Music
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UCSC Wind Ensemble to perform at Carnegie Hall
The UC Santa Cruz Wind Ensemble is set to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on February 15, 2009.
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Sharing a love of opera: Directors Nicole Paiement and Brian Staufenbiel make student opera sing
Excellence in student opera,” may not be the first thought that comes to mind when people hear “UC Santa Cruz.” But that’s changing almost as rapidly as Don Giovanni’s amorous conquests.
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UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures announces 2008-09 season
Garrison Keillor, David Sedaris, The Shanghai Quartet, Zakir Hussain, Tiempo Libre, Darol Anger, and Mike Marshall are just some of the performing artists that will take the stage in the coming year as part of the UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures 2008-09 season. This marks the first season designed by Jeanette Pilak, who was…
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Grateful Dead donates archives to UC Santa Cruz
At a press conference in San Francisco on April 24, members of the Grateful Dead announced that the band will donate its archives to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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UCSC receives gift of rare audio interviews and photos of late ’60s jazz and rock icons
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, Frank Kofsky. The collection includes 35mm slides, prints, and negatives of such recording artists as John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ornette…
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Composed: A professional musician thrives as a student in UCSC’s graduate program in composition
This past January, the San Francisco Chronicle identified Sylvain Carton as the “powerhouse alto saxophone player” in one of the Bay Area’s “most provocative jazz ensembles.” It was richly deserved praise for the up-and-coming co-leader of the Mitc
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UCSC Arts & Lectures season opens Oct. 7 with acclaimed one-man show
UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures kicks off its 2007-08 season on Sunday, October 7, with Emergence-See!, a provocative one-man show created by award-winning actor Daniel Beaty. Beaty portrays a cast of 40 characters–including a homeless man, a scientist, a Republican business executive, and an 11-year-old boy from the projects–who all react to the phenomenon…
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UC Santa Cruz names new director of Arts & Lectures
Jeanette Pilak has been selected to become the new director of the Arts & Lectures program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, effective October 1, 2007. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pilak has an extensive background in arts management that spans both coasts. She became the first festival manager at the John F. Kennedy…
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Gurdon Woods, sculptor who helped establish UCSC Art Department, dies at 92
Gurdon Woods, a visionary arts educator who helped design and create UC Santa Cruz’s first curriculum and facilities in the arts, died July 31 at his Aptos home. He was 92.Woods served as
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Arts & Lectures announces 2007-08 season of internationally acclaimed artists
Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, renowned Brazilian guitarist and songwriter Caetano Veloso, South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour, and National Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon are just s
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Renaissance dance/music extravaganza set for May 26
Professor of theater arts and choreographer Mark Franko, in collaboration with assistant professor of music Nina Treadwell and colleagues from Berkeley, will present The Sylvan and Oceanic Delights of Posilipo, Saturday, May 26, at 7:30 and 9 p.m. in the Experimental Theater at UCSC’s Theater Arts Center. Admission is free. A lavish court entertainment first…
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Theater Arts Dept. presents Buddhist tales from Southeast Asia
The UCSC Theater Arts Department will present Before Becoming Buddha: Jataka Tales of the Previous Lives–a collection of Buddhist stories from Southeast Asia told through music, dance, masks, dialogue, and song–May 31 and June 1-3 at the Theater Arts Center Mainstage. The show is under the direction of theater arts professor Kathy Foley, a specialist…