Musics of the World
Thursday, May 30, 4-6:30 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, free
Program
Gamelan 鈥 Heni Savitri, director
Hindustani 鈥 Rita Sahai, director
Capoeira 鈥 Juan Diego D铆az
Bluegrass and Old Time String Band 鈥 Scott Linford, director
Mariachi 鈥 Tito Talamantes, director
Samba School 鈥 Brian Rice, director
'The China Shop': Conversations between artists and scientists
Thursday, May 30, 4:30 p.m., the Manetti Shrem Museum
'The China Shop' is a two-year, faculty-led initiative that brings artists to 69成人 to work with scientists in their labs. Playing off the idea of 鈥渁 bull in a china shop,鈥 the project facilitates two artist-scientist pairings each year, providing opportunities for interdisciplinary conversations, giving rise to imaginative possibilities, and catalyzing innovative outcomes. Each residency spans approximately 10 weeks. In addition to the laboratory exchanges, there will be a moderated public presentation and discussion, where the participating artists and scientists engage with the audience, sharing insights into their collaboration, creative exchange and work in progress.
Percussion Ensemble 69成人: 'Works by Graduate Students', Chris Froh, director
Friday, May 31, 4-5:15 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program
Orkun: Akyol: past time pastimes
Dean Kervin Boursiquot: Hard Times
Colin Minigan: watershed
Zo毛 A. Wallace: The Waste Land
Ben Wallace-Ailsworth: 29 going on 30
James Larkins: Not Quite Enough
Jacob Lane: Emulation Run
69成人 Symphony Orchestra: 'Musical Landscapes' featured Saturday
Christian Baldini, music director and conductor
Saturday, June 1, 7-8:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, tickets from $12
This concert features the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen, who has frequently collaborated with the 69成人 Symphony Orchestra, in a new work by Aida Shirazi. Since receiving her doctorate in music composition from 69成人 in 2021, Shirazi has been gaining attention far and wide for her acoustic and electro-acoustic music, which a New York Times music critic described as 鈥渦nfolding with deliberation.鈥 In Dvo艡谩k鈥檚 Seventh Symphony the audience will enjoy the composer鈥檚 Slavonic spirit in an energetic and varied musical landscape.
Program
Jaques Ibert: Allegro scherzando from Concerto for Flute and Orchestra 鈥 with Nathan Haghgoo, winner of the 69成人 Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 Concerto Competition;
Aida Shirazi: Meditations on Departure (PREMIERE) with Anssi Karttunen, cello
鈥 Intermission 鈥
Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k: Symphony No. 7
Re(Vision)offers evening of movement and dance
May 31, June 1, June 2, Main Theater, Wright Hall 218, tickets from $5
'(Re)Vision' is an invitation to dream. At this moment where ecological, political, and systemic structures are colliding with violent force, revisioning is needed and necessary. Revisioning conjures new worlds through reorientation to the spaces and relationships with which we move. Revising requires us to experiment, take risks, and confront the limits of what we have in front of our eyes. This evening of movement and performance asks audiences to remain active in the call to see, and to move toward, what can be made anew by reframing what exists around us.
Next week
Plan for opening graduate exhibition next week
Free public reception: June 6, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Works on view June 6-24
The Arts and Humanities 2024 Graduate Exhibition will feature the work of graduate students across eight disciplines, including anthropology, art history, art studio, comparative literature, creative writing, design, and English as well as Spanish and Portuguese. Final projects will be on view June 6-24 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at 69成人.
A free, public opening reception will take place June 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the museum, with art history students presenting their research on May 31. In all, in Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts and doctoral programs are participating.
Read more here: 69成人 Arts and Humanities Graduate Students Showcase Work in Multidisciplinary Exhibition
Wanda Sykes: Please and Thank You Tour
Friday, May 31, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, the Mondavi Center
Wanda Sykes is an Emmy winning stand up comic, writer, actress and producer who has been entertaining audiences for over twenty years. She has ranked among Entertainment Weekly鈥檚 鈥25 Funniest People in America鈥 and her peers have called her 鈥渙ne of the funniest stand-up comics鈥 in the field.
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Art Spark June activity: 'Some Assemblage Required'
June 1 - June 23, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, free, Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m.
Bring together everyday materials to create an ever-changing temporary sculpture, and document your creation through drawing and writing. Check out William T. Wiley鈥檚 The Hearings in Deborah Butterfield: P.S. These are not horses for ideas. These themed activities happen at the Carol and Gerry Parker Art Studio on weekends. Explore a different activity inspired by art on view each month. All ages and skill levels are welcome.
Next week in 69成人 music
Rebecca Wang, percussion
Sunday, June 2, 1 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, student recital
Program
Frank Zappa: Black Page No. 1
Askell Masson: Prim
Keiko Abe: Wind the Bamboo Grove
Michio Kitazume: Side by Side
Gene Koshinski: As One
Anders Koppel: Toccata for Vibraphone and Marimba
Katie Gorden, oboe
Sunday, June 2, 5 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, student recital
Program
Carl Nielsen: 贵补苍迟补蝉颈别蝉迟眉肠办别
Jenni Brandon: Three Desert Fables for Solo Oboe
August Klughardt: 5 Schilflieder, op. 28
Alyssa Morris: Shine
Danny Van: Tadarida brasiliensis
Crisia Regalado, soprano, and John Cozza, piano
Sunday, June 2, 7 p.m., Ann E Pitzer Center, student recital
Program
Gottfried Heinrich Sto虉lzel: 鈥淏ist du bei mir鈥 from Diomedes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Ridente la calma, K. 152
Oiseaux, si tous les ans
鈥嬧滾鈥檃mero虁, saro虁 costante鈥 from Il re pastore, K. 208
Richard Strauss: 厂迟补虉苍诲肠丑别苍, D. 889
Franz Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965
Joaqu铆n Rodrigo Vidre: 鈥溌緾on qu茅 la lavar茅?鈥 from Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Carlos Guastavino: La rosa y el sauce
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the 69成人 Cello Ensemble, conducted by Professor Christian Baldini
Mozart: 鈥淒urch Za虉rtlichkeit und Schmeicheln鈥 from The Abduction from the Seraglio
Rollo Dilworth: 'Composing for Choirs' and Open Rehearsal
with the Concert Choir of 69成人
Tuesday, June 4, 4鈥6 p.m., the Mondavi Center
Ahead of the June 6 chorus concert (鈥淪orrow and Joy: An American Story鈥), visiting composer Dr. Rollo Dilworth will speak about composing for choirs. Following his talk, he will work with the choruses on his composition, Weather, in an open rehearsal format. This event is appropriate for composers and singers.
Ryuya Iwase, solo piano
Wednesday, June 5, 5-5:45 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program
W. A. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12
Robert Schumann: 贵补苍迟补蝉颈别蝉迟眉肠办别, op.12, nos.1 and 2
Schumann: Kinderszenen, op.15, no. 7
Student Chamber Ensembles
Thursday, June 6, Noon鈥2 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program to be announced
Choruses of 69成人: 'Sorrow and Joy, An American Story'
Thursday, June 6, 7鈥9 p.m., Jackson Hall, the Mondavi Center, Nicol谩s Dosman, director
featuring the 69成人 Concert Band
Pete Nowlen, director, and Rollo Dilworth, visiting composer
If the American Dream includes hope of a better life in a promised land, then the story we tell must also acknowledge that dream has not always been equally available to all Americans. This concert gives us both sentiments of this 鈥淎merican Story.鈥
Rollo Dilworth set his choral and wind ensemble work 鈥淲eather鈥 to the poem of the same name by Claudia Rankine. 鈥淲eather鈥 (the poem) appeared in the New York Times Magazine shortly after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. It captured in a few pointed phrases the pain of the pandemic and of America鈥檚 racial conflicts. Using American-born musical traditions, including the Blues, Rollo Dilworth juxtaposes Rankine鈥檚 words against a musical fabric, which challenges us to accept this part of our American story, and in time weather that challenge.
Andr茅 Thomas, a composer known around the world for his spirituals, wrote his 鈥淢ass of Love and Joy鈥 (filled with moving and joyous spirituals) in 2018 upon his own retirement, and which concludes and lifts up this choral concert. Thomas says of his work, 鈥渁nyone can relate to spirituals. Everyone goes through trials and everyone looks for comfort.鈥
Program
Chamber Singers
Norman Dello Joio: A Jubilant Song
Samuel Barber: 鈥淎nthony O鈥橠aly鈥 from Reincarnations
William L. Dawson: Soon-Ah-Will Be Done
Concert Band
Carlos Simon: Amen!
鈥 Intermission 鈥
Combined Choruses
Rollo Dilworth: Weather
with the 69成人 Concert Band
and Shinae Kim, piano
鈥淗istorically, the arts have always fulfilled the dual roles of responding to change while at the same time creating change. Claudia Rankine鈥檚 poem, Weather, is a poem that gives voice to the voiceless, especially those who have been and continue to be marginalized because of difference. It responds to and reflects realities that are both culturally specific and humanly universal. Claudia Rankine challenges all of us (no matter your background or lived experience) to know better, to do better, to take action, and to become agents of social justice and social change.鈥
鈥擱ollo Dilworth
Andr茅 Thomas: Mass of Love and Joy
Media Resources
Media contact:
- Karen Nikos-Rose, 69成人, kmnikos@ucdavis.edu