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Friday, November 18, 2022, 8:00 pm University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Alain Frogley, Interim Dean Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Rodney Rock, Director presents

Samara Joy

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SAMARA JOY BIOGRAPHY With her Verve Records debut, Linger Awhile, 22-year-old Samara Joy makes her case to join the likes of Sarah, Ella, and Billie as the next mononymous jazz singing sensation recorded by the venerable label. Her voice, rich and velvety yet precociously refined, has already earned her fans like Anita Baker and Regina King, appearances on The TODAY Show and millions of likes on TikTok — cementing her status as perhaps the first Gen Z jazz singing star. On Linger Awhile, Samara will introduce that massive audience to a slew of classic standards several times older than she is through her timeless, irresistible sound.

Samara is still relatively new to jazz. Growing up in the Bronx, it was music of the past — the music of her parent’s childhoods, as she put it — that she listened to most. She treasures her musical lineage, which goes back to her grandparents Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, both of whom performed with Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and her father, who is a singer, songwriter and producer who toured with gospel artist Andraé Crouch. “Sometimes I catch myself when I’m singing — I'm like, ‘Whoa, that was a dad moment’,” Samara quips. Eventually, she did follow in the family tradition, singing in church and then with the jazz band at Fordham High School for the Arts, with whom she won Best Vocalist at JALC’s Essentially Ellington competition. That led to her enrolling in SUNY Purchase’s jazz studies program, where she fell deeply in love with the music.

Though she’s young, she relishes the process of digging through the music’s history and learning new standards. “I think maybe people connect with the fact that I'm not faking it, that I already feel embedded in it,” Samara says. “Maybe I'm able to reach people in person and on social media because it's real.” The gatekeepers of the jazz world tend to agree: in 2019, she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, and she’s since performed with legends like Christian McBride and Bill Charlap. Legendary late pianist Barry Harris was a particularly important influence and mentor. “You inspired me as well as many others with this fire for teaching and playing that couldn’t be dimmed by anything or anyone,” Samara writes in Linger Awhile’s liner notes, dedicating the project in part to Harris’ memory.

Samara is accompanied by esteemed veterans on Linger Awhile as well: her former professors, guitarist Pasquale Grasso and drummer Kenny Washington, form the core of the band, which also includes bassist David Wong and pianist Ben Paterson. With ease and a preternatural assurance, Samara swings right alongside them through understated yet powerful renditions of this creative collection of standards.

There are burnished, gleaming versions of chestnuts in “Misty,” “Linger Awhile” and “Someone To Watch Over Me,” transporting listeners to some romantic, longlost supper club. Those familiar tunes are listed alongside some more unusual,

if equally vintage selections: “Sweet Pumpkin,” a Ronnell Bright tune performed by the likes of Blue Mitchell and Gloria Lynne, and “Can’t Get Out Of This Mood,” which Samara uncovered on a collection of Sarah Vaughan rarities, add a lilting, upbeat bent to the album’s selections.

“When I heard the lyrics, I was like, ‘OK, this is positive — it's not as much about heartbreak,'” Samara says of “Mood.” “I liked the way I felt after hearing her singing it, and hopefully I can create the same feeling for people when they hear that song.”

Samara aims for the opposite on a spine-tingling version of “Guess Who I Saw Today,” originally popularized by Nancy Wilson. This gently grieving rendition showcases the young singer’s exceptional control and range, as well as her refined, distinctive style.

Marrying Samara’s interest in classic standards as well as crate-digging is her take on the iconic Thelonious Monk tune “‘Round Midnight” — instead of the traditional lyrics, Samara sings those written by Jon Hendricks, which she had only heard in a vintage TV performance by Carmen McRae. “Those lyrics haven't been recorded that much — so even though it’s a song that a lot of people know, this is a different take on it,” Samara says. It’s the only song on the album that includes a horn section, including trumpeter Terell Stafford, trombonist Donavan Austin, and finally tenor saxophonist Kendric McCallister, who is responsible for the arrangement, a transformation of Cootie Williams’ original.

A concept that will likely be foreign to Samara’s TikTok following is that of vocalese, a jazz technique showcased across Linger Awhile. “Nostalgia (The Day I Knew)” was the product of a jazz transcription class she took with trumpet master Jon Faddis at SUNY Purchase, in which she took down Fats Navarro’s solo from the original 1947 recording and wrote her own lyrics to that melody — inspired, she quips, by the teen romance novels she was reading. She went through the same process with “I’m Confessin’,” combining that song’s original lyrics with her own, set to Lester Young’s 1952 solo. Especially for a contemporary listener, hearing how seamlessly Samara transforms these instrumental lines into breezy lyrics is astounding.

Also included on Linger Awhile is “Social Call,” co-written by vocalese pioneer Hendricks and Gigi Gryce — a fitting, beautiful tribute to those who paved the way for Samara’s exploration of this often-overlooked subgenre.

The release is just one more step for the ascendant vocalist, who will spend the rest of 2022 touring increasingly large stages — still shocked to be performing in front of thousands who hang on every word. “I'm still very much a student, even though I've graduated,” Samara says. “So this is only the beginning ... there is much, much more to come."

Saturday, December 3, 2022, 8:00 pm University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Alain Frogley, Interim Dean Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Rodney Rock, Director presents

THE BOSTON POPS ON TOUR KEITH LOCKHART Julian & Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor JOHN WILLIAMS George & Roberta Berry Boston Pops Conductor Laureate

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PROGRAM On Christmas Night

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Christmas Canticles

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Ma’oz Tzur (Rock of Ages)

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Drey Dreydeleh

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Fantasia on Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)

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Dance of the Tumblers, from The Snow Maiden

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Two Ukrainian Carols Dobryy vechir tobi (Good Evening to You)

Carol of the Bells

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Noche de Posadas (The Night of the Posadas)

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Text and images by Tomie dePaola Additional text by Arturo Rodríguez Karina Beleno Carney, narrator — Intermission — The Twelve Days of Christmas

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God Rest Ye, Merry Kings

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This Is My Wish/Let There Be Peace On Earth Lisa Graham conducting Sleigh Ride

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A Visit from St. Nicholas (’Twas the Night Before Christmas)

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Text by Clement C. Moore | Artwork by Jan Brett A Merry Little Sing-Along

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Tuesday, December 6, 7:30 pm University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Alain Frogley, Interim Dean Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Rodney Rock, Director presents

The Lenard Chamber Music Series

The Boston Camerata

A Medieval Christmas - Hodie Christus Natus Est Anne Azéma, voice, hurdy gurdy, bells, direction Camila Parias, voice Deborah Rentz-Moore, voice Allison Monroe, vielle, voice Christa Patton, harp, winds

Readings are excerpted from King James Bible.

This program can be heard on the Harmonia Mundi CD released last year, available on the Camerata website and most streaming platforms.

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THE BOSTON CAMERATA BIOGRAPHY The Boston Camerata occupies a unique place in the densely populated universe of European and American early music ensembles. Camerata’s distinguished rank stems partly from its longevity: founded in 1954, when the field of endeavor was in its infancy, as an adjunct to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ musical instruments collection, Camerata is now one of the longest-lived groups to be vigorously functioning up to the present day.

But length of service by itself is not sufficient to account for Camerata’s preeminence, nor are its numerous distinctions including the American Critics’ Circle Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, residencies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee, and the Grand Prix du Disque. The Boston Camerata has achieved its eminence in large part because of its willingness to approach, with consistent success, many kinds of historical repertoires from many centuries, from the early Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, and from many places and cultures, stretching from the Middle East to early New England, with numerous intermediate stops in Renaissance and Baroque Europe and Latin America. Directed from 1969 to 2009 by Joel Cohen, and from 2009 to the present day by Anne Azéma, the Boston Camerata has continued to create, over more than a half-century of activity, a large number of concert and recorded productions. These typically combine scholarship, much of it original, with high performance standards maintained by a distinguished roster of outstanding vocal soloists and instrumentalists. Camerata’s productions regularly combine dramatic flair with a certain humane, overarching perspective on the role music has played in (wo)mankind’s search for meaning and fulfillment.

Camerata’s signature approach, as embodied in its touring, pedagogy, and media projects, has won the ensemble many listeners and followers on five continents as the ensemble presents new projects all the while maintaining in active repertoire many of its historic achievements.

Camerata’s diary in recent seasons has reflected intense activity. Borrowed Light, a music and dance production in collaboration with the Tero Saarinen Company of Helsinki, Finland, toured extensively, with over eighty performances from 2004 to 2015 in the United States (Brooklyn Academy, Jacob’s Pillow Festival), Europe, (France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Scandinavia, Netherlands) the United Kingdom, and Australasia (Australia and New Zealand). The film of this production has been seen over twenty times on European cable television in 2018, 2019, and 2020.

The ensemble has appeared in concert at the Théatre de la Ville, Paris (2015), the Alcântara Festival in Brasil (2016), The Metropolitan Museum The Cloisters (2017), Rockefeller Chapel Chicago (2018), La Philharmonie de Paris (2018). Anne Azéma’s innovative staged productions include The Night’s Tale, narrating a medieval tournament in France, which was first presented in France and Luxembourg (2007), then performed in Boston to great acclaim (2016), with further touring

in 2017 and 2018 (Switzerland, Holland, France), and in the US in 2020. Azéma’s reimagining of the Play of Daniel (premièred in 2014) is by now an integral part of the Camerata’s public face to the world. Further tours of Daniel took place in North America (Canada and the US Midwest) in late 2014, continuing in 2017, 2018, 2020. Collaborations with local choirs (both children and adults) and with young professionals-in-training in both Europe and the United States continue to be a distinctive feature of the company (2016-2020 touring seasons).

Two new media projects were released in 2019: Treasures of Devotion: European Spiritual Song ca 1500 (Music & Arts - Naxos); and Free America! Early Songs of Revolt and Rebellion, which renews a collaboration of the ensemble with Harmonia Mundi. In late 2020, Camerata’s trailblazing, made-for-streaming production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas earned international acclaim as it was viewed by music lovers on five continents. Camerata’s latest Harmonia Mundi project, A Medieval Christmas – Hodie Christus Natus Est, was issued in 2021.

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2022 - 2023 Co-Chairs: Lin Klein & Jane Moskowitz $500 per person, $1,000 per couple Elena Sevilla & Paul Aho Mona & Greg Anderson Marianne Barton Deborah Walsh Bellingham In Memory of Dr. Bruce A. Bellingham Honey & Harry Birkenruth Ruth Buczynski Carol Colombo In Memory of Paul Colombo Anne D’Alleva Madison & Bob Day Susan & John DeWolf Stan & Sandy Hale Judy & Peter Halvorson

Patricia Hempel Shareen Hertel & Donald Swinton Jan Huber Tina & Bryan Huey Blair T. Johnson & Blanche Serban Lynn & Harry Johnson Janet & George Jones Lin & Waldo Klein James Knox Ann Kouatly Becky & Scott Lehmann

Jean & John Lenard Gene Likens & Leola Spilbor Margarethe & Matthew Mashikian Antonia Moran Jane & Robert Moskowitz Constance & Rodney Rock Nancy & John Silander Beverly Sims & William Okeson Anne & Winthrop Smith Maurice Thompson Karen Zimmer Susan Zito

Join the CoStars, Jorgensen’s Active Volunteers!

The CoStars is a special group of volunteers who generously donate not only $500 per person, but also their talent and time. The invaluable CoStars support Jorgensen through community advocacy by creative fund-raising activities, and by hosting pre- and post-concert receptions that often feature world-class luminaries. The CoStars have been instrumental in the purchase of the new portable chamber stage and acoustical shell, a new Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano, funding the JOY! Conservatory Program, the installation of the exterior Jorgensen message center, the renovation of the Jorgensen Gallery, and continued support of Jorgensen programming. By becoming a CoStar, you’ll join with other vibrant, thoughtful and devoted arts lovers who have made Jorgensen’s success a priority.

CoStars receive an honorary membership in the Jorgensen Circle of Friends at the Producers Circle level. Benefits include early ticket ordering privileges for one full year from the date of enrollment; reserved lower-level parking in the North Garage, providing a speedier exit after each Jorgensen event; and recognition in the Jorgensen playbill.

As a Special Thank You... An Invitation to the CoStars CoStar members receive an exclusive invitation to attend the Annual Sneak Peek hosted by Jorgensen Director Rodney Rock. This party offers attendees an exciting preview of the coming season – prior to the public announcement. Join the CoStars and be the first to know what’s new!

If you are interested in becoming a CoStar, please contact Rodney Rock at 860-486-1983, or by e-mail at rodney.rock@uconn.edu.

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Circle of Friends 2022-2023 Become a Friend of Jorgensen!

We invite you to join Jorgensen’s Circle of Friends, a group of generous arts supporters who over the years have made vital contributions to Jorgensen’s special projects, commissioned works, and interior restorations. Your membership in the Circle of Friends entitles you to early ticket ordering privileges for one full year from the date of your enrollment; you will be recognized in the Jorgensen Playbill; and if you contribute at the Directors or Producers Circle levels, you will enjoy reserved parking in the North Campus Parking Garage for each Jorgensen performance you attend.

Please consider making your tax-deductible donation and become a Circle of Friends member today. Simply call 860-486-4226 for more information.

Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the support of its Friends.

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Jean & John Lenard* Gene Likens & Leola Spilbor* Margarethe & Matthew Mashikian* Antonia Moran* Jane & Robert Moskowitz* Craig & Karen Nass Barbara Rhein & Stan Shaw Constance & Rodney Rock* Nancy & John Silander* Beverly Sims & William Okeson* Anne & Winthrop Smith* Maurice Thompson* Karen Zimmer* Susan Zito* * Members of the Jorgensen CoStars

Directors Circle $250/person, $500/couple Kenneth A. Doeg Mona & Todd Friedland In honor of Jane Moskowitz Mr. David Johnson David & Carol Jordan Tom Martin & Susan Spiggle Carl Nawrocki Cheryl A. & Mark J. Roy Bonnie Ryan Ms. Nancy Swiacki Keith Wilson & Marjorie Hayes Artists Circle $125/person, $250/couple M. Kevin & Jeanne Fahey Betty & Kenneth Hanson Rob & Mary Hoskin

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Critics Circle $25/person, $50/couple Anonymous Mrs. Audrey Gough Dr. & Mrs. Ed & Susan Grace John H. Mayer & Irwin M. Krieger Linda Pelletier Mr. & Mrs. Ettore & jjLaura Raccagni Sari & jjJames Rosokoff Dr. Jay S. Shivers Director’s Fund Diane & Joseph Briody Carol Colombo David & Marilyn Foster Jennifer Person Mr. Allen Schmied & Ms. Tina Polttila-Schmied Nancy & John Silander Ms. Joanne Sousa In Memory of John P. Sousa

Endowed Sponsorship Program The Endowed Sponsorship Program provides individuals and families with the opportunity to support Jorgensen by sponsoring any concert or other program. Benefits to Endowed Sponsors will include name recognition in the Jorgensen playbill, additional recognition in the community through press releases provided by the University, and an opportunity to visit with the guest artist.

Sponsorship could be a means of celebrating a special holiday or anniversary, or of dedicating an event to a loved one. Most importantly, by contributing to the cost of current programs, sponsors would help ensure that the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts will continue to present wonderful music and other programs in the future.

Your gift would benefit not only Jorgensen, but also the community at large.

Patrons interested in sponsoring an event should contact Rodney Rock at 860-486-1983 or rodney.rock@uconn.edu for further information.

Jorgensen Outreach for Youth Funded through private contributions as well as corporate support, JOY! provides school-age children, many from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, with access to live performances and special enrichment programs. Now in its 15th season, the JOY! Conservatory program offers instrumental and vocal students in grades 9-12 the opportunity for a rigorous course of study including private lessons, ensemble rehearsals and coaching, and basic musicianship courses. For more information, contact Jorgensen director Rodney Rock at 860-486-1983.

Corporate / Foundation Sponsors SBM Charitable Foundation

Diamond / $1000+ Carol Colombo Nancy & John Silander

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Pearl / up to $99

Irwin Krieger & John Mayer Becky & Scott Lehmann The University of Connecticut Pamela Paine Peter Polomski League, Inc. Bonnie Ryan Marti & Tom Smith Sapphire / $100+ Dale Swett Carol & David Jordan Joanne Todd James Knox

Lenard Chamber Music Endowment Fund The Lenard Chamber Series is made possible through the generosity of longtime patrons Jean and John Lenard and the Lenard Chamber Music Endowment.

Thanks to the generous philanthropy of patrons Jean and John Lenard, chamber music, one of the hallmarks and most dearly loved elements of the programming at Jorgensen, is secure well into the future. Also thanks to the Lenard Endowment, UConn students, non-UConn students, and area youth are invited to attend all chamber music events for free.

Please join this giving community and make your contribution today.

To make a gift, contact Jorgensen Director Rodney Rock at rodney.rock@uconn.edu or 860-486-1983, Jean & John Lenard Elena Sevilla & Paul Aho Greg & Mona Anderson Deborah Walsh Bellingham Ruth Buczynski Carol Colombo Anne D’Alleva Kenneth Doeg Judy & Peter Halvorson Patricia Hempel

George & Janet Jones Carol & David Jordan Lin & Waldo Klein James Knox June & Henry Krisch Becky & Scott Lehmann Shoshana Levinson & Chris Crossgrove Julia J. & Carl W. Lindquist, MD

Joan & Austin McGuigan Jane & Robert Moskowitz Lauren & Eric Prause Donald Shankweiler & Ruth Garrett Millikan John & Nancy Silander Beverly Sims & William Okeson Marilyn & Arthur Wright

The Boston Pops On Tour Keith Lockhart, conductor Sat, Dec 3, 8 PM

THE BOSTON CAMERATA

A Medieval Christmas Hodie Christus Natus Est Tue, Dec 6, 7:30 pm

MESSIAH SING

Fri, Dec 9, 8 pm UConn Department of Music

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A New Chapter for the M. Estelle Sprague Costume Collection Curated by Susan J. Jerome

Left: Woman’s dress from 1870s.

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Right: Wool jumper and matching coat, designed by Bonnie Cashin, ca. 1965.

Donor: Beatrice F. Auerbach. UConn 1965.7a, b.

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