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Arlene was a great friend and supporter of UCSB Arts & Lectures and will be greatly missed by all whose lives she touched. She was a cherished member of the Arts & Lectures family, and her sincere love and enthusiasm for music was contagious. She and her husband, Barrie, were true sustainers of the performing arts and regularly sponsored and attended events. As an A&L Ambassador, Arlene worked tirelessly to encourage new community support and to further A&L’s mission to educate, entertain, and inspire.

Thank you to those who gave to A&L in Arlene’s memory.

The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative is a multi-year educational project from Arts & Lectures that brings experiential and contextual learning opportunities to UCSB and Santa Barbara. With a focus on outreach, this program will feature a series of high-profile public lectures and performances whose impact will be deepened by extensive student and community interaction, collaboration with University curricula, engagement with local K-12 schools, and an online presence.

Creative Culture

Creating a Better World Social Justice, Human Rights, Economic Security

The Intersection of Art, Technology and Design

Oct 2 Ken Burns The National Parks: A Treasure House of Nature’s Superlatives

Oct 17 Françoise Mouly

Oct 5 Larissa MacFarquhar Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help Oct 18 Father Gregory Boyle The Power of Boundless Compassion Nov 3 Joan Baez in Concert Nov 19 Ping Chong + Company Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity Nov 30 Sonita - FREE film screening Invited Guest: filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

and Anita Kunz

The Creative Mind: An Evening of Cover Art, Illustrations and Comics

Oct 24 Maira Kalman The Illustrated Life: The Beauty of Not Knowing (sometimes) Oct 25 Lil Buck A Jookin’ Jam Session Nov 1 Zakir Hussain, tabla

Niladri Kumar, sitar Nov 29 Steven Johnson

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Arts & Lectures Fall 2016 Book Selection As part of The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative, pick up your FREE copy of Larissa MacFarquhar’s Strangers Drowning at the UCSB Arts & Lectures Ticket Office (Building 402, adjacent to UCSB Campbell Hall) or the Arlington Theatre Box Office (1317 State St., Santa Barbara) beginning September 19. Books available while supplies last.

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Dear Arts & Lectures’ Friends and Supporters, Thank you once again for choosing to spend time with us here at Campbell Hall… or the Granada Theatre, or the Arlington, or Hahn Hall, or the Old Mission… any one of the many venues that we call “home” on any given evening.

Because we’re not limited by the size and scope and technical properties of a single venue. We’re able to match artist to venue, and speaker to stage, in a way that ensures the best possible experience.

Here are a couple of must-see events coming this fall that represent a cross section of venues and event experiences. I’ll be there, and I hope you will too: • Joey Alexander Trio at Campbell Hall (Oct. 16) – the superb acoustics of Campbell Hall and its close-up stage make it the perfect venue for wunderkind Joey Alexander, the young jazz phenom discovered by Wynton Marsalis.

• Ensemble Basiani of Georgia at the Old Mission (Oct. 23) – our first-ever concert at Santa Barbara’s Old Mission promises to deliver a transcendent experience in this soaring, sacred space.

• Lil Buck at the Granada Theatre (Oct. 25) – whether you’re upstairs in the loge or up close in the orchestra, you’ll be amazed at Lil Buck’s extraordinary dance technique and stellar improvisational moves.

• Joan Baez at the Arlington Theatre (Nov. 3) – when legendary folk singer and iconic American artist Joan Baez takes the stage, she will be in an historic venue that is itself both legendary and iconic.

• Cellist Sol Gabetta with pianist Alessio Bax at Hahn Hall (Nov. 16) – this superb young cellist, one of Europe’s most sought-after soloists, makes her Santa Barbara debut in our exquisite Hahn Hall.

Please enjoy tonight’s event, and please come back often… to whatever venue is home to your next memorable Arts & Lectures experience.

With deepest appreciation,

Celesta M. Billeci Miller McCune Executive Director

An Evening with

Iron & Wine

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Sun, Sep 25 / 7 PM / Campbell Hall

Iron & Wine Sam Beam is a singer-songwriter who has been creating music as Iron & Wine for more than a decade. Through the course of five albums, numerous EPs and singles and the recent first volume of an archive series, Iron & Wine has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with distinctly cinematic songs.

Iron & Wine is currently celebrating Archive Series Volume No. 1 on Beam’s own label, Black Cricket Recording Co. This first installment taps into work created before Sam was Iron & Wine, when he was making music only to be heard by his family. Songs from these same home recording sessions were used for Iron & Wine’s debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle.

Iron & Wine’s concerts feature songs from the entire catalog, with Sam reinterpreting old favorites and debuting new ones.

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Fareed Zakaria

Election 2016: A View from Home and Abroad Tue, Sep 27 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre

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Monica & Timothy Babich Additional support: Suzi & Glen Serbin With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, contributing editor at The Atlantic and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria is widely respected for his thoughtful analysis and ability to spot economic and political trends. Esquire magazine described him as “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.”

Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN’s flagship international affairs program, has become a destination for those seeking smart commentary and civil conversation about the big ideas and global challenges of our time. The Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated GPS features Zakaria’s fascinating panel discussions and one-on-one interviews with heads of state, intellectuals and business leaders. His columns and cover stories – ranging from the future of the Middle East and America’s role in the world to the politics and culture of the global economy – reach millions of readers.

Zakaria’s international bestseller The Post-American World is about the “rise of the rest,” analyzing the growth of China, India, Brazil, among others, and what it means for the future.

The New York Times called it “a relentlessly intelligent book,” while the Boston Sunday Globe praised Zakaria for having “more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” His previous New York Times bestseller, The Future of Freedom, has been translated into more than 20 languages and was called “a work of tremendous originality and insight” by The Washington Post.

He was the editor of Newsweek International from 2000 to 2010 and editor-at-large at Time from 2010 to 2014.

Zakaria serves on the board of the New America Foundation. He has won the Deadline Club Award for Best Columnist, a National Magazine Award, two Overseas Press Club Awards and the Padma Bhushan. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Slate. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.

His latest book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, debuted at No. 6 on The New York Times best sellers list in April 2015.

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The Time Jumpers

featuring Vince Gill, Kenny Sears, “Ranger Doug” Green and Paul Franklin Thu, Sep 29 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre

Event Sponsor: Barrie Bergman in honor of Arlene Bergman

Kenny Sears, fiddle & vocals “Ranger Doug” Green, guitar & vocals Vince Gill, guitar & vocals Jeff Taylor, accordion, piano, vocals Paul Franklin, steel guitar

The Time Jumpers Tap any member of multi-Grammy Award-nominated The Time Jumpers on the shoulder and the face that turns to greet you will be that of one who’s made major contributions to the richness and vigor of country music.

The current edition of The Time Jumpers includes 10 members, each a master of his instrument. They are Vince Gill (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars), “Ranger Doug” Green (vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar), Paul Franklin (steel guitar), Brad Albin (upright bass), Larry Franklin (fiddle), Andy Reiss (electric guitar), Kenny Sears (vocals, fiddle), Joe Spivey (fiddle, vocals), Jeff Taylor (accordion, piano) and Billy Thomas (drums, vocals).

Tragically The Time Jumpers lost their 11th member, vocalist Dawn Sears, who passed away in December 2014.

Diagnosed with lung cancer in February 2012, Sears fought the disease ferociously and championed efforts for lung cancer research.

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Billy Thomas, drums & vocals Larry Franklin, fiddle & vocals Joe Spivey, fiddle & vocals Andy Reiss, guitar Brad Albin, bass

The Time Jumpers was established in Nashville in 1998 by an assemblage of high-dollar studio musicians who wanted to spend some spare time jamming with their sonically gifted buddies. The notion of building a rabidly devoted following was the last thing on their minds. But that’s what happened. Learning that Monday evenings were the slowest in the week for the Station Inn bluegrass club, the superpickers settled into that fabled venue at the start of each week and set up shop. Pretty soon Monday nights were sounding a lot like Saturday nights – and drawing commensurately lively crowds.

As word spread along Music Row that something special was happening at Station Inn, big stars began dropping by, some to sit in with the band, others just to enjoy the vast array of country, swing, jazz and pop standards The Time Jumpers rejoiced in playing. Among those drop-bys were Bonnie Raitt, Reba McEntire, Norah Jones, Robert Plant, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Buffet and Kelly Clarkson.

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After more than 10 years together, the band relocated their Monday night shows to 3rd & Lindsley, a larger capacity club in Nashville. In 2013, the band’s self-titled release on Rounder Records was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (Country), and Best Country Album. Kid Sister, the band’s new album for Rounder Records, was released on September 9.

a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1982. Recognized as one of the foremost scholars of country music, Green is author of Singing in the Saddle, the definitive book on western music. Riders in the Sky also had a CBS TV show (Riders in the Sky) as well an NPR radio show (Riders Radio Theater) and sang “Woody’s Roundup” in Toy Story 2.

Green has been with The Time Jumpers for 15 years.

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Vince Gill

Kenny Sears was born in Denison, Texas, and raised on a farm in Liberty, Okla. He purchased his first fiddle when he was 7 with money earned picking cotton, and turned professional when he was 11 after he was invited to join the staff band of the Big D Jamboree in Dallas. This gave him the opportunity to work with Grand Ole Opry artists who routinely played the Jamboree. Another contact young Sears made there was Billy Gray, Hank Thompson’s former bandleader. When the Big D Jamboree closed down, Gray asked Sears to join his troupe. Sears recalls it as a great training ground in swing and country music. But he had another musical life as well. Since the fourth grade, he had been playing classical violin with the Austin College Symphony. This gig netted him a scholarship to North Texas State University and the chance to study music in depth. He subsequently played in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Sears moved to Nashville in 1975 and in the years that followed toured with Mel Tillis, Ray Price, Faron Young and Dottie West, among others, worked in Ralph Emery’s staff band and the Grand Ole Opry band and established the reputation he still holds as one of Nashville’s most revered session players. Sears has been the bandleader for The Time Jumpers for the last 15 years.

Oklahoma-born Vince Gill has performed with The Time Jumpers for many years, but only became an official member in 2010. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame since 2007, Gill is widely recognized for his achingly beautiful tenor voice, award-winning songwriting skills and virtuosic guitar chops. Together, these talents have garnered him millions of album sales, 20 Grammys and 18 Country Music Association Awards. In 2005, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Gill is also regarded as one of country music’s most generous humanitarians and is beloved for participating in countless charitable events throughout his career, including a campaign to support the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Gill has recorded with over 600 performers in all genres of music, among them Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Sting, James Taylor, Merle Haggard, George Jones and many more.

“Ranger Doug” Green Illinois native Green spent much of his youth in Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968.

He learned to play rhythm guitar during the “folk scare” of the ’60s. While still in college, he began playing bluegrass and even toured with Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys between his junior and senior years. That experience encouraged him to consider a career in music. He moved to Nashville, enrolled at Vanderbilt University and earned his master’s degree while continuing to play music on the side.

He worked briefly with Monroe again in 1969 and then with Jimmy Martin. Green says he rediscovered Sons of the Pioneers in the mid-’70s and was drawn to the group’s “sweeping poetic lyrics, great loping beat, complicated chord changes, beautiful soaring harmonies and yodeling.”

He and Fred “Too Slim” LaBour formed Riders in the Sky in 1977. The group has won two Grammy Awards and been

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Jeff Taylor Jeff Taylor grew up in Batavia in western New York state and played accordion and keyboards in his dad’s band beginning at age 10. He studied classical piano at the Eastman School of Music and later was a bandleader of a small jazz/rock group in the Air Force in Ohio.

Since Taylor moved to Nashville in 1990 he has been a bandleader/keyboard player/conductor/arranger/producer/ multi-instrumentalist on numerous theater productions, live shows and recording sessions, including 14 years as bandleader at Opryland and the General Jackson Showboat and two years as bandleader for the Ryman’s Always... Patsy Cline. Taylor joined The Time Jumpers in July 1998.

When Taylor isn’t performing with The Time Jumpers he’s booked 24/7 as a session and touring musician. He has recorded and toured with such acts as Elvis Costello, Harry Connick, Jr., Edie Brickell, Paul Simon, Boz Scaggs, Amy Grant, George Strait, The Chieftains, Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride, Asleep at the Wheel, The Civil Wars, Miranda Lambert, Cyndi Lauper, Steven Tyler, Keb Mo, Claire Lynch, Chris Cornell, John Oates, The Gaither Vocal Band, Point of Grace, Willie Nelson, Allison Krauss,

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Buddy Greene, Keith and Kristyn Getty and many others.

Taylor was a featured artist on Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder’s Instrumentals, which won a 2007 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. He produced Michael Card’s hymn project titled Hymns. Taylor is the Music Director for Tokens, a live music and comedy series. Taylor has recorded solo projects including an album of piano hymns, a Christmas project and an album entitled Jigs, Reels, Hymns and Airs.

Cooder Browne Band, which recorded on Willie Nelson’s Lone Star label and toured with Nelson. Franklin went on to perform with Asleep at the Wheel for seven years, during which time he won two Grammy Awards. His third Grammy came in 1999 for “Bob’s Breakdown” on the Ride with Bob tribute album to Bob Wills. Since moving to Nashville in 1991, he has recorded with Kenny Chesney, Grace Potter, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Lauren Alaina, Rodney Atkins, Joe Nichols, Lee Ann Womack, Easton Corbin, Brian Wilson, Reba McEntire, Shania Twain and Lady Antebellum, among dozens of others. In 2002, Larry was inducted into the Texas Fiddlers Hall of Fame. He has been a member of The Time Jumpers since May 2010.

Paul Franklin Paul Franklin (no relation to Larry) moved from Detroit to Nashville in 1972 to play pedal steel guitar for Barbara Mandrell. Later in the ’70s, he recorded and toured with Jerry Reed and Mel Tillis. In 1981, he decided to quit the road and focus strictly on session work in Nashville. Since then, he has recorded with such legendary artists as Sting, Mark Knopfler, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, Barbra Streisand and Megadeth. “They say Paul’s the best there is,” says Knopfler, “but he seems to get better all the time.” Franklin’s imagination and versatility have made him one of the busiest session musicians in Nashville.

Joe Spivey A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Joe Spivey has been playing fiddle since he was 16, influenced primarily by greats Chubby Wise and Tommy Jackson. After working at a gospel radio station (where he eventually rose to the rank of program director), he served from 1977 to 1982 as the music director for the revamped Louisiana Hayride.

In 1984, he moved to Colorado Springs and formed Cimarron, a band that went on to win the state championship in the Marlboro Country Music Roundup competition. Spivey moved on to Nashville in 1986 and joined John Anderson’s band in July of that year. He continues to tour with Anderson. As a studio musician, he has recorded with Anderson, Merle Haggard, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Baez, Hank Williams, Jr., Clay Walker and many others. His hobbies include studying music history and collecting cameras and Victrola phonographs.

Billy Thomas Drummer Billy Thomas came to Nashville from Los Angeles in 1987 and immediately began working with Vince Gill. He has been a member of Gill’s touring band ever since and regularly sings and plays on Gill’s records.

Thomas has also recorded and/or toured with Patty Loveless, Emmylou Harris, Steve Wariner, Marty Stuart, Ricky Nelson, Don Williams, Earl Scruggs and Dolly Parton. During the early ’90s, Thomas was a founding member of the MCA Records trio, McBride & The Ride.

The band’s Top 10 singles included “Sacred Ground,” “Going out of My Mind,” “Just One Night” and “Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run.” Thomas’ songs have been recorded by McBride & The Ride, Gill, Dottie West, Little River Band, Ricochet, the Oak Ridge Boys and Andy Griggs, among others. Thomas is proud to have co-written and sang “Blue Highway Blue” which is on the new album, Kid Sister.

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Larry Franklin Larry Franklin grew up on a farm in Whitewright, Texas, and began playing the fiddle when he was 7 years old under the guidance of his father, Louis Franklin. He eventually won virtually every fiddling contest in Texas, culminating with the World Championship title when he was only 16.

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Guitarist Andy Reiss has now been an active member of the Nashville community for more than 35 years. He left his hometown of San Francisco to pursue his passion for music in 1980. He was brought up in a household listening to mainly traditional classical music (he even has an ancestor that was a German composer and guitarist in the 1700s!).

He began his formal music education with the piano at age 7, moving to the guitar at 10. Being lucky enough to have grown up in San Francisco during the 1960s, he would forever be influenced by the thriving music scene of the time.

Some of the many concerts that proved to be eye-opening experiences featured B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Buck Owens, and of course, psychedelic luminaries such as The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. This is also when he discovered jazz, and his guitar work became heavily influenced by greats such as Grant Green and Charlie Christian.

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After arriving in Nashville, he was fortunate enough to have two influential A-Team: advocates, the legendary producer and steel guitarist Pete Drake and the visionary Harold Bradley, the guitarist who, along with his brother Owen, built the first recording studio on Nashville’s Music Row and served as a long time president of the local Musician’s Union.

Andy’s first recording session was for the actor Slim Pickens, a session that was an overwhelming initiation involving many A-Team pickers such as Drake, Charlie McCoy, Bob Moore, Pete Wade, Pig Robbins and The Jordanaires.

He has since become a studio mainstay, playing on hundreds of records and with artists ranging from Slim Whitman to Leon Russell. Returning to his early jazz influences, he also has recorded with many jazz greats, including Pete Christlieb, Beegee Adair, Benny Golson and as a member of the Lori Mechem Quartet. He has also toured many years with both the legendary Slim Whitman and Reba McEntire and was one of the first Time Jumpers, having been with the group since 1999.

Andy has also given back to the community with a leadership role in the Nashville Musician’s Association and as an educator with the Nashville Jazz Workshop and other venues.

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Brad Albin Originally from Illinois, upright and electric bassist Brad Albin has been playing professionally for 30 years, the last 20 of which have been in Nashville. The newest member of The Time Jumpers, Albin also maintains a busy schedule as a performer on recording sessions, live performances and as a teacher. A few notable country artists that he has toured and/or recorded with include Mandy Barnett, Don McLean, Jim Lauderdale and the Sons of the Pioneers. Albin is also very active performing in Nashville’s musical theater community including productions for the Tennessee Repertory Theater, Nashville Children’s Theatre and Ryman Auditorium. He resides in East Nashville with his wife Jenny of Doyle and Debbie fame. He received his Bachelor of Music from Southern Illinois University in 1990.

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Ken Burns

The National Parks: A Treasure House of Nature’s Superlatives Sun, Oct 2 / 12 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre

Presented in collaboration with Channel Islands National Park and the UCSB Natural Reserve System

photo: Tim Llewellyn

The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family

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Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost 40 years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The Statue of Liberty; Huey Long; Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; and Jackie Robinson. His most recent film, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War, was released in September.

A December 2002 poll conducted by Real Screen Magazine listed The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time.

In March 2009, David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun said, “Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That includes feature filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I say that because Burns not only turned millions of persons onto history with his films, he showed us a new way of looking at our collective past and ourselves.”

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The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of his films, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.”

Burns’ films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including fourteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations; and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Burns was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Tue, Oct 4 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Post-performance Producers Circle members-only party with the band

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Program to be announced from the stage

Wynton Marsalis, Music Director, trumpet Greg Gisbert, trumpet Kenny Rampton, trumpet Marcus Printup, trumpet Vincent Gardner, trombone Chris Crenshaw, trombone Elliot Mason, trombone Sherman Irby, alto & soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet Ted Nash, alto & soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet

Jazz at Lincoln Center The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and guest artists spanning genres and generations, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of performance, education, and broadcast events each season in its home in New York City (Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The House of Swing”) and around the world,

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Victor Goines, tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet Walter Blanding, tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet Paul Nedzela, baritone & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet Dan Nimmer, piano Carlos Henriquez, bass Ali Jackson, drums Artists subject to change

for people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Chairman Robert J. Appel, Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, and Executive Director Greg Scholl.

Please visit us at jazz.org.

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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe; in concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs; public parks; and with symphony orchestras; ballet troupes; local students; and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others.

Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mission; its educational activities are coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tour programming. These programs, many of which feature Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members, include the celebrated Jazz for Young People™ family concert series; the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival; the Jazz for Young People™ Curriculum; educational residencies; workshops; and concerts for students and adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Center educational programs reach over 110,000 students, teachers and general audience members.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR Music and WBGO have partnered to create the next generation of jazz programming in public radio: Jazz Night in America.

The series showcases today’s vital jazz scene while also underscoring the genre’s storied history. Hosted by bassist Christian McBride, the program features hand-picked performances from across the country, woven with the colorful stories of the artists behind them. Jazz Night in America and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s radio archive can be found at jazz.org/radio.

Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spends over a third of the year on tour. The big band performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Centercommissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington; Count Basie; Fletcher Henderson; Thelonious Monk; Mary Lou Williams; Billy Strayhorn; Dizzy Gillespie; Benny Goodman; Charles Mingus; Chick Corea; Oliver Nelson; and many others.

Guest conductors have included Benny Carter; John

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Lewis; Jimmy Heath; Chico O’Farrill; Ray Santos; Paquito D’Rivera; Jon Faddis; Robert Sadin; David Berger; Gerald Wilson; and Loren Schoenberg.

Jazz at Lincoln Center also regularly premieres works commissioned from a variety of composers including Benny Carter; Joe Henderson; Benny Golson; Jimmy Heath; Wayne Shorter; Sam Rivers; Joe Lovano; Chico O’Farrill; Freddie Hubbard; Charles McPherson; Marcus Roberts; Geri Allen; Eric Reed; Wallace Roney; and Christian McBride, as well as from current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw, and Carlos Henriquez.

Over the last few years, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed collaborations with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic; the Russian National Orchestra; the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; the Boston, Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras; the Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paolo, Brazil; and others. In 2006, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra collaborated with Ghanaian drum collective Odadaa!, led by Yacub Addy, to perform “Congo Square,” a composition Marsalis and Addy co-wrote and dedicated to Marsalis’ native New Orleans. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed Marsalis’ symphony, Swing Symphony, with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin and with the New York Philharmonic in New York City in 2010 and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles in 2011. Swing Symphony is a co-commission by the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Barbican Centre.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has also been featured in several education and performance residencies in the last few years, including those in Vienne, France; Perugia, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic; London, England; Lucerne, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany; São Paulo, Brazil; Yokohama, Japan; and others.

Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln Center programs have helped broaden the awareness of its unique efforts in the music. Concerts by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have aired in the U.S.; England; France; Spain; Germany; the Czech Republic; Portugal; Norway; Brazil; Argentina; Australia; China; Japan; Korea; and the Philippines. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared on several XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and eight Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts carried by PBS stations nationwide; including a program which aired

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on October 18, 2004 during the grand opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and on September 17, 2005 during Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Concert. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Concert raised funds for the Higher Ground Relief Fund that was established by Jazz at Lincoln Center, and was administered through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to benefit the musicians, music industryrelated enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina, and to provide other general hurricane relief. The band is also featured on the Higher Ground Benefit Concert CD that was released on Blue Note Records following the concert. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was featured in a Thirteen/WNET production of Great Performances entitled “Swingin’ with Duke: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis,” which aired on PBS in 1999. In September 2002, BET Jazz premiered a weekly series called Journey with Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring performances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from around the world. In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the launch of Blue Engine Records (www. jazz.org/blueengine), a new platform to make its vast archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The label is dedicated to releasing new studio and live recordings as well as archival recordings from past Jazz at Lincoln Center performances, and its first record, Live in Cuba, was recorded on a historic 2010 trip to Havana by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Blue Engine’s second offering was Carlos Henriquez’s The Bronx Pyramid, followed by Big Band Holidays from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The most recent release is The Abyssinian Mass, a Wynton Marsalis composition featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Damien Sneed, 70-piece gospel choir Chorale Le Chateau, and special guest Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III. To date, 14 other recordings featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis have been released and internationally distributed: Vitoria Suite (2010); Portrait in Seven Shades (2010); Congo Square (2007); Don’t Be Afraid...The Music of Charles Mingus (2005); A Love Supreme (2005); All Rise (2002); Big Train (1999); Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999); Live in Swing City (1999); Jump Start and Jazz (1997); Blood on the Fields (1997); They Came to Swing (1994); The Fire of the Fundamentals (1993); and Portraits by Ellington (1992).

For more information on Jazz at Lincoln Center, please visit www.jazz.org.

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Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis is the Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12 and soon began playing in local bands of diverse genres. He entered The Juilliard School at age 17 and joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 70 jazz and classical albums which have garnered him nine Grammy Awards.

In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year; he repeated this feat in 1984.

Marsalis’ rich body of compositions includes Sweet Release; Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements; Jump Start and Jazz; Citi Movement/Griot New York; At the Octoroon Balls; In This House, On This Morning; and Big Train. In 1997, Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1999, he released eight new recordings in his unprecedented Swinging into the 21st series, and premiered several new compositions, including the ballet Them Twos, for a 1999 collaboration with the New York City Ballet.

That same year, he premiered the monumental work All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir. Sony Classical released All Rise on CD in 2002. Recorded on September 14 and 15, 2001 in Los Angeles in the tense days following 9/11, All Rise features the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra along with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Morgan State University Choir, the Paul Smith Singers and the Northridge Singers. In 2004, he released The Magic Hour, his first of six albums on Blue Note records. He followed up his Blue Note debut with Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the companion soundtrack recording to Ken Burns’ PBS documentary of the great African-American boxer; Wynton Marsalis: Live at The House Of Tribes (2005); From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2007); Two Men with the Blues, featuring Willie Nelson (2008); He and She (2009); Here We Go Again featuring Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis and Norah Jones (2011); and Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues (2011).

To mark the 200th Anniversary of Harlem’s historical Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2008, Marsalis composed a full mass for choir and jazz orchestra. The piece premiered

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at Jazz at Lincoln Center and followed with performances at the celebrated church. Marsalis composed his second symphony, Blues Symphony, which was premiered in 2009 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and in 2010 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That same year, Marsalis premiered his third symphony, Swing Symphony, a co-commission by the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Barbican Centre. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performed the piece with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin and with the New York Philharmonic in New York City in 2010 and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles in 2011.

Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of universities and colleges throughout the U.S. He conducts educational programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People™ concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Marsalis has also written and is the host of the video series Marsalis on Music and the radio series Making the Music.

He has also written six books: Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, in collaboration with photographer Frank Stewart; Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, with Carl Vigeland; To a Young Musician: Letters from the Road, with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds; Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers, published in 2012; and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008.

In October 2005, Candlewick Press released Marsalis’ Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, 26 poems celebrating jazz greats, illustrated by poster artist Paul Rogers.

He led the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home – Frederick P. Rose Hall – the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.

Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

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In 2001, Marsalis was appointed Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations; he has also been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through their CultureConnect program. In 2009, Marsalis was awarded France’s Legion of Honor, the highest honor bestowed by the French government.

Marsalis serves on former Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu’s National Advisory Board for Culture, Recreation and Tourism, a national advisory board to guide the Lieutenant Governor’s administration’s plans to rebuild Louisiana’s tourism and cultural economies. He has also been named to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s initiative to help rebuild New Orleans culturally, socially, economically, and uniquely for every citizen. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, which raised over $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

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Larissa MacFarquhar

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help Wed, Oct 5 / 7:30 PM (note special time) Campbell Hall / FREE

Co-presented with the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her profile subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Mantel, Derek Parfit, David Chang and Aaron Swartz, among many others. She is the author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help (Penguin Press, 2015). Before joining the magazine, she was a senior editor at Lingua Franca and an advisory editor at The Paris Review, and wrote for Artforum, The Nation, The New Republic, the Times Book Review, Slate and other publications. She has received two Front Page Awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York, and her writing has appeared in The Best American Political Writing (2007 and 2009) and The Best American Food Writing (2008).

Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event

Several hundred free copies of Strangers Drowning were distributed to the Santa Barbara community as part of The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative.

“Profound, absorbing, and utterly brilliant…

Larissa MacFarquhar shows us people who are devoted to simply trying to do the most good they can in their lives. And in the process she gets us to think about some of mankind’s deepest, most ancient questions – like how you should live and what life is for… Read this book.”

– Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal “[MacFarquhar] may change not just how you see the world, but how you live in it.”

– Kathryn Boo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet

Alonzo King, Founder, Artistic Director Robert Rosenwasser, Founder, Creative Director Arturo Fernandez, Ballet Master Meredith Webster, Ballet Master photo: R J Muna (dancer Laura O’Malley)

Sat, Oct 8 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Post-performance reception with the artists for Dance series subscribers.

Dance series sponsored in part by: Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund

The Company Babatunji Robb Beresford Adji Cissoko

Madeline DeVries Shuaib Elhassan James Gowan

Courtney Henry Yujin Kim Michael Montgomery

Jeffrey Van Sciver Kara Wilkes

About the Company Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a celebrated contemporary ballet company that has been guided since 1982 by the unique artistic vision of Alonzo King. Collaborating with noted composers, musicians, and visual artists from around the world, Alonzo King creates works that draw on a diverse set of deeply rooted cultural traditions, imbuing classical ballet with new expressive potential.

Alonzo King understands ballet as a science – founded on universal, geometric principles of energy and evolution – and continues to develop a new language of movement from its classical forms and techniques. Alonzo King’s visionary choreography, brought to life by the extraordinary LINES Ballet dancers, is renowned for connecting audiences to a profound sense of shared humanity.

“Alonzo King is one of the few bona fide visionaries in the ballet world today, and we are fortunate to have him and his LINES Ballet in San Francisco,” the San Francisco Chronicle proclaims. While the Company’s spring and fall home seasons bring new works of illuminating beauty

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to Bay Area audiences, LINES Ballet’s global tours allow them to share their vision of transformative, revelatory dance worldwide. LINES Ballet has been featured at venues such as the Venice Biennale, Monaco Dance Forum, Maison de la Dance, the Edinburgh International Festival, Montpellier Danse, the Wolfsburg Festival, the Holland Dance Festival, and most recently Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris.

Now in its 33rd year, Alonzo King LINES Ballet continues its commitment to dance education and community involvement through the LINES Ballet Training Program and Summer Program, the Joint B.F.A. Program in Dance with Dominican University of California, and the LINES Dance Center, one of the largest dance facilities on the West Coast.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet benefits from the support of Bank of the West for the development of its projects.

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“The term LINES alludes to all that is visible in the phenomenal world. There is nothing that is made or formed without line. Straight and Circle encompass all that we see. Whatever can be seen is formed by line. In mathematics it is a straight or curved continuous extent of length without breadth. Lines are in our fingerprints, the shapes of our bodies, constellations, geometry. It implies genealogical connection, progeny and spoken word. It marks the starting point and finish. It addresses direction, communication, and design. A line of thought.

A boundary or eternity. A melodic line. The equator. From vibration or dot to dot it is the visible organization of what we see.” –Alonzo King Alonzo King (Artistic Director) is a visionary choreographer who has changed the way we look at ballet. Understanding ballet as a science rooted in universal, geometric principles of energy and evolution, he imbues the classical form with new expressive potential. His work is known worldwide for connecting audiences to a profound sense of shared humanity.

Heralded by William Forsythe as “one of the few, true ballet masters of our time,” King has works in the repertories of the Royal Swedish Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Ballet Bejart, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hong Kong Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He has collaborated with distinguished visual artists, musicians and composers across the globe including Pharaoh Sanders, Hamza El Din, Pawel Szymanski, Jason Moran and Zakir Hussain. Renowned for his skill as a teacher, King was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Corps de Ballet International Teacher Conference in 2012. An internationally-acclaimed guest ballet master, his training philosophy undergirds the educational programming at the Alonzo King LINES Dancer Center of San Francisco, which includes the pre-professional Training Program, Summer Program and B.F.A. Program at Dominican University of California.

King’s work has been recognized by the dance world’s most prestigious institutions for its impact on the cultural fabric of both the company’s home in San Francisco and the nation as a whole. Named a Master of Choreography by the Kennedy Center in 2005, King is the recipient of an NEA Choreographer’s Fellowship, Jacob’s Pillow Creativity Award, Irvine Fellowship in Dance, U.S. Artist Award in Dance and the National

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Dance Project’s Residency and Touring Awards. In 2014, King was appointed to the advisory council of the newly established Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University; in 2015 he received the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award in celebration of his ongoing contributions to the advancement of contemporary dance.

Joining historic icons in the field, King was named one of America’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures” by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2015.

Robert Rosenwasser (Creative Director) Designer, is a co-founder of Alonzo King LINES Ballet. He shapes the aesthetic and artistic direction of each project at the company, including conceptual design and production.

In addition to his work with the company, he has designed for Ballet de Monte Carlo, Ballet Bejart, the Royal Swedish Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Rosenwasser has also collaborated with artists and poets including Richard Tuttle, Kiki Smith, Laurie Reid, Kate Delos, Rena Rosenwasser, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Barbara Guest, designing fine press books. His work is found at the New York Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Books and Illustrated Prints, at the Whitney Museum and at the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library.

Arturo Fernandez (Ballet Master) is a native of Oakland, California who began his dance training at the School of Performing Arts of United States International University in San Diego. After only two years of intensive study, he joined San Diego Ballet in 1976. Other companies he has performed with include California Ballet, Arizona Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo and Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. After moving back to California, he joined Oakland Ballet and then ODC/San Francisco (11 years), where he served as the assistant to the choreographers from 1988 to 1991. Fernandez has choreographed for the James Sewell Ballet, Inland Pacific Ballet and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, among others, and has also demonstrated his work in self-produced concerts throughout the region. Since 1992, he has been the ballet master for Alonzo King LINES Ballet, as well as assisting Alonzo King in the creation of new work. Since 1998, he has coordinated and taught in Alonzo King’s Professional Workshop. In 2001, he directed the first summer Pre-Professional Program at LINES. For more than two decades, Fernandez has been an integral part of Alonzo King LINES Dance Center as well as LINES Ballet’s education programs. He has set Alonzo King’s ballets on companies and universities throughout the

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U.S. including NYU, Washington University in St. Louis and Western Michigan University. Most notably, he set Alonzo King’s Handel on the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm.

Meredith Webster (Ballet Master) grew up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, studying dance under Jean Wolfmeyer, and received further training at the Harid Conservatory and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She then worked with Sonia Dawkins and Donald Byrd in Seattle, and earned a BS in environmental science from the University of Washington before moving to San Francisco to work with Alonzo King LINES Ballet. In her nine seasons as a dancer with the company, Webster performed and originated many central roles, received a Princess Grace Award, and guested at gala events around the world. In August 2014, she moved into the role of ballet master. In 2015 she performed INCOGNITO, a duet with Ledoh/Salt Farm as part of the SF International Arts Festival at Fort Mason, and worked with Maureen Whiting Company on Burden of Joy. She is currently working on Centaur, a Nexus project with The Cambrians of Chicago, Ill., that will premiere in January 2017. Webster has served as a faculty member for the LINES Ballet B.F.A., Training, and Summer Programs, and as a guest teacher at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, George Mason University, Cornish College of the Arts, Spectrum Dance Theater, and Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson, Wyo. She has contributed as a writer to Dance Spirit and Conversations.

G. Chris Griffin (Production and Lighting Director) has managed lighting and technical installation for LINES Ballet through four continents, 18 countries, and over 100 theaters including the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France, the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco and the Joyce Theater in New York City. He has designed lights for Jacoby & Pronk, inkBoat and Danse Lumière. Griffin has also designed for many local, national, and international choreographers in conjunction with the LINES Ballet B.F.A. Program and Summer Program. Previously, he was technical director of the California Theatre Center and Diablo Ballet.

Griffin earned a B.A. in theater and performance studies with high distinction from U.C. Berkeley. He began his world-traveling ways with the Ragazzi Boys Chorus as both chorister and tour manager, and currently serves on the Ragazzi Board of Directors.

Cody Chen Production Stage Manager and Interim Company Manager) joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet in 2013 and has toured with the company across the U.S. as well as to Asia, Europe and South America. Prior to this

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position, Chen had the pleasure of collaborating with Amirage Gone! Dance, Mark Morris Dance Group, Bebe Miller Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Parsons Dance, Philadanco, Elisa Monte Dance, José Limón Dance Company, Dance Heginbotham, Gallim Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai, TAO Dance Theater, TheatreWorks (Singapore), L.A. Theatre Works and Manhattan School of Music Opera, amongst others. In addition, Chen has toured to many prestigious venues including the National Center for the Performing Arts of China, Macao Arts Festival, National Theatre of Taiwan, The John F. Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, The Apollo Theater, Fall for Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Jerusalem Theater, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Maison de la Danse, Montpellier Danse, Frankfurt Lab, Festspielhaus and Teatro Alfa.

Chen received his M.F.A. from University of Illinois.

About the Dancers Babatunji was born in Portland, Ore., but raised in Hawaii. He received his formal dance training from Center Stage Dance Studio and the University of Hawaii in Hilo before moving to San Francisco to train at the LINES Ballet Training Program on full scholarship. He has performed overseas in Japan and China and danced with Philein/ZiRu productions, Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol and Dawson|Wallace Dance Project. Babatunji joined LINES Ballet in 2013.

Robb Beresford was born and raised in Elmira, Ont. He trained at Canada’s National Ballet School, is a graduate of The Quinte Ballet School of Canada, and has taken part in Festival Dance at the Banff Centre for four summers.

Beresford has danced professionally with Ballet Kelowna, Vancouver’s Joe Ink and Ballet Victoria. He joined LINES Ballet in 2013.

Adji Cissoko grew up in Munich, Germany where she trained at Ballet Academy Munich. Cissoko attended the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre in New York City on full scholarship, before joining the National Ballet of Canada in 2010. In 2012 she was awarded the Patron Award of Merit by the Patrons’ Council Committee of The National Ballet of Canada.

Cissoko joined LINES Ballet in 2014.

Madeline DeVries grew up in Southern California studying at the Santa Clarita Ballet Academy. She continued her training at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School and PNBS Professional Division program on full scholarship,

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spending summers with the Houston Ballet, The Rock School, PNB and National Ballet of Canada. DeVries apprenticed with the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany in 2012, and in 2013 she danced with the Seattle based contemporary companies Whim W’Him and Coriolis. DeVries joined LINES Ballet in 2014.

Shuaib Elhassan, from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, began his formal dance training at The Ailey School under the co-direction of Tracy Inman and Melanie Person on a full scholarship. Elhassan has also trained at intensives such as Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, Jacob’s Pillow and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Elhassan was a member of Complexions Contemporary Ballet during their 2012-2013 season. Additionally, Elhassan has performed with Life Dance Company, Zest Collective, Dance Iquail and the Von Howard Project. Elhassan joined LINES Ballet in 2014.

James Gowan, from Phoenix, Ariz., began dancing at the age of 16 at Tempe Dance Academy. He graduated with a B.F.A. in dance from Point Park University, where he worked under teachers and choreographers Kyle Abraham, Doug Bentz, Randy Duncan, Christopher Huggins, Keisha Lalama, Emery LeCrone, Garfield Lemonious and Peter Merz. James has danced as a company member with Texture Contemporary Ballet, River North Dance Chicago and DanceWorks Chicago. He has performed works by George Balanchine, Robert Battle, Frank Chavez, Christopher Gattelli, Dwight Rhoden and Ashley Roland. James joined LINES Ballet in 2016.

Courtney Henry, from West Palm Beach, Fla., began her training at Palm Beach Ballet Center. As a high school senior, Henry was a finalist in Youth American Grand Prix’s “Stars of Tomorrow” program in New York City. After graduating from A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, she returned to New York to attend Fordham University/The Ailey School, where she earned a B.F.A. in Dance. Henry has worked with choreographers including Francesca Harper, Troy Powell, Robert Moses and Elisa Monte, and joined LINES Ballet in 2011. In 2013, Henry was honored with the Princess Grace Foundation – USA and Chris Hellman Dance awards.

Yujin Kim was born in Busan, South Korea, and studied Korean traditional dance for two years before beginning ballet lessons at age 12. She trained at the Young Ji Kim Ballet Studio, the Peniel International Arts School and the Pre-Korean National University of Arts, then attended Switzerland’s Department Tanz de Hochschule Musik und Theater on full scholarship. The winner of numerous

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competitions in South Korea, Kim was awarded a gold medal at the 2005 Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition. She has danced with Sun Hee Kim Ballet Company, National Opera Company of Korea and the Covenant Journey Musical Group. Kim joined LINES Ballet in 2011. In 2013, Kim was invited to perform at the Korea World Dance Stars Festival and selected for the cover of the dance magazine Momm.

Michael Montgomery of Long Beach, Calif., trained at the Orange County High School of the Arts and studied at The Ailey School in the Certificate program. In 2011, he graduated from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet B.F.A. Program at Dominican University of California.

Montgomery was awarded the American College Dance Festival Association’s best student performer award for the Southwest Region in 2008. In 2010, he joined LINES Ballet and was named a Shenson Performing Arts Fellow that same year. Montgomery was named to the list of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2013.

Jeffrey Van Sciver of Los Angeles, Calif., trained at the Julliard School and graduated from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet B.F.A. Program at Dominican University of California in 2013. Van Sciver has danced with Southern California Ballet, Copious Dance Theater, Dawson/ Wallace Dance Project, the San Francisco Opera Corps de Ballet and dawsondancesf, in which he was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award. In 2010, Van Sciver received a scholarship from the Dizzy Feet Foundation, and in 2011 was named a Shenson Performing Arts Fellow by the San Francisco Foundation. Later that year he was the recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation – USA and Chris Hellman awards in dance. Van Sciver has performed works by Karen McDonald, Rennie Harris, Sandrine Cassini, Sidra Bell, Gregory P. Dawson and Nina Flagg, among others. In 2012, Van Sciver attended Springboard Danse Montreal where he performed work

by Jose Navas. He joined LINES Ballet in 2013.

Kara Wilkes, a native of Wisconsin, began her professional career performing classical and contemporary work for five seasons with Milwaukee Ballet Company.

In 2006, she was invited to join Victor Ullate Ballet in Madrid, Spain; she then returned to the U.S. and was a member of North Carolina Dance Theatre for four seasons. While based in Charlotte, Wilkes performed works

by Nacho Duato, Twyla Tharp, Alvin Ailey, Jacqulyn Buglisi, George Balanchine, Dwight Rhoden and Mark Godden. Wilkes was named one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2009 and joined LINES Ballet in 2011.

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Karim Baer, Executive Director G. Chris Griffin, Production Director and Lighting Director Cody Chen, Production Stage Manager and Interim Company Manager Dr. Sonia Bell, Company Medical Doctor Aliza Arenson, Director of Development Marina Hotchkiss, Director of LINES Ballet B.F.A. Program at Dominican University of California Karah Abiog, Director of LINES Ballet Training Program Tammy Cheney, Director of LINES Ballet Summer Program and Discovery Project Kristen Gurbach Jacobson, Director of LINES Dance Center Sara McGhie, Director of Marketing

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet would like to thank the following funders for their invaluable support:

Bloomberg Philanthropies, BNP Paribas Foundation, Crescent Porter Hale Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Kimball Foundation, Mid Atlanyic Arts Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts/ National Dance Project, New Music USA, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Pacific Gas & Electric, Princess Grace Foundation – USA, Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Union Bank, Yellow Chair Foundation LINES is represented in North America, South America, Asia, Australia, Great Britain, Russia, the Middle East and Africa by CAMI SPECTRUM Margaret Selby, President 5 Columbus Circle @ 1790 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10019-1412 Tel.: 212.841.9554 Fax: 212.841.9770 MSelby@cami.com Alonzo King LINES Ballet 26 Seventh Street, San Francisco, California Tel. 415.863.3040 | Fax. 415.863.1180 linesballet.org facebook | twitter | instagram

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Joey Alexander Trio Sun, Oct 16 / 7 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall

photo: Adam Kissick/APAP

Joey Alexander, piano Ulysses Owens, Jr., drums Reuben Rogers, bass

Event Sponsors: Jody & John Arnhold

Joey Alexander, piano Born in the city of Denpasar on the island of Bali in Indonesia in June 2003, Joey Alexander encountered a keyboard at the age of 6 and immediately began picking out the melody of Thelonious Monk’s “Well, You Needn’t” by ear. His father, an amateur musician with a huge passion for jazz, was astonished. He soon discovered his boy could not only pick up virtually any jazz composition by ear, but also had an impeccable sense of swing and a gift for improvising that was near par with the artists on the records that he was learning from; truly uncanny for a boy of his slight years. As there was no jazz education available in Denpasar, Joey’s first jazz training came from sitting in on informal jam sessions with local and visiting professionals in Bali. “He did study classical music,” explains his father, “but what he really loved was to swing.”

Joey’s musical intuition flourished and eventually, his parents moved to Jakarta so he would have a chance to expand his horizons by studying and playing with professionals. By 2011, Joey had been featured at the Jakarta International Jazz Festival and was included in a UNESCO jazz event organized by Herbie Hancock, who gave the budding musician an enthusiastic thumbs up. In 2013, he entered and won the Master-Jam Fest improvisation contest of the Jazz in Odessa Festival in Ukraine, triumphing over 43 adult jazz professionals from 17 countries. By this time it was clear to his parents that Joey was destined for a career in jazz. In 2014, Wynton Marsalis discovered Joey performing in Jakarta and flew him to New York to participate in his all-star Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala, emceed by Billy Crystal. Joey wowed

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the jazz stars and audience alike with his soulful and sophisticated arrangement of “Round Midnight.” He got a huge ovation and was later written up in Downbeat as “a genius.”

Joey also performed for President Clinton and other luminaries at the Arthur Ashe Foundation Gala.

It was Grammy Award-winning producer Jason Olaine who took Joey under his wing, introduced him to Motema Music and jazz patron Daniel Pincus, and spearheaded the collaboration to apply for an O1 Visa (for individuals of Extraordinary Ability) for Joey. The visa was granted in record time, making it possible for him to play at The Apollo Theater in honor of Herbie Hancock at the star-studded Jazz Foundation of America Gala in October 2014, where he received yet another enthusiastic ovation, more press accolades and a priceless show of support from Hancock, who was stunned by Joey’s musical sophistication. Just two days later, buoyed by this momentous set of events, Joey and Olaine entered the studio with jazz veterans Larry Grenadier and Ulysses Owens to record the first session for his debut album. Although he’d never been in a recording studio before, Joey was unintimidated. Take after take, he delivered fresh performances that flowed with ease and joy.

Joey now resides in New York City where he plans to go to school and continue honing his chops in the jazz capital of the world. He cites his major influences as Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis. His new album, Countdown, was released in September.

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Ulysses Owens, Jr., drums Ulysses Owens, Jr. has established himself as a leader in his generation of jazz artists, admired for his sensitive, fiery and complex playing, vivid display of textural nuance and gift for propelling a band with charisma and integrity.

Both humble in person and imposing behind a kit, he is a graduate of the inaugural Jazz Studies Program at The Juilliard School and a two-time Grammy Award winner who earned his stripes as a member of bassist Christian McBride’s acclaimed trio and the driving force of McBride’s big band.

Coming Soon!

An Evening of Funk, Soul and Gospel

Owens received his first Grammy in 2010 for his performance on Kurt Elling’s Dedicated to You, and his second Grammy for the Christian McBride Big Band album The Good Feeling. In addition, he has received four Grammy nominations for his work with Christian McBride and Joey Alexander.

Reuben Rogers, bass

Special thanks to

Maceo Parker with The Jones Family Singers

Thu, Oct 27 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 / $15 UCSB students (805) 893-3535 | www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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Imbued with groove and spirit from birth, Reuben Rogers combined the calypso and reggae rhythms of his native Virgin Islands with the gospel sounds of the church and the freedom and improvisation of jazz to create the unique chemistry that would make him one of the most distinctive and in-demand bassists in modern jazz. Rogers’ versatile mastery of both the acoustic and electric bass has led to opportunities alongside some of the music’s most renowned artists, including Charles Lloyd, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Tomasz Stanko, Marcus Roberts, Nicholas Payton, Mulgrew Miller, Jackie McLean and Dianne Reeves, among countless others. Over the last two decades, he has been featured on more than 100 recordings (including his sole release as a leader, the 2006 all-star session The Things I Am) and countless international tours. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Rogers gives back with numerous workshops, clinics and master classes around the world.

Françoise Mouly and Anita Kunz

The Creative Mind: An Evening of Cover Art, Illustrations and Comics

photo: Sarah Shatz

Mon, Oct 17 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall / FREE

The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creative Culture

Françoise Mouly has been art editor of The New Yorker since 1993, where she has been responsible for more than 1,000 covers, many of which have been named best cover of the year by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

She is also the founder, publisher and editorial director of TOON Books, an award-winning imprint of comics for early readers. Mouly was also the co-founder and co-editor (with collaborator and husband Art Spiegelman) of the groundbreaking comics anthology RAW. Anita Kunz has produced cover art for magazines including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine and has illustrated more than 50 book jacket covers. Kunz has been honored with many prestigious awards and medals and her works are in the permanent collections at the Library of Congress and the National Portrait Gallery, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the Musée Militaire de France in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.

Pre-signed books are available for purchase in the lobby

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Father Gregory Boyle

The Power of Boundless Compassion Tue, Oct 18 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall / FREE

The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Father Gregory Boyle is the founder and executive director of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, named one of the Best Books of 2010 by Publishers Weekly and winner of the PEN Center USA 2011 Creative Nonfiction Award. Father Boyle is the subject of Academy Award-winner Freida Lee Mock’s 2012 documentary G-Dog. He has received the California Peace Prize and the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the James Beard Foundation, the national culinaryarts organization, and he has been inducted into the California Hall of Fame and was named a White House Champion of Change.

groundwork for additional social enterprise businesses, leading to what is today’s Homeboy Industries, an independent nonprofit organization that employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provides critical services to 15,000 men and women who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life.

A native Angeleno, Father Boyle entered the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1972 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1984. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English from Gonzaga University, a master’s degree in English from Loyola Marymount University, a Master of Divinity degree from the Weston School of Theology, and a Master of Sacred Theology degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. In 1986, he was appointed pastor of LA’s poorest Catholic parish, located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East LA, in an area with the highest concentration of gang activity in the city. Boyle sought to address the escalating problems and unmet needs of gang-involved youth by developing positive opportunities for them, including seeking out legitimate employment. In the wake of the 1992 LA riots, Boyle co-launched Homeboy Bakery. Its success led to the

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An Evening of Stand-up with

Marc Maron

The Too Real Tour

photo: Travis Shinn

Fri, Oct 21 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall

For over 20 years, Marc Maron has been writing and performing raw, honest and thought-provoking comedy for print, stage, radio, online and television. A legend in the stand-up community, Maron has appeared on many television talk shows, including those hosted by David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Charlie Rose and Bill Maher. He has appeared on Conan O’Brien’s shows more than any other comedian.

On the small screen, Maron’s critically acclaimed halfhour scripted series, Maron, launched its fourth and final season on IFC in May. The show was created, written and produced by Maron, who also directed episodes in the second and third seasons. Maron was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in 2016. He has also performed guest-starring roles in the hit series Girls and Louie and can be seen in the feature films Get a Job and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

Maron’s first book, The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah, was based on his solo show. Maron also penned a collection of essays titled Attempting Normal, which was released by Spiegel & Grau in 2013, later making The New York Times best sellers list. His first three albums, Not Sold Out, Tickets Still Available and Final Engagement are comedy cult classics, and his release, This Has to Be Funny (Comedy Central Records), was named No. 1 Comedy Album of 2011 by LaughSpin.com. Maron released his stand-up special Thinky Pain on Netflix in 2013 and as an album in 2014. His most recent special, More Later, premiered on Epix in December 2015.

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Maron’s podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, premiered in September 2009 and features compelling monologues and interviews with iconic personalities such as Conan O’Brien, Terry Gross, Robin Williams, Keith Richards, Ben Stiller, Lorne Michaels and President Barack Obama. It has become a worldwide phenomenon, averaging 6 million downloads each month, with more than 240 million lifetime downloads. WTF regularly hits No. 1 on the iTunes charts and was named the No. 1 Comedy Podcast by LA Weekly and The AV Club. It has been deemed a “mustlisten” by Vanity Fair and The New York Times, and Slate named WTF’s two-part episode with Louis C.K. the “best podcast episode of all time.”

In 2012, Time included Maron on its short list of finalists for 100 Most Influential People, and he was nominated for two Comedy Central 2012 Comedy Awards: Best Comedy Podcast and Best Comedy App. He also travels the world performing sold-out stand-up comedy shows and delivering lectures on podcasting, technology and his journey through comedy. In 2011, Maron was given the honor of delivering the keynote address at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. He has more recently spoken at Princeton, USC, the 2015 Podcast Movement Festival and ad:tech.

Maron currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Ensemble Basiani of Georgia Sun, Oct 23 / 4 PM & 7 PM (note special times) Old Mission Santa Barbara

Ensemble Basiani of Georgia George Donadze, Artistic Director Zurab Tskrialashvili, Director Irakli Tkvatsiria Tornike Merabishvili George Gabunia Elizbar Khachidze Sergo Urushadze Giorgi Khunashvili Zviad Michilashvili Lasha Metreveli Batu Lominadze Zaza Zuriashvili

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Program Mravalzhamier (“long life”) Orira Tu ase turpa ikavi Circle dance Shavi shashvi Tsmidao gmerto (“O, Holy God”) Saidumlo utskho da didebuli (“A mystery, strange and most glorious”) Tkveta ganmatavisuflebelo (“As the deliverer of the captives”) Motsikuli kristesagan gamorcheuli (“Apostol Distinguished by Christ”) Akebdit sakhelsa uplisasa (“Praise Ye the Name of God”) Sashot mtiebisa (“Out of the Womb”) Imeruli naduri Tsintskaro Gandagan Khasanbegura Veengara Chakrulo Chochkhatura @ArtsAndLectures

About the Ensemble

Zurab Tskrialashvili, Director

Ensemble Basiani was created in 2000 under the blessing of his Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia, to perform and promote Georgian traditional polyphony at home and abroad. The Ensemble is part of the Patriarchate Choir of Tbilisi Holy Trinity (Sameba) Cathedral, which participates in services conducted by the Patriarch.

Born in 1980, Zurab Tskrialashvili was part of Martve, the children’s folk choir, from the age of 9 to 16. He attended music school and college in Tbilisi before studying at the Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire for a master’s in choir conducting. Tskrialashvili has been part of the Tbilisi Holy Trinity Cathedral Patriarchate Choir since 2000, first as a singer and, since 2013, as the director.

In 2013, after 13 years performing Georgian folk music around the world, the Ensemble was given the title of The State Ensemble of Georgian Folk Singing by the government of Georgia.

In 2002, he was the conductor at the Folk Ensemble Kolkheti. In 2007, he became Assistant Professor at the Giorgi Mtatsmindeli Church Chants Institution of Higher Education. He has been a choir teacher at Kiketi’s Iakob Gogebashvili school, and he is currently the children’s folk choir conductor at Folklore National Palace.

Ensemble Basiani is composed of singers from different parts of Georgia. Most members come from families that perform traditional singing and many members have sung folk songs in different ensembles since childhood.

The ensemble’s repertoire consists of the oldest folk songs and traditional religious hymns from all parts of Georgia and diverse monastery chanting schools. It completes the program by researching and reviving songs from ancient archived phonological and notated recordings, or studying songs directly from famous singers and conductors of older generations active in different regions of Georgia.

The ensemble has recorded and released nine different albums, including one exclusively published by Ocora Radio France in 2012 to spread Georgian polyphony around the world. The ensemble’s most recent recording is their landmark four-disc album 102 Georgian Folk Songs and Traditional Hymns (2013).

Ensemble Basiani has performed at numerous international festivals in some 20 countries. They have performed in some of the world’s most well-known concert halls and international festivals, including Auditorio Nacional de Música (Madrid), the Gulbenkian Great Hall (Lisbon), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Aldeburgh Music Festival (Aldeburgh, England). In the U.S., they performed at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and its White Light Festival to great critical acclaim.

George Donadze, Artistic Director Born in 1979, George Donadze was a member of Bichebi children’s folk choir and studied at Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Donadze was the children’s choir conductor there from 1997 to 2000, prior to becoming both the conductor of the Tbilisi Holy Trinity Cathedral Patriarchate Choir and founder and conductor of Ensemble Basiani. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in choir conducting at the Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire and, in 2006, become the choir conductor of Giorgi Mtatsmindeli Church Chants Institution of Higher Education. In 2012, he became the Georgian Chanting Foundation’s projects chief and the Folklore State Center of Georgia’s director in 2014. In 2013, Donadze became the artistic director of Ensemble Basiani.

Ensemble Basiani is presented on tour in the United States

by David Eden Productions and Pemberley Productions.

Basiani is the name of one of the regions in southwest Georgia (in what is now Turkey). In 1203, Georgian royal troops defeated the conqueror Suleiman II there, a victory that consolidated Georgia’s position in Asia Minor.

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Maira Kalman

The Illustrated Life: The Beauty of Not Knowing (sometimes) Mon, Oct 24 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall

Event Sponsors: Marcia & John Mike Cohen The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creative Culture With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Maira Kalman is a regular and longtime contributor to The New Yorker. She also created two monthly online columns for The New York Times now collected in book form, including The Principles of Uncertainty, a narrative journal of her life that inspired a collaboration with choreographer John Heginbotham on a ballet. In addition to performing in the ballet, Kalman will create the costumes, sets and libretti.

It will premiere at Jacob’s Pillow in summer 2017 and then move to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in fall 2017.

Kalman is the author and illustrator of many books including Beloved Dog and My Favorite Things and an illustrated edition of Michael Pollan’s acclaimed Food Rules.

She illustrated an edition of the Strunk and White classic The Elements of Style, upon which she and composer Nico Muhlyl created a song cycle that was presented at the New York Public Library, Dia:Beacon and Lincoln Center.

Kalman has designed fabrics and accessories with Isaac Mizrahi, Kate Spade, Michael Maharam. She designed watches, clocks and umbrellas for the Museum of Modern Art, and her work is part of MoMA’s permanent collection.

She has twice been a finalist for the National Design Awards and has won numerous honors from organizations such as the Art Directors Club, The Society of Publication Designers and The American Institute for Graphic Arts.

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We educate. We entertain. We inspire.

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“The arts are the grounding from which everything else is built. It’s the stuff that gives us meaning, it’s the stuff that fuels our imagination and our sense of empathy for one another. Tell me that’s not important.” – Yo-Yo Ma

Together, we make a difference.

Our gratitude to the following education sponsors:

Arts & Lectures’ extensive education outreach programs serve more than 30,000 students and community members each year. We’re making a difference on-stage and off.

A&L members know that their contributions help fund our outreach programs, causing a ripple effect of inspiration throughout the community.

With your help, A&L visiting artists and speakers will continue to impact young minds in the classroom while they are challenging and inspiring audiences from the stage.

Please consider a contribution to A&L this year.

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2016-2017 Producers Circle Members-only Parties Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (Oct 4) Lil Buck, A Jookin’ Jam Session (Oct 25) Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (Dec 15) Les 7 doigts de la main (Feb 6) George Takei (Feb 15) NOTE NEW DATE

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Longtime Arts & Lectures members Eva and Yoel Haller recently expanded their generous annual support to A&L with a substantial bequest. We’re honored to recognize Eva and Yoel in our A&L Legacy Circle and share with you their thoughts on why A&L has meant so much to them.

We made an estate gift to A&L because‌ Arts & Lectures is an integral part of our social and cultural life in Santa Barbara. Many times we see performances and attend lectures in Santa Barbara before New York. That is a great assurance for someone who lives part time in both cities. We never lose the cultural life we have in New York City, because Santa Barbara is offering it to us and then some! And it is so easy to find a parking place.

The intimate conversations and master classes we attend at Arts & Lectures enable us to become close to the world’s leading artists, scientists and thinkers and bring us close to the students of UCSB. Arts & Lectures not only enriches our lives, but also those of the students in our community. A&L helps form our intellectual curiosity and cultural understanding. It gives us a common platform to engage with students.

Many years ago, Baron Philippe de Rothschild sent out three emissaries to find the most optimal place, in terms of climate, quality of life, stable currency, and above all, a high level of culture. All three came back with one singular recommendation: Santa Barbara.

My husband and I did not have to send out emissaries, Baron de Rothschild did it for us. We have not had a day of regret. We are devoted to Arts & Lectures, we admire Arts & Lectures, and we benefit from Arts & Lectures. So including Arts & Lectures in our estate plan was an obvious choice - the perfect solution to ensure the benefits of A&L continue for generations.

Love,

Eva

Remember Us Help secure our future by remembering Arts & Lectures as part of your estate planning.

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UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures wishes to recognize those who are leading the way to educate, entertain and inspire by participating in

UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures is honored to recognize donors whose lifetime giving to A&L is $100,000 or more. We are very grateful for their longtime, visionary support of A&L and for believing, as we do, that the arts and ideas are essential to our quality of life.

Recognition based upon cumulative giving during The Campaign

Recognition is based on cumulative, lifetime giving.

$1,000,000 and above

◊ Indicates those who have made plans to support UCSB Arts & Lectures through their estate.

Anonymous (4) Judy & Bruce Anticouni ◊ Jody & John Arnhold Gary & Mary Becker ‡ Arlene* & Barrie Bergman Meg & Dan Burnham ‡ Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Marcy Carsey ‡ Marcia & John Mike Cohen ‡ Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund Barbara Delaune-Warren Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher ◊‡ Ralph H. Fertig* Genevieve & Lewis Geyser Patricia Gregory, for the Baker Foundation Carla & Stephen* Hahn ‡ Eva & Yoel Haller ◊‡ The James Irvine Foundation Luci & Rich Janssen ‡ Ellen & Peter O. Johnson Gretchen & Robert Lieff Lillian & Jon* Lovelace Lynda.com Marilyn & Dick Mazess Susan & Craig McCaw ‡ Sara Miller McCune ◊‡ Kay R. McMillan ‡ Susan McMillan & Tom Kenny ◊‡ Orfalea Family Diana & Simon Raab Foundation Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree SAGE Publications ‡ Patricia & James Selbert Harold & Hester Schoen* Fredric E. Steck ‡ Heather & Tom Sturgess ◊‡ Anne & Michael Towbes ‡ James Warren Marsha* & Bill Wayne Dr. Bob Weinman Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin ◊‡ William H. Kearns Foundation ‡ Yardi Systems, Inc.

‡ Indicates those that have made gifts to UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures endowed funds, in addition to their annual program support

* In Memoriam

Anonymous ◊‡ (2) Eva & Yoel Haller ◊‡ Lynda.com Susan & Craig McCaw ‡ Sara Miller McCune ◊‡ Heather & Tom Sturgess ◊‡ Anne & Michael Towbes ‡

$500,000 - $999,999 Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher ◊‡ Orfalea Foundation Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree SAGE Publications ‡ William H. Kearns Foundation ‡

$250,000 - $499,999 Anonymous ‡ Jody & John Arnhold Meg & Dan Burnham ‡ Marcy Carsey and The Carsey Family Foundation ‡ Marcia & John Mike Cohen ‡ Carla & Stephen* Hahn ‡ Luci & Rich Janssen ‡ Fredric E. Steck ‡

$100,000 - $249,999 Anonymous ‡ Arlene* & Barrie Bergman Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund Ellen & Peter O. Johnson Susan McMillan & Tom Kenny ◊‡ Marilyn & Dick Mazess Kay R. McMillan ‡ Marsha* & Bill Wayne Dr. Bob Weinman Yardi Systems, Inc.

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Council for Arts & Lectures

Arts & Lectures Legacy Circle

Arts & Lectures is privileged to acknowledge our Council, a group of insightful community leaders and visionaries who help us meet the challenge to educate, entertain, and inspire.

Arts & Lectures is pleased to acknowledge the generous donors who have made provisions for future support of our program through their estate plans.

Rich Janssen, Co-Chair Kath Lavidge, Co-Chair Timothy Babich Barrie Bergman Marcy Carsey Marcia Cohen Timothy O. Fisher Tom Kenny Susan McCaw Sara Miller McCune Natalie Orfalea Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Fredric E. Steck Tom Sturgess Anne Towbes Milton Warshaw Lynda Weinman

Leadership Circle

Arts & Lectures Program Advisor Bruce Heavin

The Leadership Circle is a group of key visionaries giving $10,000-$100,000 or more each year, making a significant, tangible difference in the community and making it possible for A&L’s roster of premier artists and global thinkers to come to Santa Barbara.

Diamond ($100,000+)

Arts & Lectures Ambassadors Arts & Lectures is proud to acknowledge our Ambassadors, volunteers who help ensure the sustainability of our program by providing advice to the A&L Miller McCune Executive Director, cultivating new supporters and assisting with fundraising activities.

Judy Anticouni Meg Burnham Annette Caleel Genevieve & Lewis Geyser Eva Haller Luci Janssen Nancy Walker Koppelman Alicia Lancashire Donna Christine McGuire Maxine Prisyon Bobbie Rosenblatt Heather Sturgess Anne Towbes

Judy & Bruce Anticouni Estate of Helen Borges Estate of Ralph H. Fertig Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher Eva & Yoel Haller Sara Miller McCune Susan McMillan & Tom Kenny Estate of Hester Schoen Connie J. Smith Heather & Tom Sturgess Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin Irene & Ralph Wilson

Anonymous (2) Jody & John Arnhold Marcy Carsey and The Carsey Family Foundation ‡ Sara Miller McCune ◊‡ Orfalea Family Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree SAGE Publishing ‡ Anne & Michael Towbes ‡ Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin ◊‡ William H. Kearns Foundation ‡

Platinum ($50,000+) Anonymous (2) Monica & Timothy Babich Marcia & John Mike Cohen ‡ Carla & Stephen* Hahn ‡ Eva & Yoel Haller ◊‡ Luci & Rich Janssen ‡ Fredric E. Steck ‡ Heather & Tom Sturgess ◊‡ The Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts

Gold ($25,000+) Arlene* & Barrie Bergman Meg & Dan Burnham ‡ Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund Cox Communications Deckers Brands Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher◊‡ Genevieve & Lewis Geyser Marilyn & Dick Mazess Mission Wealth The Roddick Foundation Elva & Byron Siliezar Dr. Bob Weinman Wells Fargo Bank Yardi Systems, Inc.

Silver ($10,000+) Anonymous (2) Judy & Bruce Anticouni ◊ Gary & Mary Becker ‡ Bentson Foundation Sheila & Michael Bonsignore Loren Booth Nancy Brown Casa Dorinda Retirement Residence Carolyn Chandler Christine & Robert Emmons Christine & William Fletcher Connie Frank Foundation Curvature Martha & John Gabbert Yvette Giller & Edward Birch Patricia Gregory, for the Baker Foundation Betsy & Jule Hannaford Susan McMillan & Tom Kenny ◊‡ Kirby SUBARU Gretchen & Robert Lieff Lillian & Jon* Lovelace Siri & Bob Marshall Kay R. McMillan ‡ Montecito Bank & Trust Jillian & Peter Muller Northern Trust Sharon & Bill Rich Patricia & James Selbert Suzi & Glen Serbin Jill & Bill Shanbrom Laura & Craig Shelburne Stephanie & Jim Sokolove Russell Steiner The Stone Family Foundation Barbara Stupay Judy Wainwright Mitchell & Jim Mitchell Marsha* & Bill Wayne Susan & Bruce Worster

Producers Circle Recognition is based upon a donor’s cumulative giving/pledges within a 12-month period. Every effort has been made to assure accuracy. Please notify our office of any errors or omissions at (805) 893-2174. List current as of September 1, 2016.

Executive Producer ($5,000+) Anonymous Jill & Arnie Bellowe Leslie & Ashish Bhutani Lyn Brillo Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher Sarah & Roger Chrisman Darcy & Dean Christal Tana & Joe Christie NancyBell Coe & William Burke ‡ Samvada Hilow & Jeff Frank Ruth & Alan Heeger Judith Hopkinson ‡ Joan & Palmer Jackson Hollye & Jeff Jacobs Peter and Martha* Karoff Julie & Jamie Kellner Elaine & Herbert Kendall Linda Kiefer & Jerry Roberts ‡ Maia Kikerpill & Daniel Nash Lisa Loiacono & Christopher Lloyd Patricia & John MacFarlane Amanda & Jim* McIntyre ‡ Leila & Robert Noël Stacy & William Pulice Susan Rose & Allan Ghitterman Lynda & Mark Schwartz Nancy & Mike Sheldon Mark Sonnino Linda Stafford-Burrows Leah & Robert Temkin Nicole & Kirt Woodhouse Crystal & Clifford Wyatt Laura & Geofrey Wyatt Wyatt Technology Corporation

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Producers Circle ($2,500+) Anonymous (4) Roxana & Fred Anson Pat & Even Aptaker Margo Baker Barbakow & Jeffrey Barbakow Laurel Barrack Hiroko Benko Celesta M. Billeci & John Hajda Rochelle & Mark Bookspan Susan E. Bower Susan D. Bowey Maria Brant Karen & Peter Brill Michael Brinkenhoff Michele & Arnold Brustin Frank Burgess Tara B. Carson Dori Pierson & Chris Carter Susan & Claude Case Robin & Daniel Cerf Willy Chamberlin* ‡ Zora & Les Charles Karla & Richard Chernick Mary & Richard Compton Trudy & Howard Cooperman William B. Cornfield Lilyan Cuttler & Ned Seder Jane Delahoyde & Edwin Clark David W. Doner Jr., MD Wendy Drasdo Ginni & Chad Dreier Cinda & Donnelley Erdman Doris & Tom Everhart Miriam & Richard Flacks Priscilla & Jason Gaines Paul Gauthier Cindy & Robert Gelber Nancy & Michael Gifford Melinda Goodman & Robert Kemp Paul Guido & Stephen Blain Deirdre & William Arntz Laurie Harris & Richard Hecht Linda Hedgepeth & Michael Millhollan Donna & Daniel Hone Andrea & Richard Hutton Jodie Ireland & Chris Baker Shari & George Isaac Michelle Joanou Sharyn Johnson Cheryl & G.L. Justice Linda & Sidney Kastner Susan Keller & Myron Shapero Connie & Richard Kennelly Linda & Bill Kitchen ‡ Jill & Barry Kitnick Robert W. Kohn

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Circle of Friends Director ($1,000+) Alison Allan & Chuck Blitz Peggy & Steve Barnes Paul Blake & Mark Bennett Wendel Bruss Jan Campbell Diana & Steve Charles Malinda Pennoyer & Yvon Chouinard Nancy Englander & Harold Williams Olivia Erschen & Steve Starkey Elizabeth & Steven Green Jane & Norman Habermann Mary Jacob Lisa & Scott Johnson Frederick Dahlquist & Patricia Lambert Alixe & Mark Mattingly Donna & Ron Melville Almeda & J. Roger Morrison Nanette & Henry Nevins Elizabeth & Charles Newman Ellen & Jock Pillsbury Julie & George Rusznak Diane & Chuck Sheldon Delia Smith Jules Zimmer

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Lil Buck – A Jookin’ Jam Session

Directed by Damian Woetzel Choreography by Lil Buck, Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles and Damian Woetzel Featuring Lil Buck, Sandeep Das, Johnny Gandelsman, Cristina Pato, Wu Tong, Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles, Kate Davis, Eric Jacobsen and Grace Park

Tue, Oct 25 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Post-performance Producers Circle members-only party with the artists

photo: © 2014 Erin Baiano

Event Sponsors: Jody & John Arnhold Dance series sponsored in part by: Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund PC Reception Sponsor: The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creative Culture

Program to include: Gangsta Walk

Budget Bulgar

Muiñeiras

Bawu Solo

Jota de Pontevedra

This Thing Together

Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major

Special thanks to the Keith Haring Foundation for the use of imagery

Music: Young Jai Music: Traditional Galician Music: Traditional Galician Music: Johann Sebastian Bach

Part Zero from Playlist for an Extreme Occasion Music: Vijay Iyer

Swallow Song

Music: Kazakh folksong (arranged by Zhao Lin)

Extreme Sheng Music

Music: Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin Music improvisation by Wu Tong Music: Vijay Iyer Projections: Keith Haring

The Swan

Music: Camille Saint-Saëns

The Swan was developed by the New Ballet Ensemble and School, Memphis TN, for Arts Education and Community Engagement programs Additional programming may be announced from the stage Program and order subject to change

Music improvisation by Wu Tong and Sandeep Das

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About the Artists Lil Buck began jookin’– a street dance that originated in Memphis – at age 13. After receiving early hip-hop training from Terran Gary, and ballet training on scholarship at the New Ballet Ensemble, he performed and choreographed in Memphis until relocating to Los Angeles in 2009. In 2011, Damian Woetzel paired Lil Buck with Yo-Yo Ma to perform a rendition of “The Swan” at an event in Los Angeles. The performance was captured in a video by Spike Jonze and went viral, garnering over 3 million views to date. That success opened the door to future collaborations with a broad range of renowned artists, from Janelle Monae to JR to the New York City Ballet to Madonna. Lil Buck was the 2011 artist-in-residence at the Vail International Dance Festival and also served as an artistic ambassador alongside Yo-Yo Ma at the U.S.-China Forum on the Arts and Culture in Beijing that same year. In 2013, among other performances he starred in the award-winning show Lil Buck @ (le) Poisson Rouge, which was directed by Woetzel and featured Ma and an assortment of international musicians. Lil Buck has also performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, with Madonna during her Super Bowl XLVI halftime show and on her MDNA and Rebel Heart tours, and in the Cirque du Soleil show Michael Jackson: One. He was chosen as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2012, he is an Aspen Institute Harman-Eisner Artist-inResidence, and was named The Wall Street Journal’s 2014 Performing Arts Innovator.

Bessie Award winner Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles was born in Memphis, Tenn. and specializes in jookin’. A longtime headliner at the Vail International Dance Festival, Ron has appeared in the feature films Footloose (2011), Frank and Cindy (2014) and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip (2015).

Ron has also starred in several commercials including Beats

by Dre, Diet Pepsi (with Sofia Vergara), Kohl’s and Adidas Originals. One of the premier interpreters of jookin’, Myles currently lives in Los Angeles, Calif. and performs around the world.

Grammy nominee Sandeep Das is considered one of the leading tabla players today. A favorite disciple of legendary tabla maestro Pandit Kishan Maharaj ji of the Benaras Gharana, Das has carved out a niche for himself throughout the musical world. Sandeep has composed for and performed internationally with the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma since the group’s founding in 2000. With the Ensemble, he performed at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York, has played the BBC Proms, and is the only Indian artist to have performed for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Shanghai. His 2003 recording with Ghazal was nominated for a Grammy Award, as was the Silk Road Ensemble’s 2009 album Off the Map, which included

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“Sulvasutra,” a piece Evan Ziporyn composed for him. He performed with Ravi Shankar when he was just 16, and was later awarded the Most Valuable Young Musician Award by the president of India (2004). As a cultural and educational entrepreneur, Sandeep recently founded HUM (Harmony and Universality through Music), an ensemble of world-class artists who work to promote global understanding through musical performance and education.

Johnny Gandelsman’s musical voice reflects the artistic collaborations he has been a part of since moving to the United States from Moscow in 1995. Through his work with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Bono, David Byrne of the Talking Heads, James Levine, and others, Gandelsman has been able to integrate a wide range of creative sensibilities into his own point of view. Combining his classical training with a desire to reach beyond the boundaries of the concert hall and a voracious interest in the music of our times, Johnny has developed a unique style amongst today’s violinists. A passionate advocate for new music, he has premiered dozens of works written for Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble. In 20122013, he premiered works by Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Vijay Iyer, Béla Fleck, and a violin concerto

by Gonzalo Grau, commissioned for Johnny by Community Music Works, among others.

Galician bagpiper, pianist, and educator Cristina Pato enjoys an active professional career devoted to Galician popular and classical music and jazz, performing on major stages throughout Europe, the U.S., India, Africa and China. Pato was the first female gaita (Galician bagpipe) player to release a solo album (1999) and has since performed on stages around the world with Yo-Yo Ma, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among others. Pato is a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and a founding member of its Leadership Council, collaborating closely in tours and planning residencies. An active recording artist and performer, Pato has released six solo gaita recordings, two as a pianist, and has collaborated on more than 30 recordings as a guest artist, including the Grammy Award winner Yo-Yo Ma and Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace (2008) and the Grammy-nominated Silk Road Ensemble album, Off the Map (2009). A passionate lecturer and educator, Pato collaborates in a variety of disciplines, from promoting gaita composition and performance with her groundbreaking Gaita and Orchestra Commissioning Project, to collaborating as a part of the Vail International Dance Festival.

Born into a musical family in Beijing, Wu Tong has become one of the most visible proponents of traditional Chinese music of his generation. As both vocalist and virtuoso of

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traditional wind instruments, he has achieved an unparalleled following for Chinese music on four continents. In 1991, Wu and four Central Conservatory classmates founded Lunhui, merging the energy of rock music with traditional Chinese form and aesthetics. After topping the charts with their 1993 hit “On the Way to Wartime Yangzhou,” setting the words of Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji to original music, Lunhai became China’s premier rock band, often appearing in national broadcasts. Featured as both vocalist and instrumentalist on the Ensemble’s first recording, When Strangers Meet (2001), he has appeared on their recordings ever since.

His collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma on “Kuai Le” was included in Yo-Yo Ma and Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace, which won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. As a concerto soloist, Wu has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2013, Wu joined Yo-Yo Ma in the world premiere of Duo, a double concerto written for them by the Chinese composer Zhao Lin. In 2008, Wu made his stage debut with the San Francisco Opera playing multiple roles in The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan. That same year, he co-wrote the musical score for Ashes of Time Redux, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. His 2011 solo album was nominated for Taiwan’s Golden Melody Award for Best Crossover Album, and he was named 2012 Musician of the Year by NY’s China Institute.

Beginning in 2011, New York City Ballet Principal Dancer turned director, choreographer, and producer Damian Woetzel has created a series of collaborations with the Memphis jookin’ dancer Lil Buck, including Lil Buck @ (le) Poisson Rouge, A Conversation with Keith Haring, and the full evening work Spaces for Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center. Woetzel is currently the artistic director of the Vail International Dance Festival and the director of arts programs for the Aspen Institute. Dubbed “the matchmaker” by the New York Times in 2013, Woetzel has earned acclaim over the last few years for creating unusual combinations of music, dance and theater, often engaging with the world of ideas, in venues varying from China’s National Performing Arts Center to New York’s Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

The music of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kate Davis has been turning heads in New York’s music scene since 2012.

One of “15 Fresh Females Who Will Rule Pop” (MTV, 2014), Davis grew up with an instrument in her arms and a head full of inventive lyrics. From achingly soulful to flippantly funny, Davis’s songwriting combines ranging sonic textures with an anecdotal knack. She’s performed at The Kennedy Center, The Bowery Ballroom, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as pretty much every noteworthy club in NYC. Recently, Davis has shared the stage with Alison Krauss, Josh Groban,

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Ben Folds, Sara Bareilles and Renee Fleming. Accolades and arts advocacy work include a Robert Allen Award from the ASCAP Foundation, a presentation at TEDx Portland and the 2010 National Arts Policy Roundtable. Davis enrolled at Manhattan School of Music in 2009 and since then has collaborated with many of NYC’s finest musicians and artists.​ Grace Park is a dynamic violinist, dedicated chamber musician, and passionate pedagogue. Currently in residence at Carnegie Hall as part of the Academy Carnegie Juilliard Weill program, Park pairs her elite musicianship with a fervent commitment to community engagement. As a soloist, she has been the featured artist at The Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Jordan Hall, Grace Rainey Auditorium in the Metropolitan Museum, Rudolfinum in Prague and Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg. A devoted chamber musician, Park has performed with ensembles around the world and led chamber orchestras from the principal chair. In 2012, she performed the world premiere of Samuel Carl Adams’ String Sextet. In the 2013-14 season she premiered a commissioned work from composer Andy Akiho at Carnegie Hall. She has been recognized for her work in the Vitas Quartet, her chamber collaborations at Trinity Wall Street’s “Concerts at One,” and her performances at prestigious venues such as the Yellow Barn Music Festival, Music@Menlo, IMS Prussia Cove and the Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop.

Hailed by The New York Times as “an interpretive dynamo,” conductor and cellist Eric Jacobsen is co-founder and artistic director of the adventurous orchestra The Knights and a founding member of the genre-defying string quartet Brooklyn Rider, Jacobsen, along with his brother, violinist Colin Jacobsen, was awarded a prestigious U.S. Artists Fellowship in 2012. In 2015-16, Jacobsen celebrated his inaugural season as music director of the Orlando Philharmonic and his second season as Music Director of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony and Artistic Partner with the Northwest Sinfonietta. Jacobsen has led the Knights at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the Ojai Music Festival, and international hot spots such as the Dresden Musikfestspiele and Cologne Philharmonie. In demand as a guest conductor, Jacobsen has led the Camerata Bern, the Detroit and Alabama symphonies, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and Deutsche Philharmonie Merck. Jacobsen is a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s venerated Silk Road Ensemble and has toured extensively in North America and Europe with Brooklyn Rider.

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Maceo Parker with The Jones Family Singers

photo: Philip Ducap

Thu, Oct 27 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall

Maceo Parker While most sax players have followed in the footsteps of jazz legends like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, Maceo Parker has consistently marched to a different tune. Since his earliest days, he has gravitated to the more rhythmic and soulful end of the spectrum, following figures like Louis Jordan, Ray Charles and James Brown – all of whom were innovators, each pushing their respective sound and style to the point of becoming something entirely new. It was Parker’s recurring stints in Brown’s band, in fact, that not only produced some of the most enduring entries in the vast canon of American soul music, but also sowed the seeds of the funk revolution of the 1970s. In hindsight, Maceo Parker has been as innovative as the people whom he cites as his own influences.

Born in Kinston, N.C., in 1943, Parker picked up the saxophone during his pre-teen years and played in a band with his brothers. One of his earliest influences was Ray Charles, who, by the late 1950s had already become a monumental figure in the burgeoning blues-and-jazz hybrid that had come to be known as rhythm and blues. Parker still remembers coming home from school with his brothers one day and hearing “What’d I Say” on the radio for the first time: “Man, we almost tore that place all to pieces because we couldn’t believe it. I’ll never forget that day. It was like Christmas morning and New Year’s morning combined.” He adds, “I got into Ray at a very early age. I’d listen to him sing and I’d try to equate that with playing the saxophone… He was always the cat for me.”

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Parker joined James Brown’s band in 1964 – originally as a baritone player. He came as part of a package deal when Brown hired his brother, drummer Melvin Parker, but the sax player quickly established himself as a valuable member of the team. The first sides he cut with Brown, “I Feel Good” and “Out of Sight,” became some of the most famous of Brown’s canon. When St. Clair Pinckney, Brown’s regular tenor player, took ill for a couple weeks, Parker took over. After Pinckney returned, the two sax men alternated between tenor and baritone, until Parker became the fulltime tenor player. Parker’s first tenor outing on vinyl was Brown’s classic “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.” On stage, Parker served as the perfect foil to the Godfather of Soul, punctuating the frontman’s incendiary vocals and mesmerizing stage choreography with horn blasts that were equal parts melody and percussion. At the height of their collaborative powers, it was difficult to tell where the genius of one ended and the other began.

Parker left Brown’s band in 1970 to launch his own outfit, Maceo & All the King’s Men, but reconnected with Brown three years later switching to alto sax and laying down horn tracks for Brown’s “Cold Sweat,” “Lickin’ Stick” and “Mother Popcorn.”

He released his first solo record, Us People, in 1974, followed a year later by Funky Music Machine. Throughout the late ’70s and early ’80s, he was a featured player with George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy

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Collins’ Rubber Band. After a brief hiatus, he returned to James Brown until the latter’s incarceration at the end of the 1980s.

At this point Parker’s solo career began developing into what we are familiar with today. A steady stream of records followed, beginning in 1990 with his first album in this solo period, Roots Revisited, which set the benchmark by remaining No. 1 on the jazz charts for more than 10 weeks. It was the seminal Life on Planet Groove in 1992 that brought Parker to the attention of younger, college-aged audiences and gave him a strong following throughout the world.

Some of Parker’s more recent solo projects include Funk Overload (1998), Made by Maceo (2003) and School’s In (2005). He joined the Heads Up International label with the 2008 release of Roots & Grooves, a two-disc set that positions him front and center with Germany’s WDR Big Band, arguably the hottest jazz orchestra on the European continent. Roots & Grooves is equal parts Ray Charles tribute and a showcase for some of Parker’s own classic material.

Parker reunited with the WDR Big band at the Leverkusener Jazztage festival in Germany. The performance included fully orchestrated arrangements of soul classics by American icons like James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and more. Nine of the songs from the festival set are captured on Soul Classics, Parker’s most recent release on Listen 2 Entertainment.

Parker’s Roots Revisited: The Bremen Concert, is a live recording from the first incarnation of Maceo’s own band in 1990.

Without question, Parker’s body of work over the past four decades stands on its own merits, yet he sees the music as part of an even greater message: “At all my concerts, I try to say ‘love’ as many times as I can,” he says. “I think if we all use that word as much as we possibly can, the idea will flourish, and all that other negative stuff will diminish. So I’m definitely going to do what I think is my part by just showing the spirit of love throughout the word as much as I can.”

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The Jones Family Singers The Jones Family Singers, consisting in part of five sisters, two brothers and their father, have been tearing up churches and festivals alike for more than two decades.

But they’ve never before made a studio album that displays the depth of their pure musical gifts quite like The Spirit Speaks, recorded to analog tape at Jim Eno’s Public Hi-Fi studio in Austin, Texas, and released in April 2014 via Arts+Labor.

They are “Modern practitioners of a long musical tradition... infusing their joyful, reverent songs with elements of vintage soul and R&B” declares The Wall Street Journal.

Yep, it’s gospel music, but fans of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Vintage Trouble will also find a hip-shaking and spiritually uplifting workout at the core. “The three-generation gospel collective’s high-energy performances are the living embodiment of the indelible connection between the black church and its rock and soul offspring” notes the Austin Chronicle.

The Jones Family Singers have received a standing ovation at Lincoln Center and showcased at New York City’s globalFEST and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. They have also made several high-profile appearances including Newport Folk Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival and a two week tour of Russia.

Impressed by the band’s fervor onstage and humility off, Austin filmmaker Alan Berg (Outside Industry: The Story of SXSW) decided in 2012 to make a documentary that explored the triumphs and tribulations of this working gospel band and underlines the artistry he witnessed onstage along with the compelling family dynamic. Besides churches, nightclubs, concert series and music festivals, they’ve also brought their powerful musical ministry to prisons, interfaith events and community celebrations.

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Zakir Hussain, tabla Niladri Kumar, sitar

photo: Jim McGuire

Tue, Nov 1 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall

Event Sponsors: Marilyn & Dick Mazess The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creative Culture

About the Program This concert will present an exploration of Indian music, both ancient and cutting-edge, combining a traditional classical offering with a collaborative exploration of the raga and tala systems. It will begin with a rendition of a classical raga performed on sitar by Niladri Kumar and accompanied on tabla by Zakir Hussain. This piece will commence with a full alaap in the Hindustani classical tradition, presenting and expounding on the raga. The concert will also include a tabla solo piece by Zakir Hussain, and will conclude with a contemporary style performance based on the folk melodies of India.

Zakir Hussain, tabla A national treasure in his native India and the preeminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain is widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement. His contribution has been unique, with many groundbreaking collaborations including Shakti, Remember Shakti, Masters of Percussion, the Diga Rhythm Band, Planet Drum, Tabla Beat Science, Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, in trio with Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer and, most recently, with Herbie Hancock. The foremost disciple of his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, Hussain was a child prodigy who began his professional career at the age of 12, touring internationally with great success by the age of 18.

Bhushan, National Heritage Fellowship and an Officer in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. In 2015, he was voted Best Percussionist by both the Downbeat Critics’ Poll and Modern Drummer’s Reader’s Poll.

As an educator, he conducts many workshops and lectures each year, has been in residence at Princeton and Stanford Universities, and in 2015 was appointed as a Regents’ Lecturer at U.C. Berkeley. He is the founder and president of Moment Records, an independent record label presenting rare live concert recordings of Indian classical music and world music.

Niladri Kumar, sitar A rare instrumentalist, fifth-generation sitar player Niladri Kumar has honed a profound understanding of classical sitar styles, emerging as a one of a kind musician and successfully transforming the sitar to make it more accessible on a global scale. With the goal of instilling interest and respect for traditional art forms in the hearts and minds of the younger generation, Kumar pushes the boundaries of the genre, revolutionizing sitar playing and even inventing his own instrument, an electric sitar that he has coined the ‘zitar.’

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Hussain has scored music for numerous feature films, major events and productions and is the recipient of countless awards and honors, including a Grammy Award, Padma

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An Evening with

Joan Baez in Concert

Thu, Nov 3 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre

photo: Marina Chavez

Dirk Powell, mandolin, fiddle, piano, bass, guitar and accordion Gabriel Harris, percussion Grace Stumberg, vocals The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family

Joan Baez has been as busy as ever since the landmark years of 2008-2009, the 50th anniversaries of her legendary residency in 1958 at the famed Club 47 in Cambridge and her subsequent debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival.

Hyde Park. She shined a spotlight on the Free Speech Movement, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the Vietnam War, then, forty years later, saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest the Iraq War. Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular, before she unselfconsciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963, beginning a tradition of mutual mentoring that continues to this day.

2016 began with a celebration of Baez’s 75th birthday at New York’s Beacon Theater, where she was joined by a cast of musical colleagues including Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and Emmylou Harris. The evening was filmed for the PBS series Great Performances and aired in June on stations across the U.S.

Day After Tomorrow, her 2008 album, was praised by critics and nominated for a Grammy Award. Her life story, “Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound,” premiered on PBS American Masters.

The recent past has included the induction of Joan’s 1960 debut LP by the National Recording Academy into the Grammy Hall of Fame and its selection in 2015 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

In 2015, she received Amnesty International’s highest honor, its Ambassador of Conscience Award, in recognition of her leadership in the fight for human rights. It follows the presentation to her of the inaugural Joan Baez Award for Outstanding Inspirational Service in the Global Fight for Human Rights at Amnesty International’s 50th Anniversary gathering in 2012.

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She is a musical force of nature of incalculable influence – marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., inspiring Václav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, singing on the first Amnesty International tour and, more recently, standing alongside Nelson Mandela celebrating his 90th birthday in London’s

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Ben Bliss, tenor

Lachlan Glen, piano Sat, Nov 5 / 3 PM (note special time) / Hahn Hall

photo: Dario Acosta

Post-performance reception with the artists for A&L series subscribers

Up Close & Musical series sponsored in part by Dr. Bob Weinman

Program Strauss: Selections from Sechs Lieder von Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack, op. 17 Ständchen Nur Mut! Barkarole Selection from 4 Lieder, op. 27 Morgen!

Boulanger: Clairières dans le ciel (4, 7, 8, 9) Un poète disait Nous nous aimerons tant Vous m’avez regardé avec toute votre âme Les lilas qui avaient fleuri

John Gruen: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand from Three by E.E. Cummings Lady will You Come with Me Into from Three by E.E. Cummings Lowell Liebermann: The Arrow and the Song from Six Songs on Poems of Henry W. Longfellow Theodore Chanler: I Rise When You Enter Ned Rorem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Britten: The Last Rose of Summer The Children and Sir Nameless The Choirmaster’s Burial (from Winter Words) Eden Ahbez: Nature Boy

Tosti: Marechiare

Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer: One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

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Ben Bliss, tenor American tenor Ben Bliss is a 2016 recipient of the Martin E. Segal award at Lincoln Center, awarded by The Metropolitan Opera. He was also the recipient of the Mozart and Plácido Domingo awards at the 2015 Francisco Viñas International Competition in Barcelona, receiving second place overall, first prize in the 2014 Gerda Lissner and Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation competitions, as well as a Sara Tucker and Sullivan Foundation grant. Bliss is also the 2013 Operalia Don Plácido Domingo Sr. Zarzuela prizewinner.

Ben Bliss’ 2016-2017 season includes a U.S. recital tour with pianist Lachlan Glen, with stops at Carnegie Hall, the Folly Theater in Kansas City as part of the Harriman-Jewell series, Theater of the Arts at the University of District of Columbia and in Cincinnati with Matinée Musicale. Operatic appearances for Bliss include a return to the Metropolitan Opera, first as Tamino in The Magic Flute and then as Steuermann in Der Fliegende Höllander, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Other opera appearances include Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Atlanta Opera, Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress for a role and house debut with Boston Lyric Opera, and Camille, Count de Rosillon in Die lustige Witwe, in concert for his house and role debut with the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

In the 2015-2016 season, Bliss returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, conducted by James Levine, where The Opera Critic heralded him as “marvelous” and a “true Mozart tenor.” He made his European debut in the same role with Glyndebourne Festival on tour.

Returning as a principal artist to Los Angeles Opera, Bliss appeared as Tamino under the baton of James Conlon, as well as Des Moines Metro Opera as Belmonte. On the concert stage, he debuted with the New York Philharmonic singing Tony in Bernstein’s West Side Story Concert Suite No. 1 with Alan Gilbert, Haydn’s Creation, Cassio in Otello at the Cincinnati May Festival with James Conlon and in holiday concerts with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Lexington Philharmonic.

Bliss also performed in Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concert series with pianist Lachlan Glen and with the New York Choral Society in Handel’s Israel in Egypt at Carnegie Hall. He concluded the season with his company and role debut at Santa Fe Opera as Flamand in a new production of Capriccio directed

by Tim Albery.

While in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Bliss made his Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Vogelgesang in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by James Levine.

In May 2014, he was tapped to fill in as Ferrando in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s production of Cosi fan tutte under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel.

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As a member of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, Bliss appeared as Benvolio in Roméo et Juliette, Barbarigo in I Due Foscari and the Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with the Colburn Orchestra under James Conlon. He has been the tenor soloist for Bach’s Magnificat with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the La Jolla Symphony and made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut singing Bach under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel.

Lachlan Glen, piano Australian pianist, conductor and producer Lachlan Glen (b. 1989) regularly appears around Australia, Europe, and the United States, at venues including Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall.

In addition to his performances as a soloist in works ranging from Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 in E-flat to David Gillingham’s Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Wind Orchestra, Glen regularly accompanies the leading young singers of his generation, and recently conducted a full production of Die Fledermaus at Italy’s Trentino Music Festival, to great acclaim. His love for entertaining led to the creation of his self-produced one-man-show, Glenny, which makes its international debut in Sydney in December 2016. He has produced two solo albums, Debut E.P. and Embraceable You. As a vocal coach and répétiteur, Glen has served on the music staff of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Music Academy International, Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, International Vocal Arts Institute, Castleton Festival and Chautauqua Institution.

Glen’s talent in production, administration and general leadership is exemplary for a 27-year-old. He has produced concert tours in both Australia and the U.S.; multiple solo and collaborative albums; the Operative podcast (available on iTunes), for which he has interviewed Renata Scotto, Richard Bonynge, George Shirley and Rufus Wainwright; and Schubert & Co., a NYC festival that performed the complete Schubert songs in 35 recitals over a single season (2012-13). His highly anticipated opera company, Mise-EnScène Studios (M.E.S.S.), of which he is at the helm along with tenor Ben Bliss, begins producing works in New York City over the coming seasons and will feature a core ensemble of the most exciting young singers on the world stage.

He is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program (2015), The Juilliard School (Master of Music, 2013) and Rutgers University (Bachelor of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2011), and maintains a private vocal coaching studio in New York City.

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Whose Live Anyway?

Wed, Nov 9 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre

Ryan Stiles Ryan Stiles began his comedy career at a Punchlines Comedy Club in Vancouver in his last year of high school.

He was a good student, but had flexibility in his schedule which gave him time to perform at night, plus work part time for his dad at a fish plant. He quit high school a couple months short of graduation to work in comedy.

In spite of his parents’ objections, he worked in comedy and was able to support himself for several years, performing, writing and working on television in Canada.

In 1986, he became part of the cast of The Second City during Expo 86 in Vancouver. After that run ended, he moved to LA to briefly join the Second City cast there, then moved to Toronto, where he was chosen to be a cast member of The Second City mainstage company. It was there that he honed his amazing improvisational skills.

After a couple years in Toronto, Stiles moved to LA once again and landed several guest roles on The Garry Shandling Show, Mad About You, Who’s The Boss?, Weird Science, The John Larroquette Show and Murphy Brown, and of course, the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? came along.

In 1995, he landed a regular role on The Drew Carey Show which lasted several seasons on ABC. It was Stiles and Carey who pitched Whose Line to ABC. Carey hosted it and Stiles became a starring fixture on Whose Line, even drawing blood for his comedic efforts in one episode.

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Currently, Ryan is one of the permanent members of the new Whose Line Is It Anyway? airing on the CW Network and loves doing improv with Greg Proops and Jeff Davis in Whose Live Anyway.

He also immensely enjoys appearing with a core of great improvisors at his Upfront Theatre in Bellingham, Wash., where he makes his home.

Greg Proops Greg Proops is a stand-up comic from San Francisco. He lives in Hollywood. It’s not that bad. Really. The Proopdog is best known for his unpredictable appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway? and he can be seen on the new season on the CW Network.

Professor Proops has a hit podcast called The Smartest Man in the World. He has recorded it live in Australia, New Zealand, Montreal, Edinburgh, Dublin, San Francisco, Oslo, Amsterdam, Austin, London, Paris, aboard a ship in the Caribbean and, somehow, Cleveland. Find it at Proopcast.com or on iTunes.

Proops has lent his voice to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Bob the Builder and has been a guest on Red Eye, The Late, Late Show and Chelsea Lately on E! You may Socially Network with Greg on Twitter at @gregproops and tumblr at proopcast.com

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peared as copywriter Freddy Rumsen. He has made guest appearances on television shows such as The Nanny, Two and a Half Men, Malcolm in The Middle, Criminal Minds and Blossom.

Jeff Davis Jeff B. Davis is a multi-talented actor/comedian, born and bred in Los Angeles. His career began at age 4 as Linus in a terribly ill-advised, all-children production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Goundlings Theater. On opening night, Davis vomited all over his director, then turned and took the stage. At age 9, Jeff was cast as Louis in Yul Brynner’s final production of The King and I, which toured nationally and closed on Broadway when he was 11, after nearly 800 vomit-free performances.

In the 2012 film God Bless America, he portrays Frank, a man whose contempt for superficiality and meanness in American society sends him over the edge and into a killing spree.

In high school, Davis began improvising with Los Angeles ComedySportz, eventually learning the skills he’d later need as a frequent guest on the hit television show Whose Line Is It Anyway? Davis has a long list of TV credits, including Steven Martin’s NBC comedy The Downer Channel, WB’s On the Spot, NBC’s Happy Family, the Sarah Silverman Show, Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show and Improv-AGanza, to name just a few. Davis spends many nights of the year performing live with Whose Line stars Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops to standing ovations all over North America.

When he’s not on stage, he is in Hollywood trying to break George Clooney’s record for “most failed television pilots.”

Davis is currently a guest on CW’s reboot of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and can be heard on the highly-acclaimed, deeply weird Harmontown podcast with NBC’s Community creator Dan Harmon. Listen at your own risk.

Feel free to bother Jeff on Twitter @JeffBryanDavis.

Joel Murray Joel Murray is the youngest of the funny Murray brothers, and, like Bill and Brian, Joel is an alumnus of the famous Second City Chicago. Murray has joined Whose Live Anyway as the main go-to guy.

Murray starred in the 1990 television series Grand, the 1991 comedy series Pacific Station, Love & War as Ray Litvak, and as Pete Cavanaugh for several seasons on Dharma & Greg.

Joel Murray’s first film role was in the 1986 comedy film One Crazy Summer as George Calamari. His other roles include the 1988 comedy film Scrooged, with his brothers Bill, Brian and John. He starred in the 1992 movie Shakes the Clown.

In the 2013 Pixar film Monsters University, he provides the voice of Don Carlton, a middle-aged monster who is a college student and salesman.

Murray makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife and family and is an avid golfer. He is a partner with brothers Brian, Bill and John in the Caddyshack Restaurant.

Bob Derkach, Musical Director Bob Derkach has been keyboard player for Whose Live Anyway since its inception in 1999. He also performs with Drew Carey’s Improv All-Stars and with Women Fully Clothed. Derkach was the musical director/composer/ keyboardist for The Second City Theater mainstages in Toronto, Edmonton and Santa Monica from 1981-2006.

In addition to his continuing compositional and sound design work for film, television, dance and theater, Bob’s soundscape “The Winds of Mars” opens Visions of Mars, an extra-terrestrial DVD-ROM artifact created by The Planetary Society as a time-capsule greeting for future settlers of Mars. It remains on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, which successfully landed in the northern arctic region of Mars on May 25, 2008.

Derkach has released six CDs of original electronic and piano music available on iTunes and at CD Baby. Visit his website bobderkachmusic.com. Turn up the speakers and click on the planets!

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Captain Scott Kelly

The Sky Is Not the Limit: Lessons from a Year in Space Mon, Nov 14 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre Event Sponsors: Dorothy Largay & Wayne Rosing Additional Support: Meg & Dan Burnham Education Sponsors: William H. Kearns Foundation The Léni Fund

photos: Robert Markowitz (Scott Kelly); Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center

With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Back from his record-breaking year in space, NASA astronaut Captain Scott Kelly has laid the groundwork for the future of space travel and exploration, and continues to garner media exposure like no other pioneer of our time.

From the cover of Time magazine to live interviews on The Today Show to features in Forbes and on CNN, to more than 1 million Twitter followers, the world remains in awe as we celebrate a hero’s return to the planet that is home, from an adventure that is extraordinary. With life lessons and personal stories that reveal unique and valuable advice on pushing one’s own limits, to insight on the leadership and teamwork required in such demanding conditions, and the challenges – such as long term deprivation from loved ones and Planet Earth. Kelly reflects on the choices and life events that paved his journey’s path and brings audiences to the edge of their seats as he delivers a truly one-of-akind experience.

An astronaut since 1996, Kelly’s achievements over his illustrious 20-year career with NASA earned him the coveted position as America’s first year-round astronaut.

On his historic mission that spanned from March 2015 to March 2016, Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail

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Kornienko conducted experiments, reconfigured station modules, and captivated the world with live interviews and never-seen-before photos from the International Space Station.

The historic mission also included NASA’s groundbreaking Twins Study, in which Kelly’s identical twin brother, retired NASA astronaut Captain Mark Kelly, served on the ground as a control model in an unprecedented experiment to understand how space affects the human body.

Prior to his career with NASA, Kelly, served 25 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as an experienced aviator and decorated Captain.

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Sol Gabetta, cello Alessio Bax, piano

photo: Uwe Arens

Wed, Nov 16 / 7 PM (note special time) / Hahn Hall

Up Close & Musical series sponsored in part by Dr. Bob Weinman

Program

- Intermission -

Schumann: Fantasiestücke, op. 73 Zart und mit Ausdruck Lebhaft leicht Rasch und mit Feuer

Prokofiev: Adagio for Cello and Piano (from Cinderella)

Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, op. 38 Allegro non troppo Allegretto quasi Menuetto & Trio Allegro

Prokofiev: Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, op. 119 Andante grave Moderato Allegro, ma non troppo

Sol Gabetta, cello Sol Gabetta achieved international acclaim upon winning the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2004 and making her debut with Wiener Philharmoniker and Valery Gergiev. Born in Argentina, Gabetta won her first competition at the age of 10, soon followed by the Natalia Gutman Award as well as commendations at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. A Grammy Award nominee, she received the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and the Würth-Preis of the Jeunesses Musicales in 2012.

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Gabetta debuted to much acclaim with Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival in 2014 and at Mostly Mozart in New York in 2015. In the 2015-2016 season Gabetta debuted with Los Angeles Philharmonic and Houston Symphony. She performed with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and toured with Orchestre de Paris, Il Giardino Armonico, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Dresdner Philharmonie, with whom she was Artist in Residence. Brussels’ Palais des Beaux Arts also welcomed her as their resident artist. To conclude 2015-16 Gabetta joined the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on a European tour with performances at Lucerne Festival,

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Grafenegg Festival as well as Salzburger Festspiele.

Gabetta performs with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide including the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bolshoi and Finnish Radio Symphony orchestras and The Philadelphia, London Philharmonic and Philharmonia orchestras. She also collaborates extensively with conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Mario Venzago and Krzysztof Urbański.

A sought-after guest at leading festivals, Gabetta has appeared at Gstaad, Menuhin Festival, SchleswigHolstein Musik Festival, Verbier, Schwetzingen, Rheingau, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Beethovenfest Bonn.

As a chamber musician Gabetta performs worldwide in venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, with distinguished partners including Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Bertrand Chamayou.

Her passion for chamber music is evident in the Festival Solsberg, which she founded in Switzerland.

Gabetta was named Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2016 Echo Klassik Awards for her interpretation of Peteris Vasks’ Violin Cello Concerto No. 2. She also received the award in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 for her recordings of Haydn, Mozart and Elgar Cello concerti as well as works by Tchaikovsky and Ginastera. With an extensive discography with Sony she has also released a duo recital with Hélène Grimaud for Deutsche Grammophon.

Thanks to a generous private stipend by the Rahn Kulturfonds, Sol Gabetta performs on one of the very rare and precious cellos by G.B. Guadagnini dating from 1759.

Gabetta has taught at the Basel Music Academy since 2005.

Alessio Bax, piano Pianist Alessio Bax creates “a ravishing listening experience” with his lyrical playing, insightful interpretations, and dazzling facility. “His playing quivers with an almost hypnotic intensity,” says Gramophone magazine, leading to what Dallas Morning News calls “an out-of-body experience.” First Prize winner at the Leeds and Hamamatsu international piano competitions – and a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient – he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras, including the London and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, the Dallas and Houston sym-

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phonies, the NHK Symphony in Japan, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic with Yuri Temirkanov and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle.

Highlights of recent seasons include Beethoven and Rachmaninov in a U.K. tour with the Royal Philharmonic, Rachmaninov and Mozart with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under Temirkanov, Barber with the Dallas Symphony under Jaap van Zweden, Mozart with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Hans Graf, Rachmaninov with London’s Southbank Sinfonia led by Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Mozart with the same orchestra under Simon Over as well as concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall, LA’s Disney Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He opened – with a pair of Mozart piano concertos – and closed the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s 2014-15 season. Besides giving solo recitals at the Lincoln Center and in Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Minneapolis, Bilbao and Tokyo, Bax partnered with Joshua Bell for more than 30 concerts in Europe and North and South America and with Lucille Chung in the U.S., Canada, France and Hong Kong. In 2013, he received the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, which recognizes young artists of exceptional accomplishment.

Bax’s celebrated discography for Signum Classics includes Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” and “Moonlight” Sonatas (Gramophone Editor’s Choice); Bax & Chung, a duo disc with Lucille Chung, presenting Stravinsky’s original fourhand version of the ballet Pétrouchka as well as music by Brahms and Piazzolla; Alessio Bax plays Mozart, comprising Piano Concertos K. 491 and K. 595 with London’s Southbank Sinfonia led by Simon Over; Alessio Bax plays Brahms (Gramophone Critic’s Choice); Rachmaninov: Preludes and Melodies (American Record Guide Critics’ Choice 2011); and Bach Transcribed; and for Warner Classics, Baroque Reflections (Gramophone Editor’s Choice). He performed Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata for maestro Daniel Barenboim in the PBS-TV documentary Barenboim on Beethoven: Masterclass, available as a DVD box set on the EMI label. His performances have been broadcast live on the BBC (U.K.); CBC (Canada); RAI (Italy); RTVE (Spain); NHK (Japan); WDR, NDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany); American Public Media’s Performance Today; WQXR (New York); WGBH (Boston); WETA (Washington, DC); and Sirius-XM satellite radio, among many others.

Hailed by International Piano as “a pianist of refreshing depth,” Bax’s extensive concerto repertoire has led

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to performances with such esteemed conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Marin Alsop, Sergiu Commisiona, Vernon Handley, Pietari Inkinen, Hannu Lintu, Andrew Litton, Jonathan Nott, Vasily Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Alexander Shelley, Yuri Temirkanov and Jaap van Zweden.

His international festival appearances include London’s International Piano Series (Queen Elizabeth Hall); the Verbier Festival in Switzerland; England’s Aldeburgh and Bath festivals; and the Ruhr Klavier-Festival and Beethovenfest Bonn in Germany. He has also appeared multiple times at such U.S. festivals as Bravo! Vail, Bard Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Music@Menlo and has given recitals in major music halls around the world, including in Rome, Milan, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, New York and Washington DC. An accomplished chamber musician, Bax has collaborated with Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Sol Gabetta, Steven Isserlis, Nicholas Phan, Paul Watkins and Jörg Widmann, among others.

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Bax graduated with top honors at the record age of 14 from the conservatory of his hometown in Bari, Italy, where his teacher was Angela Montemurro. He studied in France with Francois-Joël Thiollier and attended the Chigiana Academy in Siena under Joaquín Achúcarro. In 1994, he moved to Dallas to continue his studies with Achúcarro at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and he is now on the teaching faculty there. A Steinway artist, Bax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Lucille Chung, and their daughter.

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Neko Case

photo: Dennis Kleiman

Fri, Nov 18 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall

Neko Case Neko Case was playing and touring with bands for a decade before she realized it was her job.

“Music was, and is, my obsession, but I guess I couldn’t see the forest through the trees,” she writes from her farmhouse in Vermont, reflecting on early periods of touring with several bands so regularly that she had to quit every other job she had. “I also didn’t feel worthy of calling myself a ‘musician.’ It was just too sacred.”

Now more than 20 years into that calling, Neko Case is the consummate career artist – fearless and versatile, with a fierce work ethic and a constant drive to search deeper within herself for creative growth. Nowhere is that clearer than in Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule, a stunning vinyl box set of Case’s complete (so far) solo discography.

All eight titles are remastered from their original analog tape and made available on 180 gram black vinyl, some for the first time in years, or ever. The set also includes an 80-page, limited-edition, full-color book of photography, designed and curated by Case herself.

“The release of this set gives listeners an excuse to appreciate the scope of one of the most individual and passionate artists making music today,” says Anti- label head Andy Kaulkin.

“When you take it all in, Neko’s journey from punk/country torchbearer to avant pop icon has been staggering. This box makes a strong case for her fierceness of vision, pristine musical craft, unflinching lyrics and of course… that voice!”

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Born in 1970, and raised all over working-class Washington state, Case spent a turbulent childhood shuffling between divorced and uninterested parents and often alone. This is one reason she is an ardent collaborator, working with a huge roster of Canadian and American artists throughout her career and thriving as a member of indie-pop supergroup The New Pornographers and other projects alongside her solo work.

“I know there are people who are really good at performing solo,” she once said in an interview. “Me, I just feel lonely. I hate it. I don’t like to practice alone, either. It’s about community for me. I think it’s about not having a family as a kid. I just spent a lot of time being really, really, really alone. I just don’t want to do that anymore.”

Case began collecting her musical community shortly after leaving home at 15. Known now for her extraordinary voice and songwriting, Case started out behind a kit. By 17 she was playing drums for several local bands and at 23 she moved to Vancouver for art school, where she drummed for emerging punk groups including Cub and Maow. Out of that punk foundation, however, grew Case’s exploration of country. The Virginian, her 1997 solo debut released by Canadian label Mint and backed by the band referred to as Her Boyfriends, is a joyous collection of originals and covers, including Loretta Lynn’s “Somebody Led Me Away” and the Everly Brothers’ “Bowling Green.”

Case relocated to Seattle after graduation and dug her roots deeper with 2000’s Furnace Room Lullaby, an emotional set

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of originals ranging from murder ballads to poignant eulogies both figurative and literal. She moved again, this time to Chicago, and released 2001’s beautifully home-recorded EP Canadian Amp, a cover-heavy tribute to Canadian songwriters and collaborators, spotlighting Case’s talents as an interpretive vocalist in addition to a gifted songwriter. 2002’s Blacklisted, recorded in Tucson, earned Case a new level of critical acclaim and a tour spot with Nick Cave for its dark, yearning compositions that unleashed an even greater power in her remarkable voice. While Blacklisted was Case’s first solo album without Her Boyfriends, it, like all of her work, featured a diverse list of musicians including Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico, Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, Dallas Good of the Sadies and frequent vocal collaborator Kelly Hogan.

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The live album The Tigers Have Spoken, released in 2004, spotlights Case’s incredible performance prowess recorded at several shows in Chicago and Toronto with Canadian band the Sadies. When she returned to the studio two years later, the result was Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, a stunning, evocative album of dark fairy tales based on Case’s life that critics called a masterpiece. But she had even higher to climb; 2009’s Middle Cyclone, drenched in the rage and beauty of the natural world, was nominated for two Grammys and reached No. 3 on the Billboard album chart.

In a painful three years that followed, Case lost both of her parents and several other loved ones, and retreated to a 100-acre farmhouse in Vermont, where she plans to stay. “I was really depressed and in mourning... and I’d never slowed down to just feel it,” she says.

She turned inward, then, for her most ambitious and revealing album to date. 2013’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You surges with themes of gender, fear, pain, hope and power, from the heart wrenching “Near Midnight, Honolulu,” to the defiant “Man.” “Being in a band isn’t a race to an awards platform; it is a life, a great and complicated, messy, anxious, hilarious, and homemade life,” writes Case from the farmhouse. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything, ever. I gave up a lot of what makes people ‘normal,’ but it was always my choice. That is a victory in itself. This is a LONG story, which I will continue later.”

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UCSB Arts & Lectures in association with Ping Chong + Company Presents

Ping Chong + Company

Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity Ping Chong, Artistic Director

photo: Adam Nadel

Sat, Nov 19 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall

The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family

Written by Ping Chong and Sara Zatz, with Ryan Conarro

Courtney Golden, Production Supervisor Katherine Freer, Projection Designer Brendan Chapin, Projections Supervisor Marika Kent, Lighting Designer Kristina Varshavskaya, Company Manager Bruce Allardice, Managing Director, Ping Chong + Company

in collaboration with the performers: Tiffany Yasmin Abdelghani, Ferdous Dehqan, Kadin Herring, Amir Khafagy, Maha Syed

Directed by Ping Chong About the Performance Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity is part of an ongoing series of community-specific oral history theater works known as the Undesirable Elements series. Begun in 1992 by Ping Chong + Company, each production is made in a specific community, with local participants testifying to their real lives and experiences. The script is based on interviews with the participants who then share their own true stories in the final production. Since 1992, more than 50 productions have been made across the United States and abroad. Recent productions have explored themes as far ranging as the disability experience, Native American identity, the experiences of refugees in the U.S. and the experiences of survivors of sexual abuse. Ping Chong + Company has created documentaries, toolkits and training workshops and arts education programs for communities who wish to use the arts to address social justice issues in their own work.

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Beyond Sacred was commissioned by LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, where it premiered in April 2015. The premiere production was made possible by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ Building Bridges: Campus Community Engagement Grants Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Ping Chong + Company will tour Beyond Sacred and create related activities in New York and beyond during the 2016-17 season with the support of the Doris Duke Foundation For Islamic Art. For more information about touring engagements, please contact Bruce Allardice, bruce@pingchong.org.

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About the Company Ping Chong + Company produces theatrical works addressing the important cultural and civic issues of our times, striving to reach the widest audiences with the greatest level of artistic innovation and social integrity. The company was founded in 1975 by leading theatrical innovator Ping Chong with a mission to create works of theater and art that explore the intersections of race, culture, history, art, media and technology in the modern world. Today, Ping Chong + Company produces original works by a close-knit ensemble of affiliated artists, under the artistic leadership of Ping Chong.

Productions range from intimate oral history projects to grand scale cinematic multidisciplinary productions featuring puppets, performers and full music and projection scores.

The art reveals beauty, precision and a commitment to social justice. For more information about Ping Chong + Company, visit www.pingchong.org and www.undesirableelements.org

About the Creative Team Ping Chong (Director/Co-writer) is an internationally acclaimed theater artist and pioneer in the use of media in the theater. Since 1972, he has created more than 100 works for the stage which have been presented at major festivals and theaters worldwide. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a USA Artist Fellowship, two BESSIE awards, two OBIE awards and the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In 1992, he created the first work in the Undesirable Elements series, of which there have now been more than 50 productions. His puppet theater work Cathay: Three Tales of China was commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for its Festival of China in 2005 and was presented at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, New Victory Theatre, the Vienna Festival and the World Puppetry Festival in Chengdu, PRC. His adaptation of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood was presented at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in 2010. Theatre Communications Group has published two volumes of his plays: The East West Quartet and a volume on Undesirable Elements. Recent projects include Push: Real Athletes, Real Stories, Real Theatre, about the experiences of elite athletes with disabilities for the 2015 ParaPanAmGames in Toronto, and Collidescope: Further Adventures in Pre- and Post-Racial America, exploring the complex history of racial violence in the United States, which will be touring in 2016-17.

nizations. She has had the honor of interviewing hundreds of individuals from around the world, served as co-author with Ping Chong on over a dozen productions, and has overseen the creation of an in-school arts education program and training institute to share the methodology of Undesirable Elements with other artists and community members. She is the writer and director of Secret Survivors, which explores the experiences of survivors of child sexual abuse, and oversees the Secret Survivors National Initiative, which partners with non-arts-organizations to use theater to end child sexual abuse. Most recently, she co-created Say My Name, Say My Name: Stories of LGBTQ Youth of New Orleans, featuring true stories of transgender youth of color fighting criminalization in New Orleans.

She has spoken and presented workshops on community-engaged theater at many conferences and universities.

Ryan Conarro (Artistic Collaborator/Writer) is a theater maker who has lived and made work for 13 years in several communities in Alaska, where he is a member of Perseverance Theatre, a co-founder of Generator Theater, an occasional documentary radio producer and a teaching artist and adjunct professor with the University of Alaska, the Alaska Arts Education Consortium and several school districts. He is a resident artist with New York’s Theater Mitu, with whom he co-created and performed in the internationally touring interview-based play Juarez: A Documentary Mythology. His work as a director/deviser has been seen at the Kennedy Center, Maine’s Stonington Opera House, The University of Oregon and The National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian. He is currently developing Where the Sea Breaks Its Back with Ping Chong + Company, a new multidisciplinary theater work exploring the complex histories, cultures and environments of Alaska.

Ping Chong + Company is grateful for the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, The Lucille Lortel Foundation, The Network of Ensemble Theatres and many generous individual donors.

Ping Chong + Company 47 Great Jones Street, NYC 10012 Tel: (212) 529-1557; Fax: (212) 529-1703 info@pingchong.org www.pingchong.org/@pingchongco Special thanks to

Sara Zatz (Co-writer) is the Associate Director of Ping Chong + Company. Since 2002, she has overseen the Undesirable Elements series, working with a wide range of partner organizations, from regional theaters to community-based arts orga-

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Co-presented with the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind

Steven Johnson

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

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Tue, Nov 29 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall

The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family

Steven Johnson is the leading light of today’s interdisciplinary, collaborative, open-minded approach to innovation. His writings have influenced everything from cutting-edge ideas in urban planning to the battle against 21st-century terrorism. Johnson was chosen by Prospect magazine as one of the Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future and The Wall Street Journal called him “one of the most persuasive advocates for the role of collaboration in innovation.” He unites a deep understanding of scientific progress with a sharp sensitivity to contemporary online trends. Together, those traits give him an unmatched insight into how ideas emerge and spread and how they affect the world today.

complexity of modern media is training us to think in more complex ways. Emergence and Future Perfect explore the power of bottom-up intelligence in both nature and contemporary society.

His forthcoming book, Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, revolves around the creative power of play: Ideas and innovations that set into motion the many momentous changes in science, technology, politics and society. Inspired by the book, Johnson launched a new podcast series about the past and future of play and innovation.

Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event

He is a regular contributor to Wired magazine, as well as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many other periodicals. He’s appeared on many high-profile television programs, including The Charlie Rose Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He is @stevenbjohnson on Twitter, where he has 1.4 million followers.

Johnson’s book on the history of innovation How We Got to Now debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list, was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and inspired the Emmy Award-nominated six-part series on PBS, How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson.

He is also the author of the bestselling Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, The Innovator’s Cookbook, which he edited, The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map. Everything Bad Is Good For You, one of the most discussed books of 2005, argued that the increasing

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Jake Shimabukuro

photo: Coleman Saunders

Thu, Dec 1 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall

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Consider the humble ukulele. It’s an adaptation of the machete, a stringed instrument that traveled with Portuguese immigrants who came to work in the sugar cane fields of Hawaii. Islanders made the machete their own, mixing external influences of classical European music and Spanish guitar with Hawaiian songs. Native Hawaiians renamed the little machete the ukulele and it’s become synonymous with Hawaiian music and culture.

Jake Shimabukuro comes from that same process of mixing both island and outside influences, combining the qualities of a long line of virtuoso ukulele players with modern rock musicians to create a sound that’s uniquely his own but still firmly grounded in Hawaiian tradition.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Shimabukuro started playing Ukulele at the age of 4, urged by his mother who also played.

His influences include legendary ukulele players like Eddie Kamae, Ohta-San and Peter Moon. He also credits icons like Bruce Lee and Michael Jordan as a source of inspiration.

Known for his energetic strumming on the ukulele, Shimabukuro’s performance incorporates elements of thoughtful, sophisticated arrangements to spontaneous, improvised passages. In addition to his original compositions, his repertoire includes Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Schubert’s “Ave Maria” and Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

Shimabukuro began his music career in the mid-1990s, performing at local coffee shops as a sideman with his first band, Pure Heart. But Shimabukuro’s solo career began in 2002, when he signed with Epic Records, becoming the first ukulele

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player to sign with Sony Music. While his well-received solo releases positioned him as an established musician in Hawaii and Japan, his career skyrocketed when a cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral on YouTube with more than 13 million views.

Since then Shimabukuro has collaborated with an array of artists that include Yo-Yo Ma, Jimmy Buffett, Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Jack Johnson, Ziggy Marley and Lyle Lovett – as well as orchestras around the world.

He has topped Billboard’s World Music Chart numerous times and been declared a musical hero by Rolling Stone magazine, wowed audiences on national TV with appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Good Morning America and The Today Show and has earned comparisons to musical innovators such as Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis.

Shimabukuro is the subject of the award winning documentary Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings. His new album, Nashville Sessions, was released in September.

Shimabukuro also travels to schools around the world and spreads positive messages to young people, encouraging them to find their passion and live drug-free. www.jakeshimabukuro.com facebook | twitter | youtube | instagram Special thanks to

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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Holiday Show

Thu, Dec 15 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall Post-performance Producers Circle members-only holiday party with the band

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The Program will be announced from the stage and will include songs to which the orchestra invites the audience to play along. There will be a 20-minute intermission.

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When the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain puts on a show, there are no drums, pianos, backing tracks or electronic trickery. Instead, audiences can look forward to lots of catchy, foot-stomping tunes on ukuleles, a bit of comedy and sheer fun.

Poland, France, Svalbard, the United States, Japan and China. The ensemble has played at prestigious venues such as the Sydney Opera House, The Royal Albert Hall and Carnegie Hall. They also had the honor to perform, by invitation of The Prince of Wales, at the private 90th birthday party of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. The orchestra is “frighteningly talented and awesome!” proclaims Time Out magazine.

The group believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the ukulele. Expect anything from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding, Christmas Carols and Spaghetti Western soundtracks. The group is “virtuosic,” raves Guitar Magazine.

Founded in 1985, the orchestra’s first gig instantly sold out.

The current group has been performing together more than 20 years, delivering standing-room-only concerts around the world, including Germany, Sweden, Finland,

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The Ukulele Orchestra’s music has been used in films, plays and commercials. The Independent (U.K.) praised, “Impressive solo voices and an absolute mastery of strum, pluck and twang ensured the sheer joy and beauty of the music was never lost in the comedy. Perfectly polished professionalism.”

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