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OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE PRESCHOOL & K: 650.322.0176 GRADES 1-8: 650.473.4011 Tours available for preschool - 5 (please call for an appointment) Open House for Grades 6-8 Sunday, November 1 at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 14 at 10 a.m. (registration required)
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Henry Purcell (1659-1695) was an English composer with a style characterized by lively buoyant rhythm, and sweet melodies in the English language, at a time when most noteworthy musical innovations were happening in France and Italy. Susan Graham is one Philharmonia Baroque Or- of the featured vocalchestra’s next concert in Palo ists in the Philharmonia Alto, on Nov. 6, features an Baroque Orchestra’s all-Purcell program in honor “The Passion of Dido� of what would have been the program. composer’s 350th birthday. Called “The Passion of Dido,� the program includes Purcell’s most famous opus, “Dido & Aeneas,� one of the earliest English operas. Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, a veteran of such notable venues as New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall, joins Philharmonia Baroque as one of the featured vocalists. The New Yorker has described her voice as “without regrets, healthy, rounded, ineffably musical, and eager for a challenge.� Graham and the orchestra are also scheduled to perform the Purcell program in November at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Led by Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque specializes in early music performances with periodinstruments. The orchestra gives concerts in several Bay Area locations each season. Locally, “The Passion of Dido� will be performed at First United Methodist Church at 625 Hamilton Ave. in Palo Alto on Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $35 to $90. For more information, go to philharmonia.org or call 415-252-1288.
Jazz by Claude Bolling People at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto are proud of their new Letourneau pipe organ, but some nights the music takes on a very different character. The church is now in its second season of hosting a regular series of jazz concerts. This Sunday, Nov. 1, the program focuses on French jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling, with his popular Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio. Scheduled to perform are: concert flutist Laurel Zucker, a Juilliard graduate and professor at California State University, Sacramento; pianist Jim Martinez, whose CDs include arrangements of church hymns as jazz; bassist Paul Klempau, a regular performer in the Sacramento area; and percussionist Michael Bayard, who has played with artists including Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers and Tony Bennett. The concert starts at 7 p.m. at 1985 Louis Road in Palo Alto. Tickets are $30. Go to www.fccpa.org or call 650-856-6662.
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ideas and rendered as remote dreamlike memories — anonymous yet intimate at the same time. “I wanted to paint the relationships, not the photographic portraits,� writes Bean, who teaches at Stanford University. The exhibit runs until Nov. 20 in the school’s Mohr Gallery, open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The school is at 230 San Antonio Circle in Mountain View. Go to www.arts4all. org or call 650-917-6800, extension 306.
Artists’ lecture Audience members in the Palo Alto Art Center auditorium may be sitting down on Thursday, Nov. 5, but they’ll really be peeking behind the scenes. As part of a lecture series presented by the art center and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, a pair of Djerassi artists — Cristina Ibarra and Frances White — will give a free 7 p.m. talk about their creative methods. This is the last event of the series, which began in April. Based in Brooklyn, filmmaker Ibarra has a body of work including “The Last Conquistador,� a PBS documentary about the sculptor John Houser. She’s currently working on a new screenplay called “Love & Monster Trucks.� White, a Princeton composer, focuses on applying classical and ancient compositional techniques to music that factors in electronic sound. She’s working on a new composition for viols, as well as one for trombone. Admission to the lecture is free, but reservations are required. Call 650-329-2366. The art center is at 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto.
Theater ‘Bulrusher’
Written by Bay Area playwright Eisa Davis, “Bulrusher� is the story of a multiracial girl found in a basket floating down the river and adopted by the residents of a small logging town. Set in 1955 in the mostly white town of Boonville, the play features an unusual local dialect known as Boontling. It also explores themes of social acceptance, identity, racism and compassion, and was a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist. In a collaboration between the Stanford Drama Department and the student theater group Blackstage Theater Company, the play opens at Nitery Theater on campus on Nov. 5. The show runs through Nov. 7, with 8 p.m. performances. Tickets are $15 general; $10 for seniors, faculty and staff; and $5 for students. Go to drama.stanford.edu or call 650-723-2576.
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Kevin Bean Within the Community School of Music and Arts’ imposing bunker-like concrete walls in Mountain View, a charming collection of paintings by Kevin Bean is featured this fall. Two series are showcased in the school’s lobby. The first is an array of brightly colored-pencil shapes balancing mathematical geometry and playful dance. The patterns assume an almost three-dimensional element with their unexpected lines. Across the hallway, in contrast to the cheerful abstractions are faceless paintings of family photographs. These images have been reduced to a few basic color
“On the Lawn,� an oil painting on canvas, is among the art by Stanford faculty member Kevin Bean now on exhibit at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View.