeev Shankar (shehnai) was born into a family of “Banaras Gharana” musicians who have played this style of music, which incorporates shehnai and flute, for the last 450 years. He developed a strong affinity towards music at the age of seven and studied with his father Pt. Daya Shankar, himself an internationally acclaimed shehnai player, and his grandfather, the legendary Pt. Anant Lal. After formal training in raga, taal and laya, he was awarded a scholarship by the government of India, Department of Culture for his studies. He has toured the U.S. with Ravi Shankar and performed at music festivals in India, Japan and much of Europe. Shankar has been featured on many artists’ recordings, such as tabla master Pt. Tanmoy Bose and famous gypsy guitarist Titi Robin. He can be heard on Anoushka Shankar’s Traveller album and is currently on tour with her. At present, Shankar is studying under the guidance of sitar master Pt. Ravi Shankar and pursuing a doctoral degree.

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Sandra Carrasco (vocals) is a young Andalusian flamenco singer. Her career started when she was very young, as backing vocalist for flamenco stars such as Manolo Sanlúcar, “El Pele” and Arcángel. Her first big project in Madrid was the musical Enamorados Anónimos, which ran for four years and brought her in contact with Spain’s top flamenco producer Javier Limón (Paco de Lucía, Morente, Buika), who invited her to sing on Mujeres de Agua, a record that featured Estrella Morente and Mariza among many others. Carrasco’s debut album, also produced

by Limón, was released in 2011.

Melón Jimenez (flamenco guitar) was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany, in 1986. His German mother is a classical pianist and his father, a Spanish flamenco guitarist. At age one, the family relocated to Jerez de la Frontera, southern Spain, where Jimenez was raised in a musical environment. He has played on stage with Ketama, Pitingo and Marcos Vidal, among others and is currently the guitarist for Sandra Carrasco and Niña Pastori.

Bernhard Schimpelsberger (cajon and Spanish percussion), aka TAALIS, was born and raised in Austria; he started playing the drums at the age of 10. While still in his late teens he discovered his love for Indian rhythm and pursued his passion of bringing them in tune with his Western roots through years of dedicated research.

Holding a master’s degree in Western music, Schimpelsberger has also studied Indian rhythm with his guru, tabla master Pandit Suresh Talwalkar and percussion legend Trilok Gurtu in India. Schimpelsberger plays a customized drum kit that enables him to constantly push the boundaries between tradition and progress. He has recorded and toured with Nitin Sawhney, Talvin Singh, Susheela Raman and Akram Khan. He has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in the world, including New York’s Lincoln Center, Cite de la Musique in Paris and London’s Royal Festival Hall.

Pirashanna Thevarajah (mridangam, ghatam, kanjira and moorsing) started learning the mridangam at the age of nine under Sri M. Balachandar at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. Though Thevarajah had already started performing within a couple of years, he had his arangetram (first full concert) in 1999 at the age of 13 in Chennai, India, which was witnessed by distinguished musicians such as Dr. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna and many others.

Thevarajah is a versatile percussionist who has great command over various instruments, especially the mridangam, kanjira, ghatam and morsing. He is also proficient in the art of konnakol (performing percussion syllables vocally).

Thevarajah has performed with many classical and contemporary musicians and dancers including Pt. Ravi Shankar, Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Mandolin U. Shrinivas, Anoushka Shankar and Talvin Singh, to name a few. He has performed across the world in many prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall (London), Carnergie Hall (New York), Disney Hall (Los Angeles) and festivals like WOMAD and Glastonbury.

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The Bad Plus A Capital Public Radio Studio Jazz Event Wednesday–Saturday, April 18–21, 2012 • 8PM Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center, UC Davis

Sponsored by Capital Public Radio

The artists and your fellow audience members appreciate silence during the performance. Please be sure that you have switched off all electronic devices.

Videotaping, photographing and audio recording are strictly forbidden. Violators are subject to removal.

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Reid Anderson, Bass Ethan Iverson, Piano David King, Drums For the past 10 years the Bad Plus—Reid Anderson, Ethan Iverson and David King—have broken down the walls of jazz convention and created an uncompromising body of work. Few jazz groups in recent memory have amassed such acclaim and few have inspired such controversy. Their belief in the band ethos and their personal brand of avant-garde populism has put them at the forefront of a new instrumental music movement, drawing audiences both traditional and mainstream. While the bulk of their output has been original music, they have deconstructed songs in pop and rock as well as the country and classical music idioms.

The current release Never Stop is the first album by the Bad Plus to consist entirely of originals. Recorded in Minnesota with a live, stripped-down sound, Never Stop showcases the band’s range as well as its three distinct personalities. From gentle and melodic to fierce and abstract, from swing to 1980s techno, Never Stop is tied together by a group sound that embraces diversity as strength. Ten years in, the Bad Plus is here to stay.

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The threesome has been exchanging musical ideas since their teenage years. In the late 1980s, Anderson and King were Minnesota high schoolers playing in fledgling rock bands and digging records by Coltrane and the Police. Anderson met Iverson in 1989. All three played together on one occasion a year later before going their separate ways for 10 years.

They reconvened for a gig in Minneapolis in 2000. Sparks flew, studio sessions for an indie release ensued and suddenly the New York Times called their maiden voyage one of the best releases of 2001. The band signed with Columbia, where they released These Are the Vistas in 2003, followed quickly by Give and then Suspicious Activity? In 2007, they released Prog, an album which balanced originals with spellbinding covers of Bowie, Bacharach, Tears for Fears and Rush. For All I Care, with its intriguing juxtaposition of rock and classical sensibilities, followed in 2009.

Ten years ago, not one of these musicians could have predicted where the Bad Plus was going, how long it would last or what it might become along the way. What they were sure of, though, was a fierce sense of commitment that has blossomed into artistic success.

“We’ve always believed in our ideas,” says Anderson. “We’ve always believed in making music that sounds like us, and we always thought there would be an audience for it.”

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MondaviCenter InnerCircle Inner Circle Donors are dedicated arts patrons whose leadership gifts to the Mondavi Center are a testament to the value of the performing arts in our lives.

Mondavi Center is deeply grateful for the generous contributions of the dedicated patrons who give annual financial support to our organization.

These donations are an important source of revenue for our program, as income from ticket sales covers less than half of the actual cost of our performance season.

Their gifts to the Mondavi Center strengthen and sustain our efforts, enabling us not only to bring memorable performances by worldclass artists to audiences in the capital region each year, but also to introduce new generations to the experience of live performance through our Arts Education Program, which provides arts education and enrichment activities to more than 35,000 K-12 students annually.

For more information on supporting the Mondavi Center, visit MondaviArts.org or call 530.754.5438.

† Mondavi Center Advisory Board Member * Friends of Mondavi Center

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Impresario Circle $25,000 and up

John and Lois Crowe †* Barbara K. Jackson †* Friends of Mondavi Center And one donor who prefers to remain anonymous virtuoso Circle $15,000 – $24,999

Joyce and Ken Adamson Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Anne Gray †* Mary B. Horton* Grant and Grace Noda* William and Nancy Roe †* Lawrence and Nancy Shepard † Tony and Joan Stone † Joe and Betty Tupin †* Maestro Circle $10,000 – $14,999

Wayne and Jacque Bartholomew †* Ralph and Clairelee Leiser Bulkley* Oren and Eunice Adair-Christensen* Dolly and David Fiddyment † M. A. Morris* Shipley and Dick Walters* Benefactors Circle $6,000 – $9,999 California Statewide Certified Development Corporation Camille Chan † Cecilia Delury and Vince Jacobs † Patti Donlon † First Northern Bank † Samia and Scott Foster Benjamin and Lynette Hart †* Dee and Joe Hartzog † Margaret Hoyt* Bill Koenig and Jane O’Green Koenig Garry Maisel † Stephen Meyer and Mary Lou Flint† Randall E. Reynoso and Martin Camsey Grace and John Rosenquist* Chris and Melodie Rufer Raymond and Jeanette Seamans Ellen Sherman Larry and Rosalie Vanderhoef †*

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Producers Circle $3,000 – $5,999

Neil and Carla Andrews Hans Apel and Pamela Burton Cordelia Stephens Birrell Kay and Joyce Blacker* Neil and Joanne Bodine Mr. Barry and Valerie Boone Brian Tarkington and Katrina Boratynski Michael and Betty Chapman Robert and Wendy Chason Chris and Sandy Chong* Michele Clark and Paul Simmons Tony and Ellie Cobarrubia* Claudia Coleman Eric and Michael Conn Nancy DuBois* Stephen Duscha and Wanda Lee Graves Merrilee and Simon Engel Catherine and Charles Farman Domenic and Joan Favero Donald and Sylvia Fillman Andrew and Judith Gabor Kay Gist Fredric Gorin and Pamela Dolkart Gorin Ed and Bonnie Green* Robert Grey Diane Gunsul-Hicks Charles and Ann Halsted Judith and Bill Hardardt* The One and Only Watson Lorena Herrig* Charley and Eva Hess Suzanne and Chris Horsley* Sarah and Dan Hrdy Dr. Ronald and Lesley Hsu Debra Johnson, MD and Mario Gutierrez Teresa and Jerry Kaneko* Dean and Karen Karnopp* Nancy Lawrence, Gordon Klein, and Linda Lawrence Greiner Heat, Air, and Solar Brian and Dorothy Landsberg Drs. Richard Latchaw and Sheri Alders Ginger and Jeffrey Leacox Claudia and Allan Leavitt Robert and Barbara Leidigh Yvonne LeMaitre John T. Lescroart and Lisa Sawyer Nelson Lewallyn and Marion Pace-Lewallyn Dr. Ashley and Shiela Lipshutz Paul and Diane Makley* In memory of Jerry Marr Janet Mayhew* Robert and Helga Medearis Verne Mendel* Derry Ann Moritz Jeff and Mary Nicholson Philip and Miep Palmer Gavin Payne Suzanne and Brad Poling 42

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Lois and Dr. Barry Ramer David Rocke and Janine Mozée Roger and Ann Romani* Hal and Carol Sconyers* Tom and Meg Stallard* Karen and Jim Steidler Tom and Judy Stevenson Donine Hedrick and David Studer Jerome Suran and Helen Singer Suran* Rosemary and George Tchobanoglous Della Aichwalder Thompson Nathan and Johanna Trueblood Ken Verosub and Irina Delusina Jeanne Hanna Vogel Claudette Von Rusten John Walker and Marie Lopez Cantor & Company, A Law Corporation* Bob and Joyce Wisner* Richard and Judy Wydick And six donors who prefer to remain anonymous Directors Circle $1,100 – $2,999 John and Kathleen Agnew Dorrit Ahbel Beulah and Ezra Amsterdam Russell and Elizabeth Austin Murry and Laura Baria* Lydia Baskin* Connie Batterson Jo Anne Boorkman* Clyde and Ruth Bowman Edwin Bradley Linda Brandenburger Robert Burgerman and Linda Ramatowski Davis and Jan Campbell David J. Converse, ESQ. Gail and John Cooluris Jim and Kathy Coulter* John and Celeste Cron* Terry and Jay Davison Bruce and Marilyn Dewey Martha Dickman* Dotty Dixon* Richard and Joy Dorf* Thomas and Phyllis Farver* Tom Forrester and Shelly Faura Sandra and Steven Felderstein Nancy McRae Fisher Carole Franti* Paul J. and Dolores L. Fry Charitable Fund Karl Gerdes and Pamela Rohrich Henry and Dorothy Gietzen Craig A. Gladen John and Patty Goss* Jack and Florence Grosskettler* Virginia Hass Tim and Karen Hefler Sharna and Myron Hoffman Claudia Hulbe Ruth W. Jackson

Clarence and Barbara Kado Barbara Katz* Hansen Kwok Thomas Lange and Spencer Lockson Mary Jane Large and Marc Levinson Edward and Sally Larkin* Hyunok Lee and Daniel Sumner Linda and Peter Lindert Angelique Louie Natalie and Malcolm MacKenzie* Stephen Madeiros Douglas Mahone and Lisa Heschong Dennis H. Mangers and Michael Sestak Susan Mann Judith and Mark Mannis Maria Manoliu Marilyn Mansfield John and Polly Marion Yvonne L. Marsh Robert Ono and Betty Masuoka Shirley Maus* Ken McKinstry Joy Mench and Clive Watson Fred and Linda J. Meyers* John Meyer and Karen Moore Eldridge and Judith Moores Barbara Moriel Mary-Alice and Augustus B. Morr Patricia and Surl Nielsen Linda Orrante and James Nordin Alice Oi, In memory of Richard Oi Jerry L. Plummer Prewoznik Foundation Linda and Lawrence Raber* Larry and Celia Rabinowitz Kay Resler* Prof. Christopher Reynolds and Prof. Alessa Johns Thomas Roehr Don Roth and Jolán Friedhoff Liisa A. Russell Beverly “Babs” Sandeen and Marty Swingle Ed and Karen Schelegle The Schenker Family Neil and Carrie Schore Bonnie and Jeff Smith Wilson and Kathryn Smith Ronald and Rosie Soohoo* Richard L. Sprague and Stephen C. Ott Peter Stamos Maril Revette Stratton and Patrick Stratton Brandt Schraner and Jennifer Thornton Verbeck and friends Louise and Larry Walker Scott Weintraub Dale L. and Jane C. Wierman Mary Wood, Ph.D. Paul Wyman Yin Yeh Howard and Diane Zumsteg And five donors who prefer to remain anonymous

Mondavi Center Donors

Encore Circle $600 – $1,099

Gregg T. Atkins and Ardith Allread Drs. Noa and David Bell Marion Bray Don and Dolores Chakerian Gale and Jack Chapman William and Susan Chen Robert and Nancy Nesbit Crummey John and Cathie Duniway Shari and Wayne Eckert Doris and Earl Flint Murray and Audrey Fowler Gatmon-Sandrock Family Jeffery and Marsha Gibeling Paul N. and E. F. “Pat” Goldstene David and Mae Gundlach Robin Hansen and Gordon Ulrey Cynthia Hearden* Lenonard and Marilyn Herrmann Katherine Hess Barbara and Robert Jones Paula Kubo Frances and Arthur Lawyer* Gary and Jane Matteson Don and Sue Murchison Robert Murphy Richard and Kathleen Nelson Frank Pajerski John Pascoe and Susan Stover Jerry and Ann Powell* J. and K. Redenbaugh John and Judy Reitan Jeep and Heather Roemer Jeannie and Bill Spangler Sherman and Hannah Stein Les and Mary Stephens Dewall Judith and Richard Stern Eric and Patricia Stromberg* Lyn Taylor and Mont Hubbard Cap and Helen Thomson Roseanna Torretto* Henry and Lynda Trowbridge* Donald Walk, M.D. Geoffrey and Gretel Wandesford-Smith Steven and Andrea Weiss* Denise and Alan Williams Kandi Williams and Dr. Frank Jahnke Karl and Lynn Zender And three donors who prefer to remain anonymous

Orchestra Circle

$300 – $599 Michelle Adams Mitzi Aguirre Susan Ahlquist Paul and Nancy Aikin Jessica Friedman Drs. Ralph and Teresa Aldredge Thomas and Patricia Allen Fred Arth and Pat Schneider Al and Pat Arthur Shirley and Michael Auman* Robert and Joan Ball Beverly and Clay Ballard In memory of Ronald Baskin Delee and Jerry Beavers Robert Hollingsworth and Carol Beckham Carol L. Benedetti Donald and Kathryn Bers* Bob and Diane Biggs Al J. Patrick, Bankruptcy Law Center Elizabeth Bradford Paul Braun Rosa Maquez and Richard Breedon Joan Brenchley and Kevin Jackson Irving and Karen Broido* In memory of Rose Marie Wheeler John and Christine Bruhn Manuel Calderon De La Barca Sanchez Jackie Caplan Michael and Louise Caplan Anne and Gary Carlson Koling Chang and Su-Ju Lin Jan Conroy, Gayle Dax-Conroy, Edward Telfeyan, Jeri Paik-Telfeyan Charles and Mary Anne Cooper James and Patricia Cothern Cathy and Jon Coupal* David and Judy Covin Larry Dashiell and Peggy Siddons Thomas B. and Eina C. Dutton Micki Eagle Janet Feil David and Kerstin Feldman Sevgi and Edwin Friedrich* Dr. Deborah and Brook Gale Marvin and Joyce Goldman Stephen and Deirdre Greenholz Judy Guiraud Sandeep Kumar Guliani Darrow and Gwen Haagensen Sharon and Don Hallberg Alexander and Kelly Harcourt David and Donna Harris Roy and Miriam Hatamiya Stephen and Joanne Hatchett Paula Higashi Brit Holtz Herb and Jan Hoover Frederick and B.J. Hoyt Pat and Jim Hutchinson* Mary Jenkin Don and Diane Johnston Weldon and Colleen Jordan Mary Ann and Victor Jung Nancy Gelbard and David Kalb Douglas Neuhauser and Louise Kellogg Charles Kelso and Mary Reed Ruth Ann Kinsella* Joseph Kiskis Judy and Kent Kjelstrom Peter Klavins and Susan Kauzlarich Charlene Kunitz Allan and Norma Lammers Darnell Lawrence and Dolores Daugherty Richard Lawrence Ruth Lawrence Carol and Robert Ledbetter Stanley and Donna Levin Barbara Levine Ernest and Mary Ann Lewis* Michael and Sheila Lewis* David and Ruth Lindgren

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Jeffrey and Helen Ma Pat Martin* Yvonne Clinton Mazalewski and Robert Mazalewski Sean and Sabine McCarthy Catherine McGuire Michael Gerrit Nancy Michel Hedlin Family Robert and Susan Munn* Anna Rita and Bill Neuman John and Carol Oster Sally Ozonoff and Tom Richey John and Sue Palmer John and Barbara Parker Brenda Davis and Ed Phillips Bonnie A. Plummer* Deborah Nichols Poulos and Prof. John W. Poulos Harriet Prato John and Alice Provost J. David Ramsey Rosemary Reynolds Guy and Eva Richards Ronald and Sara Ringen Tracy Rodgers and Richard Budenz Sharon and Elliott Rose* Barbara and Alan Roth Marie Rundle Bob and Tamra Ruxin Tom and Joan Sallee Mark and Ita Sanders Eileen and Howard Sarasohn Mervyn Schnaidt Maralyn Molock Scott Ruth and Robert Shumway Michael and Elizabeth Singer Al and Sandy Sokolow Edward and Sharon Speegle Curtis and Judy Spencer Tim and Julie Stephens Pieter Stroeve, Diane Barrett and Jodie Stroeve Kristia Suutala Yayoi Takamura Tony and Beth Tanke Butch and Virginia Thresh Dennis and Judy Tsuboi Ann-Catrin Van Ph.D. Robert Vassar Don and Merna Villarejo Rita Waterman Norma and Richard Watson Regina White Wesley and Janet Yates Jane Y. Yeun and Randall E. Lee Ronald M. Yoshiyama Hanni and George Zweifel And six donors who prefer to remain anonymous

Mainstage Circle $100 – $299

Leal Abbott Thomas and Betty Adams Mary Aften Jill Aguiar Suzanne and David Allen David and Penny Anderson Elinor Anklin and George Harsch Janice and Alex Ardans Debbie Arrington Shota Atsumi Jerry and Barbara August George and Irma Baldwin Charlotte Ballard and Bob Zeff Diane and Charlie Bamforth* Elizabeth Banks Michele Barefoot and Luis Perez-Grau Carole Barnes Gail Kristine Baum Paul and Linda Baumann Lynn Baysinger*

Claire and Marion Becker Sheri Belafsky Merry Benard Robert and Susan Benedetti William and Marie Benisek Robert C. and Jane D. Bennett Marta Beres Elizabeth Berteaux Bevowitz Family Boyd and Lucille Bevington Ernst and Hannah Biberstein Katy Bill Andrea Bjorklund and Sean Duggan Lewis J. and Caroline S. Bledsoe Fred and Mary Bliss Bobbie Bolden William Bossart Mary and Jill Bowers Alf and Kristin Brandt Robert and Maxine Braude Daniel and Millie Braunstein* Pat and Bob Breckenfeld Margaret Brockhouse Francis M. Brookey Linda Clevenger and Seth Brunner Mike and Marian Burnham Margaret Burns and Roy W. Bellhorn Victor W. Burns Catherine Buscaglia* William and Karolee Bush Gary Campbell and Sharon Lewis Lita Campbell* Robert and Lynn Campbell Robert Canary John and Nancy Capitanio James and Patty Carey Michael and Susan Carl John and Inge Carrol Bruce and Mary Alice Carswell* Jan and Barbara Carter* Dorothy Chikasawa* Frank Chisholm Richard and Arden Christian Michael and Paula Chulada Betty M. Clark Gail Clark L. Edward and Jacqueline Clemens James Cline Wayne Colburn Sheri and Ron Cole Steve and Janet Collins In honor of Marybeth Cook Nicholas and Khin Cornes Victor Cozzalio and Lisa Heilman-Cozzalio Lorraine Crozier Bill and Myra Cusick Elizabeth Dahlstrom-Bushnell* John and Joanne Daniels Nita Davidson Johanna Davies Voncile Dean Mrs. Leigh Dibb Ed and Debby Dillon Joel and Linda Dobris Gwendolyn Doebbert and Richard Epstein Val Docini and Solveig Monson Val and Marge Dolcini* Katherine and Gordon Douglas Anne Duffey Marjean Dupree Victoria Dye and Douglas Kelt David and Sabrina Eastis Harold and Anne Eisenberg Eliane Eisner Terry Elledge Vincent Elliott Brian Ely and Robert Hoffman Allen Enders Adrian and Tamara Engel Sidney England Carol Erickson and David Phillips Jeff Ersig David and Kay Evans Valerie Eviner Evelyn Falkenstein Andrew D. and Eleanor E. Farrand* Richard D. Farshler Cheryl and David Felsch Liz and Tim Fenton Steven and Susan Ferronato

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Martin Filet and Mary McDonald Bill and Margy Findlay Judy Fleenor* Manfred Fleischer David and Donna Fletcher Glenn Fortini Lisa Foster Robert Fowles and Linda Parzych Marion Franck and Bob Lew Anthony and Jorgina Freese Joel Friedman Larry Friedman Kerim and Josina Friedrich Joan M. Futscher Myra Gable Charles and Joanne Gamble Peggy E. Gerick Gerald Gibbons and Sibilla Hershey Louis J. Fox and Marnelle Gleason* Pat and Bob Gonzalez* Michael Goodman Susan Goodrich Louise and Victor Graf Jeffrey and Sandra Granett Jacqueline Gray* Donald Green Mary Louis Greenberg Paul and Carol Grench Alexander and Marilyn Groth June and Paul Gulyassy Wesley and Ida Hackett* Paul W. Hadley Jim and Jane Hagedorn Frank and Ro Hamilton William Hamre Jim and Laurie Hanschu Marylee and John Hardie Richard and Vera Harris Cathy Brorby and Jim Harritt Sally Harvey* Ken and Carmen Hashagen Mary Helmich Martin Helmke and Joan Frye Williams Roy and Dione Henrickson Rand and Mary Herbert Roger and Rosanne Heym Larry and Elizabeth Hill Calvin Hirsch and Deborah Francis Frederick and Tieu-Bich Hodges Michael and Peggy Hoffman Steve and Nancy Hopkins Darcie Houck David and Gail Hulse Lorraine J. Hwang Marta Induni Jane Johnson* Kathryn Jaramillo Robert and Linda Jarvis Tom and Betsy Jennings Dr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Jensen Pamela R. Jessup Carole and Phil Johnson SNJ Services Group Michelle Johnston and Scott Arranto Warren and Donna Johnston Valerie Jones In memory of Betty and Joseph Baria Andrew and Merry Joslin Martin and JoAnn Joye* John and Nancy Jungerman Nawaz Kaleel Fred Kapatkin Shari and Timothy Karpin Anthony and Beth Katsaris Yasuo Kawamura Phyllis and Scott Keilholtz* Patricia Kelleher* Dave and Gay Kent Robert and Cathryn Kerr Gary and Susan Kieser Louise Bettner and Larry Kimble Ken and Susan Kirby Dorothy Klishevich Paulette Keller Knox Paul Kramer Dave and Nina Krebs Kurt and Marcia Kreith Sandra Kristensen

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Leslie Kurtz Cecilia Kwan Donald and Yoshie Kyhos Ray and Marianne Kyono Melourd Lagdamen Bonnie and Kit Lam* Angelo Lamola Marsha M. Lang Bruce and Susan Larock Harry Laswell and Sharon Adlis C and J Learned Marceline Lee Lee-Hartwig Family Nancy and Steve Lege Suzanne Leineke The Lenk-Sloane Family Joel and Jeannette Lerman Evelyn A. Lewis Melvyn Libman Motoko Lobue Mary S. Lowry Henry Luckie Maryanne Lynch Ariane Lyons Ed and Sue MacDonald Leslie Macdonald and Gary Francis Thomas and Kathleen Magrino* Deborah Mah* Mary C. Major Jean Malamud Vartan Malian Julin Maloof and Stacey Harmer Joan Mangold Bunkie Mangum Raymond and Janet Manzi Joseph and Mary Alice Marino Donald and Mary Martin J. A. Martin Mr. and Mrs. William R. Mason Bob and Vel Matthews Leslie Maulhardt Katherine F. Mawdsley* Mia McClellan Karen McCluskey* John McCoy Nora McGuinness* Donna and Dick McIlvaine Tim and Linda McKenna Blanche McNaughton* Richard and Virginia McRostie George A. Mealy and Lenore Steiner Martin A. Medina and Laurie Perry Cliva Mee and Werner Paul Harder III DeAna Melilli Barry Melton and Barbara Langer Sharon Menke The Merchant Family Roland and Marilyn Meyer Beryl Michaels Leslie Michaels and Susan Katt Jean and Eric Miller Phyllis Miller Sue and Rex Miller Douglas Minnis Steve and Kathy Miura* Kei and Barbara Miyano Vicki and Paul Moering Joanne Moldenhauer Lloyd and Ruth Money Louise S. Montgomery Amy Moore Hallie Morrow Marcie Mortensson Christopher Motley Robert and Janet Mukai Bill and Diane Muller Terry and Judy Murphy Steve Abramowitz and Alberta Nassi Judy and Merle Neel Sandra Negley Margaret Neu* Cathy Neuhauser and Jack Holmes Robert Nevraumont and Donna Curley Nevraumont* Keri Mistler and Dana Newell K. C. Ng Denise Nip and Russell Blair Forrest Odle

Yae Kay Ogasawara James Oltjen Marvin O’Rear Jessie Ann Owens Bob and Beth Owens Mike and Carlene Ozonoff* Michael Pach and Mary Wind Charles and Joan Partain Thomas Pavlakovich and Kathryn Demakopoulos Dr. and Mrs. John W. Pearson Bob and Marlene Perkins Pat Piper Mary Lou Pizzio-Flaa David and Jeanette Pleasure Bob and Vicki Plutchok Ralph and Jane Pomeroy* Bea and Jerry Pressler Ann Preston Rudolf and Brigitta Pueschel Evelyn and Otto Raabe Edward and Jane Rabin Jan and Anne-Louise Radimsky Kathryn Radtkey-Gaither Lawrence and Norma Rappaport Evelyn and Dewey Raski Olga Raveling Dorothy and Fred Reardon Sandi Redenbach* Paul Rees Sandra Reese Martha Rehrman* Eugene and Elizabeth Renkin David and Judy Reuben* Al and Peggy Rice Joyce Rietz Ralph and Judy Riggs* David and Kathy Robertson Richard and Evelyne Rominger Andrea Rosen Catherine and David Rowen Rina Roy Paul and Ida Ruffin Michael and Imelda Russell Hugh Safford Dr. Terry Sandbek* and Sharon Billings* Kathleen and David Sanders* Glenn Sanjume Fred and Polly Schack John and Joyce Schaeuble Patsy Schiff Tyler Schilling Leon Schimmel and Annette Cody Fred and Colene Schlaepfer Julie Schmidt* Janis J. Schroeder and Carrie L. Markel Rick Schubert Brian A. Sehnert and Janet L. McDonald Dinendra Sen Andreea Seritan Dan Shadoan and Ann Lincoln Ed Shields and Valerie Brown Sandi and Clay Sigg Joy Skalbeck Barbara Slemmons Marion Small Judith Smith Juliann Smith Robert Snider Jean Snyder Blanca Solis Roger and Freda Sornsen Marguerite Spencer Johanna Stek Raymond Stewart Karen Street* Deb and Jeff Stromberg Mary Superak Thomas Swift Joyce Takahashi Francie Teitelbaum Jeanne Shealor and George Thelen Julie Theriault, PA-C Virginia Thigpen Janet Thome Robert and Kathryn Thorpe Brian Toole Lola Torney and Jason King

Michael and Heidi Trauner Rich and Fay Traynham James E. Turner Barbara and Jim Tutt Robert Twiss Ramon and Karen Urbano Chris and Betsy Van Kessel Diana Varcados Bart and Barbara Vaughn* Richard and Maria Vielbig Charles and Terry Vines Rosemarie Vonusa* Richard Vorpe and Evelyn Matteucci Carolyn Waggoner* M. Therese Wagnon Carol Walden Marny and Rick Wasserman Caroline and Royce Waters Marya Welch* Dan and Ellie Wendin* Douglas West Martha S. West Robert and Leslie Westergaard* Linda K. Whitney Jane Williams Marsha Wilson Linda K. Winter* Janet Winterer Michael and Jennifer Woo Ardath Wood Timothy and Vicki Yearnshaw Elaine Chow Yee* Norman and Manda Yeung Teresa Yeung Phillip and Iva Yoshimura Heather Young Phyllis Young Verena Leu Young* Melanie and Medardo Zavala Mark and Wendy Zlotlow And 47 donors who prefer to remain anonymous

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS Bank of America Matching Gifts Program Chevron/Texaco Matching Gift Fund DST Systems We appreciate the many Donors who participate in their employers’ matching gift program. Please contact your Human Resources department to find out about your company’s matching gift program.

Note: We are pleased to recognize the Donors of Mondavi Center for their generous support of our program.

We apologize if we inadvertently listed your name incorrectly; please contact the Development Office at 530.754.5438 to inform us of corrections.

The Friends of Mondavi Center is an active donor-based volunteer organization that supports activities of the Mondavi Center’s presenting program. Deeply committed to arts education, Friends volunteer their time and financial support for learning opportunities related to Mondavi Center performances.

When you join the Friends of Mondavi Center, you are able to choose from a variety of activities and work with other Friends who share your interests.

Mondavi Center Tours Since the Mondavi Center’s 2002–03 inaugural season, Friends of Mondavi Center have managed and staffed the public tours program.

Approximately 2,000 people are expected to participate in Mondavi Center Tours this season. Over the summer, Friends provide tours to parents of incoming students during UC Davis summer advising weeks, guided by specially trained and experienced Friends of Mondavi Center Tour Guides.

To arrange a tour of the Mondavi Center, call the Tour Hotline at 530.754.5399. Tours can be arranged for groups of any size. A Friend of Mondavi Center will return your call to discuss your tour request. Normal tour hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.

For information on becoming a Friend of Mondavi Center, email Jennifer Mast at jmmast@ucdavis.edu or call 530.754.5431.

Hyatt P lace is a proud sponsor of The robert and margrit Mondavi Center for the performing arts, UC Davis

Hyatt Place UC Davis 173 Old Davis Road Extension Davis, CA 95616, USA Phone: +1 530 756 9500 Fax: +1 530 297 6900

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Mondavi Center Staff DON ROTH, Ph.D. Executive Director

AUDIENCE SERVICES Emily Taggart Audience Services Manager/ Artist Liaison Coordinator

Jeremy Ganter Associate Executive Director

Yuri Rodriguez Events Manager

PROGRAMMING Jeremy Ganter Director of Programming

Natalia Deardorff Assistant Events Manager

Erin Palmer Programming Manager

Nancy Temple Assistant Public Events Manager

Ruth Rosenberg Artist Engagement Coordinator

BUSINESS SERVICES Debbie Armstrong Senior Director of Support Services

Lara Downes Curator: Young Artists Program

Mandy Jarvis Financial Analyst

ARTS EDUCATION Joyce Donaldson Associate to the Executive Director for Arts Educaton and Strategic Projects

Russ Postlethwaite Billing System Administrator

DEVELOPMENT Debbie Armstrong Senior Director of Development

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Darren Marks Programmer/Designer

Alison Morr Kolozsi Director of Major Gifts

Mark J. Johnston Lead Application Developer

Elisha Findley Corporate & Annual Fund Officer Amanda Turpin Donor Relations Manager Angela McMillon Development and Support Services Assistant FACILITIES Herb Garman Director of Operations Greg Bailey Lead Building Maintenance Worker

TICKET OFFICE Sarah Herrera Ticket Office Manager Steve David Ticket Office Supervisor

Daniel Goldin Master Electrician Michael Hayes Head Sound Technician

Susie Evon Ticket Agent

Gene Nelson Registered Piano Technician

MARKETING Rob Tocalino Director of Marketing

Russell St. Clair Ticket Agent

Adrian Galindo Scene Technician

Will Crockett Marketing Manager

production Donna J. Flor Production Manager

Kathy Glaubach Scene Technician

Erin Kelley Senior Graphic Artist

Daniel Thompson Scene Technician

Christopher Oca Stage Manager

Morissa Rubin Senior Graphic Artist

Christi-Anne Sokolewicz Stage Manager

Amanda Caraway Public Relations Coordinator

Jenna Bell Production Coordinator Zak Stelly-Riggs Master Carpenter

Head Ushers Huguette Albrecht George Edwards Linda Gregory Donna Horgan Mike Tracy Susie Valentin Janellyn Whittier Terry Whittier

Jennifer Mast Arts Education Coordinator

Mondavi Center Advisory Board The Mondavi Center Advisory Board is a university support group whose primary purpose is to provide assistance to the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis, and its resident users, the academic departments of Music and Theatre and Dance and the presenting program of the Mondavi Center, through fundraising, public outreach and other support for the mission of UC Davis and the Mondavi Center.

11-12 Season Board Officers John Crowe, Chair Joe Tupin, Patron Relations Chair Randy Reynoso, Corporate Relations Co-Chair Garry P. Maisel, Corporate Relations Co-Chair

Members Jeff Adamski Wayne Bartholomew Camille Chan Michael Chapman John Crowe Lois Crowe Cecilia Delury Patti Donlon

David Fiddyment Dolly Fiddyment Mary Lou Flint Anne Gray Benjamin Hart Lynette Hart Dee Hartzog Joe Hartzog Vince Jacobs

Garry P. Maisel Stephen Meyer Randall Reynoso Nancy Roe William Roe Lawrence Shepard Nancy Shepard Joan Stone Tony Stone

Joe Tupin Larry Vanderhoef Rosalie Vanderhoef Honorary Members Barbara K. Jackson Margrit Mondavi

Ex Officio Linda P.B. Katehi, Chancellor, UC Davis Ralph J. Hexter, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Davis Jessie Ann Owens, Dean, Division of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies, College of Letters & Sciences, UC Davis Jo Anne Boorkman, Friends of Mondavi Center Board Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center, UC Davis Erin Schlemmer, Arts & Lectures Chair

Arts & Lectures Administrative Advisory Committee

friends of Mondavi Center

The Arts & Lectures Administrative Advisory Committee is made up of interested students, faculty and staff who attend performances, review programming opportunities and meet monthly with the director of the Mondavi Center. They provide advice and feedback for the Mondavi Center staff throughout the performance season.

11-12 Executive Board

11-12 Committee Members Erin Schlemmer, Chair Celeste Chang Prabhakara Choudary Adrian Crabtree Susan Franck

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Jo Anne Boorkman, President Laura Baria, Vice President Francie Lawyer, Secretary Jim Coulter, Audience Enrichment Jacqueline Gray, Membership Sandra Chong, School Matinee Support Martha Rehrman, Friends Events Leslie Westergaard, Mondavi Center Tours Phyllis Zerger, School Outreach Eunice Adair Christensen, Gift Shop Manager, Ex Officio Joyce Donaldson, Director of Arts Education, Ex Officio

Accommodations for Patrons with Disabilities

Ticket Exchange

The Mondavi Center is proud to be a fully accessible state-of-the-art public facility that meets or exceeds all state and federal ADA requirements.

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Tickets must be exchanged at least one business day prior to the performance.

Tickets may not be exchanged after your performance date.

There is a $5 exchange fee per ticket for non-subscribers and Pick 3 purchasers.

If you exchange for a higher-priced ticket, the difference will be charged. The difference between a higher and a lower-priced ticket on exchange is non-refundable.

Subscribers and donors may exchange tickets at face value toward a balance on their account. All balances must be applied toward the same presenter and expire June 30 of the current season.

Balances may not be transferred between accounts.

All exchanges subject to availability.

All ticket sales are final for events presented by non-UC Davis promoters.

No refunds.

Parking You may purchase parking passes for individual Mondavi Center events for $7 per event at the parking lot or with your ticket order.

Rates are subject to change. Parking passes that have been lost or stolen will not be replaced.

Group Discounts

Patrons with special seating needs should notify the Mondavi Center Ticket Office at the time of ticket purchase to receive reasonable accommodation. The Mondavi Center may not be able to accommodate special needs brought to our attention at the performance.

Seating spaces for wheelchair users and their companions are located at all levels and prices for all performances.

Requests for sign language interpreting, real-time captioning, Braille programs and other reasonable accommodations should be made with at least two weeks’ notice. The Mondavi Center may not be able to accommodate last minute requests. Requests for these accommodations may be made when purchasing tickets at 530.754.2787 or TDD 530.754.5402.

Special Seating Mondavi Center offers special seating arrangements for our patrons with disabilities. Please call the Ticket Office at 530.754.2787 [TDD 530.754.5402].

Assistive Listening Devices

Entertain friends, family, classmates or business associates and save!

Groups of 20 or more qualify for a 10% discount off regular prices.

Payment must be made in a single check or credit card transaction.

Please call 530.754.2787 or 866.754.2787.

Assistive Listening Devices are available for Jackson Hall and the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Receivers that can be used with or without hearing aids may be checked out at no charge from the Patron Services Desk near the lobby elevators. The Mondavi Center requires an ID to be held at the Patron Services Desk until the device is returned.

Student Tickets (50% off the full single ticket price*)

Elevators

Student tickets are to be used by registered students matriculating toward a degree, age 18 and older, with a valid student ID card. Each student ticket holder must present a valid student ID card at the door when entering the venue where the event occurs, or the ticket must be upgraded to regular price.

Children (50% off the full single ticket price*) Children’s tickets are for all patrons age 17 and younger. No additional discounts may be applied. As a courtesy to other audience members, please use discretion in bringing a young child to an evening performance. All children, regardless of age, are required to have tickets, and any child attending an evening performance should be able to sit quietly through the performance.

Privacy Policy The Mondavi Center collects information from patrons solely for the purpose of gaining necessary information to conduct business and serve our patrons efficiently. We sometimes share names and addresses with other not-for-profit arts organizations. If you do not wish to be included in our e-mail communications or postal mailings, or if you do not want us to share your name, please notify us via e-mail, U.S. mail or telephone. Full Privacy Policy at MondaviArts.org.

POlicies

Policies and Information

The Mondavi Center has two passenger elevators serving all levels.

They are located at the north end of the Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby, near the restrooms and Patron Services Desk.

Restrooms All public restrooms are equipped with accessible sinks, stalls, babychanging stations and amenities. There are six public restrooms in the building: two on the Orchestra level, two on the Orchestra Terrace level and two on the Grand Tier level.

Service Animals Mondavi Center welcomes working service animals that are necessary to assist patrons with disabilities. Service animals must remain on a leash or harness at all times. Please contact the Mondavi Center Ticket Office if you intend to bring a service animal to an event so that appropriate seating can be reserved for you.

*Only one discount per ticket.

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Return To Forever IV with Zappa Plays Zappa Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder

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Wayne Shorter Quartet Alexander String Quartet Yamato Jonathan Franzen San Francisco Symphony Scottish Ballet k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang Rising Stars of Opera Focus on Film: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Hilary Hahn, violin So Percussion: “We Are All Going in Different Directions”: A John Cage Celebration

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San Francisco Symphony Focus on Film: Platoon Alexi Kenney, violin and Hilda Huang, piano Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Alfredo Rodriguez Trio Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Alexander String Quartet Focus on Opera: Tosca

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Focus on Film: Salaam Bombay!

22 Growing Up In India: 25 A Film and Photo Exhibition

Oliver Stone Rachel Barton Pine, violin, with the Chamber Soloists Orchestra of New York Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo CIRCA Loudon Wainwright III & Leo Kottke Eric Owens, bass-baritone Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers The Chieftains Overtone Quartet

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Young Artists Competition Winners Concert Focus on Opera: The Elixir of Love Sherman Alexie Bettye LaVette Zippo Songs: Poems from the Front Anoushka Shankar The Bad Plus The Improvised Shakespeare Company Maya Beiser: Provenance

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