The Weekender is a regular feature of the ٺƵ Arts Blog appearing each Thursday — when weekends really need to begin. The column features stuff to do on and around the ٺƵ campus this weekend.
San Francisco Symphony Returns to ٺƵ
The San Francisco Symphony, after a one-year interlude, returns to the Mondavi Center Thursday. Founded in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony has received some of the world’s most prestigious recording awards. Now under the baton of Maestro David Robertson, Pianist Kirill Gerstein, the sixth recipient of the Gilmore Artist Award, accompanies the symphony, performing Brahms’ emotionally surging Piano Concerto No. 1, alongside Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 and Brett Dean’s Բڱü
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 15
Pre-Performance Talk
Thursday, May 24, Jackson Hall 7 p.m.
David Robertson, conductor, in conversation with Don Roth, executive director, Mondavi Center, ٺƵ
The concert is at 8 p.m. Get your now.
Video
Noon Concert Series at Pitzer 'Revisits' Beethoven
Thursday, May 24, 12:05 p.m.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Beethoven Revisited
Igor Veligan, Susan Lamb Cook, Gayle Blankenburg
Beethoven: Variations on a Theme from The Magic Flute
Beethoven: Piano Trio in B Flat Major (“Archduke”)
As always, the Shinkoskey noon concert is free.
Currently artist affiliate in cello and chamber music at ٺƵ, Susan Lamb Cook is an active performer and educator in the capital region.
And on Friday, May 25, 5 p.m. the Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, will feature Percussion Works by ٺƵ Graduate Students
Ryan Suleiman: Two Pieces in Variable Order
Phil Acimovic: Water Wheel Machine
Jonathan Favero: E Pluribus Unum
Both these Pitzer events at ٺƵ are free.
Arden Fair unchARTed Program to Host Sacramento Area Youth Speaks
unchARTed at Arden Fair will host on Saturday, May 26, 2018 from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the shopping center’s Center Court, 1689 Arden Way.
SAYS, a dynamic spoken word group, will perform various pieces from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., including the piece PSA ("Poetic Service Announcements"). Following their performance, SAYS will host an MC Olympics where youth ages 12-21 will be invited to sign up to perform in an Olympic-style competition featuring the best young emcees in the area. Through a series of rounds, the audience gets familiar with each MC’s skill level (on the mic, moving the crowd, freestyling and flow). Sign-ups are open from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and the MC Olympics will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Complete Schedule
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.: SAYS Poetic Service Announcements play back-to-back on screen
1:45 p.m. – 2 p.m.: SAYS Griot starts on opposite sides of mall and meet at Center Court
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Introduction of SAYS and Slam Team Performance and MC Olympics Sign Up Begins
2:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.: SAYS Alumni Performances
3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Final performances and special Guest
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: SAYS MC Olympics
Through the combined efforts of artists and imaginative thinkers, unchARTed at Arden Fair aims to curate uplifting art and encourage others to immerse themselves in new concepts of creativity. Join Arden on May 26, and throughout 2018 as the retail center is transformed into a community space through art. SAYS is a social justice movement that transforms education. Founded in 2008 at ٺƵ by Dr. Vajra Watson, SAYS breaks the barriers of underachievement by elevating the voices of students as the authors of their own lives and agents of change.
More about unchARTed, visit .