Quick Summary
- Returning Live: Theatre Fest
- Mondavi announces new season
- Thiebaud lecture is Thursday
Mondavi Announces 20th Anniversary Season
Tickets are still available for the Alexander String Quartet concert this Sunday at the Mondavi Center for Performing Arts (see story below), but don鈥檛 forget to plan for next season, too.
From old friends to new artists, the season is as rich and varied as any presented. It鈥檚 a celebration of where Mondavi has been and a mile-marker pointing at the path ahead.
The Mondavi Center announced its 2022鈥23 season of performing arts, celebrating 20 years of presenting the finest in music, dance, speakers and theater. The season, supported by the Nancy and Hank Fisher Family Fund, begins in earnest Oct. 6, 2022, with a performance by the San Francisco Symphony almost 20 years to the day that the symphony appeared at the Mondavi Center鈥檚 Opening Gala. This time the Symphony, led by new music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and featuring soprano Golda Schultz, will kick off the season.
The digital brochure has all the artists, from Aida Cuevas to Zach Norris, grouped by the genres you love to explore: Orchestras; Dance; Recitals; Jazz; American Roots; Chamber Music and more.
Donors and subscribers can currently purchase subscriptions. Subscriptions for all go on sale May 23. See the full news story here.
View the digital brochure . View the season preview video .
Dublin Irish Dance will be featured in a spring performance at the Mondavi next year. (Courtesy/Bicek Photography)
The Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture Today: Wangechi Mutu
Thursday, May 12, 4:30 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum
Wangechi Mutu's work deals with the very idea of human representation: how we see ourselves and reproduce images of what we think we are, how we view others and create images of what we think of them. In her ongoing conversations with figuration, Mutu鈥檚 work looks at the value systems that prop up various types of representation using ink, soil, ash, bronze, driftwood, horn and pigments. Within her collage-paintings, objects, films and performances, the figure is always in focus, seeking to find more about who and what we are. See more
Ticketed music this weekend includes Sinfonietta and Alexander String Quartet
嘿嘿视频 Sinfonietta with members of the 嘿嘿视频 Symphony Orchestra
Friday, May 13, 7 鈥 8:15 p.m.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center,
director and conductor
The program includes Lament WORLD PREMIERE, Cloudburst WORLD PREMIERE, Lavava y Suspirava (Fantasy on a Sephardic Romance) WORLD PREMIERE, and Chamber Concerto for 13 Instrumentalists.
Find a direct link to the livestream .
Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg; tickets are still available
Chamber Music of Antonin Dvo艡谩k
Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m., Jackson Hall
The program will feature Bagatelles for Two Violins, Cello & Harmonium, Op. 47 (1878), Quartet for Piano & Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 87 (1889) and guest artist Jeffrey LaDeur, harmonium and piano.
A major artistic presence in its home base of San Francisco, the Alexander String Quartet鈥痠s equally beloved in its second home, the Mondavi Center. This year the quartet appears with new violist David Samuel joining cellist Sandy Wilson, and violinists Fred Lifsitz and Zakarias Grafilo. All Alexander String Quartet performances will take place in Jackson Hall.
This performance will begin promptly at 2 p.m., with a Robert Greenberg lecture on the Bagatelles for Two Violins, Cello & Harmonium followed by a full performance of that piece. Following the intermission, Greenberg will speak again on the Quartet for Piano & Strings in E-flat Major, followed by a full performance of that piece.
Greenberg has performed, taught and lectured extensively across North America and Europe. He is currently music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances, where he has lectured and performed since 1994.
Find more information and purchase tickets .
Catch student recitals this weekend at Pitzer. Free.
Senior Recital: Ileana Puente, Soprano
May 14, 2 鈥 3 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Free
with LuAnn Higgs, piano
The program includes Antonio Vivaldi: 鈥淰edr贸 con mio diletto鈥 from Il Giustino, George Frideric Handel: 鈥淥mbra mai fu鈥, Henry Purcell: 鈥淲hen I am laid in earth鈥, Ernest Chausson: 鈥淟es Papillons鈥 and 鈥淟e Colibri鈥, Gabriel Faur茅: 鈥淔leur jete茅鈥 from Quatre m茅lodies, Hugo Wolf: 鈥淰erborgenheit鈥 and 鈥淎uf einer Wanderung鈥, Graciano Tarrag贸: 鈥淭engo que subir鈥, Manuel de Falla: 鈥淭us ojillos negros鈥, and W.A. Mozart: 鈥淧arto, ma tu ben mio鈥 from La Clemenza di Tito.
Find a direct link to the livestream .
Junior Recital: Jenny Landeta, Flute
May 14, 2022, 4 鈥 4:30 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Free
Find a direct link to the livestream .
Junior Recital: Natalie Laurie, Flute
May 14, 5:30 鈥 6 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Free
The program includes Sonate pour fl没te et piano with Karen Rosenak, piano; Revamper; and Azul with Mars Lewis, percussion.
Find a direct link to the livestream .
Coming Up Next Week
Film Fest @ 嘿嘿视频 will be held in downtown Varsity Theatre Monday and Tuesday
May 16, 9:30 鈥 11 p.m., May 17, 9:30 鈥 11:30 p.m., $10
Experience new works by student filmmakers at the 2022 Film Fest @ 嘿嘿视频. Now back in person, the festival will be held May 16 and 17 at the Varsity Theatre in downtown Davis.
鈥淲e are so grateful to be able to present this year鈥檚 festival in person after two years of being virtual,鈥 said Christine Davis, publicity director for Film Fest. 鈥淩eturning to an in-person event adds excitement and enthusiasm for the screenings as the filmmakers experience an audience鈥檚 reaction to their work.鈥
Film Fest showcases films that are eight minutes or less and have been created by undergraduate or graduate students and recent graduates. The films include a variety of genres and styles, from narrative to documentary to experimental, with a different program each evening.
Established in 2000 in the 嘿嘿视频 Department of Theatre and Dance, the festival was founded by students involved in filmmaking (with other departments joining later). Alumni filmmakers have gone on to submit works to numerous regional film festivals.
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The festival is co-produced by the 嘿嘿视频 departments of Art and Art History, Cinema and Digital Media, Design, Music, and Theatre and Dance, which are part of the College of Letters and Science.
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Department of Art and Art History Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Connie Butler
Wednesday, May 18, 4:30 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum
Connie Butler is the chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles where, since 2013, she has organized numerous exhibitions including the biennial of Los Angeles artists, Made in LA (2014); Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth (2015); Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space (2017) and Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence (2019). She also co-curated Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, which was organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and opened at the Hammer in October 2018. From 2006 to 2013, she was the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at MOMA, where she co-curated the first major Lygia Clark retrospective in the United States (2014) and On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (2010). Butler also organized the groundbreaking survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where she was curator from 1996 to 2006. She was the 2020 recipient of the Bard College Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.
Organized by the Department of Art and Art History. Co-sponsored by the 嘿嘿视频 College of Letters and Science and the Manetti Shrem Museum.
The Visiting Artist Lecture Series is organized by Art Studio faculty and master of fine arts鈥 candidates. It invites some of the most compelling practitioners and thinkers working today鈥 to 嘿嘿视频 鈥斺 including鈥 nationally and internationally recognized artists, critics and curators 鈥 for public lectures, readings and critiques with students and faculty across disciplines.鈥
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