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Tuesday, April 3, 2007- 8:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Celebrate Lou Harrison’s 90th Birthday and join conductor Nicole Paiement and the Ensemble Parallèle for the world premiere of Harrison’s final version of his opera Young Caesar — a lavish trans-ethnic work exploring the love affair between Julius Caesar and Nicomedes, King of Bithynea. Inspired by Chinese opera, Harrison created a new operatic style where East meets West. Young Caesar grapples with many contemporary issues that were at the heart of Harrison’s exploration – the Pacific Rim and its exotic colors, new theater, and homosexuality. Presented by the UCSC Music Department in collaboration with Ensemble Parallèle.
Pre-performance talk 7:15 pm with Professor Leta Miller
Admission: $28 general, $20 senior, $12 students
reserved seating
tickets: 459-2159
Friday, April 6, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Join our voice students in a presentation of opera scenes discussed earlier in the day at the afternoon round table discussion on “Gender Issues and Politics” (2:00–3:30 room 131, Music Building) in the “New Directions in Contemporary Opera” symposium. Program includes Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc, Transformations by Conrad Susa, Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Turn of the Screw by Britten, and Li Zite 'ngalera by Leonardo Vinci. Brian Staufenbiel, artistic director.
Admission: Free
Saturday, April 7, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
A gala concert of contemporary arias performed by celebrated professional singers in the Bay Area, including soprano Sheri Greenawald, director of the Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera, mezzo-soprano Wendy Hillhouse, tenor Joseph Meyers, and Adler Fellow Eugene Brancoveanu as baritone. Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi accompanies the singers in an evening of music by Stravinsky, Bolcom, Susa, Menotti, Weill, Drescher, Conte, Harrison, Adams, and our own UCSC composers, David Evan Jones. In association with the “New Directions in Contemporary Opera” symposium at UCSC.
Admission:$14 general, $12 senior, $8 students
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Featuring new works for small chamber ensembles.
Admission: $6 general, $6 seniors, $4 students
Saturday, April 14, 2007 – 7:30
Music Center Recital Hall
Music for live and recorded digital media featuring music by composers Gerry Basserman, Peter Elsea, Paul Nauert, and James Tenney.
Admission: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
tickets: 459-2159
Sunday, April 15, 2007 – 3:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
With Michael McGushin, piano, and Hamza Tayeb, guitar. Performing works by John Dowland, Gabriel Fauré, and Robert Schumann's “Eichendorff Liederkreis.”
Admission: Free
info: 459-2787
Sunday, April 15, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Emma Heffernan, violin I, Adrian Delmer, violin II, Linnea Powell, viola, and Samuel Aray, cello, perform Mozart’s String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K 387 and the String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel. Directed by Roy Malan.
Admission: Free
info: 459-2787
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Composer/clarinetist/laptop artist Matt Ingalls and percussionist William Winant in a program of free improvisation and works by Ingalls, Denis Smalley, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Plus tributes to composers Lou Harrison and James Tenney featuring the UCSC Percussion Ensemble. Presented by the UCSC Music Department.
Admission: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
tickets: 459-2159
Thursday, April 19, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
John Schneider leads the ensemble PARTCH in a program featuring the music and novel musical instruments of maverick American composer Harry Partch. Presented by the UCSC Music Department.
Admission: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
tickets: 459-2159
Friday, April 20, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Joel Ford's graduate recital will be the premiere of his Cannabis Cantata, an opera based on J.S. Bach's Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, also known as the Coffee Cantata. In Joel's work, the roles of the worrying old man and his coffee-addicted daughter are reversed and modernized into a pot-addicted middle-aged artist, Stephen, and his daughter, the young, hard-working but disorganized coffee-pounding lawyer, Lisa, who threatens to stop managing her father's finances unless he gives the bong a break. Starring John Seales, Kalean Ung, Tyler Burton, and Claire Gendler. Conducted by Rebecca Stuhlbarg.
Admission: $6 general, $6 seniors, $4 students
tickets: 459-2159
Saturday, April 21, 2007 – 12:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
With Michael Mc Gushin, piano and Simone Bley, piano. Performing works by Noel Coward, Frank Loesser, Kander and Ebb, and Jason Robert Brown.
Admission: Free
Saturday, April 21, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
With guest artists Uday Bhawalkar, vocal dhrupad, and Manik Munde, pakhawaj.
Admission: $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
tickets: 459-2159
Sunday, April 22, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Hee-Jeong Kim and You-Seon Kim, 12-string Korean gayageum (zither) virtuosos, will join with UCSC graduate student performers (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, and Patrick Richey) to present world premiere compositions by graduate student composers from UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, Young-Shin Choi, Joel Ford, Jean Ahn, Sue-Hye Kim, Simon Hutchinson, Monica Lynn, and John Seales).
Admission: Free
info: 459-2787
Monday, April 23, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Eun-Ah Kwak and Hee-Jeong Kim, 12-string Korean gayageum (zither) virtuosos, will join with members of San Francisco’s Ensemble Parallèle (Jean-Michel Fonteneau and John Sackett) to present world premieres of music by composers from the Bay Area and Korea, including Yu-Hui Chang, David Cope, Andrew Imbrie, David Evan Jones, Hi Kyung Kim, Sung-Ki Kim, and Young-Ja Lee. Presented by the UCSC Music Department.
Admission: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
tickets: 459-2159
Thursday. April 26, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Featuring dancer Ben Arcangel with members of the UCSC West Javanese Gamelan. Works to be performed include duets by Bela Bartok and Steve Reich, ragtime tunes by Joplin and George H. Green, and works by J. S. Bach, Gordon Stout, Elliot Carter, and Frank Zappa. Presented by the UCSC Music Department.
Admission: Free
info: 459-2787
Friday, April 27, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Solo North Indian tabla in Teental (16 beats) accompanied by sitar. Also featuring an original composition for the UCSC West Javanese Gamelan with a South Indian (Carnatic) music ensemble including violin and mridangam. Tala Vadya Kacceri, or percussion music concert, draws upon the cyclical framework and instruments of Gamelan as a basis for rhythmic exposition of Indian percussion music.
Admission: $6 general, $6 seniors, $4 students
tickets: 459-2159
Sunday, April 29, 2007 – 3:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Singing songs by Monteverdi, Debussy, Schubert, and Britten with special guests Inara Morgenstern, piano, and Nina Treadwell, theorbo.
Admission: Free
info: 459-2787
Sunday, April 29, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Double bill: cellist Franklin Cox in a set featuring premieres by Benjamin Carson and Avi Tchamni and music by Brian Ferneyhough. Flutist / saxophonist / composer Karlton Hester and guests (Renata Bratt, Larry T. Douglas, Stan Poplin, Kamau Seitu) preview Hester’s large-scale cycle Balledrama, which explores relationships and intersections between musical and universal order.
Admission: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
tickets: 459-2159
Sunday, May 6, 2007 – 3:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
"Up Jumped Spring" – The Music of Jazz Trumpeter Clifford Brown
Large and Small Jazz Ensembles perform music composed, played and inspired by jazz trumpet legend Clifford Brown. ["By all accounts Clifford Brown was an intelligent, clean-living and disciplined musician, with a warm and gentle disposition, which made him much loved by his fellow-musicians" – Joop Visser). Directed by Stan Poplin and Robert Klevan.
Admission: $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
tickets: 459-2159
Sunday, May 6, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Admission: Free
Friday, May 11, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Schubert's lyrical melodies still move us almost two centuries after their creation. Join the UCSC Concert Choir in celebrating Franz Schubert's 210th birthday with a real "Schubertiade" featuring some of his best chamber and vocal music. Guest artist and UCSC voice instructor Patrice Maginnis will present a selection of some of the composer's most beloved songs. The Concert Choir will give a rare performance of Schubert's Mass in C major D. 452 opus 48. Jacques Desjardins conducts.
Admission: $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
tickets: 459-2159
Friday, May 18, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
The Wind Ensemble, directed by Dr. Robert Klevan, presents an evening of Music for Winds and Percussion with special guest: the North Monterey County High School Wind Ensemble directed by Mr. D. L. Johnson.
Admission: $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
tickets: 459-2159
Saturday, May 19, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
The West Javanese and Balinese ensembles perform works to be announced. Directed by Undang Sumarna and Linda Burman-Hall.
Admission: $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students
tickets: 459-2159
Sunday, May 20, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Compositions and performances by faculty and students from the UCSC Electronic Music Studios. Directed by Peter Elsea.
Admission: Free
info: 459-2787
Wednesday, May 23, 2006 7:30 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
Various chamber groups of strings, woodwind, brass, guitar, and piano from the UCSC Chamber Music Workshop perform in the end of quarter open studio.
Admission: Free
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, May 31–June 2, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 3, 2007 – 2:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall
The UC Santa Cruz Music Department and the UCSC Opera Theater present Mozart’s enchanting opera The Magic Flute, in English, on the stage of the Music Center Recital Hall for one weekend only. The Magic Flute, described by Mozart himself as a “fairy-tale opera,” is a playful adventure in a mystical world of dark and light, good and evil. Brian Staufenbiel directs; Nicole Paiement conducts the UCSC Orchestra.
Admission: $24 general, $20 seniors, $10 students
tickets: 459-2159
For additional Music Department performances and updates, please check the Campus Calendar of Events at http://music.ucsc.edu/events/ .
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