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Artist Series pros calling CU musicians to the stage............ 6 Calendar........................................ 8 CU guitar festival strikes a global chord.............................. 12
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Artist Series pros calling CU musicians to the stage For nearly eight decades, the Artist Series has brought some of the world’s top musicians, dancers, theater troupes and personalities to Boulder’s doorstep.
Playing with top-notch acts before a large audience can also be a valuable experience for students who hope to perform professionally after graduation.
Hundreds of artists, from poet Carl Sandburg in 1939, to Paul Robeson as Othello and the Trapp Family Singers of “Sound of Music” fame in the 1940s, conductor and violinist Isaac Stern in 1970 and Ladysmith Black Mambazo and MOMIX in the 21st century have graced the stage at Macky Auditorium.
“Much of the work our students will do as professional musicians will be in the popular-commercial genre. It is increasingly important for our students to be comfortable and conversant with various styles, beyond traditional classical music,” says Gary Lewis, director of orchestral studies. “This opportunity will be invaluable to them and it will be great fun to collaborate with such a wonderful artist as Natalie Merchant.”
And in recent years, some have specifically requested that CU-Boulder College of Music students join them in creating an evening of scintillating entertainment. This year, eight musicians will play Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Play and Play on Jan. 22. And on April 2, the CU Symphony Orchestra will accompany platinum-selling alt-rock sensation Natalie Merchant in a performance of her songs.
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The Artist Series presents the world’s finest performers in classical music, jazz, theater, dance and world music in majestic Macky Auditorium. For detailed information and tickets, go to cupresents.org.
BILL T. JONES/ ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY
Play and Play Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Choreographed to some of the world’s best-loved and most seminal works of classical music— Mozart, Ravel, Schubert—and performed with live musicians, Bill T. Jones’ astonishingly original, muscular work, Play and Play, is dance like you’ve never seen it before. Winner of two Tony Awards and recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Jones has continually expanded the possibilities of dance. Sponsored by James & Associates.
MEDESKI, MARTIN AND WOOD with ALARM WILL SOUND
Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Get ready for incomparable originality, a little jamming and a lot of fun when the hip, cutting-edge chamber music of Alarm Will
Sound melds with the eclectic avant-jazz-funk sound of Medeski, Martin and Wood. The groove-oriented trio, a hit on the jam-band circuit pioneered by the Grateful Dead, and the versatile new-music ensemble will take you on an evening of daring collaboration and thrilling improvisation.
THE ASSAD BROTHERS with ROMERO LUBAMBO
Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Exotic Latin flair takes the stage when the Assad Brothers, Brazil’s most celebrated classical guitarists, join with jazz guitar virtuoso Romero Lubambo for Samba Exótico, an exploration of Samba and Choros, a popular 19th-century genre that blossomed in Rio de Janeiro. With its roots in Africa and unique fermentation in the coastal city of Bahia, Samba vibrates with the essence of Brazil. Sponsored by Shaw Construction and partnered by HB Woodsongs.
NATALIE MERCHANT with THE CU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Over her stellar 30year career, Natalie Merchant has been the driving force behind alt-pop sensation 10,000 Maniacs and embarked on a multi-platinum solo career, always delving deep into the human condition with her lyrical storytelling. Now she brings that same searching literary sensibility and her distinctive vocal style to new heights in a performance of her music, old and new, arranged for orchestra. Sponsored by Hurdle’s Jewelry.
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Wide-ranging repertoire, lavish scenery, drama and amazing voices—CU Opera has it all. Director Leigh Holman and Music Director Nicholas Carthy showcase the talent of the future in three productions each season. Go to cupresents.org for detailed ticket information and times.
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By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart March 13-15, Macky Auditorium Mozart’s witty opera buffa follows 24 hours in the lives of two beautiful sisters whose scandalous infidelities make for a comic romp that was considered too hot for audiences even in the early 20th century. Featuring some of the composer’s most sumptuous arias, duets, this production will be set in the late 1950s with a nod to the famous film, Pillow Talk. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
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L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (THE CORONATION OF POPPEA)
By Claudio Monteverdi April 23-26 Music Theatre, Imig Music Building Monteverdi’s drama about sex, crime and realpolitik during the debauched reign of the Roman Emperor Nero, turns conventional morality on its head—virtue is punished and greed rewarded. The score soars but the sensual duet between Nero and his lover—eventually wife—Poppea, Pur ti miro, pur ti godo—meaning, “I gaze at you, I possess you”—is the pièce de résistance. Sung in Italian with English surtitles. This production will be styled after the hit Netflix realpolitik series House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey.
SPRING SWING
Sunday, April 12, 2 p.m., Macky Auditorium Join the CU Concert Jazz Ensemble and guest artists for a swinging return to the Big Band era. The program will feature music from the ensemble’s new recording, a tribute to the greatest bands and composers of the era, including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and more. A special guest will join the band as well! Brad Goode, director
Tomorrow’s talent is onstage today with a wide variety of performances from CU students and faculty. For detailed ticket and event information go to www.colorado.edu/theatredance.
TARTUFFE
By Molière Translated by Christopher Hampton Directed by Lynn Nichols Feb. 13-22, University Theatre French playwright Molière’s comic masterpiece skewers religious hypocrisy, mindless piety and sexual deceit. It was so daring at the time of its writing that audience members could be excommunicated for seeing it. Tartuffe tells how a “man of the cloth” worms his way into the gullible heart of Orgon, a rich family man, and tries to take him for all he has. It takes a desperate trap by Orgon’s wife Elmire to expose the imposter.
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Lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Directed by Cecilia Pang April 10-19, University Theatre Ever since the controversial rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice was
released as a concept album in 1970, it has enflamed the passions of critics and fans alike. The story of Jesus of Nazareth during his final days, from the time of his arrival in Jerusalem to his crucifixion, this high-energy, immensely popular show plunges deep into the hearts of the men and women, from Judas Iscariot to Mary Magdalene to Pontius Pilate, who played a part in one of the most momentous stories ever told.
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April 17-19 Charlotte York Irey Theatre A showcase of vital new works by CU dance faculty and Millicent Johnnie, the 2014-15 Roser Guest Artist in Dance. Johnnie has performed with Urban Bush Women, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and choreographed for Grammy Award-winning artists Usher Raymond, Chrisette Michele and Los Hombres Calientes, and record labels Def Jam, Columbia, Interscope, Arista Records and others.
The Grammy Award-winning quartet— Edward Dusinberre, violin; Károly Schranz, violin; Geraldine Walther, viola; and András Fejer, cello—has been selling out concerts for three decades at CU-Boulder with an irresistible blend of viruosic technique and engaging personalities. All Takács performances take place in Grusin Music Hall. Takacsquartet.com
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Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Beethoven
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Sunday, April 26, 2015, 4 p.m. Monday, April 27, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Haydn, Carter Pann, Cesar Franck
The nation’s second-oldest Shakespeare festival raises the curtain June 5 for its exciting 2015 season. CSF is a unique Boulder experience you won’t want to miss — magic, mirth, mayhem … and mountains. Go to coloradoshakes.org for more information and tickets.
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Directed by Jim Helsinger, Orlando Shakespeare Theater June 5-Aug. 9 Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre Romantic, raucous and razor-sharp, the Hamlet of Shakespeare comedies strikes hilarious chords even as it reveals timeless truths about love, change and acceptance. The men have returned victorious from war, but the merry sparring — and sparks — between Benedick the stubborn bachelor and witty, self-assured Beatrice have just begun.
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Directed by CSF Producing Artistic Director Timothy Orr June 11-Aug. 8 (Colorado premier) University Theatre To believe or not to believe? That is the question when Prince Hamlet, a dazed-and-confused senior at Wittenberg University, circa 1517, is caught in the crossfire between two giants
of philosophy — and ego — the freethinking skeptic Dr. Faustus and stuffy, guilt-ridden Martin Luther. Punny, funny, brainy and zany, David Davalos’ ingenious mashup is equal parts Tom Stoppard, campus caper and metaphysical mind-trip.
OTHELLO
Directed by Lisa Wolpe, Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Co. June 26-Aug. 8 Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre In a country at war, Othello the Moor commands with authority and nobility of spirit, drawing strength from his bold and beautiful wife, Desdemona. But he has placed his trust in one of Shakespeare’s most sinister villains, Iago, who would sow seeds of doubt and destruction in the garden of their love. Passion, jealousy and murder explode in a sexy theatrical thriller that tumbles toward a diabolical finale
HENRY V
Directed by Carolyn Howarth, director of CSF’s 2014 Henry IV, Part 1 July 16-Aug. 9, University Theatre England’s crown rests on the head of the once wild and undisciplined acolyte of Falstaff, Prince Hal, now a wise and noble monarch leading his country into war with France. Rousing and cinematic in scope, Henry V raises compelling questions about leadership in a troubled world that powerfully echoes our own. With this production, CSF completes the fourplay Henriad history cycle begun in 2013.
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CU guitar festival strikes a global chord As it turns out, there was no need to fret. The CU International Guitar Festival debuted in February 2013, attracting 41 top performers from around the world, including China, Serbia and Latin America. The winners took home thousands of dollars in prizes and returned to Boulder in 2014 to teach and perform.
In just over three years, Nicolò Spera has put CU-Boulder on the map as a true global mecca for classical-guitar teaching, performance and competition. When he arrived in 2011 to launch the College of Music’s classical-guitar program, the renowned Italian performer defied conventional wisdom on easing into a new job and launched plans to host a guitar festival and competition on campus. “It was one of my biggest dreams,” says Spera, assistant professor in the Ritter Family Classical Guitar program, “but I knew it would take a long time. Often when you launch something new it doesn’t work. You hope it does more or less well and hope to have a second one.”
The second bi-annual festival will take place Feb. 19-21, featuring compeNICOLÓ SPERA. COURTESY PHOTO. tition among 40 to 50 of the world’s most talented guitarists, as well as master classes and performances by Brazil’s Assad Brothers — “(T)he best two-guitar team in existence, maybe even in history,” according to the Washington Post — the Italian SoloDuo and Nigel North, hailed as “the greatest lute player of all time” by England’s Birmingham Post. “Basically, we have the two greatest classical guitar duos in the world, the Assad Brothers, the greatest of the 20th century, and SoloDuo, representing the future,” Spera says. “I am so grateful and ecstatic for the fantastic collaboration with the Artist Series and Macky Auditorium, which bring to Colorado the greatest artists in the world.” All events are free except for the Artist Series performance by the Assad Brothers and Brazilian jazz virtuoso Romero Lubambo at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19 in Macky Auditorium. For tickets, go to cupresents.org or call 303-492-8008.
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String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3, “Emperor” I. Allegro II. Poco adagio, cantabile III. Menuetto. Allegro IV. Finale. Presto Elegischer Gesang, Op. 118, “Elegiac Song” Langsam und sanft
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano Rebecca Robinson, alto Matthew Chellis, tenor Luke Williams, bass Intermission String Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden” I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Scherzo. Allegro molto IV. Presto
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
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Edward Dusinberre, violin Károly Schranz, violin Geraldine Walther, viola András Fejér, cello
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String Quartet in C major, Opus 76, No. 3, “Emperor” Joseph Haydn No sense in starting at the beginning. Let’s commence with this quartet’s instantly recognizable second movement. It’s a set of four variations built on a melody that may well be Haydn’s most famous tune—at least, to those who know him as the author. And yet, for many listeners, the music also stirs dark memories of excited crowds proudly singing it at Nazi rallies in the 1930s. Germans today know it as their national anthem, Deutschlandlied (words written in 1841). But the music wasn’t intended as a nationalistic statement. Instead, it originated as a celebratory piece, Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (God Save Emperor Franz), presented to Francis II on his birthday, Feb. 12, 1797. The melody’s inspiration can be traced to Haydn’s two residencies in London earlier in the 1790s. There, the composer heard God Save the King and was impressed by its patriotic passion. Knowing that Napoleon’s army was descending on Vienna in 1796, Haydn realized he had created music that could go beyond pleasing Emperor Francis. An ardent nationalist, the composer had approached his music-loving friend Baron von Sweiten to commission a stirring text by Lorenz Haschka, which would inspire his countrymen through a time of crisis. And so it did. Soon after that first royal performance, Viennese theaters were ordered to perform the piece, which added greatly to Haydn’s popularity. In 1847, it became the anthem of Austria’s emperors—replaced in the 1920s by a new melody (once thought composed by Mozart) that would now serve as the nation’s official anthem. The Germans adopted Haydn’s music as their anthem in 1922. No surprise that, after the 1938 Anschluss, Austrians were forbidden to sing it. Amazing how an elegant two-part melody can carry so much baggage and generate so many emotions. In his day, Haydn clearly loved it, as can be discerned by the respectful way he crafted four straightforward variations—each assigning the tune to a different instrument. The quartet is the third of six dedicated to Count Joseph Erdödy, all completed later in 1797. It is said that, in his last years of failing health, the composer would play the Emperor’s anthem on the piano and weep. After completing Opus 76, Haydn would write only three more Quartets. The movements surrounding that famous Poco adagio, cantabile reveal little evidence that Haydn, who all but invented the string quartet, had infused his 80 or so works for four strings with increasingly innovative experimentation. In this late piece, he seems content to let the Emperor’s noble, unfussy anthem set the tone. There’s nothing
particularly earth-shaking in the opening Allegro’s smile-inducing main theme (highlighted by a charming drone-accompanied peasant variant) and certainly few surprises in the pleasant Menuetto. The three attention-grabbing minor-key chords that spark the Finale are a bit of a jolt, bringing a welcome depth to the work and reminding us of the composer’s earlier experiments with the melodramatic histrionics of the Sturm und Drang fad. Elegischer Gesang, Opus 118, “Elegiac Song” Ludwig van Beethoven Ever the restless soul, Beethoven changed apartments in Vienna frequently, often on a moment’s notice. Legend has it that he caught a landlady listening outside his door, and promptly moved out. But one residence seemed to bring him consistent comfort and security—the home of Baron Johann von Pasqualati (1777-1830), a four-story structure located on the city’s outskirts with a lovely view of the Vienna Woods and the hills to the north. Beethoven resided there (off and on, of course) from 1804-15. It was in that room on the top floor where some of his great middle-period symphonies, concertos and string quartets were written. The baron remained ever loyal to his houseguest and friend, bowing to the composer’s wishes that the room remain unoccupied in his absence. In July 1826, as Beethoven’s health deteriorated, the baron had gifts of food and wine delivered. Clearly, then, this was a deep and lasting friendship, one also seen in Beethoven response to the sudden death of Pasqualati’s 24-year-old wife, Eleonore, on Aug. 5, 1811. Three years later—on the anniversary of his wife’s passing—the Baron was presented with a short work for four voices and four strings, inscribed by Beethoven as a memorial “to the transfigured spouse of my esteemed friend Pascolati” (sic). The text is by an unknown author, though some have guessed that the words were penned by the baron. Although a catalog of Beethoven’s works lists this Elegaic Song as having been performed in the Baron’s home on Aug. 5, 1814 by a vocal and string quartet, arguments remain whether it was actually intended for a chorus and string orchestra (several recordings treat it as such). Considering the personal gesture behind its composition, it makes more sense to hear opus 118 in its most intimate setting—performed by a quartet of singers and instrumentalists. Slow and quite moving in expressing its heartfelt feelings, the song carries a simple text honoring the memory of Eleonore, and intended to bring solace to the still-grieving Baron:
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“Give me your hand, you fair and tender creature. I am a friend and come not to punish. Be of good cheer! I am not cruel, You shall sleep gently in my arms.” Earlier in this program, we heard Haydn offer some variations on an original theme, never straying far from the melody. In Schubert’s hands, however, these somber chords grow from a straightforward dirge into an extraordinary collection of five increasingly expansive variations in G minor. Some of them develop directly from that repeating pulse (which may have been inspired by the rhythmic motif in the Allegretto of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony). Other episodes explore the possibilities of the subtly concealed melody—at one point switching from minor to major. The quartet’s other three movements remain steadfastly in the ominous key of D minor, as if to underscore Schubert’s dark mood. The dramatic
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Recognized as one of the world’s great ensembles, the Takács Quartet plays with a unique blend of drama, warmth and humor, combining four distinct musical personalities to bring fresh insights to the string quartet repertoire. The Takács became the first string quartet to win the Wigmore Hall Medal on May 10, 2014. The medal, inaugurated in 2007, recognizes major international artists who have a strong association with the hall. In 2012, Gramophone announced that the Takács was the only string quartet to be inducted into its first Hall of Fame. The ensemble also won the 2011 Award for Chamber Music and Song presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. Since 1988, the quartet has also made 16 recordings of works by Beethoven, Bartók, Borodin, Brahms, Chausson, Dvořák, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Smetana for the Decca label. The ensemble’s recording of the six Bartók string quartets received the 1998 Gramophone Award for chamber music. The ensemble’s other Decca recordings include Dvořák’s String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51 and Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 with pianist Andreas Haefliger; Schubert’s Quartet in G Major and Notturno Piano Trio with Mr. Haefliger; the three Brahms string quartets and Piano Quintet in F Minor with pianist András Schiff; and Mozart’s String Quintets, K515 and 516 with Gyorgy Pauk, viola. The members of the Takács Quartet are Christoffersen Faculty Fellows at the University of Colorado Boulder, where the quartet has helped to develop a string program with a special emphasis on chamber music.
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For much of his tragically short life, Schubert was obsessed with death. In later years, this preoccupation intensified due to his unending suffering from the syphilis he apparently contracted in 1822 or ‘23. In March, 1824, he wrote to a friend, “I feel myself to be the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world. … Each night I go to bed hoping never to wake again.” That same year witnessed the completion of two inescapably dark chamber-music works: the string quartets nos. 13 in A minor and 14, known as Death and the Maiden. Given his morbid outlook, it figures that the teenaged composer would have been drawn to Der Tod und das Mädchen, a chilling little poem by Matthias Claudius (1740-1815). Schubert’s spine-chilling Lied setting (published as Op. 7, No. 3 in 1817) seems prophetic, given the devastating illness that would later spread through his diminutive body. The song’s haunting, long-short-short introductory piano chords would return as the basis for the second movement in that 14th string quartet. Claudius’ poem opens with the Maiden anxiously pleading to Death: “Pass me by, ah, pass me by, Cruel man of bones! I am still young, go, dear one, And do not touch me.” Death responds with quiet, unsettling words of comfort, delivered in solemn tones and supported by those funereal chords:
opening Allegro explodes out of the gate with a forceful display of isolated chords and climactic build-ups, pivoting into a pleasant new theme that brings a brief escape from the prevailing gloom. A similar battle between light and dark unfolds in the stern Scherzo, with its lilting little Trio. The brilliant final Presto is a skipping Tarantella, but one suggesting a macabre dance of death rather than a happy, whirling folksy frolic. The entire work seems to stretch the limits of four players—in fact, Gustav Mahler sought to arrange it for string orchestra in 1896. Along with its A-minor predecessor, this quartet remains one of the towering masterpieces of the genre, although public acceptance took some time. After a readthrough in 1826, the noted violinist and Beethoven champion Ignaz Schuppanzigh offered some advice to Schubert: “Brother, this is nothing at all. Let well alone. Stick to your Lieder.”
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Artist Bios American soprano Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson is assistant professor of voice at CU-Boulder. She enjoys a busy and varied singing career in the U.S. and Europe and has performed at the Vienna Volksoper, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Bonn, Theater Chemnitz, Theater Lübeck, Theater Würzburg and Theater Hagen and others. Her credits include title roles in in Lulu and Lucia di Lammermoor, Ann Trulove in The Rake’s Progress and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, among many others. She has been the featured soloist with the Stuttgart Philharmonic at the Stuttgart Konzerthalle and in Luxembourg with the Orchestra of the Warsaw Teatr Wielki and in 2010 made her Lincoln Center. Bird has been a prizewinner in several international competitions, including First Prizes in both the Sylvia Geszty Competition and the Robert Stolz Competition and 3rd Prize in the Alexander Girardi Competition, where she also received a special award for exceptional dramatic ability. jennifer-bird.com Matthew Chellis, assistant professor of voice at CU-Boulder, is considered one of America’s most versatile singing actors. He has appeared with opera companies, orchestras and theatre companies in North and South America and Europe. He has sung more than 20 principal roles with New York City Opera and sung with Washington National
Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opera Bogotá and Calgary Opera, among others. Concert performances include numerous appearances at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Boston Symphony Hall. Chellis has taught at New York University and Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. He is the founder and executive director of the Up North Vocal Institute, an intensive four-week vocal training program located in northern Michigan. matthewchellis.com Mezzo-soprano Rebecca L. Robinson is pursuing a professional certificate in voice performance at CUBoulder and will make her Eklund Opera Program debut as Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (March 13-15), and sing the part of Ottone in Montiverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea in April. rebeccalrobinson.com Luke Williams, bass-baritone, is pursuing a doctorate in vocal performance and pedagogy at CU-Boulder, where he studies under Patrick Mason. At CU-Boulder, he has been seen as the Sergeant in The Pirates of Penzance, Pistola in Falstaff, Father Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, and will play Don Alfonzo in the Eklund Opera Programs production of Così fan tutte (March 13-15).
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Faculty Tuesday recitals are held at 7:30 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall in the Imig Music Building at CU-Boulder. All performances are free and open to the public. (Musical programs and performers subject to change.)
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Geraldine Walther, viola, with Matthew Dane, viola d’amore, Margaret McDonald, piano, Lina Bahn, violin, Sharon Park, violin, and Andrew Brown, cello
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Rachmaninoff’s Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, Tomas Ades’ Arcadiana and a viola duo.
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Jeffrey Nytch and Carter Pann, composers, with Christina Jennings, flute, Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano, Andrew Cooperstock, piano, Margaret McDonald, piano, Erika Eckert, viola, Chas Wetherbee, violin, and special-guest flutist Lindsey Goodman
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Daniel Kellogg, composer, Bjorn Arvidsson, librettist and tenor, with Hsing-Ay Hsu, piano, and singers
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BENEFACTOR Albert and Nancy Boggess Gary and Judith Judd in memory of Fay Shwayder Norma R. Johnson Fund in memory of Fay Shwayder Janet and David Robertson The Takács Quartet SPONSOR Pamela Decker Marion Thurnauer and Alexander Trifunac PATRON Catharine Hawkins Foundation Thomas and Carol Cech Chris and Barbara Christoffersen Carol Lena Kovner Kathleen Sullivan John and Carson Taylor SUPPORTER Anonymous Anne Heinz and Ron Yaron Robert R. Kehoe Walter and Eileen Kintsch Maxine Mark Lise Menn Virginia M. Newton Newton Family Fund, Inc. Neil and Martha Palmer Mikhy and Michael Ritter Susan and David Seitz Lawrence and Ann Thomas James and Lena Wockenfuss
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Personnel COLLEGE OF MUSIC ADVISORY BOARD Robert Shay, Dean James R. Austin Chris Brauchli Steve Bruns Bob Bunting Jan Burton John Davis Paul Eklund Bill Elliott Martha Coffin Evans Jonathan Fox David Fulker Grace Gamm Lissy Garrison Lloyd Gelman Doree Hickman David Hummer Daryl James Caryl Kassoy Robert Korenblat Erma Mantey Joe Negler Susan Olenwine Mikhy Ritter, co-chair Becky Roser, co-chair Mark Tezak Jeannie Thompson Jack Walker HONORARY DIRECTORS Dean Boal Bob Charles Eileen Cline Donna Erismann Dave Grusin
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STAFF Joan McLean Braun, Executive Director Nick Vocatura, Operations Director Laima Haley, Marketing Director Clay Evans, Communications Director Daniel C. Leonard, Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator Melinda Plett, Publications Coordinator Karen Schuster, Graphic Designer Rachel Dodson, Emily Scraggs, Amelia Weller, Public Relations Assistants Margaret Romero, Production Assistant Andrew Metzroth, Box Office Manager Michael Casey, Box Office Services Coordinator Ciara Glasheen-Artem, Sydney Bogatz, Starla Doyal, Lucas Munce, Melanie Shaffer, Bradley Steinmeyer, Box Office Assistants Kevin Harbison, Recording Engineer Nancy Quintanilla, Financial Manager Ted Mulcahey, Piano Technician MACKY AUDITORIUM STAFF Rudy Betancourt, Director John Jungerberg, Operations Manager Sara Krumwiede, Assistant Director JP Osnes, Technical Director Rhett Snyder, Assistant Technical Director Rojana Savoye, House Manager Nicole Anderson, Assistant House Manager Program editor: Clay Evans Cover design: Karen Schuster
PATRON INFORMATION • CU Presents venues are fully accessible to patrons using wheelchairs and those with other special needs. Please call the box office as early as possible at 303-4928008 to make arrangements. • Parking is available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark, Lot 310, and Lot 204 for $4 per evening or weekend day. Lot 380 (near Macky) is reserved for VIP members of the Artist Series. Drop-off and handicap parking is available near all venues. For more information about the best parking options for each venue, please call the box office at 303-492-8008. • Food is permitted in seating areas of Macky Auditorium and the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, but prohibited in other campus venues unless otherwise noted. • Photographic and recording devices are prohibited. • All programs, artists and prices are subject to change. • All sales are final; no refunds. Subscribers may exchange tickets for another night or performance with no exchange fee; single-ticket exchanges are subject to a $3 per ticket exchange fee. Exchanges are subject to availability and must be made at least one business day prior to performance; an upgrade fee may apply. • CU presents will hold all events as scheduled unless the CU-Boulder campus is closed due to hazardous weather. We will make every effort to notify patrons of an emergency closure as soon as the situation arises. For detailed information on the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s rain policy, please visit coloradoshakes.org. • Patrons are encouraged to call CU Presents at 303-492-8008 for information on the suitability of events for children. • Patrons are encouraged to be considerate of those around you and to refrain from wearing strong fragrances. • Can’t use your tickets? Return them to the CU Presents box office as a taxdeductible contribution prior to the beginning of the performance. • The University of Colorado Boulder is a smoke-free campus.
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History STEPS IN STONE, WALKING THROUGH TIME The movements of animals across the landscape are captured in the tracks they leave behind. Some tracks last only a few moments and others become fossils that endure for millions of years. Steps in Stone is a fantastic opportunity to see amazing fossil tracks, many of which have never been on display before, and learn about animals in ancient environments.
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