Arts & Entertainment
Lisa Marie Mazzucco
From left: the Emerson String Quartet, which will play the Music@Menlo winter concert series on Oct. 13; the photo “Aleutian Islands, Alaska” by Laura Oliphant, now on exhibit at Gallery 9; and “Fish Beware,” a painting by Dale Beliveau on display at the EcoCenter.
Fall arts preview
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Community School of Music and Arts Saxophones come in four varieties at the “Saxes for the Season” concert on Dec. 5: soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. This show, one of several at the school’s Tateuchi Hall, features faculty member Mark Russo. 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. 650-9176813, arts4all.org
at Stanford, playing music by university composers Ivan Naranjo and Eoin Callery on the CCRMA Stage at The Knoll. Also planned: the university’s annual “Harmony for Humanity” tribute concert to the late journalist Daniel Pearl, on Oct. 9 in Memorial Church. music. stanford.edu Twilight Concert Series The City of Palo Alto is one of many municipalities and malls offering a free outdoor concert series in the summer. Shows are typically in parks around town, often featuring rock bands, brass bands, jazz combos and teen garage groups. The schedule should be up next year at cityofpaloalto.org. World Harmony Chorus This community chorus is big on being inclusive: Singers of all levels are welcomed. This year’s theme is “Love Songs,” with tunes from Puerto Rico, Kenya, Finland and other areas and a concert set for Jan. 28. Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. instantharmony.com World Music Day Musicians of all stripes — and some dancers, too — converge on downtown Palo Alto each Father’s Day, playing free street-corner, sidewalk and plaza shows from the afternoon to the evening. Next year’s event, the sixth one in P.A., is set for June 15. pamusicday.org
Red Rock Coffee Upcoming: dobro musician Matt Bradford on Sept. 20, Celtic-folk player Jon Rubin on Sept. 27, Esther Berndt and her jazz band on Sept. 28, the jazz of The Night Quintet on Oct. 5, and many others. 201 Castro St., Mountain View. 650-967-4473, redrockcoffee.org Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts The season includes the Oct. 13 “Silicon Valley Schubertiade,” a free musical “salon” concert with the piano, vocal and chamber music of Franz Schubert played by Patricia Cheng, David Saslav, Melissa Smith, Kevin Jim and Monica Chew. 500 Castro St., Mountain View. 650-903-6000, mvcpa.com Oshman Family Jewish Community Center Highlights include: the return of the popular multilingual performances of “Peter and the Wolf,” on Dec. 15; Venezuelan music with the VNote Ensemble on Dec. 17; and Arts Bravura featuring the Branford Marsalis Quartet on May 1. 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. paloaltojcc.org
Other local venues for live music include:
Museums and collections
CoHo Stanford Coffee House The indie bean scene at the CoHo includes the San Diego rock band Never Come Down, scheduled to bring in its distorted-guitar sound on Oct. 1. 459 Lagunita #1, Stanford University. 650-721-2262,
The African-American experience comes to vivid life in the photography of contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems. In her “Kitchen Table Series,” for instance, she tells the story of a modern black woman, using images, text and
herself as a model. Other series have looked at racism, Afro hairstyles, African-American women performers. Born in 1953 in Oregon, Weems has been producing thoughtful, well-received bodies of work for decades. Now her first major museum retrospective is headed for Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center on Oct. 16, after showings in Cleveland, Portland and Nashville. “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video” will run through Jan. 5, featuring about 100 photos, installations and videos. Other new exhibitions in the Cantor’s upcoming season include “Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art,” with 75 works by Margaret Bourke-White, Salvador Dali, Man Ray and other American and European artists. It runs Nov. 13 through March 16. The center is at Museum Drive and Lomita Way. Go to museum. stanford.edu or call 650-723-4177. Over at the Palo Alto Art Center, books as instruments of creativity take center stage this fall. In “Bibliophilia,” which opens Sept. 21, 15 artists focus on books: fashioning their own, or photographing libraries and other books, or transforming discarded tomes into altogether new works of art. Presented together with the Fine Arts Gallery of San Francisco State University, the show includes works by Robert Dawson, Ala Ebtekar, Laurent de Brunhoff, Patricia Curtan and others. It will be up through Dec. 15 at 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto. Also planned this season at the art center: the annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, with pumpkins and other glass objects on exhibit Sept. 24 through 27 and on sale Sept. 28 and 29. 650-329-2366, cityofpaloalto.org/artcenter Anderson Collection This huge private Menlo Park collection of some 820 works of 20th-century American visual art offers free public tours on the third
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Thursday of the month (except in July, August, December and January). Reservations required. 650-854-5160, ksaracino@ aacollection.com Computer History Museum The museum’s lecture series begins this fall with an Oct. 8 talk by Justin Rattner, who was Intel’s chief technology officer as well as director of Intel Labs from 2006 until this year. Ongoing exhibits look at computers past and present, with artifacts that may inspire a spark of recognition. 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. 650-810-1010, computerhistory. org Hoover Institution Library and Archives Dramatic moments in history as seen by the artists who witnessed them: That’s the theme of the current exhibit “Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives.” Works include sketches of life in the gulag by Thomas Sgovio and art journals from pre-revolutionary Russia. Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion, Stanford University. 650723-3563, hoover.org Los Altos History Museum As part of its current exhibit, “A Place to Call Home: Two Centuries of California Living,” which is up through Oct. 6, architect Jonathan Pearlman will give a free talk Sept. 22 on “The Evolution of the American Home.” Before that, the museum’s annual Train Days celebrate model railroading on Sept. 14 and 15. 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. 650-948-9427, losaltoshistory.org Museum of American Heritage TV is a mere tot in the new MOAH exhibit opening Sept. 27. “Television: A History” explores the tube in its early days, displaying sets from the 1940s and ‘50s and showing programs from the ‘50s and ‘60s. To complement all this: a collection of TV-show lunchboxes. The exhibit runs through March.
351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. 650321-1004, moah.org Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo Fifty-some species of animals make their home at this family zoo, along with science programs and shows including a performance by the Amazing Bubble Man on Sept. 15. 1451 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. 650-329-2111, cityofpaloalto.org Stanford University Libraries Special Collections Green Library frequently hosts exhibits of rare books, manuscripts and other literary-themed artwork in the glass cases in the Peterson Gallery and the Munger Rotunda. Opening Sept. 23: “Art Meets Technology: Core Samples from Nine Archives,” with items from the collections of Buckminster Fuller, Arthur H. Benade, Rich Gold and others. http://library. stanford.edu/spc
Galleries When you’ve flown more than a million miles, it’s nice to give those long schleps an artistic purpose. Laura Oliphant does just that with her photography. Her images of the planet from above, shot from the windows of commercial airliners, have won her prizes and exhibits. This month, many of them are on display at Gallery 9 in Los Altos. The Redwood City artist sees a lot of beauty, but “translating it into the camera is a technical challenge,” she said in a press release. “At the very minimum, the shooting platform is moving at 600 miles an hour, never mind the scratched and dirty windows. But ... I’ve learned to bring out the beauty of the world as I see it.” The exhibit is up through Sept. 29 at 143 Main St. Go to gallery9losaltos.com or call 650-941-7969 for more. At the Pacific Art League this month, longtime local photog-