Santa Barbara Performing Arts League Events

Songs for a New World (27 Aug 2010)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

PCPA Theaterfest presents

Songs for a New World, a musical experience with live band on stage. Jason Robert Browns’ musical explores life’s emotions: risk, fear, hope, dreams, and love in a range of musical styles including rock, folk, gospel, and blues.

It plays August 27 – September 12, Solvang Festival Theater. For more information visit www.pcpa.org or call 922-8313.

Songs for a New World (27 Aug 2010)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

PCPA Theaterfest presents

It plays August 27 – September 12, Solvang Festival Theater. For more information visit www.pcpa.org or call 922-8313.

Invierno (27 Aug 2010)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Invierno is a new retelling of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale set in present day and Rancho California in the 19th Century. It's about a man's destructive misplaced jealousy and his journey to redemption. The modern day time travelers are propelled 200 years into the past and find themselves watching and participating in this man's cyclonic torment. As winter melts into spring, love lost becomes love found...but at what cost?

2010 Lit Moon World Theater Festival (10 Sep 2010)

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT

LIT MOON WORLD THEATER FESTIVAL

September 10 -18
Center Stage Theater

Spectacular Theatre, Dance and Music from Progressive Santa Barbara Artists

Lit Moon Theatre Company, celebrating its 19th Santa Barbara season, hosts its 12th theater festival which this year showcases some of the city’s most progressive artists in theater, dance, music and dance theater, and features a world premiere and several local debuts. Many of the shows are appropriate for children and families, and several have free discussions with the artists associated with the productions.

The plot lines of the plays are diverse: a young boy flies on the back of a goose, Bach’s music is the soundtrack for a theatrical celebration of the human body, three brides woo a silent groom, and an enigmatic Swedish star shares her secrets. But uniting the works is a commitment to the innovative, the re-imagined and the physicality of contemporary theater. Music, dance and open discussions are also integral elements of the 2010 Lit Moon World Theatre Festival, held from September 10 through 18 at the Center Stage Theater.

“These are progressive artists who understand and share Lit Moon’s theatrical language, be they actors, dancers, choreographers or musicians,” says Lit Moon Artistic Director John Blondell. “We have a new work by Lit Moon plus one from our repertory, and news works by some of Santa Barbara’s most interesting artists, making for a dynamic fusion of performing arts.”

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and are available at the Center Stage Theater Box Office, (805) 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org. Follow Lit Moon on Facebook and at www.litmoon.com.

Lit Moon World Theatre Festival: "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" - World Premiere (10 Sep 2010)

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

2010 Lit Moon World Theater Festival

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
WORLD PREMIERE
Friday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 11 at 4 p.m.; and Sun., Sept.12 at 4 p.m.

Enchantment, magic, and friendship for the entire family! Charmed by an elf, the ne’er-do-well flies toward Lapland on the back of a goose. Directed by John Blondell, written by Naomi Iizuka (36 Views, Polaroid Stories) and co-produced with Finland’s Tampereen Teatteri, this is a new adaptation of the famous Swedish story by Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlof.

SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL CONCERT (11 Sep 2010)

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Free concert sponsored by Santa Barbara Sister Cities and the Santa Barbara Music Club. Program includes performances by Carol Ann Manzi, The Inner Life Gospel Choir, Shakuhachi (flute), Greek Folk songs by George Mamalakis (piano) and Patti Stathis-Langel (alto). The concert will focus on bringing all communities together and reaffirming our hope for world peace.

Pilobolus Dance Theater (7 Oct 2010)

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $43.00 - $53.00
UCSB Students $21.00

“Pilobolus is a mind-blowing troupe of wildly creative and physically daring dancers who leap, fly, intertwine and break all the rules.” Newsday

“Grace meets physical agility to create movement that is as lyrical as it is astonishing.” The Sunday Oregonian

Now in its 40th year of artmaking, the indefatigable dance-theater phenomenon Pilobolus continues to astound, expanding and refining its physical vocabulary to produce a body of more than 100 choreographic works that are as protean and surprising as ever. A deeply collaborative practice and unique weight-sharing approach to partnering have made Pilobolus the most popular modern dance company in the country. Don’t miss this astonishing American ensemble as Pilobolus “converts bodies into interlocking and interchangeable parts, erecting structures on stage that are closer to sculpture than dance” (Newsweek).

for ticket information please call box office at (805)893-3535 or visit https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1857

steve martin performing with the steep canyon rangers (8 Oct 2010)

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $43.00 - $73.00
UCSB Students $28.00

An Evening of Bluegrass and Banjo

“Steve Martin [is] a first-rate bluegrass artist…The sextet of Martin and the hirsute, lightning-fingered Steep Canyon Rangers went through a boisterous, rollicking, frolicking set that was transcendent…Martin, throughout, was polished, poised, and hilarious.” Vanity Fair

Legendary comedian Steve Martin has proven equally adept as an actor, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and now banjo player and composer. His first all-music release, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo (featuring pals Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, and others), won the 2010 Grammy® Award for Best Bluegrass Album and spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard bluegrass chart. One of America’s most beloved performers, Martin will be joined in an unforgettable evening of laughter and music by North Carolina bluegrass band the Steep Canyon Rangers.

Tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

Ziggy Marley (10 Oct 2010)

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:00:00 GMT

General public $33.00 - $53.00
UCSB Students $23.00

“Reggae’s favorite son.” Shanghai Daily

In the wake of dual successes – the 2006 Grammy® Award-winning album Love Is My Religion and his newest Grammy® Award-winning CD Family Time – beloved reggae scion Ziggy Marley embraces both the spiritual and emotional side of life performing music that “people need to hear.” His easygoing message delivers themes of love, responsibility, unity and freedom in fun-filled tunes that resonate with die-hard Marley fans while introducing today’s youngest generation to reggae. “This [music] is from my heart,” says Marley – the only thing he finds more joyful than making it is sharing it with the world.

Tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

Jhumpa Lahiri (13 Oct 2010)

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $15.00
UCSB Students $10.00

“She has talent – magical, sly, cumulative – that most writers would kill for.” Guardian

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants with a compelling, universal fluency that conveys the oldest cultural conflicts in the most immediate fashion. She is the author of the award-winning collection Interpreter of Maladies and the novel turned film The Namesake. Her most recent book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, received the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Lahiri will discuss her recent work and plots “as elegantly constructed as a fine proof in mathematics” (The New York Times).

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

Santa Barbara Symphony Concert: Beethoven's 9 (16 Oct 2010)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Santa Barbara Symphony Presents “Beethoven's 9”

Saturday, October 16th and Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Susanna Phillips, soprano
Elise Quagliata, mezzo-soprano
Bryan Griffin, tenor
Jason Grant, bass-baritone
Santa Barbara Choral Society, Westmont College Choir and Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces
Chorus directed by JoAnne Wasserman
Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

The season opens with Beethoven’s majestic Ninth Symphony, a towering masterpiece that affirms our common humanity. This is the first performance of Beethoven’s eloquent plea for universal brotherhood in the renovated, acoustically refined Granada. Nir Kabaretti leads the Symphony, Santa Barbara Choral Society, Westmont College Choir, Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces and four guest vocal soloists. The program also includes the composer’s dramatic Consecration of the House Overture.

Date & Time: Saturday, October 16th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)

Location: The Granada, 1214 State St., Santa Barbara

To purchase subscriptions to the Symphony’s 2010-2011 Season, call the Santa Barbara Symphony Office at (805) 898-9386. Single tickets and subscriptions are also available online at www.thesymphony.org.

CAMA's Masterseries presents John Williams, Guitar (19 Oct 2010)

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

JOHN WILLIAMS
Guitar In a Solo Recital

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Five Preludes

Leo Brouwer: El Decameron Negro

Francis Bebey: O Bia

John Williams:
From a Bird (Nos. 1, 2 and 3)
Hello Francis

Agustín Barrios Mangoré:
La Catedral
Julia Florida
Vals No. 3 and No. 4
Sueño en la Floresta

Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board

John Williams “is recognized as one of, if not the greatest, classical guitarists of his time...” (The Sentinal, U.K.) He was taught by his father, afterwards attending summer courses with Andrés Segovia, and studying music at the Royal College of Music in London. He has since toured the world playing solo and with orchestra and regularly on radio and TV. Williams has collaborated with musicians including Julian Bream, Itzhak Perlman, André Previn, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Daniel Barenboim.

Tickets $30, $40. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through the Lobero Theatre box office. Call 805-963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com

For more information, visit www.camasb.org

DELUSION by Laurie Anderson (19 Oct 2010)

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $40.00
UCSB Students $18.00

Commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad!

DELUSION

“Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance – a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace” Rolling Stone

“DELUSION ranks with Anderson’s best…smart, funny, emotionally engaging, and flat-out beautiful.” George Straight, Vancouver

Laurie Anderson is a pioneering storyteller whose ever-intriguing convergence of technology, violin, visuals, and voice creates spellbinding tales. A phantasmagoric world made up of short mystery plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent of Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin. A Homeric epic about longing, identity, and memory, DELUSION invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.

Pre-event Wine & Cheese Party - $8

tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

Alex Ross (20 Oct 2010)

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $15.00
UCSB Students $10.00

An Evening with The New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross

“Ross is a supremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other.” Time

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross is the author of The Rest Is Noise, an astonishing history of the 20th century as told through its music. A New York Times Top 10 Book, Noisealso won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Ross will deliver an audio-rich lecture based on a chapter of his new book, Listen to This, titled Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History – an extraordinary tale of the interconnectedness of musical language and the universality of human emotion.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano (23 Oct 2010)

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $28.00 - $48.00
UCSB Students $21.00

¡Viva Mexico! Celebrating 200 Years of Mexican Independence

“Mariachi is Mexico’s only true surviving folkloric musical idiom. Mariachi Los Camperos has raised the standards of that music to an art form.” The Capital Times

Grammy® Award-winner Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano commemorates its 50th anniversary and Mexico’s bicentennial with a special program that tells the story of Mexican independence through mariachi favorites including "Viva Mexico", "Mexico Lindo", "La Bamba", "Ave Maria", "La Cucaracha" and many more. Led by Natividad “Nati” Cano, the Los Angeles-based group is today considered by many to be the finest mariachi ensemble in the world. A traditionalist and a visionary, Nati Cano is the driving force behind the mariachi tradition, both mirroring and shaping the history of the music.

tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

John Lithgow (25 Oct 2010)

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $38.00 - $68.00
UCSB Students $21.00

Stories by Heart

Santa Barbara premiere!

“Is there another actor breathing who’s as sweetly charming as John Lithgow? Bravura storytelling.” Variety

In his one man theatrical memoir, Stories by Heart, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor John Lithgow tells of reading P.G. Wodehouse to his father when he was gravely ill – the same story his father read to him 50 years before. Portraying nine outrageous characters with zany abandon, Lithgow discovers the healing power of storytelling in the sound of his father’s laughter – and so does the audience through this funny and touching performance. A tour-de-force reflection on the essence of storytelling, Stories by Heart reveals “Lithgow at his heartwarming best” (Reuters).

tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

CAMA presents Dresden Staatskapelle (26 Oct 2010)

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE

DANIEL HARDING, Conductor
RUDOLF BUCHBINDER, Piano

Robert Schumann: Manfred, Op. 115: Overture

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

Sponsor: Nancy & Kent Wood
Co-Sponsor: Suzanne Bock
Co-Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board

Celebrating 462 years of music-making in 2010, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden was founded in 1548 by Prince Elector Moritz von Sachsen. This historic orchestra is joined by pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, acclaimed for his “intelligent virtuosity, superb ear for color, and sixth sense for hitting upon the right tempo...” (Classics Today)

Tickets $35, $45, $60, $85, $100. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through The Granada box office. Call 805-899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org

For more information, visit www.camasb.org

Sankai Juku (28 Oct 2010)

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General public $38.00 - $48.00
UCSB Students $21.00

Santa Barbara premiere!

TOBARI – as if in an inexhaustible flux

Directed, Choreographed and Designed by
Ushio Amagatsu

“The singular glory of Sankai Juku is that it achieves almost pure metaphor.” Time

“One of the most original and startling dance theater groups to be seen…” The New York Times

“…Amagatsu provided a celebration of life – genuine, spiritual, glorious…” Pittsburgh Gazette

Japan’s most famous butoh dance company Sankai Juku creates dreamlike performances that weave meticulous, hypnotic movement with breathtaking large-scale staging. For more than 20 years, the sublime visual spectacles created by director and choreographer Ushio Amagatsu convey a profound elegance, refinement, technical precision, and emotional depth that is outdone once again in the sublime new work Tobari, a meditation on birth, death and rebirth of life “as if in an inexhaustible flux.” Dance Magazine raves “[Ushio Amagatsu] conveys the infinitely minute yet spellbinding transformations of a world in constant metamorphosis.”

tickets available online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or by calling (805)893-3535

Romeo and Juliet, The Granada Presents (29 Oct 2010)

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:30:00 GMT

Tickets: 805.899.2222 / www.granadasb.org
$25-$55; Kids 50% Off!

Two TONY Winners Hit The Road Together!
The Acting Company in association with The Guthrie Theater perform Romeo and Juliet at The Granada - a Santa Barbara first!

In Shakespeare’s iconic romantic tragedy of innocent young lovers falling victim to family hatred and cruel destiny, swords clash, everlasting love is promised and a treacherous sleeping potion is swallowed in the greatest love story of all time. Young love has never been so delightful or as dangerous as in this stirring new production.

Romeo and Juliet exquisitely embodies the brief joy of youthful passion and ecstasy. Timeless and deeply moving, the title characters love each other passionately as only teenagers can while their families’ mutual disdain and prejudice lead to revenge and an irreversible fate.

About The Acting Company
Since its founding by the legendary John Houseman and Margot Harley in 1972, The Acting Company has performed 135 productions touring to 48 states and ten foreign countries, and has earned the reputation of the most respected and praised touring repertory theater in America. With this presentation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The Acting Company continues its 36-year tradition of bringing touring classical productions, talented actors and teaching artists into communities across America. Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Jesse L. Martin, Frances Conroy, David Ogden Stiers, Jeffrey Wright and Rainn Wilson are but a handful of actors whose careers have been developed by The Acting Company. Honored by the TONY Awards for Excellence in Theater, the Company has won the Obie Award, Citibank’s Excellence in Education and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.

About The Guthrie Theater
Founded by Sir Tyrone Guthrie in 1963, The Guthrie Theater is one of America’s leading regional theaters and is widely recognized as an American center for theater performance, production and professional training. In addition to plays presented on the Guthrie’s main stage, the theater provides an additional season of new works by contemporary playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Edward Albee and Warren Leight at the Guthrie Lab. In 1982, the Guthrie received a TONY Award acknowledging its outstanding contribution to the American Theater.

CAMA's Masterseries presents Christopher O'Riley, Piano (11 Nov 2010)

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:00:00 GMT

CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY
Piano In Recital

All-Schumann Program
200th Anniversary Year of Schumann's Birth

Robert Schumann:
Arabesque, Op. 18
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17

Sponsor: Jeanne Thayer

Pianist and host of NPR’s “From the Top” for the last 10 years, Christopher O’Riley has dazzled the world on stage, on the radio and in his recordings. His repertoire spans classical styles, from Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and Busoni to contemporary artists such as Radiohead, Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Elliott Smith. “O’Riley’s playing is laced with an otherworldly elegance that can’t be duplicated.” (Spendid.com)

Tickets $30, $40. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through the Lobero Theatre box office. Call 805-963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com

For more information, visit www.camasb.org

Santa Barbara Symphony Concert: Scheherazade (13 Nov 2010)

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:00:00 GMT

Santa Barbara Symphony Presents “Scheherazade”

Saturday, November 13th and Sunday, November 14th, 2010

Sergio Tiempo, piano
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

Old favorites will be infused with new excitement when maestro Kabaretti leads the orchestra in two of the most popular pieces from the romantic repertory. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, which recreates the spell woven by a legendary storyteller, will entrance audiences with its gorgeous melodies and exotic orchestral colors. It will be followed by Tchaikovsky’s distinctly dramatic and intensely lyrical First Piano Concerto. Argentine-Venezuelan soloist Sergio Tiempo, a protégé of Martha Argerich, is heralded by critics and fellow musicians as one of the outstanding pianists of his generation.

Date & Time: Saturday, November 13th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, November 14th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)

Location: The Granada, 1214 State St., Santa Barbara

Mummenschanz, The Granada Presents (19 Nov 2010)

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:30:00 GMT

Tickets: 805.899.2222 / www.granadasb.org
$25-$55; Kids 50% Off!

Unconventional. Unusual. Unexpected. For more than 35 years, the Un-dreamt-of characters of Mummenschanz have charmed audiences with their playful feast of exciting shapes, colors and movement. Quietly, masterfully turning everyday objects and materials into abstract forms, simple costumes and expressive masks, they engage in a wordless dialogue. Their stories, filled with humor and wit, expose the truth of human relationships in their lightest, most transparent sense, transcending the traditional limits of language and culture to the delight of young and old alike.

Miracle on 34th Street The Musical, The Granada Presents (11 Dec 2010)

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Tickets: 805.899.2222 / www.granadasb.org
$25-$55; Kids 50% Off!

With its simple, earnest eloquence, Miracle on 34th Street, based on the 1947 Academy Award winning film now re-imagined as a musical, attempts to restore our belief in the spirit of the season. This delightful stage production, featuring traditional holiday songs we all know and love, tells the story of a cheerful old man who believes he’s Kris Kringle, and his endearing friendship with the young daughter of a Macy’s department store executive who hires him to portray Santa.

The Peking Acrobats, 2011 Silver Anniversary Tour, The Granada Presents (20 Jan 2011)

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:30:00 GMT

Tickets: 805.899.2222 / www.granadasb.org
$25-$55; Kids 50% Off!

The world’s most revered troupe of acrobats return to The Granada for the third straight year and the promise of yet another breathtaking display of physical artistry. Personifying tradition, The Peking Acrobats channel 2000 years of folk art into two hours of stunning, mind bending feats, creating the illusion that the laws of physics and body mechanics are mere figments of the imagination.

Santa Barbara Symphony Concert: Appalachian Spring (22 Jan 2011)

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Santa Barbara Symphony Presents “Appalachian Spring”

Saturday, January 22nd and Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

With State Street Ballet
Artistic Director: Rodney Gustafson
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite

In their first-ever collaboration, Santa Barbara’s own State Street Ballet – hailed by the Independent as “not only a classical company, but a classy one” – will join forces with the Symphony to present an American masterpiece, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring.. The program also features the Suite from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, a colorful, rhythmically playful work based on baroque-era melodies, and Schubert’s buoyant Fifth Symphony.

Date & Time: Saturday, January 22nd at 8:00 pm and Sunday, January 23rd at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)

Location: The Granada, 1214 State St., Santa Barbara

CAMA presents State Symphony Orchestra of Russia (24 Jan 2011)

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:00:00 GMT

STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF RUSSIA

MARK GORENSTEIN, Conductor
DMITRI ALEXEEV, Piano

Aram Khachaturian: Waltz fromMasquerade, Adagio from Spartacus, Lizginka from Gayane

Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

Co-Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board
Co-Sponsor: Judy & George Writer

“Although it is not the oldest Russian orchestra now active, the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia is certainly among the more venerable.”(New York Times) The orchestra’s all-Russian program features the electrifying Tenth Symphony of Shostakovich, which “many critics feel is the composer's masterpiece…written in a white heat immediately after the death of Stalin in 1953.” (Michael Walsh, Entertainment Weekly) Also on the program is Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring pianist Dmitri Alexeevwhose “sense of colour, of light and shade, and his extraordinary command over the dynamic range, {are} beguiling. He really does have the lot.” (Glasgow Herald)

Tickets $35, $45, $60, $85, $100. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through The Granada box office. Call 805-899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org

For more information, visit www.camasb.org

Vienna Boys Choir, The Granada Presents (5 Feb 2011)

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:30:00 GMT

Tickets: 805.899.2222 / www.granadasb.org
$25-$55; Kids 50% Off!

No group of child musicians has won more renown (or more hearts) than the incomparable Vienna Boys Choir, founded by Emperor Maximilian I in 1498! Six centuries later, the famed troupe continues to delight music-lovers across the globe with their purity of tone, distinctive charm and a diverse, crowd pleasing repertoire that encompasses Austrian fold songs and waltzes, classical masterpieces, beloved pop songs and medieval chant.

CAMA presents Joshua Bell, Violin, In Recital (8 Feb 2011)

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:00:00 GMT

JOSHUA BELL, Violin
IN RECITAL

SAM HAYWOOD, Piano

Program to be announced

Sponsor: Anne & Michael Towbes
Sponsor: Hollis Norris Fund
Sponsor: Herbert & Elaine Kendall
Sponsor: Michele & André Saltoun
Co-Sponsor: Linda Brown

“Joshua Bell is the greatest American violinist active today.” (Boston Herald)He has captured the public’s attention like no other classical violinist of his time. Bell has recorded more than 35 CDs since his first recording at age 18, receiving awards including a Grammy. He has collaborated with numerous artists and on film scores including the Oscar-winning soundtrack for The Red Violin. “Few prodigies make it into musical maturity, but Bell has evolved from a technical whiz to a true artist and intellectual whose music feeds both your brain and your heart.” (Newsweek)

www.joshuabell.com

Tickets $35, $45, $60, $85, $100. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through The Granada box office. Call 805-899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org

For more information, visit www.camasb.org

CAMA's Masterseries presents Peter Serkin, Piano (15 Feb 2011)

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:00:00 GMT

PETER SERKIN
Piano In Recital

Johannes Brahms: Theme and Variations in D minor (arranged from the Andante of the String Sextet in B-flat Major)

Claude Debussy: Six Epigraphes Antiques

Charles Wuorinen: Scherzo

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite in C minor for Lute-Cembalo

Arnold Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 25

Sponsor: Bitsy Becton Bacon/Becton Family Foundation

“Peter Serkin is one of the most interesting pianists... today.” (Seattle Times) His rich musical heritage extends back several generations: his grandfather was violinist and composer Adolf Busch and his father pianist Rudolf Serkin. An avid proponent of music of the 20th and 21st century, Serkin has conveyed the essence of five centuries of repertoire to audiences around the world: “...just as Mr. Serkin enjoys performing new music with a sense of its history, he thrives on playing old music with a sense of its radicalism.” (New York Times)

Tickets $30, $40. Single tickets on sale 9/17/2010 through the Lobero Theatre box office. Call 805-963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com

For more information, visit www.camasb.org

Santa Barbara Symphony Concert: Grieg & Shostakovich (19 Feb 2011)

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Santa Barbara Symphony Presents “Grieg & Shostakovich”

Saturday, February 19th and Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Arild Remmereit, Guest Conductor
Natasha Kislenko, piano
Grieg: Holberg Suite
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.1
Svendsen: Symphony No. 1

The New York Times calls Arild Remmereit “the hottest conductor you’ve never heard of.” This charismatic Norwegian maestro has dazzled critics throughout the U.S. and Europe and his performance with the Utah Symphony “sent the audience out of the doors exhilarated,” according to the Salt Lake Tribune. His program includes two works from his native Norway: Edvard Grieg’s buoyant Holberg Suite and Johan Svendsen’s cheerful, outgoing first symphony. Natasha Kislenko and Jon Lewis will perform as soloists in Shostakovich’s witty and sardonic Concerto for Piano and Trumpet.

Date & Time: Saturday, February 19th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, February 20th at 3:00 pm (with a pre-concert lecture, "Music Behind the Music," beginning at 2:00 pm)

Location: The Granada, 1216 State St., Santa Barbara