Arts
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Cajun/New Orleans jazz extravaganza to kick off new Arts & Lectures season at UC Santa Cruz
The new UC Santa Cruz 2004-05 Arts & Lectures season will open with a blast of pure Southern gusto on October 8 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The Grammy award-winning sextet, BeauSoleil-described by Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor as “simply the best Cajun band in the world-will join forces with Louisiana’s legendary Preservation Hall…
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UC Santa Cruz to become first UC campus offering new doctorate degree in music composition
UC Santa Cruz will be the first UC campus to offer a Doctorate of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) program in Music Composition with enrollment set to begin in Fall, 2005. Although private institutions such as Stanford University, Claremont Graduate University, and the University of Southern California currently offer the Composition D.M.A., the new UC Santa Cruz…
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High-profile film industry guests visit UC Santa Cruz
Hollywood film director Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Election), actress Sandra Oh (Under the Tuscan Sun, Arli$$, Double Happiness), and groundbreaking new Asian American director Justin Lin have each paid a visit to UC Santa Cruz in the past two months as guests of the campus Film and Digital Media Department. Lin, voted one of Variety’s…
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Alumnus Kent Nagano selects new transcription by UC Santa Cruz arts dean to open annual Ojai Music Festival
The San Francisco-based choral group Chanticleer gave the premiere performance of UCSC Arts Division dean and professor of music Edward Houghton’s new transcription of Johannes Ockeghem’s, Missa Ecce ancilla domini, at the opening concert of the Ojai Music Festival on June 3. Renowned conductor and UC Santa Cruz alum Kent Nagano–the music director of the…
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Grateful Dead foundations help preserve UC Santa Cruz archive of renowned composer Lou Harrison
Two foundations established by members of the Grateful Dead have contributed funds to help preserve the archive of the late composer Lou Harrison at UC Santa Cruz. The Rex Foundation, founded by the Grateful Dead and friends in 1984, and the Unbroken Chain Foundation, established in 1997 by Phil and Jill Lesh, have each donated…
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 25th anniversary of Chautauqua student theater festival
In 1979, the UC Santa Cruz Chautauqua Festival made its debut at the Barn Theater, just inside the main entrance of the fledgling 14-year-old campus. Modeled after a tradition of theater festivals that began at Lake Chautauqua, New York, more than a century ago, the annual campus event has now helped teach students how to…
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Dedication of newly remodeled UCSC Communications Building set for April 17
The spotlight will shine on the UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media Department on April 17 when the campus dedicates its newly renovated Communications Building. The festivities will begin at 3 p.m. with a welcome reception in front of the building, accompanied by a sound mix of film scores provided by a student D.J.…
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UC Santa Cruz music faculty travel to Asia over spring break for Korean premiere of professor’s first opera
Three UC Santa Cruz music faculty had a rather unusual experience over spring break. David Evan Jones, Nicole Paiement, and Brian Staufenbiel traveled to Seoul, Korea, to oversee the Korean premiere of the chamber opera Bardos, for which Jones wrote the music and libretto. Bardos appeared in a double bill with Back to the Origin…
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Century Project challenges stereotypes of the female body
The Century Project is a remarkable exhibition that challenges stereotypical views of the female body, the nature of voyeurism, and the cycle of aging. Featuring 70 photographs of unclothed girls and woman in chronological order-from a newborn baby to a woman in her 90s-it is designed to provoke thought and discussion about subjects that are…
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Sesnon Gallery spring exhibit to feature innovative works from three UC Santa Cruz art faculty
What do exploding soap, the Polaroid I-Zone camera, and an espresso coffeemaker have in common? They’re all part of Faculty Works: 2004, an exhibition of innovative photography, video installation, and printmaking that will be presented by UCSC’s Sesnon Art Gallery from March 31 to May 1. The show will feature works by associate professor of…
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UC Santa Cruz faculty collaborate for innovative, multimedia classical guitar concert
Ever since he arrived at UC Santa Cruz in the fall of 1998, Mesut Ãzgen has been thinking about how to present a more theatrical version of the traditional classical guitar concert. After years of discussion with a wide variety of artists, the UCSC music lecturer has come up with a multimedia concept–designed to visually…
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UC Santa Cruz professor hopes to promote musical connection with Monterey through concert at Carmel Mission
UC Santa Cruz music professor Nicole Paiement is particularly looking forward to a rare appearance by the UCSC Chamber Singers at the Carmel Mission on February 21. The 24-voice ensemble will perform an evening of early music featuring Renaissance and Baroque styles from England and France–including works by Thomas Morley, John Dowland, John Wilbye, and…