Until the Lions Program by The Music Center

OCT 2017

GLORYA KAUFMAN PRESENTS DANCE AT THE MUSIC CENTER

Performed by A K R A M K H A N C O M PA N Y

Photo by Jean-Louis Fernandez.

2017/2018

Note from the

PRESIDENT & CEO t is with both delight and much anticipation that we introduce our second engagement of the 15th season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, this time with a completely new twist! With our initiative, The Music Center On Location,™ we are now venturing beyond our Downtown Los Angeles Music Center campus to bring the best of the arts to all of Los Angeles County. It certainly helps to have an incredible production and the U.S. premiere of Akram Khan’s Until the Lions as our first major “on location” dance presentation in this series. We are particularly pleased to be presenting these performances on a soundstage at the historic Culver Studios, where films like “Gone With the Wind,” “Citizen Kane,” “A Star is Born” and so many more motion pictures and television shows had their home. Yet, while this important studio lot witnessed the creation of some of the most celebrated productions, Until the Lions is indeed a first for Los Angeles and a powerful statement about the experiential nature of dance. At the heart of this presentation is the incredible work of multi-award-winning choreographer and dancer Akram Khan, who dares to relay the narrative of the Mahabharata from the perspective of a woman. In doing so, he explores the notion of gender and sexuality, realizing these themes through the Indian dance form kathak and blending that with the dimensions of contemporary dance. An excellent example of an epic storyline contemporized for today’s audiences, Until the Lions celebrates the strength of the female spirit, while it examines what it means to be a man or a woman and the challenges that often come with these labels. This is not Khan’s only

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work that contemporizes more traditional storylines; in fact, his Giselle updates one of ballet’s classics and is another example of poetry in motion. With Until the Lions, we have an experience unlike any other — where choreography maximizes a storyline with incredible theatricality, and where a 2,500-year-old epic is brought to today’s audiences with power and relevance. We continue to explore both the traditional and the contemporary when we bring Malpaso Dance Company to The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for a commanding performance in early December as part of The Music Center’s presentation of Cuba: Antes/Ahora, Then/Now, a three-day exploration of Cuban art, which is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. As part of this presentation, The Music Center has commissioned a brand-new piece that pairs Emmynominated Los Angeles-based choreographer Sonya Tayeh with the dancers of Malpaso. I hope you will join us. As always, I value your support and welcome your ideas. Warmly,

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GLORYA KAUFMAN PRESENTS DANCE AT THE MUSIC CENTER Presents

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PROGRAM

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UNTIL THE LIONS

AKRAM KHAN COMPANY

Duration: 1 hour (no intermission) World Premiere: January 12, 2016, Roundhouse, London What defines gender? What makes us male or female? Is it the body? Could it be deeper, unnamed impulses that drive desire or expression—an inner calling? Or is it just external: an identity bracelet society hands out? How permanent and unchanging do these labels remain? And what part does Time, master sorcerer, play in our perceptions? On the cusp of his 40 th year, keenly aware of the complex demands of the body across time, of the transition from power to endurance, Akram Khan turns his gaze on these questions through the prism of one of his best-loved epics from childhood: the Mahabharata. As both performer and choreographer, Khan has shared an uncanny, enduring equation with the epic. He performed in Peter Brook’s Mahabharata as a teenager. In Ronin (2003), Third Catalogue (2005) and Gnosis (2010), he staged stories of other heroes from the epic. Until the Lions* revisits the great epic, but through the eyes of another compelling character, this time a woman: Amba, who questions the definitions of manhood and womanhood, and challenges Time. Amba is a princess abducted on her

wedding day by Bheeshma, regent of the neighboring kingdom, and offered as bride to his brother. Though she regains liberty, Amba’s life is destroyed. She is rejected by her family, her betrothed and all of society for having been won in battle by another man and later by her abductor, who refuses to redeem her honor. Amba then invokes the gods. Until the Lions looks at what happens when society’s rules for each gender destroy rather than protect. What does a woman do when she loses ownership over her body, equated with her virtue? To what lengths can she go to regain control over her life, to gain justice? When the quest for justice swerves toward revenge, what price would the body have to pay? And what price would humanity have to pay? "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter,” says an Ugbo proverb. For Until the Lions, Khan reunites with some of the artistic collaborators behind his acclaimed and award-winning solo DESH: writer Karthika Naïr, visual designer Tim Yip, lighting designer Michael Hulls and dramaturge Ruth Little—joined by composer Vincenzo Lamagna. Together they attempt to be “historians” to one of the great, unsung heroines of the Mahabharata, whose tragedy finds urgent echo even today, in all too many parts of the world. * A partial adaptation of the book Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Naïr.

AKRAM KHAN

ON UNTIL THE LIONS

Since making DESH, I have been contemplating the uses and capacities of my body, as I turned 40. The transition from stage to backstage, from body to mind, from embodying the physical to imagining the physical is a complex and fragile one, a crossroad I find interesting and exciting. I tend to remember these moments of transition and choice in my life more vividly than linear progressions. And at these crossroads, I find myself returning to something that has been very close to my heart since childhood: the Mahabharata. In these compelling stories, however, the figures that always haunted my memories the most are the female characters and their journeys. As in many myths, the female characters are often the unsung heroes, the figures of strength and imagination and endurance. It is their unsung stories in particular that still haunt me today. Bringing together some of the original team from DESH, including Karthika Naïr, the writer of both DESH and Until the Lions, on whose original idea this project is based, I want to explore the notion and the physical expression of gender and to tell the story of Amba, one of the Mahabharata’s most compelling and contradictory characters. To me, she is an unsung hero, but also a shape-shifter, as her female body transforms into a male one. I have always been afraid to explore (within a contemporary context) issues of sexuality and gender, mostly because of my South Asian upbringing. We are discouraged from exploring or debating these issues with our elders or even with our own generation. But they remain present in our private experience, even if they are unspoken and unsung. I feel fortunate to live and work in the realm of dance, which provokes debate and embraces stories of all kinds; making space for them to be expressed, to be shared and to be experienced. It is at these crossroads of my own physical journey that I want to explore and situate the story of Amba. In our society we seem to be enthralled with intelligence and neglectful of wisdom, and I want to return to the knowledge tradition of the Mahabharata, using my transitional body and the conversation it might be having between its intelligence and its wisdom. — AKRAM KHAN Photo by Jean-Louis Fernandez.

KARTHIKA NAÏR – Narrative Concept/Scenario/Text

WHO’S WHO

French-Indian, poet-dance producer/curator, Karthika Naïr is the author of several books, including the invented fable The Honey Hunter, illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet and published in English, French, German and Bangla. She was also the principal scriptwriter of the multiple awardwinning DESH (2011), choreographer Akram Khan’s solo, and its 2015 adaptation for family audiences, Chotto Desh. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, her reimagining of the Mahabharata in multiple voices, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live! Award for fiction, after being nominated alongside the latest novels of Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, among others. It was also shortlisted for the 2016 Atta Galatta Prize for Book of the Year (fiction). The ComédieFrançaise in Paris programmed dramatized readings of French translations of the book by award-winning actress Françoise Gillard in October 2016 as

AKRAM KHAN – Director/Choreographer/Performer

part of the “Grenier des poètes” series, and choreographer Akram Khan

Akram Khan is one of the most celebrated and respected dance artists

adapted its Amba/Shikhandi chapter in his 2016 dance production.

today. In just over 17 years, he has created a body of work that has

Naïr’s poetry has been widely published in anthologies and journals

contributed significantly to the arts in the UK and abroad. His reputation

across the world, including Granta, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Review (UK),

has been built on the success of imaginative, highly accessible and

The Literary Review (USA), Poetry International, Indian Literature, The

relevant productions such as Kaash, iTMOi (in the mind of igor), DESH,

Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets and the Forward Book

Vertical Road, Gnosis and zero degrees.

of Poetry 2017.

An instinctive and natural collaborator, Khan has been a magnet

In Naïr’s resume as a dance enabler, one finds mention of Sidi Larbi

to world-class artists from other cultures and disciplines. His previous

Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Käfig/Mourad Merzouki, two Olivier award-

collaborators include the National Ballet of China; actress Juliette

winning productions Babel(Words) and Puz/zle, Auditorium Musica

Binoche; ballerina Sylvie Guillem; choreographers/dancers Sidi Larbi

per Roma, the Louvre, the Villette, the Shaolin Temple in Henan and

Cherkaoui and Israel Galván; singer Kylie Minogue; visual artists

misadventures with ninja swords and pachyderms, many of which

Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Tim Yip; writer Hanif Kureishi; and

materialise in her poetry.

composers Steve Reich, Nitin Sawhney, Jocelyn Pook and Ben Frost. Khan’s work is recognized as being profoundly moving, in which his intelligently crafted storytelling is effortlessly intimate and epic. Described by the Financial Times as an artist "who speaks tremendously of tremendous things," Khan's career highlight is the creation of a section of the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony that was received with unanimous acclaim. As a choreographer, Khan has developed a close collaboration with English National Ballet and its Artistic Director Tamara Rojo. He created the short piece Dust, part of the Lest We Forget program, which led to an invitation to create his own critically acclaimed version of the iconic romantic ballet Giselle. Khan has been the recipient of numerous awards throughout his career, including the Laurence Olivier Award, the Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award), the prestigious ISPA (International Society for the Performing Arts) Distinguished Artist Award, the Fred and Adele Astaire Award, the Herald Archangel Award at the Edinburgh International Festival, the South Bank Sky Arts Award and six Critics' Circle National Dance Awards. Khan was awarded an MBE for services to dance in 2005. He is also an Honorary Graduate of University of London, as well as Roehampton and De Montfort Universities, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Laban. Khan is an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells, London and Curve, Leicester.

TIM YIP – Visual Design A renowned artist, Tim Yip has multidisciplinary works in costume design, production design, and visual and contemporary art. For his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yip won the Oscar for Best Art Direction and Costume Design in 2000 and the British Academy Film Award for Best Costume Design in 2000. Yip was art designer for Akram Khan’s internationally acclaimed show DESH, which won both a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production and the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. Yip has worked on features such as The Banquet as art director and Red Cliff as the costume designer and production designer. He recently completed costumes for the Netflix series Marco Polo, and on The Han Show for Franco Dragone with Cirque du Soleil. Yip graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic with a degree in photography. Since working on his first film A Better Tomorrow directed by John Woo in 1986, he has accomplished costume designs and art direction for many films and theatrical performances over the past two decades. Yip has collaborated with film directors of international acclaim such as John Woo, Ang Lee, Tsai Ming Liang, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong, Stanley Kwan, Chen Guofu, Chen Kaige and Feng Xiaogang. He has also worked with many renowned Taiwanese performance groups, among them Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Contemporary Legend Theatre, Han Tang Yue-fu Dance Ensemble, Tai-Gu Tales Dance Theatre and U Theatre. In 2004, Yip was the art and costume director for the Beijing handover

AWARDS

• Akram Khan — Critics’ Circle National Dance Award 2012 for Best Male Dancer (DESH), UK; ISPA Distinguished Artist Award, New York 2011 • Dust (English National Ballet’s Lest We Forget) — Critics’ Circle National Dance Award 2014 for Best Modern Choreography, UK • DESH — Olivier Award 2012 for Best New Dance Production, UK; Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award) 2014 for Outstanding Production • Vertical Road — Critics' Circle National Dance Award 2011 for Best Modern Choreography, UK; Danza & Danza Award 2010 for Best Performance, Bolzano; The Age Critics Award 2010 for Best New Work, Melbourne Arts Festival • Gnosis — South Bank Sky Arts Award 2011 in Dance, UK; Herald Archangel Award 2014 at the Edinburgh International Festival

performance at the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony in Athens. In recent years, he has held solo art exhibitions in New York, Beijing and Shanghai, and, in 2005, he was invited by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to participate in the China Red exhibition. The Beijing Today Art Museum organized his solo art exhibition Illusions of Silence in late 2007. In 2010, Yip worked closely with Robert Wilson, an American director known for his signature use of light, on a musical theatre work inspired by the story of Admiral Zheng called 1433 — The Grand Voyage.

MICHAEL HULLS – Lighting Design

RUTH LITTLE — Dramaturg

Over the last 20 years, Hulls has worked

Ruth Little is a dance and theatre dramaturg,

exclusively in dance, particularly with

teacher and writer. Her work encompasses

choreographer Russell Maliphant and Akram

national arts organizations, remote rural

Khan, and established a reputation as a

communities, site-specific production and large

“choreographer of light.ˮ Their collaborations

and small-scale exhibitions and expeditions. She

have won international critical acclaim and

lectured in English literature at the University

many awards: Sheer won a Time Out Award for

of Sydney and was literary manager at Out of

Outstanding Collaboration, Choice won a South Bank Show Dance Award,

Joint, Soho Theatre, the Young Vic and the Royal Court. Little was associate

PUSH, with Sylvie Guillem, won four major awards including the Olivier for

director at Cape Farewell from 2010-2016. She is dramaturg with the

Best New Dance Production and AfterLight won two Critics Circle awards.

Akram Khan Company (Gnosis, Vertical Road, Desh, iTMOi, Dust, Techne,

Hulls and Maliphant also collaborated on Broken Fall, commissioned

Until the Lions, Giselle) and has worked with Banff Arts Centre, Sadler's

by BalletBoyz, which also featured Sylvie Guillem and won the 2004

Wells, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet, Spitalfields Festival,

Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. Fallen, their most recent

Barbican, National Theatre Connections, Fuel Theatre, Siobhan Davies

work for BalletBoyz, won the 2014 Critics Circle Award for Best Modern

Dance, Dance Umbrella, Le Patin Libre and many others. She is the winner

Choreography. In 2007, Hulls and Maliphant’s work was the subject

of the 2012 Kenneth Tynan Award for dramaturgy. Publications include

of BalletBoyz’s Channel 4 documentary Light and Dance and The Daily

The Young Vic Book (Methuen, 2004); The Royal Court Theatre Inside Out

Telegraph hailed their collaboration as “possibly the most important

(Oberon, 2007); ‘The Slow Art of Contemporary Expedition: Islandings’

creative partnership in modern British dance.” Eonnagata, Hulls'

(in Expedition, University of the Arts, 2012); ‘Art, Place, Climate: Situated

collaboration with Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage and Russell Maliphant,

Ethics’ (In Art and Ethics, Springer, 2014); War in the Body (La Monnaie/

for which Hulls won the 2009 Knight of Illumination Award for Dance,

de Munt, 2014); and The Meteorological Body (In Imaginative Bodies:

opened at Sadler’s Wells and, along with AfterLight, led to him being

Dialogues in Performance Practices, Valiz, 2016).

nominated for a second Knight of Illumination Award and for the 2010 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance. Hulls has also worked with Akram Khan over many years, including on his full length solo DESH, winner of the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, as well as In-i, his duet with actress Juliette Binoche, and TOROBAKA, his collaboration with flamenco virtuoso Israel Galvan. Most recently, Hulls lit Akram’s highly acclaimed Until the Lions. In 2009, Hulls became an associate artist of Sadler’s Wells. In 2010, his contribution to dance was recognized with his entry into the Oxford Dictionary of Dance, as only the fourth lighting designer to be given an entry. In 2014, Hulls received the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, and, in 2016, Hulls created his LightSpace installation on the main stage at Sadler’s Wells, the first-ever show presented there without any performers that was also awarded a second Knight of Illumination award for Concel | Reveal, his 20 th anniversary program with Russell. Hulls is currently working on light installations for the Lisbon Oceanarium and for Messum's Gallery Wiltshire. VINCENZO LAMAGNA — Composer Vincenzo Lamagna is an Italian musician, composer and producer based in London. His music is known for its visceral, emotive and edgy language that utilizes an unconventional hybrid of electro-orchestral sounds. In addition to his solo work, Lamagna has carved a niche in the alternative contemporary dance world, where he has established himself as a major collaborator with some of the most acclaimed choreographers of this generation, Hofesh Shechter and Akram Khan.

His most recent collaborations include Akram Khan's award winning

21st-century adaptation of Giselle for the English National Ballet and Khan's Until the Lions that premiered at the Roundhouse, London in 2016. His scores are a mercurial combination of acoustic and electronic music, recognized for their ferocious industrial undertones, haunted melodies and cinematic soundscapes.

CHING-YING CHIEN — Dancer Dancer Ching-Ying Chien was born in Taiwan and graduated from the National Taiwan University of Arts. She has worked with the Akram Khan Company since devising material for and performing in iTMOi in 2013. She has also collaborated with choreographer Fang-Yi Sheu and continues to create work with her partner Kuan-Hsiang Liu, as well as Horse Dance Theatre in Taiwan. She worked as a physical model during the production of Chinese artist Cai GuoQiang's Day and Night, a large-scale gunpowder drawing. Chien has won the Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) Award at the 2016 National Dance Awards “for her hypnotisingly fluid dancing" (The Guardian) in Until the Lions. JOY ALPUERTO RITTER — Dancer Dancer Joy Alpuerto Ritter was born in Los Angeles and moved to Germany as a child where she took her first ballet class at the Ballettstudio Armin Krain. From the age of 17, she attended the Palucca Dance School in Dresden. Since graduating in 2004, she has worked mainly in Germany as a freelance dancer with choreographers such as Christoph Winkler, Anja Kozik, Heike Hennig, Milan Gervais and Constanza Macras. She has a passion for Hip-Hop and is a prize-winning participant of dance battles throughout Europe. In 2011, she was invited to be a dancer on the Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil, which toured the U.S., Canada and Europe. She has worked with the Akram Khan Company since devising material for and performing in iTMOi in 2013.

ARTISTIC TEAM Director/Choreographer/Performer ��Akram Khan Narrative Concept/Scenario/Text ��Karthika Naïr Visual Design ��Tim Yip Lighting Design ��Michael Hulls Original Music Score composed by....................................................... Vincenzo Lamagna in collaboration with Sohini Alam, David Azurza, Yaron Engler, Akram Khan, Joy Alpuerto Ritter Dramaturg ��Ruth Little Assistant Director �� Sasha Milavic Davies Assistant Choreographer ��Jose Agudo Voice-over ��Kathryn Hunter Dancers..................................................................................................................................................Akram Khan, Ching-Ying Chien, Joy Alpuerto Ritter Musicians..................................................................................................................................Sohini Alam, Joseph Ashwin, David Azurza, Yaron Engler Producer �� Farooq Chaudhry North American Producer �� AK Foundation for Dance, Inc. Exclusive North American Representation ��2Luck Concepts — John Luckacovic & Eleanor Oldham Technical Director ��Richard Fagan Assistant Set Design & Technical Producer ��Sander Loonen Technical Coordinator ��Peter Swikker Stage Manager �� Marek Pomocki Lighting Engineer �� Stéphane Déjours Sound Engineer ��Julien Deloison Technician ��Zak Macro Assistant to the Costume Designer & Costume Maker �� Peggy Housset Model head designed and made by �� Blind Summit Project Manager and Tour Manager �� Mashitah Omar This production is a partial adaptation of Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, a retelling in verse of the Mahabharata by Karthika Naïr (HarperCollins India, 2015 & Arc Publications UK, 2016). Production initiated by the 360° Network of round artistic venues across the world. Produced during residency at Sadler's Wells London and Curve Leicester. Co-produced by Roundhouse/Sadler’s Wells London, MC2: Grenoble, La Comète Châlons-en- Champagne, Théâtre de la Ville/ La Villette Paris, Danse Danse/TOHU Montréal, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, New Vision Arts Festival Hong Kong, Taipei Performing Arts Center, Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Brighton Festival 2016, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Concertgebouw Brugge, manège, scène nationale – reims, Holland Festival Amsterdam, Romaeuropa Festival, Curve Leicester. Sponsored by COLAS

Created with generous support from The Quercus Trust. Supported by Arts Council England. Akram Khan is an Associate Artist of Sadler's Wells London and Curve Leicester. Special thanks to Marcus Davey, Alistair Spalding, Nikolai Foster and Curve team, Philippe Bachman, Hervé Le Bouc, Sophie Sadeler, Béatrice Abeille-Robin, Lady Angela Bernstein, Mr. & Mrs. Khan, Yuko Khan, Saju Hari, Mavin Khoo, Ushma William, Siddhartha Bose, Jayne Stevens, Louisa Robey, Bethany Storie, Pei-Shan Su, Verona Rhamanan, Natalie Roberts. Akram Khan gratefully acknowledges the Akram Khan Company staff team: Lindsey Dear, Jan Hart, Richard Fagan, Mashitah Omar, Céline Gaubert, Florian Stagliano, Clare Cody-Richardson, Christine Maupetit, Amy Sharkey, Hannah Patel. Ching-Ying Chien has won the Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) Award at the National Dance Awards “for her hypnotisingly fluid dancing" (The Guardian) in Until the Lions.

THE MUSIC CENTER’S SUPPORTERS

The Music Center thanks all of its supporters and is proud to recognize those who gave $1,000 or more between July 2016 and July 2017. $1,000,000 and above The Ahmanson Foundation The Annenberg Foundation County of Los Angeles The James Irvine Foundation Ring-Miscikowski Foundation/ The Ring Foundation/ Cindy Miscikowski $250,000 and above The Getty Foundation Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Frank J. Sherwood Performing Arts Fund Lisa Specht $100K–$249,999 Robert Abernethy Bank of America / Dannielle Campos Helen and Peter Bing The Blue Ribbon Dorothy Chandler New Program Fund Rao Makineni J.P. Morgan Chase / Susan M. Wegleitner Wells Fargo Bank / Joseph Rice $50K–$99,999 The Capital Group Companies / Kimaada Brown Morris and Natalie Darnov Edgerton Foundation The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Guggenheim Partners Anita Mann Kohl and Allen D Kohl Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation Marcia Israel Foundation The Music Center Foundation Shelby Notkin Carol Saikhon Jeffrey S. Saikhon Marc and Eva Stern Foundation Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP Julia Strickland and Timothy Wahl Alyce and Warren Williamson

$25K–$49,999 Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation Amgen/Cynthia Patton Avery and Andrew Barth Claire and Brad Brian Louise and John Bryson Estate of Chantal Burnison City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs City National Bank / Michael and Rose Pagano Edison International Entravision Communications Corporation / Walter F. Ulloa Helen Funai Erickson Nancy and Michael Harahan Gloria and Glen Holden Terri and Jerry Kohl KPMG LLP / Greg Geyer Lee Graff Foundation Marla and Cary Lefton The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Jody and David Lippman Lloyd E. Rigler and Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Los Angeles County Arts Commission LSMK Investments Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP Max H. Gluck Foundation Diane Medina Beth and Leslie Michelson Moss Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Harlyne Norris† O'Melveny & Myers, LLP Joyce and David Rabinov Allison and Richard Roeder Max Ramberg Fredric Roberts The Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Foundation Laura and James Rosenwald The Schow Foundation Joan and Arnold Seidel Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP / Lisa Gilford Joni and W. Clark Smith Marie H. Song Catharine and Jeffrey Soros

Superior Grocers Target Cary and Karen Thompson Sue Tsao U.S. Bank / Darrell Brown / Hany Haddad Union Bank Wendy and Jay Wintrob $10K–$24,999 Gay and Harry Abrams / Abrams Artist Agency Jane Arnault-Factor Susan Baumgarten Beauty for Life Foundation Pamela and Dennis Beck JoAnn and Wayland Bourne Joan A. Friedman, PhD and Robert N. Braun, MD Dwight Broadneax and Greg Moesser Joan and Allan Burns Huaiyu and Barak Bussel California Arts Council Carsey Family Foundation Walter and Ruth Chameides The Coca-Cola Company Daniel Clivner and Steven Cochran Ana and Robert Cook Sharon Darnov Gina DiBona Dwight Stuart Youth Fund Richard E. Fiock and Diego Castrejón Fox Rothschild, LLP / Darrell D. Miller Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Vera and Paul Guerin Ariella Herman Joan Herman and Richard Rasiej Liz Levitt Hirsch Darryl Holter and Carole Shammas James A. Doolittle Foundation Jane Jelenko and Bill Norris Randi and Richard Jones David B. Katzin, MD, Ph.D and Cynthia Watson, MD Morton M. Kay † The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation Carol and Patrick Kinsella Rini and Arthur Kraus Yvonne Lee Cathy and Mark Louchheim The Louis and Harold Price Foundation The Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation Malouf Foundation

Maria V. Altmann Foundation Barbara and Buzz McCoy Diane Wittenberg and David Minning Munger Tolles & Olson, LLP Olivia and Anthony Neece Netflix Novo Ortho-Med Inc. The Estate of Robert W. Olsen Karen Kay Platt and Lawrence B. Platt Anne and Arnold Porath Judith Reichman MD Rosemary Ringwald Sharon and Nelson Rising Marna and Rockwell Schnabel Dominique Shelton The Sidley Austin Foundation Fran and Ray Stark Foundation / Wendy Stark Morrissey Bradley Tabach-Bank and Dee Dee Dorskin Maynard and Linda Brittan / Traub-Brittan Family Foundation I.N. and Susanna H. Van Nuys Foundation Thomas Weinberger and Leslie Vermut The Wetsman Foundation / Janis and William Wetsman $5K–$9,999 Libbie Agran Dean V. Ambrose Margot and Mark Armbruster Beverly and Frank Arnstein David Ayón and Monica Lozano Barry Baker David C. Bohnett Jane Centofante Elizabeth and Otis Chandler Richard and Karla Chernick Chevron Corporation Colburn Foundation Christopher Combs and Charlotte Hughes Karen and Theodore Coyne Alison Bryan Crowell and Richard Crowell Dizzy Feet Foundation Maxine Dunitz Joan and William Feldman Maude and Richard Ferry Lawrence N. Field Gladys Turk Foundation Lenore and Bernard Greenberg Roberta and Bruce Hammer Angela and Anthony Harris Anita Hirsh HMS Host Hollywood Foreign Press Association †

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Yvonne Bogdanovich Mary Lou Boone Lynn A. Booth Jocelyn and Thomas Borys Jill Bowman and Robert Ivey Selina and Brian Boxer Wachler Irene and Stuart Boyd Geri Brawerman Linda Maddocks Brown Buchalter Nemer Debbie and Jim Burrows Reynolds Cafferata Fanya Carter Christopher Chandler Martha Chase Constance Chestnut and Sheldon Benjamin Lillian Chin Allison Clago Jane and Lawrence Cohen Michelle Conroy Barry Cooper Nancy Cotton Catherine Cristall Robert and Marybeth Cutietta Suzanne and Robert Davidow Nadine and Harold Davidson Nancy and Donald de Brier Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Decker Rafael de Marchena-Huyke Paulette and Audney De Paulo Lynne and James DeWitt Jennifer Diener Laura Donnelley Dorothy Dorskind Milena Dostanich Douglas Charitable Foundation Betty J. Dranow Robin and Michael Dreyer Elizabeth and Brack Duker Margaret and Jerrold Eberhardt Constance B. Elliot Bradley Ellis, Esq. and Grace Chen-Ellis MegAnn and Craig Ellis Lois Erburu Elisabeth Familian Fauci Companies, Inc. Bonnie and Ronald Fein Bobbi and Henry Fields Erik Fleming Nanette and Burton Forester Harold Frankl Martin Freedman Julie Waxman and Seth Freeman Gerald D. Friedman Susan Friedman John Fukunaga Wallace E. Fullmer

THE MUSIC CENTER’S SUPPORTERS Diane Futterman Nancy and Eric Garen Louise Grant Garland Eva Gaustad Frederick and Leslie Gaylord Genevieve and Lewis Geyser Gold Family Charitable Foundation / Stanley Gold Elaine Goldsmith Roslyn and Abner Goldstine Good Works Foundation Marjorie Goodson Louis Goren Anne Grausam Tricia and Richard Grey Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, MD Penny Haberman, David Jacoby and Jacoby Family Fund Kevin Patrick Hanley Lisa and Steven Hansen Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co. Eugene Hawkins Betty Hayman Drs. Vikki and Sidney Helperin Diane J. Henderson Phyllis and Michael Hennigan Stacey and Harold Henry Fabiola Hensley Claire and Robert Heron Christine M. Hessler Elaine Hoffman Katie and Philip Holthouse Nicole and Daniel Honigman Ruby Hori Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen Ingrid and Frederic Ingram Innovative Artists Callan and Greg Irvin William H. Isacoff MD Maria Rosario Jackson, Ph.D. Ellen Jacobs Tatiana and Todd James Ruth M. Jones Mary Ann Rosenfeld Kadish and Sheldon Kadish Gerald Katell Don Kates Cari and Marty Kavinoky Suzanne and Richard Kayne Joanne Curley Kerner Barbara and Richard Kernochan KOCE-TV Joanne Kozberg Judith Krantz Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald Vivian Krepack Jacqueline and Jordan Kruse

Tam and David Lachoff Grace Latt Lauren Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation Mattie Mcfadden-Lawson and Michael Lawson Ellen and David Li Lee CC Pulitzer-Lemann and Monte Lemann II Drs. Jo and Shawn Libaw Patricia Livingston Chris Lloyd and Arleen Sorkin Cori and Dick Lowe Elizabeth and Robert Lowe Barry Lowitz Jerry Luedders and Joseph Gilbert Fabio Madonna Carla Malden and Normal Beil Carol and Douglas Mancino Claudia and Michael Margolis Dean Marks Pauline Marks Ilene and J. Howard Marshall, III Elliot Matloff Kathleen and Peter McCoy Janis B. McEldowney Irene Mecchi Linda and Sheldon Mehr Barbara and Fred Miller Shelley and Paul Miller Joanne and Joel Mogy Vibiana Molina Haydee and Carlos Mollura Tracey B. Monroe Kathy and Michael Moray Susan and Gene Morrissey Patrick Morrow Anita and Mark Mothersbaugh Carol and Jerome Muchin Merle and Peter Mullin Abby and Alan Myerson Network for Good Steven Neu Nevada Community Foundation Rozann Newman Patty and John Nickoll Greg and Renae Niles Christine Marie Ofiesh Annette and Peter O'Malley Alan Oppenheimer Nancy Rahnasto and Alfred Osborne Christopher Paine Ellen Pansky Paradigm Talent Agency Janet Petersen Nina and Leo Pircher Marni and Bennett Pozil

David Richard Pullman Pun'kins Feiman Family Foundation Irene and Eytan Ribner Hadley and Lee Rierson Jill and Dennis Roach Katherine A. Robertson Rodriguez Horii Choi & Cafferata, LLP Nancy and Brad Rosenberg Jerry Rosenstock Melvin and Beverly Rosenthal Helene Rosenzweig, MD Richard S. Roth Linda and Tony Rubin Susan Goldman Rubin S and A Agate Foundation, Inc. Peggy and Harvey Saferstein Maralee Beck and Andrew Safir Desiree and Joel Samuels Maxine Savitz Mariette and Alexander Sawchuk Valerie and Thomas Sayles The Schlum Charitable Trust Kim Schneider Sandra Scully Clare L. Sebenius Stanley E. Sellers Jr. Dr. and Mrs. P.K. Shah Mpambo and David Shaw Jeneane Shield† Shannon Shih Doris M. Shimabukuro Ruth and David Simon Maggy and John Simon Lucerne Snipes Sony Pictures Television Jeffrey B. Soref and Paul Lombardi Lisa Spector Terry and Dennis Stanfill St. Nick's Christmas Lighting Service Richard Stone and Marjorie Bender Ellen and James Strauss Tammy E. Strome I.H. Sutnick Traci Takahara Slacum Clare Phillips Tayback and Christopher Tayback Karen Todman Alex Trebek Catherine and Leonard Unger Joanne and Johannes Van Tilburg Laurie Vender and Stephen Halper Catalina Joos Vergara Daniel and Janice Wallace

Stuart M. Warren Marcia and Charles Wasserman, Ph.D. Lisa and Ronald Weckbacher Aviva Weiner and Paulino Fontes Sheila and Wally Weisman Luanne Wells Susan and Josh Wieder Pamela Wiley-Wells Patty and Richard Wilson Madeline and Kenneth Wolf Margie Woo Gillian Wynn YPO Manhattan Beth McGlynn and James Zapp Ruth B. Ziegler Courtney and David Zifkin Arline Zuckerman† And to those who wish to remain anonymous

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Support from the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: SHEILA J. KUEHL Third District, KATHRYN BARGER Fifth District, MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS Second District, Chairman, JANICE HAHN Fourth District, HILDA L. SOLIS First District