Texas Performing Arts 2018–19 Campus & Community Engagement S.E.A.T. Performances

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2018 –19S.E.A.T.

PERFORMANCES

2018–19 Calendar 4

The Essential Series SEP

Pavel Urkiza & CongrÍ Ensemble Nov 9 | MCT | p. 16

Reduced Shakespeare Company Sep 14 | MCT | p. 6

C!RCA Humans Nov 13 | BCH | p. 18

Fred Hersch Trio Sep 21 | MCT | p. 8

OCT Ragamala Dance Company Written in Water Oct 18 | BCH | p. 10

NOV Blackstar An Orchestral Tribute to David Bowie Nov 1 | BCH | p. 12 Jordi Savall The Routes of Slavery Nov 8 | BCH | p. 14

BCH Bass Concert Hall

Private Peaceful Nov 16 | MCT | p. 20

JAN Dorrance Dance ETM: Double Down Jan 30 | BCH | p. 22

FEB Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet Feb 5 | MCT | p. 24 Songs of Freedom Feb 8 | MCT | p. 26

MCT McCullough Theatre

MAR A Thousand Thoughts Kronos Quartet and Sam Green Mar 27 | BCH | p. 28 Teatro Línea de Sombra Amarillo Mar 29 | MCT | p. 30

APR Terence Blanchard and Rennie Harris Caravan Apr 11 | BCH | p. 32 The University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Joe Lovano Apr 13 | BRH | p. 34 Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar Apr 26 | BCH | p. 36

BRH Bates Recital Hall

OBT Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

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THE ESSENTIAL SERIES

In the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game, Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor each have a Bacon Factor of one because they performed voices in Balto, the title role of which was played by Kevin Bacon.

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Sep 14 McCullough Theatre 8 pm

Reduced Shakespeare Company

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] is the original and timeless classic from the Reduced Shakespeare Company.

Experience all 37 plays in 97 minutes! This is an irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays. It was London’s longest-running comedy, playing nine years in the West End at the Criterion

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“Breathlessly irreverent and pun-filled romp.” —Washington Post Theatre. The show has been seen at the Kennedy Center, Off-Broadway, and from sea to shining sea. Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild and memorable ride that leaves audiences breathless and helpless with laughter.

In the spirit of Shakespeare himself, RSC shows contain some occasional bawdy language and mild innuendo.

All children (and parents) are different, so RSC has chosen to rate this show PG-13: Pretty Good If You’re Thirteen.

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Shakespeare, Comedy, Theater, Three-Man Troupe

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance.

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Since its pass-the-hat origins in 1981, the Reduced Shakespeare Company has created ten world-renowned stage shows, two television specials, several failed TV pilots, and numerous radio pieces, all of which have been performed, seen, and heard the world over.

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In 2006, Fred Hersch became the first person in NY’s Village Vanguard’s 75-year history to play a weeklong engagement as a solo pianist.

Sep 21 McCullough Theatre 8 pm

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Fred Hersch Trio

—The New York Times

A select member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch is an influential creative force who has shaped the music’s course over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist.

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A ten-time Grammy Award nominee, Hersch has collaborated with an

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Hersch’s 2016 release, Sunday Night at the Vanguard, was nominated for two 2017 Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo, and is a definitive statement by his longrunning trio with bassist John Hébert and drummer Eric McPherson. This performance is certain to be an exquisite evening of jazz in the intimate confines of McCullough Theatre!

Jazz, Piano, Bass, Drums

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music and KUTX’s Sunday Morning Jazz with Jay Trachtenberg.

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astonishing range of artists throughout the worlds of jazz (Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden, Art Farmer, Stan Getz, Bill Frisell); classical (Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Christopher O’Riley); and Broadway (Audra McDonald).

“…a pianist, composer and conceptualist of rare imaginative power.”

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The company is currently under the direction of its co-founder Ranee Ramaswamy and her daughter Aparna, who is a firstgeneration IndianAmerican artist.

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—Tallahassee Democrat

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“The work’s power and the company’s artistry created a lexicon of sound, vision and movement that allowed each audience member to project their own story onto the stage.”

Oct 18

Ragamala Dance Company

Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

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Written in Water

Conceived and choreographed by Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy Featuring original musical compositions by Amir ElSaffar and Prema Ramamurthy

Inspired by the second century Indian board game, Paramapadham (the precursor to Snakes and Ladders) and the 12th century Sufi poem, “A Conference of Birds,” Written in Water explores parallels between ecstasy and longing in Hindu and Sufi thought. With original artwork and a score by composer Amir ElSaffar, Written in Water brings together internationally celebrated artists and features a live music ensemble with a unique alchemy of Iraqi, jazz, and Carnatic instruments.

Presented in partnership with The University of Texas South Asia Institute and KUT-FM.

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Dance, India, Indian-American, Bharatanatyam, Expression, Intercultural

This performance is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Minneapolis-based Ragamala Dance Company “is providing some of the most transcendent experiences that dance has to offer,” (The New York Times) and have created a genre of performance that brings together a contemporary Western aesthetic with an Indian ethos. Sharing the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam with audiences for over 25 years, Ragamala brings their multidisciplinary work Written in Water to the Bass Concert Hall stage.

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Evan Ziporyn, who spearheaded this project, is a Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at MIT. He also serves as Chair of Music and Theater Arts, and in 2012 was appointed inaugural Director of MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology.

“Friday’s sold-out recasting of Bowie’s swan song as an extended orchestral piece…was in its way more faithful to his intentions than a straightforward duplication of the record.” —The Boston Globe

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Nov 1 Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

Ambient Orchestra Conducted by

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Evan Ziporyn Featuring

Maya Beiser, cello

Blackstar

An Orchestral Tribute to David Bowie Israeli-born cellist Maya Beiser has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity, eclectic repertoire, and relentless quest to redefine her instrument’s boundaries. The Boston Globe declares, “With virtuoso chops, rock-star charisma, and an appetite for pushing her instrument to the edge of avantgarde adventurousness, Maya Beiser is the post-modern diva of the cello,” while Rolling Stone calls her a “cello rock star.”

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For this performance, Beiser joins composer and conductor Evan Ziporyn and a 28-piece orchestra for a performance of Ziporyn’s arrangement of David Bowie’s entire last album Blackstar.

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Orchestra, Cello, David Bowie, Music, Icon

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music and KMFA-FM.

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“Jordi Savall testifies to a common cultural inheritance of infinite variety.

He is a man for our time.”

—The Guardian (UK)

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In 2008 Jordi Savall was appointed European Union Ambassador for intercultural dialogue and was named “Artist for Peace” under the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors program.

Nov 8 Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

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Jordi Savall

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Performed by Savall and a large ensemble of guest performers, including Grammy Award-winning gospel group The Fairfield Four, this ‘musical memoir’ is accompanied with historical texts on slavery, beginning with the early chronicles of 1444 and concluding with texts written by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Martin Luther King, Jr. shortly before his assassination in 1968.

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This unique performance explores the history and music from the three continents involved in the trade in African slaves and their exploitation in the New World. They are brought together through the early music of the colonial period, the musical traditions of Mali, and the oral traditions of the descendants of slaves in Madagascar, Brazil,

Colombia, and Mexico. From the musical traditions of medieval Europe to negro spirituals, Savall sheds light on one of human history’s most painful chapters.

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Renowned early music interpreter and performer Jordi Savall returns to TPA with the Austin premiere of his new multicultural program, The Routes of Slavery.

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music and KAZI-FM.

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Music, History, Multicultural, Early Music, World Music

This performance is made possible in part by the Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production.

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“Pavel Urkiza has mapped an intricate musical network that spreads from the Middle East to Spain to Africa to Cuba and Latin America.” —Miami Herald

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Urkiza was born to Cuban parents on an educational mission in the Soviet Union in 1963 and raised by relatives in Havana.

Nov 9 McCullough Theatre 8 pm

Pavel Urkiza & Congrí Ensemble

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The Root of the Root Cuban guitarist and composer Pavel Urkiza leads his Congrí Ensemble through an evening of skillfully interpreted classic Cuban songs composed between 1851 and 1941. The Root of the Root is an exploration of the ancestral connections of music with songs that are part of Latin American popular heritage, learned and transmitted from generation to generation. Presented in a chamber format and accompanied by visuals from the era and historical narration, the pieces are performed on period acoustic instruments such as the romantic guitar, the mutto cornet, baroque flutes, and upright bass.

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Guitar, Cuba, World Music, Multimedia

Presented in partnership with the Ethnomusicology Department at the Butler School of Music and KUTX’s Horizontes.

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Circa’s artistic director, Yaron Lifschitz, is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he was the youngest director ever accepted into its prestigious graduate director’s course.

Nov 13 Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

“Courageous, ground-breaking, risk-taking—these are artist/athletes of the highest order.”

—ArtsHub, Australia

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C!RCA

Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director

Humans

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Exploring the physical limits of their bodies as they are pushed to the extreme, they question how much we can take as humans. How much weight can we carry? Who can we trust to support our load? With incredible strength and integrity, they connect each moment seamlessly with the next in a thrilling and heart-stopping performance.

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Circus Ensemble, Acrobats, Pushing Limits, Strength, Australia

This performance is made possible in part by the Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production.

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By popular demand, Australia’s award-winning contemporary circus ensemble, Circa, returns to Bass Concert Hall with a new program. Ten acrobats take us on a stirring journey of what it means to be human and how our bodies, our connections, and our aspirations all form part of who we are.

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Private Peaceful is based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, who also wrote War Horse and over 100 books for children.

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Nov 16 McCullough Theatre 8 pm

Verdant Productions & Pemberley Production Present

Private Peaceful

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by Michael Morpurgo Directed and Adapted for Stage by Simon Reade

Following the worldwide success of Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling book, film, and stage play, War Horse, Simon Reade adapted this stage version of Morpurgo’s award-winning book, Private Peaceful.

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“Heart-warming, as well as wrenching. A timely reminder of the heroic sacrifices that were made by those involved in the conflict.” —Edinburgh Evening News

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This riveting one-man play relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the

night, he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line.

Don’t miss this moving, funny, and heart-breaking play.

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To commemorate the 100year anniversary of the conclusion of World War I, Private Peaceful is a timely reminder of the heroic sacrifices that were made by those involved in the conflict.

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Theater, World War I, Comingof-Age

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance and KLRU-TV.

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Using original tap “instruments” designed by 2014 Bessie Award Winner Nicholas Van Young, the score of ETM: Doube Down is not simply danced to, but danced BY the company.

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Jan 30 Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

Dorrance Dance

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Michelle Dorrance, Artistic Director

ETM: Double Down

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—The New Yorker

ETM: Double Down celebrates the extreme mobility of the percussive body, combining rhythm with interactive electronic music technology in a perfect fusion of movement and sound. ETM: Double Down features eight dancers and three musicians working together to create a dazzling symphony of rhythmic nuances. Don’t miss Dorrance Dance’s exciting visual and auditory extravaganza that seamlessly merges modernity with tradition.

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance and KUT-FM.

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Tap Dance, Music, Orchestra of Bodies, Rhythm

This performance is made possible in part by the Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production.

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“One of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today,”

Founded in 2011 by artistic director and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Michelle Dorrance, Dorrance Dance is an award-winning New York-based tap company whose work presents the beautiful history of America’s original dance form in a fresh, dynamic, and compelling context.

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Flutist Michael Hasel originally began conducting in piano and organ studies, intending to graduate as a church musician.

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Feb 5 McCullough Theatre 8 pm

Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet

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Michael Hasel, flute Andreas Wittmann, oboe Walter Seyfarth, clarinet Marion Reinhard, bassoon Fergus McWilliam, horn

—Manchester Evening News

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Chamber Music, Ensemble, Classical, Winds, Germany

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music and KMFA-FM.

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“Arguably the best ensemble of its kind in the world.”

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Texas Performing Arts welcomes back the ensemble that has virtually redefined the sound of the classical wind quintet. Founded in 1988, during the tenure of conductor Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet is the first permanently established wind quintet in the famous orchestra’s rich tradition of chamber music.

Their repertoire covers the spectrum of the wind quintet literature, and the ensemble’s stellar reputation has led to collaborations with legendary conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, and Daniel Barenboim.

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“A centerpiece of the program is ‘Everything Must Change,’ associated with Ms. Simone.

Alicia Olatuja brings an earnest intensity to the song… ‘No one and nothing stays unchanged,’ she sings, and as she slowly builds a crescendo, she hints at both a formidable obstacle and the will to overcome.”

—The New York Times

Singer and composer Theo Bleckmann has composed for a range of instruments including piano, violin, kalimba, chimes, glockenspiel, toy microphone, and even sewing machines.

Feb 8

Songs of Freedom

McCullough Theatre 8 pm

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Ulysses Owens Jr., Music Director Featuring

Theo Bleckmann René Marie Alicia Olatuja Under the direction of Grammy Award-winning drummer, Ulysses Owens Jr., the 1960s are explored through the work of three prolific artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone—all of whom shaped the music and culture of the 1960s through their artistry. Each artist expressed freedom in various ways. Joni composed and sang about the freedom of love, Abbey expressed freedom of her individuality and race through her lyricism, and Nina demanded political freedom through song.

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Ulysses Owens Jr. leads a jazz ensemble and a trio of extraordinary featured vocalists including classically-trained jazz artist Alicia Olatuja, Grammy Award-nominated Theo Bleckmann, and vocalist/composer/theatrical performer René Marie, in a celebration of the impact and vast repertoire of three musical changemakers.

Presented in partnership with the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, KUT-FM, and KUTX’s Sunday Morning Jazz with Jay Trachtenberg.

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Music, Drums, Voice, Freedom, Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Jazz, Songwriters

This performance is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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“No American ensemble has had a more far-reaching impact on the development of contemporary classical music than the San Francisco–based Kronos Quartet.” —Listen Magazine

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A Thousand Thoughts made its official debut as part of the New Frontier program at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival which features experimental works.

Mar 27 Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

A Thousand Thoughts

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A Live Documentary with Kronos Quartet Written and Directed by Sam Green and Joe Bini

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet have teamed up for a wildly creative multimedia performance piece that blends live music and narration with archival footage and filmed interviews with such prominent artists as Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, Steve Reich, Wu Man, and Terry Riley. As Green tells the multi-decade and continent-spanning story of the groundbreaking string quartet, Kronos revisits its extensive body of work, performing music by George Crumb, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and many others. Together on stage, Green and Kronos craft an important record and exploration of late 20th– and early 21st–century music. Transcending the typical live music and film event, this collaboration quickly becomes a meditation on music itself—the act of listening to it closely, the experience of feeling it deeply, and the power that it has to change the world.

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Chamber Music, Live Documentary, Quartet, Strings, Multimedia

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Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music and KMFA-FM.

In most of their works, Teatro Línea de Sombra deals in a critical manner with the social and political reality in Mexico.

Photos by Sophie Garcia

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“The sensibility of the visceral piece Amarillo is in sync with much of serious Mexican art: raw, tragic, unsparing, poetic, vibrant. Director Jorge A. Vargas draws from a global avant-garde theater trove, layering live video with film projections, everyday objects used as symbolic props, abstract monologues (and a stunning physicality that burns with urgency).” —The Seattle Times

Mar 29 McCullough Theatre 8 pm

Teatro LÍnea de Sombra

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Jorge A. Vargas and Alicia Laguna, Artistic Directors

Amarillo

Amarillo tells the story of a man who departs Mexico for a land of dreams: Amarillo, Texas— but vanishes before reaching his destination.

Far away, a woman reconstructs his journey, imagining what might have transpired not only for him, but for the other thousands of faceless men and women who have taken the same path—and for those who were left behind.

Combining stunning multimedia projections, visceral imagery, and poetic storytelling, this renowned theater company from Mexico City creates a rich, poignant meditation on the harsh realities faced by immigrants and their families. Amarillo is performed in Spanish with projected English surtitles.

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Presented in partnership with the Center for Mexican American Studies and The Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and KLRU-TV. TICKETS

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Theater, Political, Mexico, Immigrants, Borders

This performance is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Caravan will premiere at the 2019 SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival in Dallas.

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Apr 11 Terence Blanchard E-Collective Rennie Harris Puremovement Dance Company

Caravan: A Revolution on the Road

Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

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Andrew Scott, projections & installations

—The New York Times black lives in the 21st-century through Blanchard’s fusion of jazz, R&B, blues, funk, and soul, interwoven with Harris’ African American dance styles, and Scott’s conceptuallybased visual projections and installations, which are rooted in African and African American art and culture.

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Caravan is a captivating new program that explores

“A trumpeter of expressive urgency and a composer of expansive vision.”

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Music, Trumpet, Dance, Visual Art, Projection, Multimedia

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music, Texas Theatre and Dance, and KAZI-FM.

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Multiple Grammy-winning composer/trumpeter Terence Blanchard and his E-Collective quintet join forces with hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris’ dance company, Puremovement, and sculptor/ projection-mapping artist Andrew Scott in this multidisciplinary performance that transcends racial and social boundaries and breathes life into conversations on personal and collective identity in relation to social and political structures.

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“After 30 albums as a leader and at least 25 years in the spotlight, it’s clear Joe Lovano is more than a dominant figure in jazz. He’s jazz’s answer to George Clooney or Jeff Bridges, a vibrant player who delivers an awardworthy performance every time out.” ­ —The Wall Street Journal

Lovano began playing the alto saxophone at five, switching to the tenor saxaphone a few years later.

Apr 13 Bates Recital Hall 7:30 pm

The University of Texas Jazz Orchestra

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Jeff Hellmer, Director with special guest

Joe Lovano Grammy-winning saxophonist, composer, and producer Joe Lovano joins the UT Jazz Orchestra as part of the Butler School of Music’s annual Longhorn Jazz Festival.

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Joe Lovano’s impressive career has found him touring with jazz greats such as the Woody Herman Thundering Herd, Dr. Lonnie Smith, McCoy Tyner, John Scofield, and Jack DeJohnette. Lovano has also created a body of work for his own large ensembles including strings, woodwinds, his horn-rich Nonet, and more recently, his newest iteration of the classic quartet.

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Directed by Professor Jeff Hellmer, the UT Jazz Orchestra is the Butler School of Music’s premier jazz ensemble. In recent years, the Jazz Orchestra has performed with such luminaries as Michael Brecker, Maria Schneider, Stefon Harris, Joshua Redman, Cyrus Chestnut, and Conrad Herwig.

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Jazz, Saxophone, Orchestra, UT Students

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music, the Longhorn Jazz Festival, and KUTX’s Sunday Morning Jazz with Jay Trachtenberg.

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Trey McLaughlin has always wanted to be a choir conductor.

When he was young, he used to line up his mother’s perfume bottles up on the dresser and teach them their parts.

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Apr 26 Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

Texas Performing Arts welcomes one of the most talked about new groups on the gospel scene!

Hailing from Georgia, Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar are known for their expressive vocals and intricate arrangements of classic gospel hymns, transcending cultural boundaries with fresh adaptations of contemporary gospel, pop, and musical theater hits. The group has performed with gospel greats, such as William McDowell, Kierra “Kiki” Sheard, Richard Smallwood, Earnest Pugh, and James Fortune, and their viral videos have garnered millions of loyal YouTube viewers.

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“…warm, polished vocals and complex jazz harmonies…

Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar demonstrate that gospel comes in many musical shades and hues.”

—Journal of Gospel Music

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Gospel, Pop, Voice

Presented in partnership with the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and KAZI-FM.

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Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar

Know Before You Go Situated on the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Performing Arts encompasses five distinct venues including Bass Concert Hall, McCullough Theatre, Bates Recital Hall, B. Iden Payne Theatre, and Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.

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