Warp Trio: 'Black Voices' at Pitzer concert
Thursday, Jan. 26, 12:05 鈥 1 p.m, Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert, free
Performers include LiKWUiD, spoken word; Josh Henderson, violin, bass, guitar; Ju-Young 鈥淛.Y.鈥 Lee, cello; Mikael Darmanie, piano; and Rick Martinez, drums.
Black Voices is an original concert program that integrates classical, jazz, hip-hop, and spoken word
Black Voices is an original concert program that integrates classical, jazz, hip-hop, and spoken word 鈥 sounds and poetry created by African-American artists 鈥 in an effort to lift up lesser-known contributions that define the multifaceted culture of the United States. Featuring the award-winning artist LiKWuiD, the program utilizes poetry of Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Maya Angelou. It also features original spoken word material, set against music by Duke Ellington, William Grant Still, Harry Burleigh and original compositions by Warp Trio members.
The program includes : Southland Sketch No. 1, : Deep River, : Rhapsody No. 1 for Solo Violin, / : Strange Fruit, : Ruby My Dear, : Black and Tan Fantasy.
Described as 鈥渁 talented group that exemplifies the genre-obliterating direction of contemporary classical music鈥 (Columbia Free Times), Warp Trio is an internationally touring cross-genre chamber music experience. Reflecting the combination of Juilliard-trained members juxtaposed with members steeped in rock and jazz styles, the one-of-a-kind trio (that even has a fourth member!) can be seen performing classical works in prestigious halls on the same tour where they headline a standing room only show at a rock venue. In addition to their electrifying public performances, they have gained a reputation for their innovative educational workshops with students from grade school through university level.
Maintaining a busy performance schedule, Warp has performed hundreds of concerts across the United States, in addition to tours throughout The United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, West Africa, and the Caribbean. Highlights of recent seasons include headlining performances at The LEM Festival for Experimental Music in Barcelona, and the Omaha Under the Radar Festival, being featured guests at the 2020 MASA Jazz Festival in Abidjan, C么te d鈥橧voire, and the sold-out world premiere of their Triple Concerto for Piano Trio and Orchestra with the New York City-based Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra. They have been one of the honored recipients of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, and in the 2020 season, they were the recipients of the Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward and Classical Commissioning grants. More
C茅cile McLorin Salvant Quintet at Mondavi
Friday, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall
The program features C茅cile McLorin Salvant (photographed below), vocals; Sullivan Fortner, piano; Marvin Sewell, guitars; Alexa Tarantino, flutes; and Keita Ogawa, percussion.
Last we saw C茅cile McLorin Salvant, one of the great jazz singers, she held a Jackson Hall audience captive with her majestic song cycle Ogresse. It would be the last performance before the Mondavi Center shut down for a 19-month, pandemic-related pause. Now the singer returns with Ghost Song, a remarkable album born during the pandemic, on which Salvant interprets songs from Kate Bush, Gregory Porter alongside her stunning original compositions. It鈥檚 another reminder that Salvant is an artist whose voice and artistry continue to grow with every new step she takes. 鈥淧eople think that I sing love songs, but more and more I鈥檓 realizing that I sing about yearning and the imagination that comes from wanting something and not having it,鈥 says Salvant. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 really when we鈥檙e at our most creative.鈥
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Winter Season Celebration at Manetti Shrem Sunday, Jan. 29
Sunday, 2:30 鈥 5 p.m., with a featured conversation at 3:30 p.m., Manetti Shrem, free
Celebrate the museum鈥檚 new season and Professor Emeritus Mike Henderson鈥檚 return to campus with the public opening of Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965鈥1985. Led by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Chancellor Gary S. May, the homecoming festivities honor Henderson's contributions to painting, film, music and teaching, and feature a special conversation between the artist and Chancellor May.
Winter exhibitions include Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock, Roy De Forest: Habitats for Travelers and Selections from the Manetti Shrem Museum.
Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965鈥1985 at Manetti Shrem
On view Jan. 30 鈥 June 25
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Professor Emeritus Mike Henderson鈥檚 first solo U.S. museum exhibition in 20 years brings to light the pioneering artist鈥檚 rarely seen contributions to the history of contemporary painting and filmmaking, radical Black politics, and to the story of California art. The exhibition integrates paintings and films by Henderson that offer new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afro-futurism and surrealism. Challenging the protocols and propriety of art-making in the 20th century, these works depict scenes of anti-Black violence as well as utopian visions and questions of self-making. Curated by Sampada Aranke (Ph.D. 鈥13) and Dan Nadel. Read the full story here.
Student compositions premiere in Bay Area concerts
Doctoral students Dean Kervin Boursiquot and Trey Makler will have compositions premiered by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble on Jan. 29 and 30 in the Bay Area.
叠辞耻谤蝉颈辩耻辞迟鈥檚 Hammered and Makler鈥檚 get-together are included in a concert titled 鈥淲ild Music,鈥 which also includes Igor Stravinsky鈥檚 The Rite of Spring (arr. for 4 hands) and Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek鈥檚 On an Overgrown Path, Series 1.
Performances are scheduled for Jan. 29 in Berkeley and Jan. 30 in San Francisco. For complete information visit the .
Makler鈥檚 composition is also being performed as part of a special preview on Jan. 28 in Walnut Creek. Information is available on the Left Coast website.
Profs Shiva Ahmadi and Darrin Martin at Saint Joseph鈥檚 Arts Society
Works by professors Darrin Martin and Shiva Ahmadi will be on view through March 31 at the .
Ahmadi will present 鈥淯nbound,鈥 which features a variety of mediums, including watercolor painting, sculpture, and digital animation drawing inspiration from Persian, Indian and Middle Eastern art.
鈥淎long the Perimeter鈥 by Martin is a 30-minute documentation of a two- channel live cinema event which captured recordings made at the start of the pandemic lockdown in Martin鈥檚 home and studio.
Coming Up
Bacchetto / Sabey Duo
Feb. 2, 12:05 鈥 1 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
The Bacchetto / Sabey Duo is a collaborative project of San Francisco-based composer-performers Nick Bacchetto and Ben Sabey. The duo creates new spatial audio works for piano and a custom modular analog synthesizer controlled by an MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) instrument.
The program includes Nick Bacchetto: Ratios, Olivier Messiaen: Feuillets in茅dits, and : The Wine-Dark Sea
Ben Sabey is a composer of chamber, orchestral, and electronic music, lately specializing in expressive polyphonic control of analog synthesis and spatialization. Nick Bacchetto is a composer and pianist whose creative works derive from a tension between algorithmic and intuitive composition, and explore concepts such as fractal geometry and natural selection.