Award-winning artists, performers headline next Stanford Lively Arts season
Dave Douglas and his Keystone sextet will perform a multimedia commission on April 24.
Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company is scheduled to perform Jan. 22 as part of the upcoming Lively Arts season.
Stanford Lively Arts has announced its 2009-10 season, showcasing a number of newly commissioned works, U.S. and West Coast premieres, and a host of award-winning performers and composers. The season will introduce a $10 Stanford student ticket rate for all performances.
Included in the line-up are one of the world's foremost percussionists, Cyro Baptista from Brazil; Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein; and a requiem for Hurricane Katrina by Grammy-winning composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard.
The season also will include The Prokofiev Project, featuring four days of events, and a "chant camp" with the acclaimed vocal group Anonymous 4, joining Stanford faculty to coach Gregorian chant aficionados. Premieres include Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steve Reich's Mallet Quartet; a new work by Ezequiel Viñao, commissioned with the Library of Congress; L.A. Theatre Works' new radio play, The RFK Project; composer Uri Caine's radical revamp of Verdi and Shakespeare's Othello; 10 two-person plays by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson; and Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home, combining the work of leading Western and Chinese artists. Lively Arts also has commissioned a new multimedia production teaming Dave Douglas' Keystone jazz sextet with filmmaker Bill Morrison.
The full schedule follows. For more information, call 725-2787 or visit http://livelyarts.stanford.edu.
Oct. 8—Students and faculty from the Music Department honor the life and memory of the slain Wall Street Journal reporter during the Daniel Pearl World Music Day Concert.
Oct. 10—Innovative composer and jazz pianist Uri Caine and a hand-picked ensemble will open the Lively Arts season with the first West Coast performance of Caine's Grammy Award-nominated Othello Syndrome, a radical re-imagining of the classic Verdi opera and Shakespeare play.
Oct. 21—Vocal quartet Anonymous 4 performs "Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas," comprising works from 13th-century Spain. The group also will collaborate with Stanford music faculty members William Mahrt and Jesse Rodin on a "chant camp" for students and the public.
Oct. 28—The Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet, associated with Lively Arts for over a quarter-century, performs Haydn and Mendelssohn.
Oct. 30—Brazilian Cyro Baptista, one of the world's foremost percussionists, performs his exotic Banquet of the Spirits, featuring percussion, string and keyboard instruments.
Nov. 1—Stanford's resident ensemble, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, will open its annual three-concert series with an all-Haydn performance commemorating the bicentenary of the composer's death.
Nov. 7—Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, collaborates with the Bernstein Cabaret and pianist Michael Barrett in a program of vocal works by her father.
Nov. 12-15—The Prokofiev Project features four days of events, beginning with "Interpreting Prokofiev," a free discussion and demonstration by scholar/curator Joseph Horowitz on Nov. 12, sponsored by Continuing Studies. On Nov. 13, visiting pianist Alexander Toradze and faculty members will perform a number of works by Prokofiev. On Nov. 14, Toradze and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra will perform Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16. On Nov. 15, a family matinee performance of the suite from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, will feature large-scale puppetry by Robin Walsh.
Nov. 18—The Grammy Award-nominated Contrasts Quartet performs a folk-infused program featuring works by Bartók, Ravel, Kodály and Khachaturian.
Dec. 5—Pianist Christopher O'Riley brings his From the Top—a weekly, hour-long radio showcase of America's outstanding young classical musicians—to Stanford for a performance to be recorded by KDFC for broadcast.
Dec. 10—Continuing a Lively Arts tradition, the male chorus Chanticleer will perform its annual A Chanticleer Christmas in Memorial Church.
Jan. 9—Steve Reich, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, will attend an all-Reich program by the dynamic young quartet S? Percussion, featuring the American premiere of his Mallet Quartet, commissioned by Lively Arts.
Jan. 16—The Kronos Quartet is featured in the West Coast premiere of Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home, commissioned by Lively Arts from Kronos violinist David Harrington and pipa virtuoso Wu Man. The work, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng (director of San Francisco Opera's production of The Bonesetter's Daughter), also features Ghost Opera from the composer Tan Dun, known for his operas and concert works, his music for the Beijing Olympics and the score for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The work is offered in partnership with the Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival.
Jan. 22—Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, the critically acclaimed new ballet company founded in 2007 by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez, will make its Bay Area debut in a co-presentation with San Francisco Performances and the University of California-Davis' Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
Jan. 27—L.A. Theatre Works' new radio play, The RFK Project, chronicles Robert Kennedy's relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. in a West Coast premiere presented as an old-fashioned radio show.
Jan. 31—St. Lawrence String Quartet performs with violist Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet in a program of viola quintets, including a new work by Ezequiel Viñao, commissioned with the Library of Congress.
Feb. 17—Misha Dichter, called "one of the master pianists of our time" by London's Telegraph, will perform Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. He will be joined in conversation by Stanford's Amy Ladd, professor in hand and upper extremity surgery, who traveled to New York City to document Dichter's inspiring story of recovery from the debilitating Dupuytren's disease.
Feb. 19—South African singer-songwriter and activist Vusi Mahlasela performs, with a discussion hosted by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.
March 3—Peter Serkin and the Orion String Quartet perform Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Leon Kirchner.
March 6—A performance of Grammy-winning composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard's A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)—from his score for Spike Lee's film When the Levees Broke—will feature Blanchard's Quintet, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and video images from the film.
March 31—Loren Schoenberg of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and Jim Nadel of the Stanford Jazz Workshop explore jazz and technology in a performance.
April 18—The St. Lawrence String Quartet joins pianist Pedja Muzijevic and bass player Tony Manzo in Schubert's Trout Quintet, Lanner Waltzes and Britten's String Quartet No. 2.
April 21—Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, dedicated to the continued development of dance, performs as part of a campus residency with the Stanford Dance Division.
April 24—The yearlong Creative Campus project culminates with a new multimedia production commissioned by Lively Arts. Dave Douglas' Keystone jazz sextet incorporates video from filmmaker Bill Morrison to explore technology and invention in Frankenstein: The First Hundred Years.
April 27—Hal Holbrook performs his acclaimed one-man show Mark Twain Tonight!
May 5—The season finale features the U.S. premiere of Two-Sided Plays from the multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, who also will participate in a daylong campus residency. Co-commissioned with Cal Performances, the work—which will receive its world premiere in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics—is a series of 10 two-character plays, with Anderson enacting both roles in each.
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