2017–18 SEASON
SEASON GUIDE
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. — LY N D O N B . J O H N S O N ON SIGNING INTO EXISTENCE T H E N AT I O N A L E N D OW M E N T FO R T H E A RT S
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CURATORIAL STATEMENT
C H R I S L O R WAY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Welcome to the 2017–18 edition of Stanford Live! As we unveil this year’s program, we want to
myself observing how my newfound home
take you behind the scenes of how this season
defines itself through its artistic voices.
came to be. Our planning process focused
Through a historical exploration of America’s
not just on the art, but also on the ideas and
cultural heritage—from Charles Ives and Duke
influences behind the work you will see on
Ellington to living national treasures Darlene
stage. Stanford Live’s curatorial team (Laura
Love and John Williams—the season looks at
Evans, Ryan Davis, and me) spent many
how tradition and collective memory shape
months talking through various themes we felt
national character. We also mark the centenary
resonated with artists and our community at
of Leonard Bernstein, who—as educator,
this particular moment in history. This curatorial
collaborator, activist, and musical populist—
process led to an exploration of the nature of
articulated so much of the “American Century”
identity—personal, artistic, and cultural—and
through music.
how we search for it. Through a considerable variety of performances and genres, we bring
The outlines of America’s national identity,
you a season that weaves together ideas
however, become more defined through
about nationhood, pluralism, and nostalgia.
a global perspective. I can’t help but wonder how our two countries’ melting pot vs.
The journey to our exploration of identity
multiculturalist attitudes to immigration
began with three separate ideas. First, as a
impact the way we make art and tell stories.
recent transplant from Canada, I’ve found
Our coming season features artists that tell 2
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the story of Canada alongside America, including
represent these ideas and provide additional
indigenous music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie, first-
context. The curatorial process was also
generation actor/director Ravi Jain (and his
informed by a review of the latest literature
mom, Asha), and one of today’s most important
and through discussions with Stanford faculty
social and political commentators, Samantha
and other leading academics, colleagues,
Bee. (Given that Canada is celebrating its 150th
and artists.
birthday in 2017, it seemed like an opportune time to shine a light on some of the country’s
This season would not be possible without
best.) Artists from beyond North America—such
the help of Helen and Peter Bing ‘55 for
as Bangladeshi-English choreographer Akram
funding a Distinguished Artists Fund to bring
Khan and the Stradivarius Ensemble of Russia’s
some of these artists to Stanford. Throughout
Mariinsky Orchestra—round out a sampling of
this guide you’ll find pop-up commentary
international counterpoints that suggest other
by the season’s curators sharing some of the
ways of establishing and questioning national
ideas behind selecting certain performances
identity through artistic expression.
and thoughts on how they contribute to the expansive themes that this season as a
Finally, throughout the season we look at the
whole will explore. These personal reflections,
recent role that nostalgia has played in shaping
we hope, represent windows into this
identity and influencing culture. The word
season’s design, as well as invitations into
“nostalgia” often conjures up positive memories
its creative conversations.
from the past and attaches to powerful moments in the stories of our selves. In many
The following brochure is organized not
cases, these moments are steeped in musical
by genre or chronology. Rather, it is inspired
interventions—the song that was playing when
by our season’s inquiry into the ways our
you had your first kiss or the first LP/tape/CD
identities take shape in the space between the
you owned. While some artists help us escape
retrospection of nostalgia and the speculative
back to that happy place, others like Taylor
imaginings of hope. It is divided into three
Mac and Penny Arcade will challenge the idea
sections that suggest an experience of time’s
of nostalgia as a positive force. Fierce creative
progress. The first includes performances
expressions, like the poetic conscience of
that masterfully reexamine classical
Claudia Rankine or a folk-punk reenactment of
and traditional repertoires as the foundations
the Ukrainian Revolution, will contest nostalgia’s
for nationalistic or nostalgic sentiments.
regressive tendencies head-on. But as nostalgia
The second offers performances that revisit
narratives shift over time, social commentators
the musical innovations and aspiring spirit
Chuck Klosterman and Simon Reynolds will
that gave the 20th century its voice. The
rethink the retrospective forces at work in pop
third section gathers performances and talks
culture and music and reexamine the supposedly
that encourage us to reconsider the tug of
seminal moments in our collective histories.
sentimental longings for golden ages lost and to envision new, more inclusive ways to
In addition to the artists highlighted above,
remember and to enact common identity.
we have selected additional events— Thank you for joining us on this journey.
performances, speakers, films, etc.—that
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STANFORD LIVE CURATORS
Meet the Curators
C H R I S L O R WAY
L A U R A E VA N S
R YA N D AV I S
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, S TA N FO R D L I V E A N D BING CONCERT HALL
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC P R O G R A M S , E N G A G E M E N T, A N D E D U C AT I O N
A S S O C I AT E D I R EC TO R OF ENGAGEMENT AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Hometown:
Hometown:
Hometown:
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Moraga, CA
New Orleans, LA
Life-Changing Performance:
Life-Changing Performance:
Life-Changing Performance:
Robert Falls’ production
Butoh company Dai Rakuda
Reza Abdoh’s play Quotations
of Death of a Salesman
Kan in Kyoto, Japan, 1991
from a Ruined City
Nostalgia Song:
Nostalgia Song:
Nostalgia Song:
Joni Mitchell’s “Case of You”
Rickie Lee Jones’ “On Saturday
Selena’s “I Could Fall in Love”
Afternoons in 1963” Most Excited for This Season:
Most Excited for this Season:
Introducing some of my
Most Excited for This Season:
Taylor Mac breaking down the
Canadian friends to Stanford
The studio series, especially
1990s in America through
audiences
Counting Sheep
pop songs
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CONTENTS
C U R ATO R I A L STAT E M E N T
SECTION—1
PAG E — 2
Past as Prologue
SUMMER PREVIEW PAG E — 5 0 H OW TO O R D E R PAG E — 5 2
S U P P O RT STA N FO R D L I V E PAG E — 5 4 P L A N YO U R
What is the difference between history
VISIT
and nostalgia?
PAG E — 5 5
F U L L C A L E N DA R
P A G E— 1 1
BACK COVER
SECTION—2
SECTION—3
Living Memory
Longing Forward
KEY:
What makes music American?
Does nostalgia hold us back?
P A G E— 2 3
P A G E — 3 7
A M P L I F I C AT I O N
AU D I E N C E I N T E R AC T I O N
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Past as Prologue
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SECTION 1—PAST AS PROLOGUE
“I believe craft is essentially a commitment to learning the past, living in the present, and dreaming the culture forward.” — TAY LO R M AC , “I BELIEVE”
What about ourselves is encoded in the music of our past? How does tradition—or our subjective experience of it—make us who we are, as individuals and communities? How do our shared reminiscences enliven artistic expression today? Some of the world’s finest classical artists grace our stages this season as we explore the ways that musical traditions can lay the foundations for self-expression. We have invited a range of accomplished virtuosos to demonstrate expressive capacities and masterful techniques that are the legacy of generations of musical craft.
“All music becomes classical music in the end...The best kind of classical performance is never a retreat into the past but rather an intensification of the present.” — A L E X RO S S , T H E N E W YO R K E R
Together, we will share iconic works that we return to again and again and consider the ways that nostalgia both preserves and transforms cultural heritage. We will hear them in dialogue with the time-honored artistry of other cultures, and we will encounter examples of a new generation of performers embracing these artistic inheritances and reinvigorating classical forms to convey their own passions. Throughout this season we will look at music that has given birth to nations and continues to give voice to their evolution, all while paying attention to the shared retrospective affections for great art that can forge bonds across differences.
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SECTION 1—PAST AS PROLOGUE
THEATER
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Abridged) Taylor Mac Taylor Mac is the American theater’s most beloved
If one show weaves
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maximalist. Creating extravagant performances with
together the ideas that
jester-like charm, Mac’s work reflects the vast
our season sets out to
mosaic of the American imagination.
explore—how national
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With Mac as our puckish guide, join us for an abridged
and how popular culture
version of his epic 24-hour performance art concert, which
and nostalgia shape
decodes the social history of the United States—all
who we are for better or
240 years and counting—through popular songs ranging
worse—Taylor Mac’s
from “Yankee Doodle Dandy” to disco. The show is a dazzling,
American historical pop
community-building experience that reflects our nation’s
odyssey does it all with
diverse and sometimes dysfunctional story in order to
an epic amount of heart,
reinvigorate a distinctively American sense of possibility.
laughs, and glitter.
identity merges with art,
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A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is the winner of the
— RYA N DAV I S
2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History and a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
In partnership with Stanford Live, the entirety of A 24-Decade History will be performed in four parts at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco on September 15, 17, 22, and 24. For information, visit sfcurran.com.
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The Stradivarius Ensemble of the Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev: Conductor and Music Director Behzod Abduraimov: Piano The Mariinsky Orchestra’s Stradivarius WHEN: S U N DAY, O C TO B E R 2 9, 2 01 7
Ensemble, an elite group of string musicians led by conductor extraordinaire Valery Gergiev, plays on priceless period instruments (like
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American Brass Quintet
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the one played by the famous cellist Pablo Casals). Young virtuoso Behzod Abduraimov, acclaimed for the
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precision, tenderness, and fire of his interpretations, will play Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Also on the
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quintet hailed by Newsweek as “the high priests of brass” pays its first visit to the Bing with a program devoted to the early days of the
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American republic. The quintet has dedicated itself to music originally written for brass, also commissioning
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new chamber works. American Brass is in residence at the Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival.
bill: Grieg’s Holberg Suite, Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen, and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale Three Performances at Bing Concert Hall, 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE NO.1
PERFORMANCE NO.2
PERFORMANCE NO.3
The Judas Passion
Corelli the Godfather
Beethoven Unleashed
Nicholas McGegan: Conductor
Richard Egarr: Conductor
Nicholas McGegan: Conductor Eric Zivian: Fortepiano
and Harpsichord
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and
The orchestra pays tribute to perhaps
Nicholas McGegan, PBO’s founder,
Chorale reveals a groundbreaking
the best known of the Baroque
takes the podium for Cherubini’s
new work by Scottish composer
composers, Arcangelo Corelli, who
Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn
Sally Beamish with libretto by David
influenced not only his generation
and early Beethoven works including
Harsent. The Passion According
of composers but the next. Organist
the Mass in C Major, op. 86, and
to Judas, loosely based on the
Richard Egarr conducts and also
the Fantasia in C Minor, op. 80,
Gnostic texts, offers a different
solos in the Handel Organ Concerto
Choral Fantasy. Bruce Lamott directs
perspective on the Last Supper and
No. 15 in D Minor, HWV 304. Also
the Philharmonia Chorale, with Eric
Jesus’ betrayer: from Judas’ sin to
benefiting from PBO’s expert
Zivian on the fortepiano.
forgiveness and redemption.
musicianship and period instruments are concerti grossi by Corelli and Handel and a Georg Muffat sonata.
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CLASSICAL
A Chanticleer Christmas It wouldn’t be December at Stanford WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, D EC E M B E R 13, 2 01 7
without the annual concert of this beloved a cappella male choir, filling Memorial Church with sound and hearts with joy. Since its 1978
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founding in San Francisco by Louis Botto, Chanticleer has toured the world, winning bravos from the
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capitals of Europe to the greenways of Central Park, where the group has sung alongside the New York Philharmonic. Who knows? Your first
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Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert
visit may launch a family tradition.
Harmony for Humanity (Free Event) Stanford musicians, including WHEN: T H U R S DAY, O C TO B E R 26, 2 01 7
members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, curate this annual free concert honoring the life and memory of alumnus Daniel
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Pearl, the violin-playing Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in 2002 in Pakistan. The
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event is presented in partnership with the Office for Religious Life and Music at Stanford.
This Stanford tradition of remembering Daniel Pearl through music reflects the open spirit, inclusiveness, and ecumenical tastes of its honoree. This year’s program features music of all seven Muslim-majority countries affected by the travel ban of early 2017. Addressing questions of migration, cultural identity, and global harmony seems a fitting way to pay tribute. — L AU R A E VA N S
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CLASSICAL
Sundays with the St. Lawrence ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET
Three Performances at Bing Concert Hall, 2:30 PM
The acclaimed St. Lawrence String Quartet, continuing its multifaceted residency at Stanford University, demonstrates its diverse musicality with three Sunday concerts at the Bing.
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The quartet, which has in the past
Joining forces with guest viola
Returning to its roots, the St.
featured immersive encounters with
player Masumi Per Rostad, the
Lawrence performs music by
the music of Franz Joseph Haydn,
St. Lawrence performs a new
Canadian composer R. Murray
holds an all-Haydn “Bing-fest”
work by Stanford composer Mark
Schafer, in addition to Haydn’s
with all six of his Opus 20 string
Applebaum, alongside works
String Quartet in C Major,
quartets—quite a feat.
by Mozart and Tchaikovsky’s
op. 33, no. 3, and Erich Wolfgang
String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat
Korngold’s Opus 15 Piano
Minor, op. 30.
Quintet with longtime collaborator Stephen Prutsman.
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St. Louis Symphony David Robertson: Music Director Augustin Hadelich: Violin The St. Louis Symphony—second WHEN: F R I DAY, JA N UA RY 19, 2 01 8
oldest in the nation—is both venerable and forward-looking, with a broad musical range and diverse repertory. The Bing program includes
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Thomas Adès’ Dances from the opera Powder Her Face, Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto with Grammy-
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winning violinist Augustin Hadelich, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1. Under David Robertson, now
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in his 12th and final year as maestro,
Rolston String Quartet
the orchestra has toured extensively in the United States and across the globe.
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Quartet (Luri Lee, violin; Jeffrey Dyrda, violin; Hezekiah Leung, viola; and Jonathan Lo, cello) came together in Banff in 2013, eventually
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winning first prize at the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2016. That same year,
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the ensemble won the John Lad Prize, which brings it to the Stanford Live stage. On the program: works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Canadian composer and educator R. Murray Schafer.
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Cameron Carpenter “My place...is to do things with the WHEN: SAT U R DAY, F E B RUA RY 3, 2 01 8
organ that it never would want to do... and for people that didn’t know that they wanted to hear it. Which is exactly what’s happening,” says iconoclastic
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organist Cameron Carpenter. In a Bing concert that promises to be one of a kind, Carpenter—who will be in
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residence on campus—will be playing his revolutionary digital International Touring Organ. Known for his fearless reinterpretations of the classics, Carpenter has won international acclaim for his brilliance, not to mention his sartorial style.
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beloved and acclaimed sopranos of all time, captivating audiences with her magnificent voice and indelible artistry. In 2013, President Obama
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awarded her the National Medal of Arts, America’s highest honor for an individual artist. For years, Fleming
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has graced the world’s greatest opera stages and concert halls—now extending her reach to jazz clubs, Broadway, and even the Super Bowl (the first classical artist to do so). Expect her debut recital at the Bing to be a showstopper!
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Zurich Chamber Orchestra Daniel Hope: Music Director and Violin Since its founding in 1945, the Zurich WHEN: S U N DAY, M A RC H 1 8, 2 01 8
Chamber Orchestra has covered a lot of ground, performing on Baroquestyle bows and traditional gut strings in recent years while also looking to
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the new in its performance of jazz and folk repertoire. Conducting from the violin, Daniel Hope, succeeding
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his countryman Sir Roger Norrington, leads the ensemble in an unusual pairing of The Four Seasons with minimalist composer Max Richter’s Recomposed, an exciting reimagining
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of Antonio Vivaldi’s Baroque classic.
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gift for chamber artistry, the Takács Quartet, in the latest of its highly anticipated visits to the Bing, partners with Canadian piano
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virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin for the Dohnányi Piano Quintet No. 2. Beethoven’s Opus 131 Quartet and
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Schubert’s Quartettsatz are also on the program for this Boulder, Colorado–based quartet.
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Longing Forward
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SECTION 3—LONGING FORWARD
“Remember a future from another dream and hold on.” —C L A U D I A R A N K I N E , “OV E RV I E W I S A P L AC E ”
Does nostalgia hold us back? How might fond memories of the “good ol’ days” only tell a partial or skewed story of our shared past? Or can retrospective attitudes inspire new ways of looking at ourselves and imagining what we might be? What can we learn from returning to a moment when we thought the future would be different? How do we preserve the lessons of history from cultural amnesia without giving in to more regressive kinds of thinking? This section presents an eclectic survey of musical acts, theatrical performances, dance pieces, and conversations that take a critical eye to our urge to look backwards for answers about who we are. Some of the artists you see here engage in selfconscious retrospectives of their storied careers in order to propel forward. Others reframe beloved
“What about ideas that are so accepted and internalized that we’re not even in a position to question their fallibility? These are ideas so ingrained in the collective consciousness that it seems foolhardy to even wonder if they’re potentially untrue.” — C H U C K K LO S T E R M A N , B U T W H AT I F W E ’ R E W RO N G ? :
cultural legacies in order to innovate and forge
T H I N K I N G A BO U T T H E P R E S E N T A S
new bonds. Many highlight alternative acts of
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reminiscing that complicate the stories by which we define ourselves, particularly in our increasingly diverse societies. Together, these artists and thinkers question our yearning to retreat into the past to make sense of ourselves and unmask the effect nostalgia has on our creative and social imaginations. In doing so, they paint a picture of how the past participates in progress with richer dimensions than rose tint alone. 38
As a part of our exploration of the ways national identity finds expression through music, who better to invite than Rob Kapilow to share his irresistible insights? His seasonCLASSICAL
What Makes It Great?
long retrospective of iconic composers who tried to define the essence of American sound from its cultural fusions—
Rob Kapilow Three Performances at Bing Concert Hall
Antonín Dvořák, Leonard Bernstein, and Duke Ellington— follows the footsteps of Bernstein himself. — RYA N DAV I S
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The American Quartet Featuring the St. Lawrence String Quartet The revered and longtime Stanford WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, O C TO B E R 11, 2 01 7
University-resident St. Lawrence String Quartet joins Kapilow to explore and appreciate Antonín Dvořák’s American Quartet, perhaps
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his most popular work. Formally titled Quartet No. 12 in F, it was written in 1893, when the composer was summering in Spillville, Iowa, an emigrant Czech community. It was the second piece he wrote in America; his first was the New World Symphony.
AMERICAN SONGBOOK
JAZZ
Theater Songs of Leonard Bernstein
The Music of Duke Ellington Featuring the Marcus Shelby Orchestra Joined by Marcus Shelby’s 10-piece
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Leonard Bernstein’s songs from West Side Story. Bernstein in the 1960s was himself a popular advocate
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narrating the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts live on
explorations of American identity in music, this time focusing on Duke Ellington. Shelby, a preeminent figure
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jazz orchestra, Kapilow continues his
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on the Bay Area jazz scene, is a bassist, arranger, composer, educator,
television for a national audience.
and activist focused on sharing the
As an American composer and
past, present, and future of African
conductor, Bernstein crossed genres,
American music.
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After seeing the brilliant documentary, I was struck by two things that are important to consider at this moment: how soft power— like the State Department’s Jazz Ambassadors program— was used in the late 1960s to mitigate international perceptions of racial division and inequality. And how the Lahore musicians’ sometimes frustrating rehearsals with Jazz at Lincoln Center can be seen as metaphor for the immigrant experience, an often challenging transition into the melting pot. — C H R I S LO RWAY
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Song of Lahore Sachal Ensemble The Golden Era of “Lollywood” in Lahore, Pakistan, peaked WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, N OV E M B E R 15, 2 01 7
in the 1960s and ‘70s, until the enforcement of Islamic Sharia law in 1977 led to a steep decline in the arts. As work dried up for studio musicians, producer Izzat Majeed secretly gathered these intrepid players at his Sachal
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Studios, where they recorded a hit version of Dave Brubeck’s iconic “Take Five”—with a South Asian twist. Wynton Marsalis invited the Sachal Ensemble to perform
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with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, leading to an album, an acclaimed documentary (directed by Stanford alums Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Shroeder), and invitations to perform around the world. In conjunction with the performance, we will be screening the documentary Song of Lahore. Date and time will be announced in the fall.
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Jason Moran In My Mind: Thelonious Monk at Town Hall 1959 Jazz virtuoso Jason Moran, winner of WHEN: SAT U R DAY, N OV E M B E R 1 1 , 2 01 7
a MacArthur “Genius” award and currently the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz, took up piano because of Thelonious Monk. Moran, who is
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reimagining Monk’s historic 1959 Town Hall concert at the Bing, says Monk is “the most important musician, period.
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In all the world, period.” In this centenary year of Monk’s birth, Moran evokes the concert’s breakaway excitement via an in-depth media show, and with his 10-piece Big Bandwagon he explores Monk’s roots and impact.
JAZZ/BLUES
Generously supported by the National
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this award-winning octet celebrates legendary jazz artists by performing their masterworks
Endowment for the Arts I was at SFJAZZ in 2007 when that organization commissioned and premiered In My Mind. It was an inspiring experience to be behind the scenes as Jason came to grips with his musical hero Thelonious Monk in two concerts, first recreating and then reimagining the famed 1959 Town Hall concert. The final result was a thrilling synthesis of image and music. Starting as
and by creating new music
homage, In My Mind takes that giant specter of influence and
expanding on those influences.
transforms it into Moran’s own multi-layered story of musical
This year it’s Miles Davis’ turn.
innovation and social critique.
The octet—Miguel Zenón, alto sax; David Sánchez, tenor sax; Warren Wolf, vibraphone; Sean Jones, trumpet; Robin Eubanks, trombone; Edward Simon, piano; Matt Penman, bass; and Obed Calvaire, drums—explores the Miles of myth and reality and his blues/jazz connections.
— L AU R A E VA N S
SECTION 2—LIVING MEMORY
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blend of hot jazz, including swinging renditions of classics like The Nutcracker Suite and “White Christmas” and less traditional
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tunes like Ella Fitzgerald’s “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.” All this and the Hot Sardines, too,
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full of the brass and dazzle of their New York home and a year of sold-out engagements. Join us on
SCREENING WITH LIVE SCORE
The Red Violin François Girard: Film Director Lara St. John: Violin Canadian violinist Lara St. John, WHEN: F R I DAY, D EC E M B E R 8, 2 01 7
with the help of a live orchestra, performs the score at a screening of The Red Violin, an engaging film about an antique instrument
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made in Cremona, Italy. The story follows this violin’s odyssey from Europe to modern Montreal,
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tracing its path through four centuries and five countries and bringing ill fortune to all who play it. Can the curse be broken?
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the dance floor and shimmy your way to the holidays in style.
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The Klezmatics Happy, Joyous Hanukkah Woody Guthrie and Hanukkah? Who WHEN: T H U R S DAY, D EC E M B E R 14, 2 01 7
knew? Almost nobody. But in 1998 his daughter Nora discovered a trove of songs that the celebrated folksinger wrote in the 1940s. The
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Grammy-winning Klezmatics riff off Guthrie’s original melodies and create new tunes in this unremittingly
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SPOKEN WORD
Selected Shorts Holiday Nostalgia A public radio watchword for years, WHEN: S U N DAY, D EC E M B E R 10, 2 01 7
Selected Shorts broadcasts weekly on 150 stations to some 300,000 listeners across the country—not to mention its devoted podcast
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audience. On tour from its home at Symphony Space in New York City, each show follows a single
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theme through short stories from both established and emerging writers, performed by an engaging cast of actors from stage and screen. At the Bing, the nostalgia of the holidays takes center stage.
cheerful fusion of Klezmer music and American sounds.
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CLASSICAL
Jeremy Denk with Stefan Jackiw Jeremy Denk, American piano WHEN: S U N DAY, JA N UA RY 28, 2 01 8
virtuoso and a MacArthur “Genius” award winner, visits the Bing with noted violinist Stefan Jackiw—and members of the Stanford Chamber
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Chorale—for a performance of all the sonatas of the American modernist composer Charles Ives.
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Ives drew upon contemporary hymns, songs, and marches to eloquently convey the nuances of the American experience. Nobody is better equipped than Denk to demonstrate Ives’ influences and his continuing impact on American music. Generously supported by Trine Sorensen and Michael Jacobson
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Çudamani: Gamelan and Dance of Bali Among the more surprising WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, F E B RUA RY 2 8, 2 01 8
influences on American composers is the traditional Balinese art of gamelan. The gigantic ensemble of instruments’ resonating tones
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and rich sound have captivated composers like Canadian Colin McPhee and American composers Lou Harrison, Charles Ives, John Cage, and Steve Reich. Experience the inspirational source of these composers in this special performance by the musicians and dancers of Gamelan Çudamani.
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Bill Charlap Trio Uptown/Downtown: From Broadway to Harlem Mary Stallings and Freddy Cole: Special Guests Son of Broadway composer Moose WHEN: SAT U R DAY, F E B RUA RY 10, 2 01 8
Charlap and TV singer Sandy Stewart, Bill Charlap has American song in his DNA. In this program, Charlap brings us on a guided tour
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of American Popular Song—from Berlin and Bernstein’s Broadway to the Harlem stride of Eubie Blake and Fats Waller, to the singular songbook of Duke Ellington—with other exciting stops along the way. Special guests and legendary vocalists Mary Stallings and Freddy Cole join the Bill Charlap Trio on stage.
CLASSICAL
The American Sound Curtis on Tour The prestigious Curtis Institute of WHEN: S U N DAY, M A RC H 4, 2 01 8
Music in Philadelphia sends its most promising young students on tour to play alongside faculty and noted alumni. This program pays tribute
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to Leonard Bernstein (himself a Curtis alum), in celebration of his centenary, with Bernstein’s Clarinet
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Sonata (with alum, David Shifrin) and songs from West Side Story, alongside pieces by two of his contemporary influences, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin. Generously supported by Mary and Clinton Gilliland 33
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Disco Manila Featuring Spanky Rigor and Roger Rigor of VST and Co. and the Union Take a trip down Memory Lane WHEN: SAT U R DAY, A P R I L 7, 2 01 8
to the Filipino disco songs of the Manila Sound, which began in Quezon City in the late 1970s, continuing into the early ‘80s.
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ABBA, Donna Summer, and the Bee Gees influenced the Sound, recreated at the Bing by alums
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from some of the era’s major disco groups, VST, the Union, and a funky five-piece band.
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Darlene Love For more than 50 years, backup WHEN: F R I DAY, F E B RUA RY 9, 2 01 8
singer Darlene Love has been making rock and roll’s world go ‘round. In the early 1960s, she was part of Phil Spector’s Wall of
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Sound for “He’s a Rebel,” doing backing (as well as uncredited lead) vocals for “Da Doo Ron Ron,”
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“Be My Baby,” and scores of other hits. With the 2013 documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom, she became the best-known unknown in rock history. Joined for part of the program by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Love will fill the house with nostalgia and her timeless, soaring voice.
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Songs of Freedom Songs of Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, and Joanna Majoko: Vocalists Ulysses Owens Jr: Musical Director In a program first presented under WHEN: T H U R S DAY, A P R I L 1 9, 2 01 8
the auspices of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the 1960s are explored through the work of three prolific artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina
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indelible mark in music with their unique expressions of freedom. Mitchell
SCREENING WITH LIVE SCORE
The Triplets of Belleville
Simone—all of whom have made an
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composed and sang about the freedom of love, Lincoln expressed freedom of her individuality and race through her lyricism, and Simone demanded freedom politically through song.
Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville Benoît Charest: Composer When her grandson is kidnapped WHEN: SAT U R DAY, A P R I L 14, 2 01 8 7 : 30 P M
during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aging song and dance
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group—to rescue him. This much beloved animated film is screened as composer Benoît Charest leads Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville in a
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live performance of his original score for the film, including his Academy Award–winning best song. In the spirit of the film, Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville transports audiences to the exciting streets of 1920s Paris and Le Jazz Hot. T H I S F I L M I S R AT E D P G -13
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Living Memory
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“…there are as many sides to American music as there are to the American people—our great, varied, many-sided democracy... Think of all the races and personalities from all over the globe that make up our country; and when we think of that we can understand why our own folk music is so complicated.” — L EO N A R D B E R N S T E I N , “ W H AT M A K E S M U S I C A M E R I C A N ?”
For many today, our identity is refracted through
make up the soundtracks of our lives and
nostalgia for a Golden Age of music in the
influence the wider culture. Through unforgettable
20th century. Our personal histories mingle with
concerts, heart-touching screenings with live
landmark moments in the evolution of jazz,
scores, dynamic hybrid lecture-performances,
memorable refrains from the Great American
literary events, and more, we take a look at the
Songbook, infectious rhythms of the 1960s—from
ways that we piece together personal and
its girl groups to its rock protest anthems—and
national narratives out of the last century’s myriad
the pulse of the disco dance floor.
experiences and cherished living memories.
This season we will explore how the “American Century” found its sound and how that sound was transmitted across the globe. Performances will pay homage to its pivotal voices, who continue to
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Since her folksinging debut in 1964, singer-songwriter WHEN: F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 22, 2 01 7
from her early days as a
been an avatar of the international protest movement and
musician and activist in the
a performer of the first order. She wrote “Til It’s Time for
1960s. Or maybe you
You to Go” and “The Universal Soldier” in 1973, sang with SHOW TIME: 7:30 P M
Some of you may know Buffy
Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Cree Indian born in Canada, has
Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, and the Muppets, and aided Native Americans through her foundation. Fifty years on, her voice has lost none of its presence and power.
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remember her from her time on Sesame Street in the late 1970s or know her Oscarwinning song from An Officer and a Gentleman. What you may not know is her recent history as both a critical voice for indigenous issues and the
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
recipient of the Polaris Prize, Canada’s top musical honor. — C H R I S LO RWAY
THEATER
A Brimful of Asha Why Not Theatre Culture clash, Canadian-style, comes
DISCUSSION
In Conversation with Samantha Bee Meet America’s Canadian sweetheart, WHEN: F R I DAY, O C TO B E R 6, 2 01 7
the only female comic to host her
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with Jon Stewart, has become
own network late-night show. Bee, who learned her craft as a
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a ribald voice that never loses its
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Bee emerged as the clarion voice of American political satire. Her full-throated feminist take on the news and jokes-per-minute blitzkrieg style almost betray her polite Canadian roots. But as we look at exemplary artists among our neighbors to the north this season, she stands out to us as someone to offer some perspective about what makes America great. — RYA N DAV I S
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charm or its funny.
In the throes of the 2016 presidential election, Samantha
person play written by and starring mother and son Asha and Ravi Jain. The story is about a first-generation
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correspondent on The Daily Show a sharp political commentator with
to life in A Brimful of Asha, a two-
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twenty-something who wants to connect with his Indian heritage—but not necessarily all of it. How will his family handle the conflict? A Brimful of Asha’s warm and complex story has captivated audiences throughout North America.
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Acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan brings the full
One of the most important
range of his artistry to bear in his newest work, Until the
arts events of the last
Lions, based on the ancient epic Mahabharata, using
century was Peter Brook’s
both Indian Kathak and modern dance in a tale of
production of the
transformation and justice exacted by a bride wronged
Mahabharata, a nine-hour
on her wedding day. Rianto, a dancer personally selected
epic that toured the world
by Akram Khan to take on the lead role, performs with
in the late 1980s. A 13-year-
two female dancers and four musicians to tell the bride’s
old Akram Khan was
story in a powerful departure from the normally
part of that company and
male-centered ancient epic.
went on to be one of the world’s top dancers and choreographers. Until the
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Lions takes Khan back to this source material, DANCE
Until the Lions Akram Khan
more than 30 years after his debut. — C H R I S LO RWAY
DISCUSSION
Chuck Klosterman and Simon Reynolds A Conversation on Nostalgia and Pop-Culture Throwbacks
WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, N OV E M B E R 1, 2 01 7
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Best-selling writer Chuck Klosterman (But What If We’re Wrong:
Chuck and Simon are two
Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past) and Pitchfork
of today’s sharpest wits
music critic Simon Reynolds (Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction
breaking down what makes
to Its Own Past) discuss how nostalgia drives pop culture and
pop culture tick. They have
the music industry and what that means for the way that we
written brilliantly about the
look at ourselves. Can indulging “retro” pleasures be productive,
ways that music, television,
or are we stuck in a groove?
and other media employ nostalgia—from Amy
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Winehouse’s retro sound and hip-hop sampling to the throwback appeal of VH1 Classic and Hollywood reboots. We’ve asked them to wage a friendly debate about the merits and dangers of looking to the past for inspiration. — RYA N DAV I S
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THEATER
Longing Lasts Longer Penny Arcade Penny Arcade’s hilariously WHEN: F R I DAY, N OV E M B E R 3, 2 01 7
iconoclastic monologue, created by
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political issues of class and
one of Andy Warhol’s underground THEATER
superstars, addresses perennially
The Fever
gender and everyday woes like gentrification. To Arcade (née
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600 HIGHWAYMEN
Susana Ventura), the Big Apple has become the Big Cupcake: a New York City of fluff, with no affordable places for artists and no place to buy a broom or get your shoes repaired or your clothes washed. Sound close to home?
Nostalgia can be a seductive feeling, even for those who don’t yearn for an old-fashioned America. But, at a moment when we’re “conditioned to hate history and love vintage,” Penny Arcade is a colorful counter-culture stalwart who shakes up our gentrified sentimentality to resuscitate a clear-eyed spirit of American activism and creativity.
Young and innovative theater WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, F E B RUA RY 14, 2 01 8 8:00 PM T H U R S DAY, F E B RUA RY 1 5, 2 01 8 8:00 PM F R I DAY, F E B RUA RY 1 6, 2 01 8 7:00 & 9:00 PM
artists Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone, together known as 600 HIGHWAYMEN, present a story about a party, just an ordinary party, and request your participation. It is an invitation to be together, to have faith in each other, and to show each other how warm and healing trust among strangers can be.
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— RYA N DAV I S R EC O M M E N D E D FO R M AT U R E AU D I E N C E S
I saw The Fever in New York and was fascinated by the way it probes American feelings toward collective action and identity. It draws us in to experience, in an embodied way, the lines between our individual wills, our instincts to play and participate, and the ways we form groups or resist. At a time when we feel most divided as a nation, this performance brings us back to the basics of finding common purpose and acting together. — RYA N DAV I S
THEATER
The Daisy Theatre Ronnie Burkett, Theatre of Marionettes
WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, N OV E M B E R 15 2 01 7 T H U R S DAY, N OV E M B E R 16 2 01 7 F R I DAY, N OV E M B E R 17 2 01 7 SAT U R DAY, N OV E M B E R 18 2 01 7
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Don’t bring the kiddies to puppeteer Ronnie Burkett’s
I first saw Ronnie’s work
rather ribald, thoroughly entertaining Daisy Theatre.
performed as part of the
Burkett, who hails from Alberta, Canada, became
Henson Puppetry Festival
interested in puppets as a child, when he picked up
in New York City. His use
Volume P of the World Book and it fell open at “puppets.”
of marionettes was unlike
Burkett is a one-man show, improvising on the spot. His
anything I had seen before,
marionettes—a rotating cast of 40 characters—include
a village of extreme
ventriloquist Meyer Lemon, actress Lillian Lunkhead, and
personalities brought to life
Edna Rural. Advisory: chance of puppet nudity.
through Ronnie’s quick and witty dialogue. The Daisy Theatre gives you a chance to see Ronnie at his improvisational best, as each night a new cast of characters takes to the
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small stage. — C H R I S LO RWAY
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FAMILY
Machine de Cirque Even as big circuses are folding WHEN: F R I DAY, M A RC H 16, 2 01 8 7 : 30 P M SAT U R DAY, M A RC H 17, 2 01 8 2 : 30 P M
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their tents, intimate circuses are on the rise. The Quebec City–based Machine de Cirque is a prime example: just five guys existing in a post-apocalyptic world without women or computers. How will they survive? Watch and see. Machine de Cirque was founded in 2013 with the aim of engaging imaginations in their community. It adroitly blends acrobatics, juggling, music, dance, clowning, and derring-do.
THEATER
Counting Sheep: A Guerrilla Folk Opera Lemon Bucket Orkestra A sensation at the 2014 Edinburgh WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, F E B RUA RY 7, 2 01 8
Festival, Counting Sheep, a Ukrainian
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Lemon Bucket Orkestra, a guerrilla-
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folk opera created by Mark and Marichka Marczyk (featuring Toronto’s folk party-punk band), recounts the 2013 outbursts, violence, and sniper fire of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution witnessed by the Marczyks themselves, who emigrated to Canada soon after. Through traditional choral songs, it explores the human condition in times
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of violent upheaval, evoking the yearning for a better tomorrow. Presented in association with the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Hot Feat Canada Ltd., and Selfconscious Productions
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NEW MUSIC
Kronos Quartet With Special Guest Tanya Tagaq
Stanford Live is proud to be a commissioning partner in WHEN: F R I DAY, A P R I L 6, 2 01 8
Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, an initiative by the Kronos Quartet to commission new works for string quartet and distribute them online for free. The program features two of these new works by
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Canadian composers and artists including throat singer Tanya Tagaq as well as The Green Fog, a new work for Kronos by filmmaker Guy Maddin, who set himself the
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challenge of remaking Vertigo without using footage from Hitchcock’s classic. Composer Jacob Garchik fashions a score that canvasses Maddin’s footage to create a distinctive musical extravaganza. The Green Fog—A San Francisco Fantasia was commissioned by SFFILM and Stanford Live with support from Nion McEvoy.
DANCE
L.A. Dance Project Benjamin Millepied: Artistic Director
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Former Paris Opera Ballet Artistic Director
Millepied’s full-time return to Los
Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed the
Angeles has injected a new energy
movie Black Swan, founded the L.A. Dance
into this Downtown L.A. ensemble.
Project, an artist collective, in 2012 with
The company’s approach to
composers Nico Muhly and Nicholas Britell,
collaborative creation—integrating
art consultant Matthieu Humery, and producer
composers, musicians, and visual
Charles Fabius. The Project aims to make
artists into the process—harkens back
new work for a small group of dancers in
to the days of the Ballets Russes.
collaboration with visual artists, musicians, and composers to perform in both traditional and unconventional spaces.
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Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma T H U R S D AY, M A R C H 1 , 2 0 1 8 7:30 PM For the love of Brahms, pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma join forces on the Bing stage for an unforgettable performance. Generously supported by Marcia and John Goldman
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Summer at Stanford Live Join us for a celebratory summer at Bing Concert Hall. Mark your calendars for the following events: Hiromi Duet featuring
Shai Maestro Trio
Edmar Castañeda
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SAT U R DAY, J U N E 24, 8 :00 P M
Classic Albums Live: Music of Woodstock Canada Day Celebration:
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150th Birthday! Betsayda Machado and Parranda El Clavo
SAT U R DAY, J U LY 1, 4 :30-10:00 P M
SAT U R DAY, J U LY 1 5, 7 : 30 P M
Federspiel (“Austriafest”) Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton
SAT U R DAY, J U LY 8, 7:30 P M
SAT U R DAY, AU G U ST 5, 8 : 0 0 P M
Merola Opera Showcase: Schwabacher Summer Concert
Youssou N’Dour
S U N DAY, J U LY 9, 2:30 P M
W E D N E S DAY, AU G U ST 9, 7 : 30 P M
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Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Cornel West Concerto SPOKEN WORD
The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra of WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, M AY 9, 2 01 8
pianist Arturo O’Farrill, a two-time Grammy winner, reaches beyond his trumpeter father Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban jazz to embrace many
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Latin American music traditions. This Bing program features the
In Conversation with Claudia Rankine
Cornel West Concerto—which sets VENUE: B I N G C O N C E RT HALL
Whiteness and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia
text by virtuosic speaker, scholar, and activist Dr. Cornel West to AfroLatin jazz orchestration.
African American poet Claudia WHEN: W E D N E S DAY, M AY 1 6, 2 01 8
Rankine, a professor at Yale University, speaks to the human condition in all its many manifestations. A winner of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
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and author of five poetry collections, including Citizen—An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Rankine
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candidly and critcally uses poetry and prose to explore how race and memory shape what it means to be an American citizen.
When thinking about how the foundational myths of cultural national identity coalesce, many of the artists in our season look at who and what nostalgia erases from the story. But we asked celebrated poet Claudia Rankine—who has devoted her MacArthur grant to creating the Racial Imaginary Institute—to share her thoughts on how ideas about whiteness are sustained by a culture of nostalgia in America. — RYA N DAV I S
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Plan Your Visit
BING CONCERT HALL
TERRACE 2
VENUES
CENTER 3
TERRACE 1
CENTER 2
Bing Concert Hall Seating is by pricing zone and varies by performance. Seating map shown at right.
TERRACE 3
CENTER 1
TERRACE 8
Bing Concert Hall Studio Seating in the Bing Studio is by general admission. Memorial Auditorium Seating is by pricing zone. Seating map shown at right.
STAGE
TERRACE 7
TERRACE 4
Memorial Church Seating at Memorial Church is by general admission. Access to the reserved-seating section is available for Stanford Live donors of $500 or more.
CHORAL TERRACE TERRACE 5
TERRACE 6
All prices and programs subject to change. Visit our website for up-to-date pricing information. MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM DINING
Enjoy pre-concert and intermission snacks and drinks at
BALCONY
Interlude Café in Bing Concert Hall’s expansive lobby. Pre-performance dining is also available at the café at the Arrillaga Alumni Center, just a five-minute walk to
BALCONY CIRCLE
Bing Concert Hall. Visit live.stanford.edu/dining for your dining options.
REAR ORCHESTRA
PA R K I N G & D I R EC T I O N S
For up-to-date information on parking and directions to our events and ticket office, visit live.stanford.edu/directions.
FRONT ORCHESTRA S TAG E
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SEASON SIX
MEDIA SPONSORS:
F O U N D AT I O N S A N D I N - K I N D S P O N S O R S :
L I V E . S TA N F O R D. E D U
MARCH 1
Thu
Kronos Quartet featuring Tanya Tagaq
APRIL 6
Fri
APRIL
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma
APRIL 7
Sat
MARCH
Sun
Corelli the Godfather Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
A P R I L 1 4 -1 5
Sat-Sun
The Music of Duke Ellington Rob Kapilow’s What Makes It Great?
Disco Manila
MARCH 4
Fri-Sat
The Triplets of Belleville
Curtis on Tour
M A R C H 1 6 -1 7
APRIL 11
Machine de Cirque
Thu
Wed
Sun
APRIL 19
MARCH 9
MARCH 18
Songs of Freedom: Mitchell, Lincoln, and Simone
Fri
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
APRIL 20
Fri Bing Fling Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
APRIL 25
Wed
Beethoven Unleashed Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
APRIL 29
Sun
M AY
Sundays with the St. Lawrence St. Lawrence String Quartet
M AY 9
Wed
The Cornel West Concerto Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
M AY 1 6
Wed
Claudia Rankine
OC TOBER 15
Sun American Brass Quintet Wed-Sun O C T O B E R 1 8 -2 2
A Brimful of Asha Why Not Theatre Sat
Sun
DECEMBER
DECEMBER 3
Rolston String Quartet
DECEMBER 8
Fri The Red Violin Live score featuring Lara St. John Sat
OC TOBER 21
The Music of Miles Davis SFJAZZ Collective
The Hot Sardines’ Holiday Stomp
F E B R U A R Y 7 -1 0
Wed-Sat
Counting Sheep Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Fri
FEB RUARY 9
Darlene Love with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra
FEB RUARY 10
Sat
Bill Charlap Trio with Freddie Cole and Mary Stallings
Selected Shorts
F E B R U A R Y 1 4 -1 6
Wed-Fri
Sundays with the St. Lawrence St. Lawrence String Quartet
FEB RUARY 11
Sun
DECEMBER 13
Wed
Sun
DECEMBER 9
Thu OC TOBER 26
OC TOBER 27 & 28
A Chanticleer Christmas
DECEMBER 10
Until the Lions Akram Khan
Thu
Harmony for Humanity Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert
Sun
DECEMBER 14
Fri–Sat
OC TOBER 29
Happy, Joyous Hanukkah The Klezmatics
Takács String Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin
FEB RUARY 2 3
Fri
The Fever 600 HIGHWAYMEN
The Stradivarius Ensemble of the Mariinsky Orchestra
FEB RUARY 28
Wed
Gamelan Çudamani
Fri
Chuck Klosterman and Simon Reynolds
N OV E M B E R 1
Wed
St. Louis Symphony
JAN UARY 19
Fri
JA N UA RY
SEPTEMBER 22
Fri-Sat
N OV E M B E R
Buffy Sainte-Marie Fri-Sat
J A N U A R Y 2 6 -2 7
SEPTEMBER
Wed
L.A. Dance Project
N OV E M B E R 3 - 4
Jeremy Denk with Stefan Jackiw
JAN UARY 28
Sun
N OV E M B E R 5
Wed
JAN UARY 31
Renée Fleming
F E B R UA RY
Cameron Carpenter
Songs of Leonard Bernstein Rob Kapilow’s What Makes It Great?
FEB RUARY 3
Song of Lahore Sachal Ensemble
Sat
Wed-Sat
FEB RUARY 7
Wed The Daisy Theatre Ronnie Burkett, Theatre of Marionettes
N OV E M B E R 1 5 -1 8
N OV E M B E R 1 5
Wed
In My Mind: Thelonious Monk Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon
N OV E M B E R 1 1
Sat
Sundays with the St. Lawrence St. Lawrence String Quartet
Sun
Longing Lasts Longer Penny Arcade
SEPTEMBER 27
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Abridged) Taylor Mac
O C TO B E R
OC TOBER 4
Wed The Judas Passion Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Fri OC TOBER 6
Samantha Bee Wed OC TOBER 11
St. Lawrence String Quartet Rob Kapilow’s What Makes It Great?
2017–18 SEASON
Schedule of Events
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