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Brahms Serenade & Jeremy Denk

by Gina Graham
April 27, 2016

FESTIVAL ARTISTS SERIES

Seven chamber ensemble performances feature Academy faculty, fellows, and special guest artists in this exceptional series at the Lobero Theatre.

In the first concert of the series, special guest artist Jeremy Denk performs Mozart’s first piano quartet alongside Academy fellows.

PROGRAM:

SCHUMAN  American Hymn

Barbara Butler, trumpet; Charles Geyer, trumpet; Mark H. Lawrence, trombone; Academy fellows

MOZART Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478

Jeremy Denk, piano; Academy fellows

BRAHMS  Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

Jim Walker, flute; Richie Hawley, clarinet; Dennis Michel, bassoon; Julie Landsman, horn; Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Karen Dreyfus, viola; Alan Stepansky, cello; Nico Abondolo, double bass

 

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Santa Barbara Youth Symphony Spring Concert 2016

by Genevieve Rhiger
April 22, 2016

The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony is an orchestra of 65-70 young musicians from Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. Andy Radford, the ensemble’s conductor, is also principal bassoonist with the Santa Barbara Symphony and has a truly wonderful relationship with the students. These students, ages 12-18 and all from our regional schools, are challenged with serious pieces from the standard orchestral repertoire. Each Youth Symphony member is chosen by audition and no student is refused entry because of finances. Students rehearse weekly on Sunday evenings during the school year.
Andy Radford, Music Director
Lorenz Chen, Cello
Moon Man Whitehead, Viola
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite #1
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
John Williams: Highlights from Jurassic Park
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite #2
Handel: Viola Concerto in B minor
Dvorak: Symphony #8

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Hands On Music Festival 2016

by Genevieve Rhiger
April 21, 2016

We invite you to explore, listen and play at the 1st Annual Hands On Music Festival at the Lobero Theatre. Explore music through a variety of fun activities, listen to free performances by our Junior Orchestra and Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, and play instruments from our award-winning Music Van! A great and fun afternoon for the whole family!

ACTIVITIES & EVENT SCHEDULE

Noon – 4pm

Front of the Lobero Theatre:

  • See, touch and play various orchestral instruments from the Music Van
  • Dance and play on a giant musical keyboard
  • Play a special decorated piano from Pianos on State Street
  • Pose for photos in a photobooth
  • Enjoy various musical crafts
  • Experience the Tech Zone and conduct a virtual orchestra
  • Listen to a mini-performance by the Junior Orchestra at 2pm
  • Take an inside look at a Santa Barbara Youth Symphony rehearsal. (Small groups will be escorted inside theater and guests are welcomed to sit onstage during rehearsal.)

2:30pm – 3:45pm

Sponsor/Patron High Tea Fundraiser in Lobero Tent

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Youth Symphony Spring Concert at Lobero Theatre
Free admission

Sponsors

  

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SB Dance Theatre

by Genevieve Rhiger
April 15, 2016

Continuing the celebration of the company’s 40th Anniversary Season, SBDT, directed by Christopher Pilafian, hosts international choreographer Josh Beamish in a premiere performance at the Lobero Theater, May 4 and 5, 2016. Mr. Beamish, fresh from a project with the Royal Ballet in London, will create a new work for SBDT based on his observations of the impact of drought in the world. Mr. Beamish brings his original choreographic voice and unique perspective to this important topic. Mr. Beamish resides in London and also directs MOVE: the company, in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has received major attention recently for his high-profile collaboration with New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan, in her multifaceted project, Restless Creature.

SBDT’s dancers will also perform A Jointed Affair by the very talented Emily Schoen. Ms. Schoen is known to local dance audiences as a member of Keigwin + Company. Mr. Keigwin and Ms. Schoen were in residence with DANCEworks Santa Barbara in 2010 when Keigwin created a community-inclusive blowout version of Ravel’s Bolero for the Lobero stage. A Jointed Affair is a beautiful, highly physical exploration of human interaction with an imaginative and delightful score by Project Trio. This work was created last year on Emily’s own Schoen Movement Company, based in New York City.

The program will include director Pilafian’s hit of the company’s winter season, Strange Attractor, with a gorgeous original score by LA film composer, Ryan Beveridge.

And, as a special treat for dance lovers, Mr. Beamish will perform a recently choreographed solo to a score by J.S. Bach. Mr. Beamish’s prowess as a movement artist comes vividly to life in his performing, so this is a rare opportunity to get to know a rising, internationally respected artist both as a choreographer and as a dancer.

 

Santa Barbara Dance Theater is a laboratory for choreography and performance in the Department of Theater and Dance, UC Santa Barbara. SBDT’s resident status as a professional dance company in a world-class research institution fosters creative and educational connection between students, company members, guest artists, colleagues and the field of dance.

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Nachle Deewane

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 29, 2016

Nachle Deewane is an annual Indian dance competition hosted by UCSB Dhadkan, bringing together ten championship-level Bollywood and Bhangra teams from around the nation to showcase their talent. Featured as a ‘Best Bet’ in the Santa Barbara Independent in 2014 as well as in news outlets around the country, Nachle Deewane is considered one of Santa Barbara’s foremost cultural showcases and a gem of the Santa Barbara arts community.  Nominated for UCSB Student Organization of the Year, Dhadkan’s vision is to strive for a greater appreciation of South Asian culture while becoming an instrument of social change. All proceeds from the show will be donated to India Literacy Project in efforts to educate underprivileged children. Get ready for a fast-paced and exhilarating evening full of dance, culture, and fun!

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David Bromberg

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 29, 2016

David Bromberg, an acknowledged virtuoso on guitar, mandolin, dobro and other stringed instruments and a wry, distinctive vocalist, first made a name for himself in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a musician’s musician, working as a session man for Bob Dylan (on New Morning, Self Portrait, and Dylan), Kris Kristofferson, Tom Paxton, Jerry Jeff Walker (with whom he toured for several years), Eric Andersen, John Prine, Dion, Link Wray, Ringo Starr, and many others.

The David Bromberg Big Band, with which he performed and recorded in the late 1970s and still reconvenes on occasion, was a raucous, loose-limbed approach to American roots music. After touring and recording extensively, Bromberg moved from San Francisco to Chicago in 1980 to study violin making. Bromberg has been operating David Bromberg Fine Violins, a retail shop. Frequent participation in the city’s weekly jam sessions helped rekindle Bromberg’s desire to make music again, as did the encouragement of fellow musicians Chris Hillman (The Byrds, Desert Rose Band, Flying Burrito Brothers) and bluegrass wizard Herb Pedersen.

In 2013, content with the balance of both his violin business and performing career, David was ready to record again with his live band. Enlisting some of Helm’s former recording and touring musicians for added instrumentation, the David Bromberg Band emerged twelve days later with Only Slightly Mad, a return to his genre–bending albums of the Seventies and Eighties. Bromberg fans will find blues, bluegrass, gospel, folk, Irish fiddle tunes, pop and English drinking songs happily coexisting as they can only on a Bromberg album. For newcomers, Only Slightly Mad will be an introduction to an astonishing performer whose range and musical depth have delighted devoted audiences for over forty years and will for many years hence.

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DANCEworks 2016

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 29, 2016

Santa Barbara DANCEworks will welcome New York City choreographer Shannon Gillen and her internationally based company, VIM VIGOR for their coveted 2016 residency (August 29-September 24) at the Lobero Theatre. vimvigor-futureperfect_web

VIM VIGOR is a contemporary dance-theater company dedicated to creating and performing original works by Shannon Gillen, elevating and nurturing the professional lives of young dance artists, and to cultivating public interest in the dance-theater art form. VIM VIGOR Dance Company members are: choreographer Shannon Gillen, Jason Cianciulli, Rebecca Diab (apprentice), Martin Durov, Laja Field, and Emma Whiteley.

Known for an innovative combination of heroic physicality, electric emotional life and cinematic imagery, VIM VIGOR will create a new work of dance-theater while in residence titled FUTURE/PERFECT. With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic – bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest fears will rocket through space. Against an original pulsating sound score that grinds synth and bass, the characters in FUTURE/PERFECT confront the paradox of hope and doubt, wrestle with their desperation for a spiritual sign, and ask: What magic is left?

*Please note: this performance may contain explicit content, including nudity and violence. Parental discretion is advised.

SPECIAL PRE-CURTAIN DISCUSSION at 7PM:

DANCEworks Choreographer Shannon Gillen and dance critic Melanie Bales will be taking a deep dive into Dance Theater and providing context for FUTURE PERFECT. Entry to discussion included with ticket purchase.

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Karla Bonoff

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 29, 2016

Karla Bonoff has been described as one of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation, and, in her case, the description is not exaggerated. With a career spanning four decades, Bonoff has enjoyed critical acclaim, commercial success, enduring popularity, and the unwavering respect of her peers. In addition to her own chart success with recordings such as “Personally” and the Footloose single “Somebody’s Eyes,” Karla has seen many of her ballads become pop classics, and songs such as “Tell Me Why” become hits for such stellar artists as Wynonna Judd, Bonnie Raitt, and Linda Ronstadt.

“A new Karla Bonoff album is like hearing from an old friend you’ve missed and think of often. Her songs are comforting, familiar and timeless, and make us feel a part of them just by singing along.” – Performing Songwriter Magazine

“Her voice is perfection. She conjures memories… keeping alive the flames of her youth and dedication to other artists.” – Huffington Post

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 28, 2016

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band derives its name from Preservation Hall, the venerable music venue located in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter, founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe. The band has traveled worldwide spreading their mission to nurture and perpetuate the art form of New Orleans Jazz. Whether performing at Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center, for British Royalty or the King of Thailand, this music embodies a joyful, timeless spirit. Under the auspices of current director, Ben Jaffe, the son of founders Allan and Sandra, Preservation Hall continues with a deep reverence and consciousness of its greatest attributes in the modern day as a venue, band, and record label.

The PHJB began touring in 1963 and for many years there were several bands successfully touring under the name Preservation Hall. Many of the band’s charter members performed with the pioneers who invented jazz in the early twentieth century including Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Bunk Johnson. Band leaders over the band’s history include the brothers Willie and Percy Humphrey, husband and wife Billie and De De Pierce, famed pianist Sweet Emma Barrett, and in the modern day Wendell and John Brunious. These founding artists and dozens of others passed on the lessons of their music to a younger generation who now follow in their footsteps like the current lineup.

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The James Hunter Six

by Gina Graham
March 16, 2016

It’s been 10 years since the Englishman James Hunter burst onto the scene with his U.S. debut People Gonna Talk (GO/Rounder 2006), topping the Billboard Blues chart, earning a Grammy-nomination, and attracting universal acclaim from critics and his fans—including Van Morrison, Sharon Jones, and Allen Toussaint. Over the last decade, he’s toured extensively around the world on the club, theatre, and festival circuits, steadily growing a dedicated audience comprised of hardened gig-goers, old-school baby boomers, and young hipsters alike. His follow-ups The Hard Way and Minute By Minute (GO/Fantasy), further cemented Hunter’s reputation as a soul powerhouse, heralded for his talents both as a live performer and perhaps even more so as a songwriter, with The New Yorker describing his “tight, taut compositions” as “rooted in American soul music without being bound to it.”

Now Hunter is back with his fourth album, Hold On! marking his debut on Daptone Records, America’s premier soul imprint and Hunter’s second collaboration with famed producer Gabriel Roth aka Bosco Mann. It also marks a cumulative and consecutive total of 48 original songs written exclusively by Hunter, without resorting to a single covered recording. At age 53, Hunter feels he has finally found his home for making music. “The great thing about working with Gabe is that he can get our tunes on tape exactly the way I heard them in my head when I was writing them,” explained Hunter. “It’s a rare thing when a producer knows what you’re going for before you’ve told him. It’s good to be associated with a record company that ‘gets’ us.”

And the feeling is mutual. From Roth’s perspective, “In today’s R&B world, littered with retro-soul cronies, ear-twisting melisma, and hollow affectations, James has a voice that stands out not only for its natural beauty and grit, but for its honesty. His songwriting shares the masterful architecture and the inspired creativity of Smokey Robinson, each rhyme and rhythm crafted meticulously, somehow twisting familiar themes into unfamiliar new shapes.”

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SBDI – Rhythms from Around The World

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 16, 2016

SBDI’s “Event-of-the-Year” is the culmination of our yearlong educational dance programs. Hundreds of Santa Barbara County children have been taking dance classes once a week for the entire school year to prepare for this very special event.

Rhythms from Around The World will feature over 420 energetic young performers from area elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as special guest performers including schoolteachers, parents, and community members. SBDI’s Event-Of-The-Year is an inspiring hour of dance and music that is perfect for the whole family.

In 2010, the Event-of-the-Year was awarded Santa Barbara Independent’s “Best Youth Performance” by Elizabeth Schwyzer, and coined the “Feel-Good Show of the Year,” by our previous County Arts Commissioner Ginny Brush. As Bill Cirone, County Superintendent of Schools says, “This is one show you won’t want to
 miss!”

Rhythms from Around The World, is an original dance/theater piece, written and directed by Rosalina Macisco. The shows creative team includes Michael Mortilla, Rod Lathim, Rick Mokler, Patricia Frank, and SBDI’s Teaching Artists, Lauren Macioce and Mariah Korte. Hop aboard SBDI flight 805 and take a journey on a celebratory tour around the world. Travel plans include a stop at a wedding celebration in Italy, a ceilie at the Errigal Arts Festival in Ireland, folkloric dancing from Mexico, a street carnival from Brazil, and much more. Not only is this flight affordable, you won’t experience jet lag, lost luggage, or delays. Appreciating sounds from other cultures helps us see the world from a new perspective by opening our eyes, ears, and hearts. This trip guarantees a good time for the whole family.

This year SBDI will have two performances.  At 4:00pm, Adelante and Solvang Elementary schools will perform and at 7:00pm Aliso and Canalino Elementary Schools will perform.

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Linda Ronstadt

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 8, 2016

Linda Ronstadt is arguably the most versatile vocalist of the modern era, with over 50 million albums sold, 10 GRAMMY® Awards, and membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to her credit. Along with the Eagles (her former back-up band), Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and others, she helped create California country-rock, the dominant American music of the 1970’s.

Since 2014, Linda has appeared in a number of public speaking engagements around the U.S. Part interview, part presentation, Linda will recount episodes from various times in her long career, as well as her thoughts on music and what it has meant in her life.

Please Note: This is a speaking engagement, not a concert.

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Pacific Standard – Fresh Water Crisis

by Genevieve Rhiger
March 7, 2016

Pacific Standard Presents

The Fresh Water Crisis

What We Must Do: A Call to Action!

Come to a Sunday afternoon discussion moderated by Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles bureau chief of the New York Times, to find out what we must do to meet the rising demand for water, what is happening around the world and in our own backyard, and what the impact on the Central Coast will be from climate change, desalination, privatization, contamination, and the rising cost of water. Panelists will include Peter Gleick, president and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, MacArthur Fellow, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and author of A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy; Professor Robert Wilkinson of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California-Santa Barbara, author, member of the Public Advisory Committee for California’s State Water Plan, and former coordinator for the Climate Impacts Assessment of the California Region for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Jane Gray, Regional Planner at Dudek Environmental and Engineering Consultants, appointee to the Santa Barbara County Agricultural Advisory Committee, and gubernatorial appointee to the Central Coast Regional Water-Quality Control Board.

This event is brought to you by Pacific Standard, a non-profit, award-winning national magazine published in Santa Barbara by the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media, and Public Policy. The Center’s mission is to disseminate information to a wider audience based on cutting-edge academic research in order to address today’s problems and help advance sustainable and equitable solutions.

 

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SBCO – February 9

by Genevieve Rhiger
February 4, 2016

MOZART

Horn Quintet in E-flat major, K. 407

F. DEVIENNE

Quartet for bassoon & strings in G minor

MOZART

String Quintet No. 4 in G minor for two violas

Chocolate and Wine tasting pre-concert included! (Begins at 6:45pm)

Location:  Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. 2559 Puesta Del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805) 682-4711

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KCRW – The Moth Mainstage

by Genevieve Rhiger
February 3, 2016

What began as a modest storytelling collective in its founder’s living room has grown into an epic, nationwide phenomenon with a cult-like following. The Moth’s Mainstage events are the critically-acclaimed storytelling group’s hottest ticket, featuring five hand-picked storytellers who develop and shape their stories with The Moth’s directors.

Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the show dances between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience.

Hosted by comedian and Moth mainstay Brian Finkelstein, with stories from:
Writer, psychotherapist and teacher Terrance Flynn
Writer, comedian and storyteller David Montgomery
Author, rapper and poet Omar Musa
Community educator and poet Dame Wilburn
Retired Army Serviceman and Purple Heart Recipient Jon Nunemaker


Top level ticket holders will have access to a pre-party with complimentary drinks and bites from State & Fig before the show, with a live set spun by KCRW DJ Raul Campos.

*All ages are welcome but please note that there may be some adult content.

Outdoor bar opens at 6:00pm
Theater doors open at 6:30pm
Show begins promptly at 7:00pm

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