Musics of the World
Thursday, May 30, 4-6:30 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, free
Program
Gamelan • Heni Savitri, director
Hindustani • Rita Sahai, director
Capoeira • Juan Diego Díaz
Bluegrass and Old Time String Band • Scott Linford, director
Mariachi • Tito Talamantes, director
Samba School • Brian Rice, director
'The China Shop': Conversations between artists and scientists
Thursday, May 30, 4:30 p.m., the Manetti Shrem Museum
'The China Shop' is a two-year, faculty-led initiative that brings artists to UC Davis to work with scientists in their labs. Playing off the idea of “a bull in a china shop,” the project facilitates two artist-scientist pairings each year, providing opportunities for interdisciplinary conversations, giving rise to imaginative possibilities, and catalyzing innovative outcomes. Each residency spans approximately 10 weeks. In addition to the laboratory exchanges, there will be a moderated public presentation and discussion, where the participating artists and scientists engage with the audience, sharing insights into their collaboration, creative exchange and work in progress.
Percussion Ensemble UC Davis: 'Works by Graduate Students', Chris Froh, director
Friday, May 31, 4-5:15 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program
Orkun: Akyol: past time pastimes
Dean Kervin Boursiquot: Hard Times
Colin Minigan: watershed
Zoë A. Wallace: The Waste Land
Ben Wallace-Ailsworth: 29 going on 30
James Larkins: Not Quite Enough
Jacob Lane: Emulation Run
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: 'Musical Landscapes' featured Saturday
Christian Baldini, music director and conductor
Saturday, June 1, 7-8:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, tickets from $12
This concert features the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen, who has frequently collaborated with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, in a new work by Aida Shirazi. Since receiving her doctorate in music composition from UC Davis in 2021, Shirazi has been gaining attention far and wide for her acoustic and electro-acoustic music, which a New York Times music critic described as “unfolding with deliberation.” In Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony the audience will enjoy the composer’s Slavonic spirit in an energetic and varied musical landscape.
Program
Jaques Ibert: Allegro scherzando from Concerto for Flute and Orchestra — with Nathan Haghgoo, winner of the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition;
Aida Shirazi: Meditations on Departure (PREMIERE) with Anssi Karttunen, cello
— Intermission —
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7
$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Reserved Seating)
Re(Vision)offers evening of movement and dance
May 31, June 1, June 2, Main Theater, Wright Hall 218, tickets from $5
'(Re)Vision' is an invitation to dream. At this moment where ecological, political, and systemic structures are colliding with violent force, revisioning is needed and necessary. Revisioning conjures new worlds through reorientation to the spaces and relationships with which we move. Revising requires us to experiment, take risks, and confront the limits of what we have in front of our eyes. This evening of movement and performance asks audiences to remain active in the call to see, and to move toward, what can be made anew by reframing what exists around us.
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Next week
Plan for opening graduate exhibition next week
Free public reception: June 6, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Works on view June 6-24
The Arts and Humanities 2024 Graduate Exhibition will feature the work of graduate students across eight disciplines, including anthropology, art history, art studio, comparative literature, creative writing, design, and English as well as Spanish and Portuguese. Final projects will be on view June 6-24 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis.
A free, public opening reception will take place June 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the museum, with art history students presenting their research on May 31. In all, 25 graduate students in Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts and doctoral programs are participating.
Read more here: UC Davis Arts and Humanities Graduate Students Showcase Work in Multidisciplinary Exhibition
Wanda Sykes: Please and Thank You Tour
Friday, May 31, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, the Mondavi Center
Wanda Sykes is an Emmy winning stand up comic, writer, actress and producer who has been entertaining audiences for over twenty years. She has ranked among Entertainment Weekly’s “25 Funniest People in America” and her peers have called her “one of the funniest stand-up comics” in the field.
This event is currently at or near capacity. This is also a phone free event. Check back here for availability as inventory can change and click here to learn about phone free events.
Art Spark June activity: 'Some Assemblage Required'
June 1 - June 23, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, free, Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m.
Bring together everyday materials to create an ever-changing temporary sculpture, and document your creation through drawing and writing. Check out William T. Wiley’s The Hearings in Deborah Butterfield: P.S. These are not horses for ideas. These themed activities happen at the Carol and Gerry Parker Art Studio on weekends. Explore a different activity inspired by art on view each month. All ages and skill levels are welcome.
Next week in UC Davis music
Rebecca Wang, percussion
Sunday, June 2, 1 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, student recital
Program
Frank Zappa: Black Page No. 1
Askell Masson: Prim
Keiko Abe: Wind the Bamboo Grove
Michio Kitazume: Side by Side
Gene Koshinski: As One
Anders Koppel: Toccata for Vibraphone and Marimba
Katie Gorden, oboe
Sunday, June 2, 5 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, student recital
Program
Carl Nielsen: Fantasiestücke
Jenni Brandon: Three Desert Fables for Solo Oboe
August Klughardt: 5 Schilflieder, op. 28
Alyssa Morris: Shine
Danny Van: Tadarida brasiliensis
Crisia Regalado, soprano, and John Cozza, piano
Sunday, June 2, 7 p.m., Ann E Pitzer Center, student recital
Program
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: “Bist du bei mir” from Diomedes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Ridente la calma, K. 152
Oiseaux, si tous les ans
”L’amerò, sarò costante” from Il re pastore, K. 208
Richard Strauss: Ständchen, D. 889
Franz Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre: “¿Con qué la lavaré?” from Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Carlos Guastavino: La rosa y el sauce
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the UC Davis Cello Ensemble, conducted by Professor Christian Baldini
Mozart: “Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln” from The Abduction from the Seraglio
Rollo Dilworth: 'Composing for Choirs' and Open Rehearsal
with the Concert Choir of UC Davis
Tuesday, June 4, 4–6 p.m., the Mondavi Center
Ahead of the June 6 chorus concert (“Sorrow and Joy: An American Story”), visiting composer Dr. Rollo Dilworth will speak about composing for choirs. Following his talk, he will work with the choruses on his composition, Weather, in an open rehearsal format. This event is appropriate for composers and singers.
Ryuya Iwase, solo piano
Wednesday, June 5, 5-5:45 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program
W. A. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke, op.12, nos.1 and 2
Schumann: Kinderszenen, op.15, no. 7
Student Chamber Ensembles
Thursday, June 6, Noon–2 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program to be announced
Choruses of UC Davis: 'Sorrow and Joy, An American Story'
Thursday, June 6, 7–9 p.m., Jackson Hall, the Mondavi Center, Nicolás Dosman, director
featuring the UC Davis Concert Band
Pete Nowlen, director, and Rollo Dilworth, visiting composer
If the American Dream includes hope of a better life in a promised land, then the story we tell must also acknowledge that dream has not always been equally available to all Americans. This concert gives us both sentiments of this “American Story.”
Rollo Dilworth set his choral and wind ensemble work “Weather” to the poem of the same name by Claudia Rankine. “Weather” (the poem) appeared in the New York Times Magazine shortly after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. It captured in a few pointed phrases the pain of the pandemic and of America’s racial conflicts. Using American-born musical traditions, including the Blues, Rollo Dilworth juxtaposes Rankine’s words against a musical fabric, which challenges us to accept this part of our American story, and in time weather that challenge.
André Thomas, a composer known around the world for his spirituals, wrote his “Mass of Love and Joy” (filled with moving and joyous spirituals) in 2018 upon his own retirement, and which concludes and lifts up this choral concert. Thomas says of his work, “anyone can relate to spirituals. Everyone goes through trials and everyone looks for comfort.”
Program
Chamber Singers
Norman Dello Joio: A Jubilant Song
Samuel Barber: “Anthony O’Daly” from Reincarnations
William L. Dawson: Soon-Ah-Will Be Done
Concert Band
Carlos Simon: Amen!
— Intermission —
Combined Choruses
Rollo Dilworth: Weather
with the UC Davis Concert Band
and Shinae Kim, piano
“Historically, the arts have always fulfilled the dual roles of responding to change while at the same time creating change. Claudia Rankine’s poem, Weather, is a poem that gives voice to the voiceless, especially those who have been and continue to be marginalized because of difference. It responds to and reflects realities that are both culturally specific and humanly universal. Claudia Rankine challenges all of us (no matter your background or lived experience) to know better, to do better, to take action, and to become agents of social justice and social change.”
—Rollo Dilworth
André Thomas: Mass of Love and Joy
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