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Welcome to the 201718 season of Newman Center Presents.

We are proud to present an eclectic mix of performances that represents the highest level of artistic excellence. We are dedicated to exploring a broad range of culturally diverse programs and stimulating dialogue on social issues through the performing arts.

This season, we launch two new series: the Family Series and the Student Matinee Series. These shows are a great way to introduce young people to the power and magic of live performance.

The Newman Center continues to grow and thrive because of your support. We invite you to share your enthusiasm with your friends and family by organizing groups to attend performances or bringing a young person to a performance.

I look forward to sharing more unforgettable evenings together. Thank you for being a part of the Newman Center’s 15th season.

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FROM THE CHANCELLOR Welcome to the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts—a crown jewel of Denver’s arts scene and an embodiment of the University of Denver’s commitment to our community.

ABOUT THE ROBERT & JUDI NEWMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Over the years, Denver audiences have come to count on the Newman Center and its acclaimed performing arts series.

This year, we are launching a Family Series and a Student Matinee Series. Both series are results of the realization of DU IMPACT 2025, our strategic vision, which calls on the University to expand its deep roots in the Denver community, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion through our programming, learning and community engagement.

The Newman Center’s stages enable our students to demonstrate their remarkable gifts, attracting some of the most promising and talented young people in the nation. This building helps every student production in our Lamont School of Music and the Department of Theatre showcase their extraordinary energy, enthusiasm and dedication.

Here at the Newman Center, our students pursue their passions and discover their capacity to collaborate and innovate. May their creativity and talent inspire us all to reflect on what it means to be human—to create and appreciate artistic expression and use it to understand ourselves and our world.

Enjoy tonight’s performance. I hope you will return again to another of our many offerings.

Rebecca Chopp Chancellor, University of Denver

Opened in 2002, The Robert & Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver is acclaimed as one of the nation’s finest performing arts centers.

Unique in the region for its size, acoustic quality, and caliber of artists, the Newman Center is dedicated to showcasing cultural diversity, stretching the imagination, and stimulating dialogue.

The Newman Center hosts nearly 500 performances each season with up to 120,000 people in attendance. As a creative and effective leader in arts presenting the NCPA has served as an artistic gathering place and an economic engine elevating Denver’s reputation as the Cultural Capital of the West.

In 2016, Kendra Whitlock Ingram joined the Newman Center in the Executive Director position. Heeding the call of DU IMPACT 2025 as well as a parallel directive in the Denver Arts & Venues Imagine 2020 plan to ‘make art unavoidable,’ Ingram is focused on blurring the lines between campus and community by presenting diverse and excellent performances, developing key community partnerships, and creating programming for families in order to introduce new generations to the performing arts.

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This year, the quality of programming continues and the breadth of programming expands. We look forward to long-time favorites like the King’s Singers, Sarah Chang and Gregory Porter as well as new surprises like Cashore Marionettes.

We are particularly excited for the new Family and Student Matinee Series that will bring incredible performances to young audiences.

Bob: I very much like musical theater so my first choice would be a reprise of My Fair Lady, with Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Audrey Hepburn.

Since that will never happen, I would settle for a Lamont production, perhaps showcasing both professionals and DU students in various roles. A second choice: we were fortunate to once have Marvin Hamlisch visit our home in Denver and play for a small gathering. He even composed a short song, with lyrics, for us. What a talent – it was magical!

Judi: My fantasy concert would be Frank Sinatra with the Rat Pack including Liza Minelli, Frank with Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr. dancing, Barbra Streisand (no politics), Tony Bennett, Adele, the Irish Tenors, Yo-Yo Ma, Victor Borge and Louis Armstrong. Wow, what a show that would be! Please watch the sound volume – no ear plugs needed!

If you had to choose one performance at the Newman Center from the past 14 years, what would be your favorite?

A truly tough question to answer – so many outstanding performances! But perennially, we tend to favor vocal groups like Cantus, King’s Singers and the Whiffenpoofs as well as instrumental groups like Colorado Symphony ensembles, Bluegrass Masters, and Boston Brass. A truly memorable performance was by Manhattan Transfer at the 5th Anniversary concert.

To view a listing of our previous 14 seasons, please visit our website at www.newmancenterpresents.com and click on past seasons.

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Windham Hill: A Winter’s Solstice Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 7:30 pm June Swaner Gates Concert Hall William Ackerman, acoustic steel string guitars Alex de Grassi, acoustic steel string guitars Barbara Higbie, piano, violin, voice, and guitar Todd Boston, acoustic guitar Ellen Sanders, cello Program will be announced from stage.

There will be one 20 minute intermission.

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WILL ACKERMAN William Ackerman is a multiple Grammy® Award-winning guitarist/composer/record producer and the 2013 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ZMR Music Awards.

His impact on instrumental music in the last 40 years is unparalleled. Carpentry and building were Ackerman’s first profession and the name Windham Hill (after an important place from his adolescence in Vermont) was borrowed from his building company so that originally his business card read “Windham Hill Builders/Records/Music (BMI).”

WINDHAM HILL ABOUT THE PROGRAM Guitarists William Ackerman and Alex de Grassi and pianist/ multi-instrumentalist Barbara Higbie honor the season with a concert of original and traditional acoustic music drawn from the multiplatinum selling Winter Solstice series as well as their many solo releases.

William Ackerman founded Windham Hill Records in Palo Alto in 1975. The label’s audiophile recordings were a run-away success with critics and audiences alike. Musicians including Michael Hedges, George Winston, Will Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, Barbara Higbie and Darol Anger and their group Montreux, Liz Story, Mark Isham, and Tuck and Patty quickly became internationally recognized. The name “Windham Hill” became synonymous with the best in acoustic music in the 1980s and 90s. Windham Hill’s 10 Winter Solstice compilation recordings, selling in the many millions, “changed people’s conceptions of seasonal music” (John Diliberto/ Echoes radio show host). ii

Will and his cousin Alex de Grassi toured Germany in 1979.

While there, Ackerman began playing a cassette of piano music for those he met. This was the demo tape from a pianist named George Winston. Will continued as the sole producer for Windham Hill with George Winston’s Autumn, which was released in 1980 and immediately garnered a four-star review from Rolling Stone magazine. To this day, Ackerman continues to produce 10 recordings a year. His productions have enjoyed more number one positions on the NAR/ZONE radio charts than any producer in the history of the genre. In 2012, Ackerman released a CD titled The Gathering: A New Generation of Musicians Produced by Will Ackerman. The CD included brilliant new music and the work of 22 musicians that he had produced and introduced to the world. The Gathering won Zone Music Reporter’s (ZMR) Best Contemporary Instrumental Album and Album of the Year music awards in 2012.

WilliamAckerman.com ALEX DE GRASSI Alex de Grassi is a Grammy®-nominated, internationally recognized pioneer of the acoustic steel string guitar. His 35 years of touring include performances at Carnegie Hall, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and the Bath International Guitar Festival. New York Guitar Festival Director David Spelman says “Alex de Grassi is a treasure…his technical wizardry as well as his vibrant and poetic music making make him one of the most distinctive steel-string guitarists performing today.”

His 1978 recording, Turning: Turning Back (cited by Acoustic Guitar magazine among its top-ten essential finger-style guitar recordings) and his recordings Slow Circle (1979), Southern Exposure (1984), and the Grammy®-nominated The Water Garden (1998) are considered classics of the genre. His most recent solo recording, Now and Then: Folksongs for the

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21st Century features his contemporary take on traditional folk songs. In 2006 De Grassi was co-commissioned by String Letter Publishing (Acoustic Guitar magazine) along with violinist Jeremy Cohen, to compose and perform Three Themes for Guitar and Strings at Herbst Theatre.

DeGrassi.com BARBARA HIGBIE Barbara Higbie is a Grammy®-nominated, Bammy Awardwinning pianist/composer/ singer-songwriter as well as a championship fiddler. The Los Angeles Times described her music as “a ray of bright sunlight,” and the San Francisco Chronicle calls her “full of life and brilliant in her playing, the most exciting musician we’ve heard.” In addition to being the first female instrumentalist on the Windham Hill label, Higbie has appeared with musicians as different as Santana, Bonnie Raitt, the Kronos Quartet, Milton Nascimento, and Spyro Gyra, recording on over 100 CDs. In 2011, Higbie was the first-ever artist-in-residence at the prestigious Jazz Club Yoshi’s in Oakland, Calif. A graduate of Mills College (where she was a student of Terry Riley’s) and the recipient of a Watson Fellowship, she collected traditional music throughout West Africa. At 23, she recorded her Windham Hill 1982 duo release Tideline with violinist Darol Anger, which garnered a four-star review in Downbeat magazine. In 1984, she co-led a group with Anger including Mike Marshall, Andy Narell, and Todd Phillips to record Live at Montreux. The group became the Montreux Band (with Anger, Marshall, and Michael Manring) and toured internationally for 12 years. Her composition “To Be” became a radio staple of the 1980s, a TV theme song in Italy, and a video in heavy rotation on VH1.

Her early Windham Hill titles have recently been reissued on Adventure Music. Higbie’s solo work has made the top ten lists of the Washington Post and Performing Songwriter magazine. The most recent of her six solo releases, Scenes from Life, was recorded in 2014 at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Sound.

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2013, as in-demand producer as well as a composer/ performer, he collaborated on Peter Kater’s Grammy®nominated album Illumination. He spent 2012–13 touring with singer Snatam Kaur as a member of her band. Boston has worked with Snatam Kaur, Ramesh Kannan (worldrenowned percussionist), Tony Levin (legendary bassist for Peter Gabriel), Charlie Bisharat (Grammy®-winning violinist), Jeff Haynes (Grammy®-winning percussionist), Eugene Friesen (Grammy®-winning cellist), Deva Premal and Miten, Manose, Tina Malia, Shimshai, Donna De Lory and Suzanne Sterling, and has performed at prominent festivals such as the Wanderlust Festival in Vt. and Calif., Earthdance, Harmony and the 2007 Mac Conference. HIs training included studying North Indian classical music with the late great maestro Ali Akbar Khan.

ToddBoston.com ELLEN SANDERS San Diego native Ellen Sanders joins the Winter Solstice concerts via the Oberlin Conservatory, the S.F. Opera Orchestra, Opera San Jose, the S.F. Conservatory, the Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. An exuberant artist with a world class sound, Ellen is a classical virtuoso who can improvise and swing.

She recently moved from Oakland, Calif. to Hailey, Idaho for a position conducting Youth Orchestras.

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Margot Gilbert Frank and M Allan Frank in honor of Stephen Seifert’s birthday Anne R. Hunting in memory of Gladys Monahan Etta M. and Michael D. West in honor of Judi Newman Betty J. Croall and James A. Carney in memory of Nancy Simpson Kathy A. and Donald D. Rosenkrans in honor of Robert and Judi Newman Barbara Jean Hamilton in memory of Susanne W. Hamilton Susan L. Froelich and Richard E. Ingram in honor of Kendra and Benjamin Ingram *Deceased If you would like your donor listing to appear differently in our next performance program, please contact Kellyn Smith at 303-871-4472 or kellyn.smith@du.edu.

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PATRON INFORMATION • The Newman Center for the Performing Arts is fully accessible to patrons in wheelchairs and to those with other special needs.

Patrons needing accommodations for a disability should call the Box Office as early as possible at 303.871.7720.

• We offer COMPLIMENTARY PARKING for all Newman Center Presents shows in the Newman Center garage, subject to availability. Patrons are advised not to park in the neighborhoods, as most of the side streets have one-hour parking only. Arrive early to ensure a space in the garage. Food and beverages are prohibited in the seating areas of all theatres.

• No audio, photographic, or video equipment of any kind is allowed in the performance venues.

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• Artists and programs are subject to change without notice.

• All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges.

• Patrons are encouraged to call the Newman Center for information on the suitability of events for children.

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