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I am proud to introduce the Mondavi Center’s 10th season , which my programming colleague, Associate Executive Director Jeremy Ganter, and I have handpicked for your enjoyment. Our goal is to give you what we hope will be a very pleasant challenge—choosing from among the amazing musicians, dancers, speakers and thinkers you will find described in this brochure. We believe we have created an abundance of riches for you to experience. That richness is one reason we arrange our presentations in a number of series. Our series bring focus to the themes and trends that we find most compelling. When you select a series you will experience new artists alongside legendary masters, the familiar with the unexpected. The Mondavi Center is one of the few performing arts centers where the number of series ticket holders has been steadily increasing, because so many patrons have come to love taking these series journeys with us.
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Don Roth, Ph.D. Executive Director
We are particularly proud to present the U.S. premiere of Blanche Neige, the remarkable Snow White story ballet from France’s acclaimed Ballet Preljocaj. This is the most important premiere ever presented at the Mondavi Center, a sign of how much our international recognition has grown in our first ten years. You can read more about this landmark event—and the accompanying gala— in the following pages. What else to look for in our tenth season? • In-depth explorations of some of the greatest composers of all time: Liszt, Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and more; • Stunning Mondavi Center debuts of world-class artists, including the first ever appearance of my hometown orchestra, the New York Philharmonic with Music Director Alan Gilbert; • Viewing remarkable cultures through music, dance and film, including a trip to post-Katrina New Orleans and a special Focus on India, developed with UC Davis faculty; • More chances than ever to see artists in our very own “night club,” the Vanderhoef Studio Theater. Of course, one of the most compelling reasons to subscribe, either to a Series or a Choose-Your-Own package, is the significant savings it represents. You will find more information on how to become a subscriber later in the book. I hope to welcome you back to the Mondavi Center soon. Best,
Don Roth Executive Director Mondavi Center
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Ballet Preljocaj: Blanche Neige
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Scottish Ballet Trey McIntyre Project with Preservation Hall Jazz Band Ballet Preljocaj
San Francisco Symphony San Francisco Symphony Royal Philharmonic Orchestra New York Philharmonic
30 Marvels Yamato CIRCA Circus Oz
32 Children’s Stage
Lara Downes Family Concert ODC/Dance
10 Distinguished Speakers
34 Studio Classics: Replay
Jonathan Franzen Oliver Stone Patti Smith
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36 Capital Public Radio Studio Jazz
So Percussion Lara Downes Zippo Songs: Poems from the Front
Hilary Hahn Rachel Barton Pine with the Chamber Soloists Orchestra of New York Garrick Ohlsson San Francisco Symphony Chamber Ensemble
Tia Fuller Quartet Alfredo Rodriguez Trio The Bad Plus
14 Capital Public Radio Jackson Hall Jazz
40 Debut
Wayne Shorter Quartet Overtone Quartet SFJAZZ Collective
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise Hot 8 Brass Band Trey McIntyre Project with Preservation Hall Jazz Band
18 Special Events
k.d. lang and The Siss Boom Bang Rising Stars of Opera The Chieftains
19 Holidays
Mariachi Sol de México de Jóse Hernàndez Blind Boys of Alabama American Bach Soloists
20 American Heritage
The fern-like forms you see throughout the 11-12 Subscription Brochure come from sandstone found throughout the Mondavi Center. Called dendrites—from the Greek word dendrites, meaning “of a tree”— these shapes record the passage of fluids through the sandstone rocks, which were quarried in India. Deposited in a shallow seaway more than 1.8 billion years ago, these rocks are more than 1.4 billion years older than the first ferns. For more info on the Mondavi Center stones, visit the UC Davis Department of Geology’s website at geology.ucdavis.edu and click on “Fun.”
Cinematic Titanic Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo The Improvised Shakespeare Company
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16 Spirit of New Orleans
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28 With a Twist
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Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Eric Owens, bass-baritone Ballet Preljocaj
26 Chevron World Stage
Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers Angelique Kidjo Supergenerous
38 Alexander String Quartet Jennifer Johnson Cano Alexi Kenney and Hilda Huang Curtis On Tour
42 Focus on Film
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Salaam Bombay! Platoon
43 Focus on Opera
Tosca The Elixir of Love Lucia di Lammermoor
44 UC Davis Department of Music 45 UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance 46 Engagement and Education 48 Donor & Subscription Information & Benefits
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Loudon Wainwright III and Leo Kottke Bettye LaVette
50 Accessibility & Policies
22 Crossings
51 How to Buy
Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion Anoushka Shankar Maya Beiser
24 Focus on India Venue Key JH - Jackson Hall VST - Vanderhoef Studio Theatre JHS - Jackson Hall Stage
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Mondavi Gala
Saturday, March 17, 2012 Wine, food and the performing arts intersect in a remarkable Gala Event celebrating an inimitable California couple, Robert and Margrit Mondavi. The Mondavis’ visionary generosity laid the foundation for two prominent UC Davis institutions: the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science and the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Proceeds from this inaugural Gala will help ensure the Mondavi vision is carried forward as the Mondavi Center and the Robert Mondavi Institute expand their impact in the Sacramento region, California and around the world. The Gala will also serve as the kick-off event for the Mondavi Center’s 10th Anniversary.
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Ballet Preljocaj: Blanche Neige In 2008, one of France’s leading choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj, presented his first full-length story ballet Blanche Neige (Snow White). Now, in 2012, the Mondavi Center presents the United States debut of this amazing contemporary ballet. Based on Grimm’s fairy tale, Blanche Neige is set to music by Gustav Mahler, with costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier and set design by Thierry Leproust. Le Journal du Dimanche called the work “a great popular ballet such as we have not seen since Béjart.” Blanche Neige is a grown-up retelling of Grimm’s fairy tale. Due to brief nudity and mature themes, it is not appropriate for young children. Saturday, March 17, 2012 7PM JH Sunday, March 18, 2012 3PM JH regular
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Soledad Barrio
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Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Hailed by critics for its transcendent and deeply emotional performances, Noche Flamenca is recognized as the most authentic flamenco company in the field today. Artistic Director Martin Santangelo and his wife Soledad Barrio successfully bring to the stage the essence, purity and integrity of one of the world’s most complex and mysterious art forms. All aspects of flamenco— dance, song and music—are interrelated and given equal weight in the presentations of Noche Flamenca, creating a true communal spirit—the very heart and soul of flamenco. Thursday, January 19, 2012 8PM JH
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Eric Owens, bass-baritone American bass-baritone Eric Owens has carved a unique place in the contemporary opera world as both an esteemed interpreter of classic works and a champion of new music. Equally at home in concert, recital and opera performances, Owens continues to bring his poise, expansive voice and natural acting faculties to stages around the world, including a scene-stealing performance as Alberich in the Metropolitan Opera’s monumental new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Friday, February 17, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Ballet Preljocaj Blanche Neige Witness the U.S. premiere of Angelin Preljocaj’s first full-length story ballet, Blanche Neige (Snow White). Read more about this amazing Mondavi Center debut on p. 2. Saturday, March 17, 2012 7PM JH (U.S. Premiere) Sunday, March 18, 2012 3PM JH regular
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Director’s Choice One of my most enjoyable tasks each season, is to decide which three selections will become Director’s Choice. This is particularly challenging, because all our presentations are a director’s choice, which Associate Executive Director Jeremy Ganter and I have selected personally for you. But sometimes I have had an artistic experience so special and intense, that I want to make sure our audience members take special notice. In a small Greenwich Village theater, I saw Noche Flamenca, featuring one of the world’s greatest flamenco dancers, Soledad Barrio. For almost two hours, three dancers, two guitarists and three “conte hondo” singers held me spellbound, as music and dancing intertwined on an almost bare stage. Not to be missed. In a very different New York venue, I heard the beginning of the Met Opera’s new Ring Cycle, a star-studded affair. But the real star was the very distinguished, but less well known bassbaritone Eric Owens—when I heard he was available to sing on our stage, I jumped as high as a Wagnerian giant. And Director’s Choice could not be complete without the longawaited U.S. Premiere of the greatest full-length dance piece of our time, Ballet Preljocaj’s Blanche Neige, about which you can read more on page 3. We have been working to bring this version of the Snow White story to the U.S. and to the Mondavi Center since I first saw it on a grainy DVD in 2009. Music by Mahler, costumes by Gaultier and gorgeous choreography by Angelin Preljocaj—a great evening of theater. This year’s Director’s Choice journey is perhaps our most special ever with variety, vibrancy and, should you choose to subscribe, great value—all things the Mondavi Center has built its reputation on. —Don Roth
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“No matter how many times you’ve seen Ms. Barrio dance, the experience is strangely intimate; there’s something voyeuristic and cathartic about watching a woman pry open her soul, scatter it on the floor and put it back together again.”—The New York Times
Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca
Scottish Ballet
Scottish Ballet Led by Olivier Award-winning Artistic Director Ashley Page, the Scottish Ballet’s broad repertoire includes both classical and contemporary works: seminal pieces from the 20th-century modern ballet canon, signature pieces by living choreographers, new commissions by contemporary choreographers, and full-length story ballets re-imagined with fresh relevance for today’s audiences. On its first national U.S. tour, the 36-dancer touring company will feature Kenneth MacMillan’s classic Song of the Earth (set to Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde) and a new piece by Jorma Elo. Wednesday, October 19, 2011 8PM JH Scottish Ballet
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Trey McIntyre Project with Preservation Hall Jazz Band Ma Maison Since bursting onto the national dance scene in 2005, Trey McIntyre Project has proved an immediate sensation with both critics and audiences alike. McIntyre’s “fresh and forward-thinking choreography” (Washington Post) and keen ear for music will be on abundant display for their Mondavi Center debut. Together onstage with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, TMP will perform two works drenched in the lore of New Orleans: its “electrifying” 2008 piece Ma Maison and a new piece, The Sweeter End.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011 8PM JH
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Get the Spirit of New Orleans with two special add-on events featured on p. 16:
Hot 8 Brass Band If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
ballet preljocaj Blanche Neige Witness the U.S. premiere of Angelin Preljocaj’s first full-length story ballet, Blanche Neige (Snow White). Read more about this amazing Mondavi Center debut on p. 2. Saturday, March 17, 2012 8PM JH (U.S. Premiere) Sunday, March 18, 2012 3PM JH regular
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Also a Director’s Choice Series Event (see p.4)
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San Francisco Symphony James Conlon, conductor Olga Guryakova, soprano Sergei Leiferkus, baritone Shostakovich Symphony No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 135 Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition James Conlon, music director of the LA Opera, kicks off the SF Symphony’s Mondavi Center mini-season with a thrilling program featuring Maurice Ravel’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Thursday, October 13, 2011 8PM JH regular
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San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, music director and conductor Christian Tetzlaff, violin Liszt Ligeti Tchaikovsky
Prometheus Violin Concerto Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13, “Winter Daydreams”
James Conlon
MTT leads the SFS in a wide-ranging program featuring Tchaikovsky’s first symphony and Ligeti’s violin concerto. The Boston Globe describes soloist Christian Tetzlaff’s playing as “viscerally explosive ... but always with a sense of purpose and a richness of inner life.” Thursday, January 5, 2012 8PM JH
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Dutoit, music director and conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Berlioz Saint-Saëns Tchaikovsky
Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 92 Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103, “Egyptian” Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Michael Tilson Thomas
Longtime music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit brings Britain’s heralded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with a French and Russian program featuring Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Saint-Saëns final piano concerto. Friday, January 27, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Charles Dutoit
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, music director and conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano Dvořák Beethoven Tchaikovsky
Carnival Overture, Op. 92 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Led by dynamic music director Alan Gilbert, the New York Philharmonic makes its long-awaited Mondavi Center debut with a program featuring acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Saturday, May 12, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Yefim Bronfman
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“I think it’s important to bring what we do in New York outside the city, to be an ambassador both for the city and for the country.” —Alan Gilbert
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10. Oliver Stone
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distinguished speakers Our distinguished speakers this season are among the most acclaimed artists in their fields, with two National Book Awards, two Oscars and entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame among their many credits.
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Directed by Oliver Stone (1986) Rated R, 120 minutes Monday, January 9, 2012 7PM VST See p. 42.
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When The Corrections was published in the fall of 2001, Jonathan Franzen was probably better known for a 1996 Harper’s essay in which he lamented the declining cultural authority of the American novel, than for the two novels he had already published. The Corrections changed all that, becoming an enormous international bestseller and National Book Award winner, with translations in 35 languages, and American hardcover sales of nearly one million copies. His most recent novel, Freedom, was chosen as one of The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 and was also a finalist in the fiction category for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. Saturday, October 8, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Oliver Stone One of our most provocative, interesting and knowledgeable filmmakers, Oliver Stone has won Oscars for directing Born on the Fourth Of July (based on the memoir of Ron Kovic) and Platoon and for writing Midnight Express. He was nominated for best director (JFK) and co-writer (Nixon). Prior to his film career, Oliver Stone worked as a school teacher in Vietnam, a Merchant Marine, taxi driver, messenger, production assistant and sales representative. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam in 1967-68. He was wounded twice and decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning from Vietnam, he completed his undergraduate studies at New York University Film School in 1971.
Jonathan Franzen
distinguished speakers
Jonathan Franzen On Autobiography & Fiction Writing: An Evening with Jonathan Franzen
Friday, February 3, 2012 8PM JH regular
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This program is presented in affiliation with the Davis Humanities Institute.
11. Patti Smith Billed the “Godmother of Punk” by The New York Times, Patti Smith has outgrown that tag many times over. An accomplished songwriter, her debut album Horses was a landmark achievement fusing punk rock and poetry. Since then, Smith has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and won the 2010 National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, which brilliantly captures her lifelong friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. For her first Mondavi Center appearance, Smith will speak about her life, the creative process, innovation and artistic expression.
Patti Smith
Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8PM JH Regular
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Sherman Alexie The Partially True Story of the True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Author, poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie was named one of The New Yorker’s 20 top writers for the 21st century. The New York Times Book Review described him as “one of the major lyric voices of our time.” His first novel, Sherman Alexie Reservation Blues, won Booklist’s Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction and The Toughest Indian in the World won the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award, honoring excellence in the art of storytelling. Alexie wrote and produced the film Smoke Signals based on his book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is the 2011-12 Campus Community Book Project book. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Rachel Barton Pine
Garrick Ohlsson
Hilary Hahn
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Hilary Hahn, violin
Celebrated for her searching interpretations, technical brilliance and spellbinding stage presence, Hilary Hahn returns to the Mondavi Center with a rousing recital program featuring beloved works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. The Los Angeles Times praises Hahn as “one of those rare performers who can dazzle you with the warmth of her personality and knock you dead with the dexterity of her technique and the emotional depth of her interpretations.”
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J.S. Bach Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1001 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 12 Brahms Sonatensatz in C Minor, WoO 2
Saturday, October 29, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Rachel Barton Pine, violin with the Chamber Soloists Orchestra of New York
“An excit ing, boun dary-defy —Washi ing perfor ngton Pos mer” t on Rach el Barton Pine
Mozart
Complete Violin Concertos
The infectious joy Rachel Barton Pine takes from making music intersects with the enduring magic of Mozart. The first American to win the J.S. Bach International Violin Competition (and also the youngest, at age 17), Pine and the accomplished ensemble musicians in the Chamber Soloists Orchestra of New York offer the rare chance to hear all of Mozart’s violin concertos in one evening. Saturday, February 4, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Garrick Ohlsson, piano J.S. Bach/Liszt Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 Liszt Sonata in B Minor Les Jeux d’Eaux à la Villa d’Este Feux Follets Funérailles Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of commanding interpretive and technical prowess. Although he has long been regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, as displayed in this intriguing all-Liszt program. Friday, March 9, 2012 8PM JH regular
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San Francisco Symphony Chamber Ensemble Alexander Barantschik, leader and violin J.S. Bach Handel J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049 Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik concludes the San Francisco Symphony’s mini-Mondavi season with some of the finest works from the baroque era. Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8PM JH regular
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“Jazz’s preeminent saxophonist” —Billboard on Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter Quartet A standard-bearer for modern jazz, Wayne Shorter can be counted among a small handful of true living legends. From his work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, through Miles Davis’ 60s quintet to co-founding the fusionera super-group Weather Report, Shorter has been active on the leading edge of jazz for more than 60 years. The saxophonist continues to create powerful music with his decade-strong all-star quartet, featuring pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Pattituci and drummer Brian Blade, all stellar bandleaders in their own right. Saturday, October 1, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Overtone Quartet Dave Holland, Jason Moran, Chris Potter and Eric Harland Since their debut at New York’s Blue Note in 2009, the Overtone Quartet has quickly become one of the most exhilarating jazz ensembles of our time. This collective of innovators—all acclaimed jazz veterans with awards and critical praise regularly heaped upon them—share a deep respect for the legacy of creative freedom, “challenging each other to greater and more subtle composition and performance” (All About Jazz).
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Overtone Quartet
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SFJAZZ Collective The Music of Stevie Wonder The eight wonders of the SFJAZZ Collective return with their exploratory spirit intact and a new creative foil against which to test their mettle. Renowned for their stellar musicianship and forward-thinking compositions, the Collective also provides fresh perspective on jazz repertoire through original arrangements of jazz legends from Thelonious Monk to Ornette Coleman. This year, they tackle the beloved music of pop music icon Stevie Wonder, whose songs have had a profound impact on musicians of every stripe and American culture. Thursday, March 29, 2012 8PM JH SFJAZZ Collective
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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise continues the story of the rebirth of the Big Easy, begun in Lee’s epic, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning 2006 documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Alongside the city’s storied ability to celebrate life with unmatchable ebullience, Lee documents the successes and failures in the ongoing efforts to restore housing, healthcare, education, economic growth and law and order to a battered but unbowed community. Because of its length, If God Is Willing... will be screened in two parts on successive nights. PART ONE: Monday, November 7, 2011 7PM VST PART TWO: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 7PM VST Free Directed by Spike Lee (2010)
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Following Part Two enjoy a Post-Performance Q&A with members of the Hot 8 Brass Band, who are featured in the film.
Hot 8 Brass Band The Hot 8 Brass Band has epitomized New Orleans street music for over a decade. The band plays the traditional Second Line parades, infusing their performances with the funk and energy that makes New Orleans music loved around the world. The members of the Hot 8 Brass Band were born and raised in New Orleans and many began playing together in high school. What makes the Hot 8 players so special are the sounds they coax from their well-loved, well-worn horns. Wednesday–Friday, November 9–11, 2011 8PM VST
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Trey McIntyre Project with Preservation Hall Jazz Band Ma Maison Since bursting onto the national dance scene in 2005, Trey McIntyre Project has proved an immediate sensation with both critics and audiences alike. McIntyre’s “fresh and forward-thinking choreography” (Washington Post) and keen ear for music will be on abundant display for their Mondavi Center debut. Together onstage with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, TMP will perform two works drenched in the lore of New Orleans: its “electrifying” 2008 piece Ma Maison and a new piece, The Sweeter End. Saturday, November 12, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Hot 8 Brass Band
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Celebrate the resilient spirit of New Orleans with a week-long meditation on how the storied American city has coped after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. These events are considered single CYO or Add-On events.
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k.d. lang and The Siss Boom Bang From the very beginning, k.d. lang’s voice has commanded attention. Whether belting out Patsy Cline-inspired twang (Shadowland) or mining Tin Pan Alley for gold (A Wonderful World with Tony Bennett), lang has displayed her versatility, infectious spirit , and rare talent song after beautiful song. Bennett may, in fact, be her biggest fan; he declared to the press what so many fans—including those who witnessed her 2009 sold-out Mondavi Center performance—have come to believe over the last two and a half decades: “She’s the best singer of her generation.” Thursday, October 20, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Rising Stars of Opera UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and Adler Fellows The San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellows are a select group of exceptionally gifted young singers who will soon be gracing celebrated opera house stages throughout the world. Following a hugely successful inaugural installment of the Rising Stars of Opera concert in October 2010, we welcome a new group of Adler Fellows who will perform in recital with Christian Baldini and the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra. This special event is provided free to the community through the generosity of our dear Mondavi Center friend, Barbara K. Jackson.
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Friday, October 21, 2011 8PM JH Free
The Chieftains 50th Anniversary Tour The Chieftains celebrate their 50th Anniversary doing what they do best: delivering a concert experience filled with grace, humor, exceptional musicianship and the pageantry of visiting dancers and pipe bands. Recognized for bringing traditional Irish music to the world’s attention, the six-time Grammy winners are still led by Paddy Maloney, who formed the band from the ranks of the top Irish musicians back in 1962. Musical ambassadors, cultural icons and boundary pushers, the Chieftains continue to make music with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive.
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Formed by Jóse Hernàndez in 1981, Sol de México is an inspiring, artistic mariachi ensemble. Truly representative of a treasured Mexican heritage, Hernàndez and his talented musicians and dancers welcome the holiday season with a colorful celebration of México’s Christmas traditions with a special tribute to the states of Veracruz, Yucatan, and Jalisco. Experience the traditional posadas and pastorelas of México through this delightful accumulation of joyful music and dance. Thursday, December 8, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Show with special guest Sara Watkins Go Tell It on the Mountain Formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939, the Blind Boys worked on the black gospel circuit for more than 40 years until their role in the Obie-winning play The Gospel at Colonus launched them into the national limelight. Celebrated by the Grammys and the National Endowment for the Arts with Lifetime Achievement Awards, inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and winners of five Grammy Awards, they have attained the highest levels of achievement in a career that shows no signs of diminishing. The Blind Boys’ holiday spectacular is a roof-raising musical event that features bluesy, gospelized versions of seasonal favorites, old and new, plus a special opening set by former Nickel Creek member Sara Watkins.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011 8PM JH regular
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American Bach Soloists Messiah Sing hallelujah to a Mondavi Center holiday tradition! Handel’s masterwork is given new life by UC Davis Choral Director Jeffrey Thomas and his acclaimed early music ensemble, the American Bach Soloists, for this Sunday matinee. A stellar quartet of vocal soloists and the superbly polished American Bach Choir join the period instrument specialists of ABS for one of Northern California’s most treasured holiday traditions. Sunday, December 18, 2011 4PM JH New Time regular
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Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
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Loudon Wainwright III Leo Kottke From 1972’s “Dead Skunk” to 2010’s Grammy-winning High Wide & Handsome, singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III has delivered a consistently wry and tuneful take on American life. The New Yorker calls him “as good as he’s ever been. Almost forty years into his recording career, he has not only retained his sharpness of wit but has also learned to cut with greater skill.” This special Mondavi Center double bill is rounded out by acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke, whose fingerpicking style melds blues, jazz, and folk, and whose live performances are legendary for his astounding musicianship and equally prodigious storytelling skills.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Bettye Lavette Beyond her spectacular, gritty voice, Bettye LaVette embodies the searching, all-or-nothing commitment to the song that is the hallmark of the great Soul singers. On her 2010 album Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, LaVette and her band bring the British Invasion home to its American R&B roots, re-imagining songs by The Beatles, The Who, Elton John, Eric Clapton and many more. Friday, April 13, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Ricky Skaggs has often said that he is “just trying to make a living” playing the music he loves. From his debut at the Grand Ole Opry at the age of seven, to his garnering 14 Grammy Awards through his storied career, it is obvious that Skaggs has nicely hurdled that modest ambition. His profound passion for American music has made Skaggs a household name, both for his virtuosity on the mandolin and his championing of new artists on his record label, Skaggs Family Records. Backed by the all-star musicians in Kentucky Thunder, Skaggs continues to celebrate a life filled with music at every show.
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Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion
Crossings In Crossings, genre and cultural differences dissolve, revealing the awesome virtuosity and boundless creativity of some of the most interesting musicians of our time.
A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, Zakir Hussain’s consistently brilliant and exciting performances have not only established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, but gained him worldwide fame. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity, and his collaborations with John McLaughlin (in Shakti), Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer (featured at the Mondavi Center in 2011), and Van Morrison underscore his astounding musical versatility. He returns to his classical roots for this Masters of Percussion performance, showcasing Indian ragas, rhythms and traditional dance. Thursday, March 22, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Anoushka Shankar Flamenco Gypsy Journey Anoushka Shankar breaks new ground as she brings together the passionate and diverse music of Spain with the vibrant ancient forms of the Indian classical tradition. Tracing the musical commonalities of the gypsies’ journey from their homeland in Rajasthan passing through Iran, Iraq and Armenia and finally settling in Spain, Shankar re-forges the link, separated by a thousand years, between Spanish and Indian music.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8PM JH
“Evocative modern works inspired by historical sources.” —The New York Times on Provenance
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Maya Beiser Provenance In a world troubled by religious strife and division, the period between the eighth and fifteenth centuries in the Iberian Peninsula offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art and architecture. Cellist Maya Beiser’s new project Provenance features live music and original text in Ladino, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin, woven together into an all-encompassing musical tapestry. Saturday, April 28, 2012 8PM JH regular
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and, m m co l ca ni ch te ve si es pr im an ly “Shankar displayed not on tongues.” al ic us m of r be m nu a k ea sp r ta si but a flair for making the —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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GROWING UP IN INDIA A Film and Photographic Exhibition Growing Up in India focuses on the juxtaposition of the old and new, the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and on the child and the adult to be. Nothing highlights the possibilities and conflicts of this wide open future more poignantly than the stories of adolescence. The photographic exhibit curated by Dinesh Khanna, documentaries and movies presented in this two-day festival bring to light India’s next generations and their journey into a new world of rapidly changing outcomes. —Sudipta Sen Director, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, UC Davis
24. The three Growing up in India Film Series can be purchased together now at a discounted rate of $25. The package is considered a single CYO or add-on event; series subscription discounts and benefits do not apply. Individual tickets for films on sale August 12.
Growing Up In India Film SEries Three Films for $25 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Salaam Bombay! Monday, November 14, 2011 7PM VST Directed by Mira Nair (1988) Not Rated, 113 minutes
Pink Saris Tuesday, November 15, 2011 4PM VST Directed by Kim Longinotto (2010) Not Rated, 96 minutes
Udaan Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7PM VST Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane (2010) Not Rated, 134 minutes
Salaam Bombay!
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focus on india More Focus on India Events: RAcHANA YADAV Spring, 2012 Kathak dancer Rachana Yadav portrays the moods and moments of a typical Indian day in a solo performance commissioned by the Mondavi Center. More details to come!
Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion p. 22 Thursday, March 22, 2012 8PM JH Rachana Yadav
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Diverse, plural and multi-layered, India boasts a dizzying variety of economic, social, ethnic and religious groups. In our season-long Focus on India, presented in collaboration with the UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, we explore the dazzling culture of this fascinating nation in a film and photo exhibition; through solo Kathak dance; and in the hands of two standout musicians of Indian descent. More information on Focus on India is forthcoming. Visit mondaviarts.org/india for the latest updates.
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Chucho Valdés
Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers Hailed as “the dean of Latin jazz” and “one of the world’s great virtuosic pianists” by The New York Times, multi-Grammy Award winner Chucho Valdés has recorded more than 80 CDs during his illustrious career, performing with countless jazz masters, including Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea. A founding member of the innovative Cuban super-group Irakere (along with trumpeter Arturo Sandoval), Valdés brings fiery energy and forward-thinking spirit to every performance. Saturday, February 18, 2012 8PM JH regular
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Angelique Kidjo Angelique Kidjo, whose work has garnered her four Grammy nominations, has cross-pollinated the West African traditions of her childhood in Benin with elements of American R&B, funk and jazz, as well as influences from Europe and Latin America. Her charismatic performances have prompted a trail of critical acclaim, including this review from the Los Angeles Times: “[Her]supercharged pipes have never sounded better, her irresistible energy and joie de vivre never more palpable ... Kidjo reaffirms her global-diva credentials.” Friday, March 2, 2012 8PM JH
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Cyro Baptista
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Supergenerous Cyro Baptista and Kevin Breit Since arriving in the United States in 1980 from his native Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the foremost percussionists in the country. Stringed instrument guru Kevin Breit has recorded with Norah Jones, k.d. lang, Cassandra Wilson, Lou Reed and many others, and has performed on recordings that have earned 13 Grammy Awards. The multi-instrumentalists team up in their genre- and culture-crossing group Supergenerous, which Billboard calls “pure aural pleasure.” Wednesday-Saturday, May 16–19, 2012 8PM VST regular
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Kevin Breit
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Cinematic Titanic Cinematic Titanic is a feature-length movie-riffing show from Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. The show features the original cast that first brought the Peabody Awardwinning cult-classic series to life: Trace Beaulieu (Crow, Dr. Forrester), J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo, Dr. Erhardt), Frank Conniff (TV’s Frank), and Maru Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester). Cinematic Titanic continues the tradition of playing on the “unfathomable,” “the horribly great” and the just plain “cheesy” movies from the past. Friday, November 4, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Cinematic Titanic
Returning after a rapturous sell-out 2010 appearance, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo remains one of the most popular dance troupes in the United States. The company of professional male dancers performs the full range of the ballet and modern dance repertoire, achieving high comedy by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents and underlying incongruities of serious dance. The fact that men dance all the parts—heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes as swans, sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses or angst-ridden Victorian ladies—enhances, rather than mocks, the spirit of dance as an art form, delighting and amusing novices and aficionados alike. Thursday, February 9, 2012 8PM JH
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The Improvised Shakespeare Company Based on an audience suggestion, The Improvised Shakespeare Company creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each of the players has brushed up on his “thee’s” and “thou’s” to bring you an evening of off-the-cuff comedy using the language and themes of William Shakespeare. Any hour could be filled with power struggles, star-crossed lovers, sprites, kings, queens, princesses, sword-play, rhyming couplets, asides, insults, persons in disguise and all that we have come to expect from the pen of the Great Bard. With the audience seated on stage, and with nothing planned out, rehearsed or written, each evening will be entirely unique!
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Thursday–Saturday, April 19–21, 2012 8PM JHS Sunday, April 22, 2012 3PM & 7PM JHS regular
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“It’s the most incredible use of the improv form I’ve ever seen on the stage.” —Huffington Post
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Circus Oz
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A thrilling, high-energy production that is infused with the idea that the drumbeat, like the heartbeat, is the very pulse of life. Founded by Masa Ogawa in 1993 in Nara, “the land of Yamato” which is said to be the birthplace of Japanese culture, Yamato travels all over the word with Japan’s traditional Wadaiko drums, putting its very souls into the unusual instruments, whose sound stirs the hearts of people everywhere. Thursday, October 6, 2011 8PM JH regular
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Yamato Japanese Taiko Drum Ensemble
CIRCA Since 2006, Circa has taken its vision of re-imagining circus as a contemporary art form to 18 countries across five continents. Their work has been hailed as “a breathless barrage and banquet of circus pandemonium” (City News, Australia). Circa offers utterly new ways of experiencing the awe-inspiring world of circus, combining physically impossible skills with a poetic sensibility to amaze, astonish and move audiences. Recommended for audiences 12 and up.
Yamato
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Circus Oz Breathtaking feats, serious fun and Australian humor for audiences of all ages! The Circus Oz show is a rock-n-roll, animal-free circus that adults and children can enjoy together. Expect two hours of stupendous agility, death-defying stunts, awe-inspiring acrobatic performances, irreverent comedy and a spectacular live band. Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1978, the company has taken its self-crafted performances of wit, grace and spectacle to 26 countries across five continents, to critical acclaim. Saturday, March 24, 2012 8PM JH Sunday, March 25, 2012 3PM JH regular
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“Would you? Could you? in a car? Eat them! Eat them! Here they are.“
Green Eggs and Ham™ & © 1960 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
Lara Downes Family Concert Green Eggs and Ham Pianist Lara Downes is joined by winners of the Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition and members of the Davis High School Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Rob Kapilow’s Green Eggs and Ham, a merry, whiz-bang romp through the Dr. Seuss classic. Called “the most popular family music since Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf ” by the Boston Globe, Kapilow’s delightful ensemble piece combines the zany absurdity of Seuss’s text with a sparkling musical score that runs the gamut from swinging jazz to classical lyricism, from pop silliness to spiky modernism. Directed by renowned Broadway choreographer Mindy Cooper, the show features young actors trained through the Mondavi Center Theater Workshop program. Sunday, December 11, 2011 10AM & 3PM VST
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ODC/Dance The Velveteen Rabbit A beloved tradition returns to the Mondavi Center. ODC/Dance—one of the Bay Area’s most exciting and acclaimed contemporary dance companies—enlivens Margery Williams’s classic tale of a well-worn nursery rabbit that becomes real. Told though music, dance and a powerful narrative, The Velveteen Rabbit celebrates the unique relationship between a little boy and his stuffed rabbit, and the enduring power of love. Brimming with wit, festive costumes, madcap characters and the perfect amount of childhood whimsy! Sunday, May 13, 2012 3PM JH regular
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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So Percussion We Are All Going in Different Directions: A John Cage Celebration
Studio Classics: Replay Our Replay theme features forward-thinking artists reshuffling the deck with inspiration from masterworks of the past.
Called an “experimental powerhouse” by the Village Voice, “astonishing and entrancing” by Billboard and “brilliant” by The New York Times, So Percussion’s innovative work with today’s most exciting composers and their own original music has quickly helped the Brooklyn-based quartet forge a unique and diverse career. They bring their playful virtuosity to the compositions of avant-garde polymath John Cage in their Mondavi Center debut. Saturday, October 29, 2011 8PM VST
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Zippo Songs: Poems from the Front with Theo Bleckmann
A new project from Mondavi Center resident artist Lara Downes, 13 Ways is a set of new variations on Bach’s magnificent opening theme of the Goldbergs (“Aria”), written by a group of today’s most renowned composers, including 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon. These brilliant composers, who also include Fred Hersch and William Bolcom, re-imagine the Aria in a variety of ways, celebrating both the eternal beauty of Bach’s music, and the musical evolutions of the past 250 years.
Composer and guitarist Phil Kline’s Zippo Songs (2003) sets to music texts that American GIs engraved on their Zippo lighters in Vietnam. The songs follow like a harrowing series of haiku, expressing the gamut of emotions young men feel under the threat of imminent oblivion. Alex Ross of The New Yorker calls it “one of the most brutally frank song cycles ever penned,” and Anne Midgett of The New York Times says “Phil Kline has fashioned brilliant American lieder for the 21st century. Tinged with elements of the psychedelic 60’s, they communicate with a direct vernacular eloquence.” Contains graphic language; recommended for mature audiences.
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studio classics: replay
Lara Downes 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldbergs
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Tia Fuller
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The Bad Plus
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Tia Fuller has rapidly proven her creative mettle, as a member of the allfemale band touring with R&B star, Beyoncé, as a bandleader in her own right, and as an accomplished educator. Fuller has recorded three CDs with her quartet; the most recent, Decisive Steps, received the #1 JazzWeek rating for two weeks straight, ranked #3 in JET Magazine’s top jazz recordings and was nominated for Best Jazz Album in JazzWeek. Wednesday–Saturday, December 7–10, 2011 8PM vst regular
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Alfredo Rodriguez Trio A young pianist of astonishing virtuosity and imagination, Cuban-born Alfredo Rodriguez calls up images of legendary jazz pianists like Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Bill Evans and his compatriot Chucho Valdés. Schooled in the rigorous classical conservatories of Havana, Rodriguez’s riveting artistry is informed as much by Bach and Stravinsky as by his Cuban and jazz roots. Discovered at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006 by Quincy Jones, Rodríguez’s star has risen rapidly under the tutelage of the famed producer. Wednesday–Saturday, January 25–28, 2012 8PM vst regular
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The bad plus 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. Their championing of the jazz avantgarde and deconstruction of songs from the pop and rock canon, have put them at the forefront of a new instrumental music movement. From gentle and melodic to fierce and abstract, from swing to 80’s techno, their latest album, Never Stop, is tied together by a group sound that embraces diversity as strength. Wednesday–Saturday, April 18–21, 2012 8PM vst regular
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alexander string quartet Three events $118 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Thrust Seating
ˇ Dvorák ASQ Series 1 with Robert Greenberg
Renowned musicologist, author and composer Robert Greenberg provides commentary throughout the concert. 2PM vST
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Alexander String Quartet Following on the heels of its exploration of Beethoven’s complete string quartets, Mondavi Center mainstays the Alexander String Quartet celebrates its 30th anniver-
ASQ Series 2
sary with a focus on Czech composer Antonin Dvořák.
The quartet performs this program without intermission, then remains for a Q&A session with the audience.
A fixture in the major music capitals of four continents,
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the Quartet has secured its place among the world’s premier ensembles while maintaining a major artistic presence in its home base of San Francisco.
All Dvořák Programs Sunday, October 2, 2011 String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 34 String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51
Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.,
Sunday, January 29, 2012 Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74 Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Major, Op. 81
of Princeton University, Greenberg holds
Sunday, March 18, 2012 String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 “American” String Quartet in G Major, Op. 106
is music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances. A graduate a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley, and has Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.
seen his compositions—which include more than 45 works for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles— performed all over the world.
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son, “The real standout is Jennifer John who sings gloriously.” —The Dallas Morning News
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A First Prize winner in the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano is equally at home in the worlds of opera, lieder and chamber music. She has appeared as Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold at the Metropolitan Opera, Ludmilla in the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School’s joint production of The Bartered Bride and tours with Musicians from Marlboro. Saturday, November 5, 2011 8PM VST Sunday, November 6, 2011 2PM VST regular
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Hilda Huang
Jason Vieaux
Alexi Kenney, violin and Hilda Huang, piano Young Artists Competition Winners Violinist Alexi Kenney, is the 2010 Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition Senior Grand Prize Winner. Kenney began playing the violin at age four and currently studies with Wei He at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. He is a senior at Palo Alto High School. Pianist Hilda Huang, is the 2010 Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition Junior Grand Prize Winner. Huang made her debut at Carnegie Hall at age 11, participating in the PBS series From the Top at Carnegie Hall. She also won the International Bach Competition in March, 2010, becoming the youngest person and the first American to win. She lives in Palo Alto. Saturday, January 14, 2012 8PM VST Sunday, January 15, 2012 2PM VST
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Roberto Diaz
Curtis On Tour Curtis on Tour brings the extraordinary artistry of the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music to audiences nationwide, with tomorrow’s leading musicians performing alongside celebrated Curtis alumni and faculty. To honor the Curtis Institute’s new Classical Guitar department, faculty members Jason Vieaux and David Starobin will join Curtis President Roberto Diaz in featuring the institute’s newest guitar students. Curtis on Tour performances embody the remarkable traditions of Curtis, where individually tailored training with a faculty of renowned musicians has nurtured a long line of great artists, from Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber to Hilary Hahn and Lang Lang. Saturday, March 10, 2012 8PM VST Sunday, March 11, 2012 2PM VST regular
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“Among the elite of today’s classical guitarists.” —Gramophone on Jason Vieaux
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ADD ON: Young Artists Competition Winners Concert Mondavi Center resident pianist Lara Downes hosts a celebratory concert featuring the incredibly talented winners of the seventh annual Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition. The competition, held annually in January, is juried by a panel of internationally renowned musicians, with winners in multiple categories including ensemble, instrumental, and vocal.
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Alexi Kenney, Young Artists Competition Winner
THREE FILMS FOR $25 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Standard Seating
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The three Focus on Film screenings can be purchased together now at a discounted rate of $25. The package is considered a single CYO or add-on event; series subscription discounts and benefits do not apply. Individual tickets for films on sale August 12.
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Directed by François Girard (1993) Not Rated, 98 minutes Hailed as “brilliant and transfixing,” by The New York Times, this innovative film offers a multidimensional look at the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould. A series of 32 vignettes paints a portrait of Gould’s bizarre genius weaving together interviews with those who knew him and a spell-binding performance by Colm Feore.
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(part of Growing Up in India. See p. 24.) Directed by Mira Nair (1988) Not Rated, 113 minutes
Directed by Oliver Stone (1986) Rated R, 120 minutes
This stark look at the lives of Bombay’s street children earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film in 1989. Left by his family at a young age, Krishna learns to survive on the streets alongside prostitutes and drug addicts hoping to save enough money to return home.
A young soldier arrives in Vietnam to face both a war in the jungle and a conflict within himself. Grappling with fear, anger and exhaustion, he must navigate the conflicting styles of his superior officers without becoming numb to the horrors of war and the value of human life. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Monday, November 14, 2011 7PM VST
Monday, January 9, 2012 7PM VST
Monday, October 24, 2011 7PM VST
You may also like: Lara Downes 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldbergs p. 35
You may also like: Growing Up in India p. 24
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Three Opera Films for $50 Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Standard Seating All three Focus on Opera High-Definition screenings are sung in Italian with English subtitles and include a behind-the-scenes interview at intermission.
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Ramón Vargas
Natalie Dessay
Tosca
The Elixir of Love
Lucia di Lammermoor
by Giacomo Puccini Recorded Summer 2009, 125 minutes
by Gaetano Donizetti Recorded Fall 2008, 158 minutes
by Gaetano Donizetti Recorded Summer 2008, 124 minutes
An idealistic artist, a celebrated singer and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of cruelty and deception. With its themes of political intrigue, sexual intimidation and official hypocrisy, Puccini’s great melodrama set in 1800 is anything but dated. Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka makes her company debut in the title role. Baritone Lado Ataneli (Scarpia) and Italian tenor Carlo Ventre make up the other sides of this fatal love triangle.
Donizetti’s charming comedy is a celebration of innocence, so what setting could be better than a small Italian-American community in the Napa Valley, circa 1915? In this ingenious update, the naïve Nemorino believes that a love potion will win him Adina’s heart. Blossoming from a shy Italian immigrant to a plucky entrepreneur, he captures both his sweetheart and the American dream over the course of this delightful opera buffa. Tenor Ramón Vargas superbly embodies the role of the lovesick Nemorino. The beautiful but aloof Adina is sung by soprano Inva Mula.
The emotionally fragile Lucia is driven to madness when manipulated to marry a man she does not love. Featuring the most famous mad scene in the repertory and full of ravishingly beautiful melodies, this timeless bel canto masterpiece evokes the passion and desperation of a woman used by her brother as a political pawn. Superstar Natalie Dessay owns this virtuosic role. Also starring Giuseppe Filianoti, Gabriele Viviani and Oren Gradus.
Monday, January 30, 2012 7PM VST
Monday, May 14, 2012 7PM VST
Monday, April 9, 2012 7PM VST
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UC Davis Big Band and Jazz Combo
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The UC Davis Department of Music presents more than 100 events each year by a range of ensembles, including the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus and Chamber Singers, Empyrean Ensemble, Concert Band and Wind Ensemble, Early Music and Baroque Ensembles, Jazz Band, Gospel Choir, Hindustani Vocal Ensemble, Gamelan Ensemble and Samba School. The department sponsors an annual artist-in-residence program, bringing internationally renowned artists for performances and lectures. Additionally, the department presents a free weekly noon concert series, which features visiting artists, department ensembles, and student performers in an informal setting.
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University Chorus Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
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For more information: music.ucdavis.edu
J.S. Bach Magnificat, BWV 243 Missa Brevis in A Major, BWV 234 The UC Davis University Chorus has approximately 125 members comprised of students and faculty of UC Davis and members of the community. The Chorus presents concerts of considerable variety ranging from the Baroque to the 21st century. Twice each academic year, it joins with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra to perform large-scale works, often including guest vocal soloists. Friday, December 2, 2011 8PM JH
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The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance presents three exciting Granada Artist-in-Residence productions each year. This program is unique in American university theatre, bringing world-class directors, playwrights, choreographers and filmmakers to campus each academic quarter to teach and create a work for public performance.
Directors such as William Gaskill, Yvonne Brewster, Annabel Arden and others also credited with shaping 20th-century theatre, have shared their aesthetic viewpoints and professional expertise. Granada artists have guided UC Davis students through the world's theatrical repertoire in diverse projects that range from Shakespeare's work to the contemporary realism of Miller and non-realism of Shogo Ohta.
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce Michael Barakiva as fall 2011 Granada Artist-in-Residence.
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The Granada program has been part of the artistic life of the Department of Theatre and Dance and the larger Davis community for 30 years. Initially hosting British practitioners exclusively, it has been expanded to include distinguished artists from all parts of the globe to better reflect the rich cultural mix of students at UC Davis.
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Michael is an Armenian/Israeli director based in New York City. He has worked in New York and around the country, developing new works and staging classics. Most notably, he has directed the premieres of Wendy Wasserstein’s Welcome To My Rash and Third at Theatre J in Washington, D.C., the first workshop of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, UP by Bridget Carpenter at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and The Seagull by Anton Chekhov at the Blue Heron. Most recently, he directed the premiere of The Usher’s Ball by Fengar Gael at the Collaborative Arts Project 21 and White People by Neil Cuthbert and They Float Up by Jackie Reingold at the Ensemble Studio Theater.
For more information: theatredance.ucdavis.edu
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Michael has previously worked with UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance professor and scenic designer John Iacovelli. Their collaboration on Burn This at Shakespeare Santa Cruz received glowing reviews.
We believe that by developing these deeper relationships with artists, arts organizations, and our campus community, our programming is enriched and our audiences are the beneficiaries.
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Engagement
ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIPS
At the Mondavi Center, we believe that presenting great work is not enough; we also must provide ways for audiences to develop a deeper, more engaged relationship with the arts. We aim to accomplish this by connecting audiences with the world-renowned artists and speakers that visit our venue, and through partnerships and collaborations with other arts organizations, both on and off campus.
The Mondavi Center has developed partnerships with some of the great arts organizations of our day. Our relationship with the Curtis Institute of Music, arguably the finest music school in the land, enters its third year with Curtis on Tour bringing amazing young musicians to perform in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, and to share their experiences with fellow student musicians throughout the region.
ON CAMPUS The Mondavi Center is the only performing arts center in our region that can draw on the intellectual and creative resources of a major research university. This connection to UC Davis benefits not only the campus community, but all Mondavi Center attendees, by providing occasions where campus artists and experts help us better engage with the arts and speakers the Mondavi Center presents. Activities such as free Pre-Performance Talks (PPT), and Post-Performance Question and Answer sessions (Q&A) regularly draw on campus experts to provide enlightenment and context for our audience members. In 2011-12, faculty from UC Davis’ Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, including program Director Dr. Sudipta Sen, have collaborated with the Mondavi Center to create the film festival and photo exhibit Growing Up in India, part of a season-long Focus on India. The Mondavi Center also is proud to participate in the UC Davis Campus Community Book Project, as part of our continuing contribution to UC Davis’s Principles of Community. This year community members will be reading Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and taking part in a variety of activities related to the shared experience of reading the book. We encourage our audiences to learn more about these important UC Davis initiatives at: Principles of Community principles.ucdavis.edu
In 2011–12, we expand our long-time association with the San Francisco Symphony (SFS), which will appear twice in our Western Health Advantage Orchestra Series, and once in our Concert Series as the SFS Chamber Ensemble. Each of these appearances will develop into a mini-residency in Davis and elsewhere, with musicians from the SFS mentoring local and university musicians during their stay. This season we also expand our relationship with the worldrenowned San Francisco Opera (SFO). In 2011-12 it is our pleasure to present Focus on Opera, three HD screenings of the SFO’s acclaimed productions of Puccini’s Tosca, and Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love (with Ramon Vargas) and Lucia Di Lammermoor (with Natalie Dessay). And, in what has fast become a popular Mondavi Center tradition, current SFO Adler Fellows join the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra under Christian Baldini in a special concert that honors Barbara K. Jackson’s commitment to young artists. (Barbara is also sponsoring this concert, which allows us to offer it free to the community.) We also begin a new partnership with SFJAZZ, whose members will mentor a student ensemble, assembled from high school students in our region, culminating in a live performance in Jackson Hall, with the student ensemble opening for the SFJAZZ Collective. ON STAGE Pre-Performance Talks Free to all ticket holders, these half-hour talks and conversations with UC Davis faculty, local arts experts and guest artists provide context for our audiences—one of the most popular programs we offer. Post-Performance Q&A with the Artists After select Mondavi Center performances, artists return to the stage to take questions from the audience, providing a unique opportunity to share artists’ reactions and insights.
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Mondavi Center Arts Education Programs • Expose young people to the full spectrum of performing arts • Support the growth of young and adult artists by work with •
professional artist mentors in residence Provide professional development in the arts for area teachers
Mondavi Center programs for K-12 students open the classroom to the creative process, while conforming to the California Visual and Performing Arts Standards. Residency activities bring master classes and lecture-demonstrations to aspiring K-12, college and adult artists. Through both exposure and participatory activities, we seek to ensure that the arts remain an integral part of our region’s rich heritage.
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School matinee program: K-12 ExPOSURE TO THE ARTS Target School Matinee Series Hour-long performances and lecture-demonstrations at Mondavi Center specially produced for students, School Matinees are high-quality, curriculum-based learning experiences that address and support the content standards for the California Visual and Performing Arts for K–12 education. CueSheets Provided free to all teachers attending school matinees, CueSheets contain background information on the artists and their art form to enhance students’ understanding of the performance, as well as guidelines for appropriate audience etiquette. Also available online. California Visual and Performing Arts Standards Curriculum Development The Mondavi Center has produced a series of 10 Curriculum Guides to meet the core standards of the California Visual and Performing Arts curriculum. Free to all teachers, Curriculum Guides are available for elementary grades in Storytelling, Instrumental Music, Dance, Elementary Theater, Multicultural Music, Ethnic Dance and Vocal Music, and for secondary grades in Drama, Jazz and Modern Dance. Also available online. Pre-Matinee Classroom Talks Docents from the Friends of Mondavi Center visit area classrooms before the students attend a matinee and deliver a 30-minute talk designed to support teachers’ preparations for the matinee.
ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG and adult ARTISTS The Mondavi Center is dedicated to bringing its guest artists into our community and schools to support the artistic development of area artists, both youth and adult. Artists appearing at the Mondavi Center conduct master classes and workshops for performing arts magnet schools and other institutions, offering advanced classroom opportunities for aspiring dancers, musicians and theater artists. Both the San Francisco Symphony and SFJAZZ regularly provide master classes and sectionals to young classical and jazz musicians. Every artist on the Mondavi Center Debut series spends 2-3 days providing residencies in local schools. In recent seasons, great musicians like Delfeayo Marsalis, Leon Fleisher and Vladimir Feltsman have offered free master classes to area musicians. The annual Young Artists Competition is our most important regional activity, which recognizes and rewards our top young talent.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT programs for teachers Kennedy Center Partners in Education The Mondavi Center has partnered with the Twin Rivers Unified School District and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to provide in-depth professional development workshops. These are led by artists trained by the Kennedy Center to help teachers learn how to integrate the arts into their classrooms. Globe Education Academy for Teachers In partnership with Los Rios Community College District, the School of Education, UC Davis and Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the Mondavi Center offers a unique professional development opportunity each year for 12 drama and English teachers (grades 7–12) to immerse themselves in the world of William Shakespeare, both in London and at UC Davis. At the heart of the Academy experience is a two-week intensive residency at Shakespeare’s Globe in London in July 2011, during which the teachers will work with Globe Education theater practitioners. Teachers complete the program with a festival day of theater and celebration with their students at the Mondavi Center in November 2011.
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g n i v i g f o t r the a Your generous donation allows us to bring world-class artists and speakers to the Sacramento Valley, and energize and inspire tens of thousands of school children and teachers through our nationally recognized Arts Education programs.
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Former Secretary of State Dr. Madeleine K. Albright with UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and Barbara K. Jackson
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Licensed Seats* Impresario: $25,000 Virtuoso: $15,000 Maestro: $10,000 Personal Concierge Service distinguishes our Leadership Circle benefits, providing the flexibility to order excellent tickets within a few days of performances. Other benefits include: • • •
Recognition as the individual sponsor of a Mondavi Center performance of your choice Invitation to a private dinner with Mondavi Center guest artists Plus all Inner Circle and Community Circle benefits
INNER CIRCLE Licensed Seats* Benefactor: $6,000 Producer: $3,000 • • • • •
Dedicated VIP ticket line: personalized service for ticketing and seating requests Ability to purchase tickets for your licensed seats up to 45 days prior to each performance Private 2012-13 season preview and dinner with the Executive Director and Associate Executive Director Parking (fair market value is applied) Plus all Community Circle benefits
*Licensed Seats: the exclusive privilege to purchase tickets in the same reserved, prime seating location for any Mondavi Center presentation in Jackson Hall. This is the very best way to assure your seating at all Mondavi Center presentations.
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Director: $1,100 The Inner Circle Director level is highlighted by significant seating priority. You get the best seats available! • • • • •
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COMMUNITY CIRCLE Encore: $600 • Invitation to a backstage Cast Party • Admission to open rehearsals and master classes with guest artists • Plus all benefits listed below … Orchestra: $300 • Invitation to a backstage book signing for a Distinguished Speakers Series artist • Admission to a School Matinee performance • Plus all benefits listed below … Mainstage: $100 • Opportunity to buy single tickets before the general public (Includes Just Added performances) • Advanced mailing of season brochures • Invitation to a private, behind-the-scenes Mondavi Center tour • Listing in the season playbill
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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. Ushers are available at the doors to Jackson Hall and the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre to answer questions and seat patrons. 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 lastminute requests. Requests for these accommodations may be made when purchasing tickets at 530.754.2787 or TDD 530.754.5402.
Listening Enhancement Devices Assistive Listening Devices are installed in both Jackson Hall and the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Receivers that can be used with or without hearing aids are available for patrons who have difficulty understanding the dialogue or song lyrics. They 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.
Elevators 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, baby-changing 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.
Parking You may purchase parking passes for individual Mondavi Center events for $6 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.
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.
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The Mondavi Center offers three easy ways to purchase your 2011-12 subscriptions. Whether you prefer to speak with a friendly customer service representative or make your purchases online at home, we have made buying subscriptions an easy, no-hassle process.
Online New Ticket System for 2011–12 We have installed a whole new ticketing system! This state-of-the-art system easily guides you through the online ticketing process for purchasing subscriptions. If you have bought tickets online before, you will be asked to fill in some account details for our new system. This may include some details you have told us before, but it will not require you to create a new account. Shows in our 2010-11 season are still available in our old system. Subscriptions and any events occurring after June 6 are sold through our new ticket system. To assist you with our new system, the ticket office phone lines will be open extended hours (10AM–6PM) from April 9–April 23. Call 866.754.5424 for assistance.
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Visit mondaviarts.org to start your order. If you have never bought tickets to a Mondavi Center event, select the tab that says “Don’t have an account? Register here.” If you have purchased tickets on our site before, select the tab for “Forgot Login? / Activate Account.” From there, follow the prompts and we’ll send you a temporary password so that you can activate your account in our new system. We will acknowledge receipt of your order with an email.
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Fill out the attached order form. Return your order form along with payment (check or credit card number) to: Mondavi Center Ticket Office University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 We will acknowledge receipt of your order with an email.
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Ticket Office Monday–Saturday: Noon–6PM Sunday: On performance days, open one hour prior to curtain time through first intermission. Mail Mondavi Center Ticket Office University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616
1. Would you like to buy a full series (such as Concert, With a Twist or Distinguished Speakers) or would you like to Create Your Own subscription by selecting five or more events? 2. If you have opted for a Series Subscription, are there one or two events you’d like to add on at our Add On price? 3. You are now ready to head on over to the order form. There are instructions there for selecting your series, your Choose Your Own Shows, Add Ons and your seating preferences. 4. If you are buying extra events as Add Ons or if you are UC Davis faculty or staff, refer to the chart on page 3 of the order form for special prices. Prices for student and children are there also. 5. You can take care of your parking on the order form as well. See the dark blue column for the appropriate amounts. 6. Ticket sales only cover 40% of the cost of performances. Have you added a donation to the Mondavi Center when your place your order? See step #3 on the order form for details. 7. Add everything up. The total goes in the red blank at the bottom of page 2 on the order form. 8.
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September 30 Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder p. 21 October 1 Wayne Shorter Quartet p. 14 2 Alexander String Quartet 1 p. 38 6 Yamato p. 31 8 Jonathan Franzen p. 11 San Francisco Symphony p. 8 13 Scottish Ballet p. 6 19 k.d. lang and The Siss Boom Bang p. 18 20 Rising Stars of Opera p. 18 21 Focus on Film: 24 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould p. 42 Hilary Hahn, violin p. 13 29 29–30 So Percussion: A John Cage Celebration p. 34 November Cinematic Titanic p. 28 4 5–6 Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano p. 40 If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise p. 16 7–8 9–11 Hot 8 Brass Band p. 16 Trey McIntyre Project 12 and Preservation Hall Jazz Band p. 6 and p. 16 12–13 Lara Downes: 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldbergs p. 35 14 Focus on Film: Salaam Bombay! p. 42 14–15 Growing Up In India: A Film and Photo Exhibition p. 24 December 7–10 Tia Fuller Quartet p. 37 8 Mariachi Sol de México de Jóse Hernàndez p. 19 11 Lara Downes Family Concert: Green Eggs and Ham p. 32 Blind Boys of Alabama with Sara Watkins p. 19 15 18 American Bach Soloists: Messiah p. 19 January 5 San Francisco Symphony p. 8 Focus on Film: Platoon p. 42 9 14–15 Alexi Kenney, violin and Hilda Huang, piano p. 40 19 Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca p. 4 25–28 Alfredo Rodriguez Trio p. 37 27 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra p. 8 Alexander String Quartet 2 p. 38 29 30 Focus on Opera: Tosca p. 43
February Oliver Stone p. 11 3 4 Rachel Barton Pine, violin with the Chamber Soloists Orchestra of New York p. 13 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo p. 28 9 11–12 CIRCA p. 31 14 Loudon Wainwright III & Leo Kottke p. 21 Eric Owens, bass-baritone p. 4 17 Chucho Valdés 18 and the Afro-Cuban Messengers p. 26 22 The Chieftains p. 18 Overtone Quartet p. 14 25 March Angelique Kidjo p. 26 2 9 Garrick Ohlsson, piano p. 13 10–11 Curtis On Tour p. 40 17–18 Ballet Preljocaj: Blanche Neige p. 3 18 Alexander String Quartet 3 p. 38 Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion p. 22 22 24–25 Circus Oz p. 31 29 SFJAZZ Collective p. 14 April 1 9 11 13 14–15 17 18–21 19–22 28 MAY 2 9 12 13 14 16–19
Young Artists Competition Winners Concert p. 41 Focus on Opera: The Elixir of Love p. 43 Sherman Alexie p. 11 Bettye LaVette p. 21 Zippo Songs: Poems from the Front p. 35 Anoushka Shankar p. 22 The Bad Plus p. 37 The Improvised Shakespeare Company p. 28 Maya Beiser p. 22
San Francisco Symphony Chamber Ensemble p.13 Patti Smith p. 11 New York Philharmonic p. 8 ODC/Dance: The Velveteen Rabbit p. 32 Focus on Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor p. 43 Supergenerous p. 26
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