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Sep/Oct Program Book
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BEETHOVEN, BAGELS,
& BANTER
SUN / SEP 14 / 11 AM / THE EDYE
Ilya Itin, piano
Lacey Jo Benter, mezzo soprano
Robert Davidovici, violin
Ronald Leonard, cello
This series made possible by a generous
gift from Barbara Herman.
Irish Songs for Voice and Piano Trio���������������� Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
“O, Might I but my Patrick Love” (from 20 Irish Lieder)
“Sally in our Alley” (from 25 Scottish Lieder)
“Chase of the Wolf” (from 26 Welsh Songs)
(Benter, Davidovici, Leonard, Itin)
Seven Romances on Poems by A. Blok������������� Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
for Voice and Piano Trio written for Vishnevskaya, Oistrakh, Rostropovich and Richter
Song of Ophelia
Gamajun, the Bird of Prophecy
We were together (That troubled night )
The town sleeps (Deep in sleep )
The Storm
Music
(Benter, Davidovici, Leonard, Itin)
Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87��������������������������� Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Allegro
Andante con Moto
Scherzo – Presto
Finale – Allegro giocoso
(Itin, Davidovici, Leonard)
There will be no intermission.
Please join us after the performance for refreshments and a conversation with the performers.
Out of consideration for your fellow patrons and respect to the performers, please be reminded that
there is no video, audio recording, or still photography of any kind allowed during the performance.
Prior to the performance, please unwrap any hard candy and silence all cell phones and other
electronic devices, and please, no texting.
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Ilya Itin, piano, is a Russian-born
pianist whose consummate pianism
has delighted audiences on four
continents – Europe, the Americas, and
Asia – receiving critical acclaim for his
concerto and recital performances, with
a repertoire from Bach to Messiaen. In
1996, Ilya was awarded the Gold Medal
at the Leeds International Pianoforte
Competition by unanimous decision of
the jury, sweeping all the awards and
winning the votes of the BBC audience.
Reviewers have praised his exceptional
musicianship and charismatic personality
as a performer and communicator,
noting “his rare and exciting artistry”
and “superb technique” (Daily
Telegraph), and his “delicious and rare
talent” (The Washington Post). He has
collaborated with many of the world’s
great conductors, including Dohnanyi,
Jarvi, Pletnev, Nygaard, Rattle, and
Tovey, and performed with the Prague
Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra,
the London Symphony, and the Tokyo
and St. Petersburg Philharmonic, among
others. He plays at international festivals
from Aldeburgh to Tel Aviv and Toulouse,
including the Mostly Mozart Festival at
Lincoln Center. He has also won top
prizes at the Casadesus, William Kappell,
Arthur Rubinstein, Gina Bachauer,
and Rachmaninov competitions. Born
in Sverdlovsk, (now Yekaterinburg),
Russia, Ilya graduated from the Moscow
Conservatory with highest honors. His
recordings include Beethoven’s Piano
Concerto with the Jerusalem Camerata,
with which he toured throughout the
U.S., and a recital of Mussorgsky’s
Pictures at an Exhibition and Prokofiev’s
Sonata No. 6, released by VAI on DVD and
CD. Ilya has been a grateful recipient of
support from the Miami-based Patrons
of Exceptional Artists.
Lacey Jo Benter, mezzo soprano,
originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
graduated from the Juilliard School in 2011
with a Master’s of Music degree in Opera
Performance. She began her vocal studies
at Lawrence University in Appleton,
Wisconsin, where she graduated in 2009
with a Bachelor’s of Music degree in Vocal
Performance with a minor in Theater
Arts. While at Lawrence she performed
Meg Page in Otto Nicolai’s The Merry
Wives of Windsor and Lazuli in Emmanuel
Chabrier’s L’Etoile. While pursuing her
Master’s degree at Juilliard she appeared
as Ma Moss in Aaron Copland’s The Tender
Land, Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s
Dialogues of the Carmelites, La Marchande
de Journaux in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles
de Tiresias, and as Zita in Puccini’s Gianni
Schicchi. Most recently she has appeared
on the Juilliard stage as the Neighbor in
Stravinsky’s one-act opera Mavra and as
Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon.
In May she received an Artist Diploma in
Opera Studies from the Juilliard School.
Robert Davidovici, violin, is acclaimed
in the United States, Canada, Europe,
South America, Australia and Asia as a
virtuoso in concerto, recital, and chamber
music performances who combines
spectacular technique, wide-ranging
repertoire, and magnificent artistry with
an exciting, compelling stage presence.
Born in Transylvania, Romania, Robert
Davidovici began his studies as a student
of David Oistrakh. He went on to study
with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School,
where, upon graduating, he became a
teaching assistant to the Juilliard String
Quartet. He has collaborated in concert
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with such esteemed artists as Yo-Yo Ma,
Isaac Stern, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman,
Cho Liang-Lin, and Emanuel Ax, among
others. Carnegie Hall has featured Robert
Davidovici as part of their “American Music
Masters” series, and he was the subject
of a television special on WGBH Boston.
His multifaceted career has included
being Concertmaster of such orchestras
as the Osaka Philharmonic, Vancouver
Symphony, The Residentie Orchestra (The
Hague), Cincinnati Symphony, as well as the
Grand Teton Music Festival, Chautauqua,
and Colorado Music Festival
Orchestras. In addition to his
solo engagements, Robert
Davidovici is Artistin-Residence and
Professor of Violin at
Florida International
University in Miami.
He is a guest
professor at leading
music schools
around the world,
most recently at the
Musashino Academia
Musicae in Tokyo,
Universities of Washington,
British Columbia, and the Australian
National University. The Boston Globe
has said that “he is a terrific violinist.
His technique is of the ‘wow’ variety, his
tone as huge as he cares to make it.” The
Montreal La Presse said that “Robert
Davidovici is a born violinist in the most
complete sense of the word.” In October
2013, Robert Davidovici performed the
Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) under
Grzegorz Nowak, after which he recorded
his 2nd CD with the RPO under G. Nowak,
containing the Beethoven and Mendelssohn
Concerti. The reviews for the 1st CD with
the RPO, under G. Nowak, released in the
autumn of 2013, comment on “the fantastic
performance of the Kletzki Violin Concerto
and Robert Davidovici’s full-blooded
tone being just what the work deserves”
(TheArtsDesk.com). Robert Davidovici
will return to London in February 2015
to perform the Tschaikovsky and Brahms
Violin Concerti, again with the RPO under
Maestro Nowak. In February 2007, Robert
Davidovici was soloist at Lincoln Center’s
Avery Fisher Hall in the American premiere
of the Kletzki Violin Concerto (1928)
with the American Symphony
Orchestra conducted by
Leon Botstein, following
which The New York
Times commented
on the “excellent”
performance. The
New York Times,
in describing
Robert Davidovici’s
performance on Bach’s
Solo Sonata No. 1 said
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clearly because multiple stops stayed
in tune, and a fast, tight vibrato helped
keep the music from sounding expressive
in a 19th-century manner. This was, in
fact, excellent Bach.” In describing his
performance of the Bernstein Serenade,
The New York Times stated that “it would
have been hard to imagine a sweeter
performance,” and the Sydney Morning
Herald wrote, “Robert Davidovici lingered
lovingly over the poetic passages of the
Tschaikovsky Concerto, and ignited the
fiery ones with passion.” Fanfare Magazine
commented on his first CD that “Davidovici
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members of various universities and music
schools. Mr. Leonard was the Principal
Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
from 1975 to 1999 and performed many
concertos, including Haydn, Dvorák,
Lalo,
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Tschaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, Elgar,
Shostakovich, Barber, and Strauss’ Don
Quixote with conductors including Zubin
Mehta, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Carlo Maria
Giulini, André Previn, Simon Rattle and EsaPekka Salonen. He has appeared as guest
artist with the Juilliard, Guarneri, Angeles,
Mendelssohn, Borremeo, Chilingarian
and American Quartets, and continues to
have an active career as cello soloist and
chamber musician. Mr. Leonard performs
on the only cello known to be made by
Pietro Guarneri of Mantua.
handles the five compositional styles with
confidence. His tone is ripe, his intonation
dead on, and he plays with aplomb. This is
an impressive disc debut.” He has recorded
as violin soloist with the London Symphony
Orchestra for Cala Records. His CD Mélodie
– The Art of Robert Davidovici was selected
as one of the top 30 CD releases in Japan
in 1995. Robert Davidovici may also be
heard on New World Records, Centaur,
Clavier, and Meistermusic. His CD recording
of transcriptions of Chopin’s Nocturnes
was released in May 2004 in Japan by JVC
Victor. Robert Davidovici is the recipient
of several distinguished First Prize honors,
among them, the Naumburg Competition
and the Carnegie Hall International
American Music Violin Competition.
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Ronald Leonard, cello, is well known as a
soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. His
performing career spans almost 60 years,
during which time he has been a member
of the Cleveland Orchestra under George
Szell, principal cellist of the Rochester
Philharmonic, and a member of the
Hartwell, Eastman, and Vermeer Quartets.
He has performed in the U.S., Canada,
and Europe both as soloist and chamber
musician. He taught at the Eastman School
of Music from 1957 to 1975, has been on
the faculties of various summer festivals
including the Marrowstone Festival,
the Sarasota Music Festival, the Aspen
Festival, the Round Top (Texas) Festival,
the Johannesen International School of
the Arts, the Perlman Music Program, and
SummerFest in La Jolla, CA. He was the
Gregor Piatigorsky Professor of Cello at USC
and is now a faculty member at the Colburn
Conservatory of Music, where he teaches
cello and chamber music. His former
students are members of many orchestras,
chamber music ensembles, and faculty
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BOBBY MCFERRIN
SAT / SEP 20 / 7:30 PM
Bobby McFerrin, vocals
Jazz and Blues at The Broad Stage made possible by a generous
gift from Richard and Lisa Kendall.
Total Run Time: 90 minutes
This evening’s program will be announced from the stage.
“…one of the world’s
most famous vocal
chameleons.”
– The New York Times
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there is no video, audio recording, or still photography of any kind allowed during the performance.
Prior to the performance please unwrap any hard candy and silence all cell phones and other
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what I don’t sing.” All that pioneer spirit
and virtuosity opened up a great big sky
full of new options for singers; so did
Bobby’s experiments in multi-tracking
his voice (“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” has
seven separate, over-dubbed vocal tracks;
Bobby’s choral album VOCAbuLarieS
with Roger Treece has thousands). But
virtuosity isn’t the point. “I try not to
‘perform’ onstage,” says Bobby. “I try to
sing the way I sing in my kitchen, because
I just can’t help myself. I want audiences
to leave the theatre and sing in their own
kitchens the next morning. I want to bring
audiences into the incredible feeling of
joy and freedom I get when I sing.” Bobby
McFerrin’s tour schedule in 2014-2015
spans many exciting projects. Bobby will
welcome local musicians and dancers
onstage for Bobby Meets Paris, Bobby Meets
Stockholm, and Bobby Meets Cleveland.
He’ll perform throughout the US, Canada,
Europe, and South America with the
bluesy, roots-influenced Spirityouall band,
singing his own versions of classic spirituals
alongside original tunes; he’ll sing material
from the choral album VOCAbuLarieS with
the 18-voice a cappella group SLIXS &
Friends; and in 2015 he’ll play duets with
his longtime friend and collaborator, Chick
Corea. Visit bobbymcferrin.com and the
Bobby McFerrin page on Facebook for more
information.
Bobby McFerrin, vocals, has for decades
broken all the rules. The 10-time Grammy
winner has blurred the distinction
between pop music and fine art, goofing
around barefoot in the world’s finest
concert halls, exploring uncharted vocal
territory, inspiring a whole new generation
of a cappella singers and the beat box
movement. He redefined the role of the
human voice with his a cappella hit “Don’t
Worry, Be Happy,” his collaborations
with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and the
Vienna Philharmonic, his improvising
choir Voicestra, and his legendary solo
vocal performances. Most people don’t
know that Bobby came from a family of
singers. Bobby’s father, the Metropolitan
Opera baritone Robert McFerrin, Sr.,
provided the singing voice for Sydney
Poitier for the film version of Porgy & Bess,
and his mother Sara was a fine soprano
soloist and voice teacher. Bobby grew
up surrounded by music of all kinds. He
remembers conducting Beethoven on the
stereo at three, hiding under the piano
while his father and mother coached
young singers, dancing around the house
to Louie Armstrong, Judy Garland, Etta
Jones, and Fred Astaire. He played the
clarinet seriously as a child, and he began
his musical career as a pianist, at the age
of 14. He led his own jazz groups, studied
composition, toured with the show band
for the Ice Follies, and played for dance
classes. Then one day he was walking home
and, suddenly, he understood that he had
been a singer all along. Bobby’s history
as an instrumentalist and bandleader is
the key to understanding his innovative
approach to mapping harmony and rhythm
(as well as melody) with his voice. “I can’t
sing everything at once,” he says, “but I
can hint at it so the audience hears even
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ON THE TRAIL OF BIG CATS
THU / OCT 2 / 7:30 PM
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rare snow leopards and stalking the elusive
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individuals share their captivating
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Each performance features the speaker’s
to catch a shot of a cougar under the
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Winter’s mission is to share the beauty of
Q & A session, and a book signing. National
big cats while reinvigorating efforts to save
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them. One of Winter’s snow leopard images
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and audience members. The series offers
the Year award. His decade-long project to
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Steve Winter, photographer, has been
attacked by rhinos in India, stalked by
jaguars in Brazil, charged by an 11-foot
grizzly in Siberia, trapped in quicksand
in the world’s largest tiger reserve in
Myanmar, and slept in a tent for six months
at 40° below zero tracking snow leopards.
He has flown over erupting volcanoes and
visited isolated villages where residents
had never before seen a blond foreigner-or
a camera. “I feel very lucky because this
is the life I dreamed of as a child growing
up in rural Indiana: traveling the world as
a photographer for National Geographic
magazine.” His first camera was a gift from
his father on his seventh birthday. Steve
started at National Geographic in 1991 and
feels so incredibly lucky to have realized his
dream as a kid, to have the best job in the
world! “I feel we have a great responsibility
to not only show and excite the readers
about the natural world, but it’s fascinating
people and cultures as well. But to give
people a reason to care. I want to give the
readers of National Geographic what I
always wanted – a front row seat next to the
photographer and writer – as a part of the
team along for the adventure.”
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BEETHOVEN, BAGELS,
& BANTER
SUN / OCT 5 / 11 AM / THE EDYE
Katerina Englichova, harp
Carol Wincenc, flute
Michelle Zukovsky, clarinet
Robert Davidovici, violin
Eduardo Rios, violin
Paul Coletti, viola
Ronald Leonard, cello
This series made possible by a generous gift
from Barbara Herman.
Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola Op. 25������ Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Entrata – Allegro
Tempo ordinario d’un Menuetto
Allegro Molto
Andante con Variazioni
Allegro scherzando e vivace
Adagio – Allegro vivace e disinvolto
(Wincenc, Davidovici, Coletti)
Fantasie for Violin and Harp, Op. 124��������������� Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
(Davidovici, Englichova)
Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp (1915)����������������� Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Pastorale
Interlude
Finale
(Wincenc, Coletti, Englichova)chova)
Introduction and Allegro for�������������������������������Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet
(Englichova, Wincenc, Zukovsky, Davidovici, Rios, Coletti, Leonard)
There will be no intermission.
Please join us after the performance for refreshments and a conversation with the performers.
Out of consideration for your fellow patrons and respect to the performers, please be reminded that
there is no video, audio recording, or still photography of any kind allowed during the performance.
Prior to the performance, please unwrap any hard candy and silence all cell phones and other
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Katerina Englichova, harp, is one of the
most sought after Czech harpists of her
generation, and performs all over Europe,
North America, Japan, Hong Kong, and
New Zealand. She has collaborated with
artists such as Mstislav Rostropovich,
Josef Suk, Gerard Causee, Cynthia Phelps,
Michel Lethiec, Eugenia Zukerman, Robert
Stallman, Carlo Jans, Michael Kofler, and
with many ensembles, including the Prazak
Quartet, the Haas Quartet, and the Wihan
Quartet. She has performed at numerous
international festivals such as Tanglewood
and the Tucson Music Festival in the USA,
Music by the Red Sea in Israel, Pacific Music
Festival in Japan, Rencontres Musicales
d’Evian and Festival d’Ile de France, and
in the Czech Republic at Prague Spring,
Prague Autumn, Festival B. Martinu,
and many others. Ms. Englichova had
her debut with the Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra in January 2008. Ms. Englichova
made her American recital debut in Weill
Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York in 1998.
Katerina Englichova won the Pro Musicis
International Award, 1st prize in the Torneo
International Competition in Italy, Prague
Radio Broadcast Competition, Concerto
Soloists Competition in Philadelphia,
Vienna Music Competition, E. HerbertHobin Harp Competition in USA, and the
Laureate Prize of the Chamber Music
Society of the Czech Philharmonic. She
studied at the Prague Conservatoire and
the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia,
(she is a Fulbright recipient), and has
given master classes in the USA, Canada,
Hong Kong, Italy, Luxembourg and Czech
Republic. Katerina Englichova taught
harp and chamber music at the Ameropa
International Courses (2004-2009). She has
been a Professor of Harp at the New York
University, Prague since 2005 and at the
Music School of the City of Prague since
2010.
Carol Wincenc, flute is a Grammynominated flutist, as well as the recipient
of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award
from the National Flute Association, and
the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Society of Arts and Letters. She
recently celebrated her 25th anniversary
as a faculty member at the Juilliard School
in a gala recital of colleagues, students
and friends, including the Escher String
Quartet, and members of the Les Amies
Trio. Wincenc celebrated her 2009-2010
Ruby Anniversary with rave reviews from
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
The New Yorker, and Performance Today. A
muse of many of today’s most prominent
composers, she has premiered concertos
written for her by Christopher Rouse,
Lukas Foss, Henryk Górecki (with a most
recent release on Naxos with the Warsaw
Philharmonic, May 2012), Joan Tower, Paul
Schoenfield, Jake Heggie, Peter Schickele,
Roberto Sierra, and Tobias Picker. A prolific
recording artist, her performance of
Pulitzer Prize-winner Christopher Rouse’s
Flute Concerto won the coveted Diapson
d’Or Award with the Houston Symphony
on Telarc as well as Gramophone’s “Pick of
the Month” recording with her hometown
orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic (Naxos)
with Maestro JoAnn Falletta. After winning
the sole Naumburg Solo Flute Competition,
her performance with András Schiff in
an all French CD for Music Masters was
awarded the Recording of Special Merit.
She has appeared as concerto soloist
with such ensembles as the Chicago, St.
Louis, San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh,
Atlanta, BBC, Warsaw Philharmonic, and
London Symphonies; as well as the Saint
Paul, Mostly Mozart, Pro Musica and Los
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collaborated with a number of chamber
ensembles, most notably the Angeles
and the St. Petersburg String Quartets,
and has appeared frequently in 92nd
Street Y’s “Concerts at the Y,” and at the
Ravinia, Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart,
Lochinhaus, Schlesswig-Holstein, and
Marlboro festivals. She was solo clarinetist
at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico and
played the Mozart Quintet at the memorial
for Pablo Casals. Zukovsky is active as
a teacher of master classes throughout
the world, and she is currently on the
faculty of the Thornton School of Music
at the University of Southern California,
Azusa Pacific University, and the Pasadena
Conservatory of Music. She studied
clarinet with her father, Kalman Bloch,
himself a former principal with the Los
Angeles Philharmonic. Michele Zukovsky
has recorded for London/Decca, Avant,
Nonesuch, Philips, and Summit Records.
Her recent Summit recordings include
works by Martinu and transcriptions of
pieces by Simon Bellison, the former
clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic.
Angeles Chamber Orchestras. She has
performed at music festivals in Aldeburgh,
Budapest, Frankfurt, Santa Fe, Spoleto,
Banff, Sarasota, Winter Harbor Music
Festival, Yale/Norfolk, Music@Menlo, and
Marlboro. Her recording of the Mozart
Flute Quartets on Deutsche Grammophone
with the Emerson Quartet is regarded as
one of the definitive interpretations of
these works. As a result of her fascination
with the flute family, Wincenc created
and directed a series of International
Flute Festivals at the Ordway Theater in
Saint Paul, featuring such diverse artists
as the legendary Jean-Pierre Rampal,
Herbie Mann, and Native American flutist
R. Carlos Nakai. Lauren Keiser Publishers
and Carl Fischer publish the Carol Wincenc
Signature Editions, featuring her favorite
flute repertoire, as well as the staples of
flute methods and etudes. A renowned
pedagogue, master class performer, and
juror at the most prestigious international
flute competitions, Ms. Wincenc continues
her teaching legacy at both Stony Brook
University and her alma mater, the Juilliard
School, graduating masterful students now
holding prominent orchestral and teaching
positions worldwide.
Robert Davidovici, violin, is acclaimed
in the United States, Canada, Europe,
South America, Australia and Asia as a
virtuoso in concerto, recital, and chamber
music performances who combines
spectacular technique, wide-ranging
repertoire, and magnificent artistry with
an exciting, compelling stage presence.
Born in Transylvania, Romania, Robert
Davidovici began his studies as a student
of David Oistrakh. He went on to study
with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School,
where, upon graduating, he became a
teaching assistant to the Juilliard String
Quartet. He has collaborated in concert
with such esteemed artists as Yo-Yo Ma,
Isaac Stern, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman,
Michelle Zukovsky, clarinet, is Principal
Clarinetist at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
She has appeared many times as soloist
with the Philharmonic, both at the
Hollywood Bowl and at the Music Center.
She has been a guest soloist with many
orchestras around the world, including
the world premiere performance of John
Williams’ Clarinet Concerto with the Boston
Pops. Zukovsky also performs regularly
at the Philharmonic’s Chamber Music
Society concerts, and she has participated
in several premieres as a soloist with the
orchestra’s New Music Group. She has
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Cho Liang-Lin, and Emanuel Ax, among
others. Carnegie Hall has featured Robert
Davidovici as part of their “American Music
Masters” series and he was the subject of
a television special on WGBH Boston. His
multifaceted career has included being
Concertmaster of such orchestras as the
Osaka Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony,
The Residentie Orchestra (The Hague),
Cincinnati Symphony, as well as the Grand
Teton Music Festival, Chautauqua, and
Colorado Music Festival Orchestras. In
addition to his solo engagements, Robert
Davidovici is Artist-in-Residence
and Professor of Violin at
Florida International
University in Miami. He
is a guest professor
at leading music
schools around the
world, most recently
at the Musashino
Academia Musicae
in Tokyo, Universities
of Washington,
British Columbia, and
the Australian National
University. The Boston Globe
has said that “he is a terrific
violinist. His technique is of the ‘wow’
variety, his tone as huge as he cares to
make it.” The Montreal La Presse said that
“Robert Davidovici is a born violinist in
the most complete sense of the word.” In
October 2013, Robert Davidovici performed
the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) under
Grzegorz Nowak, after which he recorded
his 2nd CD with the RPO under G. Nowak,
containing the Beethoven and Mendelssohn
Concerti. The reviews for the 1st CD with
the RPO, under G. Nowak, released in
the autumn of 2013, comment on “the
fantastic performance of the Kletzki Violin
Concerto and Robert Davidovici’s fullblooded tone being just what the work
deserves” (TheArtsDesk.com). Robert
Davidovici will return to London in February
2015 to perform the Tschaikovsky and
Brahms Violin Concerti, again with the RPO
under Maestro Nowak. In February 2007,
Robert Davidovici was soloist at Lincoln
Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in the American
premiere of the Kletzki Violin Concerto
(1928) with the American Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein,
following which The New York Times
commented on the “excellent”
performance. The New
York Times, in describing
Robert Davidovici’s
performance on
Bach’s Solo Sonata
No. 1 said “…he
played cleanly and
without affectation.
Contrapuntal lines
emerged clearly
because multiple stops
stayed in tune, and a
i
i c fast, tight vibrato helped
v
ido
Dav
keep the music from sounding
Rob ert
expressive in a 19th-century
manner. This was, in fact, excellent Bach.”
In describing his performance of the
Bernstein Serenade, The New York Times
stated that “it would have been hard to
imagine a sweeter performance,” and the
Sydney Morning Herald wrote, “Robert
Davidovici lingered lovingly over the poetic
passages of the Tschaikovsky Concerto,
and ignited the fiery ones with passion.”
Fanfare Magazine commented on his
first CD that “Davidovici handles the five
compositional styles with confidence.
His tone is ripe, his intonation dead on,
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the concertmasters at the American Youth
Symphony.
and he plays with aplomb. This is an
impressive disc debut.” He has recorded
as violin soloist with the London Symphony
Orchestra for Cala Records. His CD Mélodie
– The Art of Robert Davidovici was selected
as one of the top 30 CD releases in Japan
in 1995. Robert Davidovici may also be
heard on New World Records, Centaur,
Clavier, and Meistermusic. His CD recording
of transcriptions of Chopin’s Nocturnes
was released in May 2004 in Japan by JVC
Victor. Robert Davidovici is the recipient
of several distinguished First Prize honors,
among them, the Naumburg Competition
and the Carnegie Hall International
American Music Violin Competition.
Paul Coletti, viola, enjoys a prolific career
as a performer, composer, professor,
recording artist, and conductor. Since
2003 he has taught at the Colburn
School. Previous appointments include
the Peabody institute, UCLA, where he
was Head of Chamber Music, and the
University of Washington where, at 25, he
was Head of Strings. He has given master
courses and classes on five continents. As
a soloist, Coletti has performed in every
major European capital, frequently on
the BBC, NHK, Classical Arts, and NPR’s
Saint Paul Sunday. He is a constant guest
at numerous international music festivals,
with orchestras including the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the London Soloists, the
Berlin and Hannover Radio symphonies, and
the New Japan Philharmonic. Paul Coletti
has performed at the Sydney Opera House,
Berlin Philharmonie, Kennedy Center, Walt
Disney Concert Hall, Suntory Hall, and
at historic sites such as the 4th-century
San Miniato al Monte in Florence. He has
been a featured soloist at the International
Viola Congresses of Chicago (where he
performed on Paganini’s Stradivarius viola),
Seattle, Tempe, Cincinnati, and Redlands
CA. A prolific recording artist, Coletti has
been Grammy nominated, and has won
accolades for his Hyperion recording
English Music for Viola, which won best CD
awards from Gramophone and BBC Music
magazines and was named one of the 100
best CDs of all time. With the Menuhin
Festival Piano Quartet recording of Brahms
Piano Quartets he won the ’Forderpreiz’
in Zurich for Europe’s best chamber music
recording of the year, and in Japan, with
his pioneering group Typhoon, three Sony
CD’s reached No.1 in the classical charts.
Eduardo Rios, violin, was born in Lima,
Peru and started playing the violin at the
age of 10 with maestro Laszlo Benedek
in the National Conservatory of Peru
for 6 years. During his time home, he
has soloed with the National Symphony
Orchestra of Peru three times, and
was the concertmaster of the National
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Peru for
4 consecutive years. Since 2010, he has
been able to participate in festivals and
summer camps with full scholarship such
as: Aspen Music Festival, Interlochen Arts
Camp, New York String Orchestra Seminar
(NYSOS), Youth Orchestra of the Americas
(YOA tour 2011), among others. He has
had master classes, private lessons, and
chamber music coaching with renowned
musicians such as Midori Goto, Philip
Quint, Arnold Steinhardt, Martin Beaver,
Nicholas McGegan, Paul Coletti, Richard
Young, Clive Greensmith, Peter Lloyd,
Ronald Leonard, and others. Eduardo is a
Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn
Conservatory of Music, where he studies
with Robert Lipsett. He is currently one of
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In 2013, Fanfare Magazine wrote, “I don’t
believe there is a better violist currently
on the musical scene today, and few
that can match the standard set by this
artist. At 23, Paul Coletti made his debuts
in New York, San Francisco, and at his
hometown Edinburgh Festival. The New
York Times wrote, “The violist Paul Coletti
is a remarkable musician with a distinct
artistic personality that is entirely his own.
He is an elegant artist who enhances all he
plays.” The San Francisco Examiner wrote,
“He reminds me of a few times when I had
the privilege of hearing the great William
Primrose at his best.” The Scotsman in its
headline, however, called him “A major
disappointment.”
schools. Mr. Leonard was the Principal
Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
from 1975 to 1999 and performed many
concertos, including Haydn, Dvorák,
Lalo,
˘
Tschaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, Elgar,
Shostakovich, Barber, and Strauss’ Don
Quixote with conductors including Zubin
Mehta, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Carlo Maria
Giulini, André Previn, Simon Rattle and EsaPekka Salonen. He has appeared as guest
artist with the Juilliard, Guarneri, Angeles,
Mendelssohn, Borremeo, Chilingarian
and American Quartets, and continues to
have an active career as cello soloist and
chamber musician. Mr. Leonard performs
on the only cello known to be made by
Pietro Guarneri of Mantua.
Ronald Leonard, cello, is well known as a
soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. His
performing career spans almost 60 years,
during which time he has been a member
of the Cleveland Orchestra under George
Szell, principal cellist of the Rochester
Philharmonic, and a member of the
Hartwell, Eastman and Vermeer Quartets.
He has performed in the U.S., Canada,
and Europe both as soloist and chamber
musician. He taught at the Eastman School
of Music from 1957 to 1975, has been on
the faculties of various summer festivals
including the Marrowstone Festival,
the Sarasota Music Festival, the Aspen
Festival, the Round Top (Texas) Festival,
the Johannesen International School of
the Arts, the Perlman Music Program, and
SummerFest in La Jolla, CA. He was the
Gregor Piatigorsky Professor of Cello at USC
and is now a faculty member at the Colburn
Conservatory of Music, where he teaches
cello and chamber music. His former
students are members of many orchestras,
chamber music ensembles, and faculty
members of various universities and music
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Program
Eric Abraham and The Broad Stage present
Young Vic production of Mozart’s
THE MAGIC FLUTE (IMPEMPE YOMLINGO)
In partnership with South African Tourism–Inspiring New Ways–and with special thanks
to South African Airways–Africa’s Most Awarded Airline.
Oct 8 -12, 2014
adapted and directed by Mark Dornford-May
cast
Noluthando Boqwana, Mandisi Dyantyis, Thobile Dyasi, Ayanda Eleki, Zamile Gantana,
Nontsusa Louw, Sifiso Lupuzi, Pauline Malefane, Bongiwe Mapassa, Zanele Mbatha,
Siyasanga Mbuyazwe, Sinethemba Mdena, Zebulon Mmusi, Mhlekazi (WhaWha) Mosiea,
Zoleka Mpotsha, Siyanda Ncobo, Cikizwa Ndamase, Busisiwe Ngejane, Zolina Ngejane,
Sonwabo Ntshata, Tukela Pepeteka, Luvo Rasemeni, Masakane Sotayisi, Ayanda Tikolo
Isango Ensemble – An Introduction
The South African company Isango Ensemble
is based in Cape Town. The core of the
company was formed by director Mark
Dornford-May and music director and singer
Pauline Malefane in 2000. The company
predominantly draws performers from
across the townships surrounding the city.
The company’s structure embraces artists
at all stages of their creative development,
allowing senior artists to lead and contribute
towards the growth of rising talents. At
its heart are the extraordinary and varied
musical abilities of its group of performers.
In 2011, the company became a Section 21
Company, a not-for-profit organization, and
took as its new name – Isango Ensemble.
Isango Ensemble works through the creative
force and energy of each and every member
of the Company. This collective focus makes
things happen beyond “the box.” It is the
mixture and clash of its cultures, races,
and experiences that enables it to create
work of the highest caliber. The company’s
work to date has focused on reimagining
classics from the Western theatre canon,
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Act One
Run Time: 53 minutes
There will be one 15 minute intermission.
Act Two
Run Time: 50 minutes
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finding a new context for the stories within
a South African or township setting, and
creating new work, which is relevant to the
heritage of the nation. Isango Ensemble’s
more recent stage productions include
The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo,
featuring Mozart’s score transposed for an
orchestra of marimbas, which broke box
office records when it played in repertoire
with A Christmas Carol – Ikrismas Kherol
at the Young Vic in London. Together
these productions won the Whatsonstage
Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best
Off-West End Production. The Magic Flute
– Impempe Yomlingo then won an Olivier
Award for Best Musical Revival when it
transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre
for a season in the West End and the Globes
de Cristal for Best Opera Production
following a sold-out season at the Théâtre
du Châtelet in Paris. In September 2009
the company returned to London's West
End with The Mysteries – Yiimimangaliso
winning unanimous critical praise. In
the summer of 2012, the company’s
production of La Boheme – Abanxaxhi, a
unique partnership with The Global Fund
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Pauline Malefane and Mandisi Dyantyis, music arrangement
Clungelo Ngamlana, choreography
Leigh Bishop, costumes
Mannie Manim, original lighting
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Africa with members of the company since
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,
2000. In South Africa, Mark has directed
played at Hackney Empire in London for
The Mysteries –Yiimimangaliso, The Beggar’s
five weeks to critical acclaim. In 2012, in
Opera – Ibali loo Tsotsi, Carmen, The Magic
a partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe,
Flute – ImpempeYomlingo, Aesop’s Fables,
a new stage version of Shakespeare’s
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
epic poem, Venus & Adonis, was created.
– IzigwiliEzidlakazelayo, and Christmas
The production proved so successful in
Carol – IkrismasKherol, which won the
its first run at the Globe that it returned
Whatsonstage Theatregoers’ Choice Award
for more performances in 2013. The
company’s productions have toured Dublin, for Best Off-West End Production. The
Magic Flute has since toured the world
Chichester, Canterbury, Johannesburg,
and won numerous awards, including the
Tokyo, Singapore, and Rotterdam. Films
2008 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival,
created by Mark Dornford-May and
and the Globes de Cristal for Best Opera
other members of the ensemble include
in Paris. Mark’s first feature film,
u-Carmen eKhayelitsha, which
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, won
won the Golden Bear at the
the Golden Bear at the
Berlin Film Festival and
Berlin Film Festival. His
Best Feature at the
“A sense of
second film, Son of Man,
LA Pan African Film
celebration, and
received the award for
Festival, as well as
Best Feature at the
garnering several
resilience, that seems to
LA Film Festival and
awards for its star,
encapsulate the human
the Founders Award,
Pauline Malefane;
spirit at its best.”
presented by Michael
and Son of Man,
– The Telegraph (UK)
Moore, at the Traverse
which premiered at
City Film Festival. His
The Sundance Film
third, Unogumbe – Noye’s
Festival in the USA. The
Fludde, was an official selection
ensemble’s third film: a short
at both the Toronto and Berlin Film
film, Unogumbe – Noye’s Fludde,
Festivals. From July 2009 to February 2010,
premiered at the Toronto International Film
Mark oversaw the building of the Fugard
Festival, and has also been in competition
Theatre in Cape Town. The Magic Flute and
at the 65th Berlin International Film
The Mysteries formed the opening season
Festival. It has played at the Human Rights
of the Fugard Theatre, where the Isango
Arts & Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia;
Ensemble staged two world premieres,
the Washington Jewish Film Festival; the
Aesop’s Fables and The Ragged Trousered
Austin Film Festival; the Flatpack Film
Philanthropists – IzigwiliEzidlakazelayo. In
Festival in Birmingham, UK; the Matatu
2012, Mark directed and adapted Venus
African Film Festival in Oakland, CA; and
& Adonis for Isango to open the Globe
the International Images Film Festival for
to Globe season at Shakespeare’s Globe
Women in Harare, Zimbabwe.
in London. Following its success, this
Mark Dornford-May, adapter, director,
production returned to the Globe in May
writer, co-founder, is the Artistic Director
2013. In 2012, Isango also produced La
of Isango Ensemble. He has worked in South
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Boheme, supported by The Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in
a unique partnership. After a run in Cape
Town, supported by Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, La Boheme played Hackney Theatre in
London for four weeks.
Mandisi Dyantyis, associate director &
co-music director of Isango Ensemble,
has been with the company since 2006.
He has been co-Music Director for all
Isango Ensemble productions including
The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo, A
Christmas Carol – iKrismasKherol, The
Mysteries – Yiimimangaliso, Aesop’s Fables
and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
– IzigwiliEzidlakazelayo. Recently, Mandisi
travelled to New York to work with Graduate
Acting students of New York University’s
Tisch School of Acting, as they explored
relationships between South African and
American theatre methods. In 2012, Mandisi
was the musical director for Isango’s Venus
& Adonis, which opened the Globe to Globe
season at Shakespeare’s Globe in London,
and subsequently returned to the Globe in
May 2013.
Pauline Malefane, co-founder & co-music
director of Isango Ensemble, is also the
company’s leading actress. She has worked
with members of the company since 2000.
She is also an advocate for The Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Prior to Isango Ensemble, she worked with
the Lyric Theatre Company Dimpho Di
Kopane, where she saw world-wide success
playing the role of Carmen, both on stage
and in the Golden Bear-winning feature
film U-Carmen eKhayelithsa, for which she
won a Golden Thumb from Roger Ebert.
She was awarded the Best Actress Award at
the South African Film & Television Awards
for the film Son of Man. In 2008, she was
invited to give a series of master classes to
theatre and music students at UCLA. She
made her Proms debut at London’s Albert
Hall in 2006 with the songs of Kurt Weill. In
the same year, she sang the role of Bess in
Porgy and Bess at both Umea and Malmo
in Sweden. In 2009, conducted by Sir
Simon Rattle, she sang a series of concerts
with the Berlin Philharmonic, which were
broadcast on German television. In 2012,
Pauline played the role of Venus in Isango’s
Venus & Adonis, which opened the Globe
to Globe season at Shakespeare’s Globe in
London. Following its success, she and the
production returned to the Globe in May
2013.
The Magic Flute – An African Tale?
A Director’s Note from Mark Dornford-May
In Tsonga tradition, lightning is caused by
birds called the andlati. These birds, with
their multicolored plumage, live in the high
mountains. When a storm is brewing, they
fly towards heaven and then dive out of
the clouds towards earth, striking a tree,
a house, or a person causing death and
fire in the middle of rain. The only way to
prevent this bird from causing destruction
is to find someone brave enough to climb
into the mountains as the storm is breaking.
Once they have climbed high enough they
are to play on an enchanted flute. The
sound of this flute will force the birds to
spare the musician and his immediate
community. Hearing this story by accident,
I couldn’t help wonder if Mozart had
also come across it. The similarities are
extraordinary. A “Magic Flute” player has
to face lightning (fire) and rain (water) in
order to save himself and his community.
The frightening birds live like the “Queen
of the Night” in the high mountains and
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– not the aristocracy. It is a world-beating
piece of music storytelling, and it has
always belonged to every man.
appear in thunder and lightning; Mozart’s
stage directions specify “thunder and
lightning” for the Queen’s entrance. The
Tsongan flute is carved from the bone of
andlati bird during a storm; Mozart’s flute is
also carved during a storm “when lightning
flashed.” The only way to avert destruction
in both tales is through the music of a
“flute.” The story may never have reached
Mozart, but the similarities are fascinating
none the less. Who knows? Maybe one of
the greatest pieces of European opera
had its roots and inspiration in a South
African folk tale. The Magic Flute fable
owes part of its huge popularity to the
unlikely combination of a fairytale with a
passionate and all-encompassing tale of an
individual’s faith and belief. As it thrillingly
unfolds, it explores issues of isolation and
inclusion, male and female, waste and
cleansing, night and day, chaos and order,
and, perhaps most importantly, destruction
and forgiveness. All these themes have
heightened resonance in a South African
setting. Mozart’s The Magic Flute premiered
in September 1791, a matter of weeks
before Mozart’s death at age 35. It stands
as the overwhelming achievement of his
life (quite a claim, given Mozart’s unfeasibly
high output of masterpieces in every
genre). It is, quite possibly, the finest
musical drama ever written. Into it, Mozart
poured his uncanny ability to capture the
essence of humanity in music; to hold up
a mirror to us all. You can’t know true joy
without true pain, and Mozart expresses
this uniquely well. The Magic Flute is
a simple moralistic allegory about the
journey towards self-knowledge, towards
compassion, towards tolerance, towards
enlightenment – a journey in which we are
all engaged. It was created to be performed
in a suburban theatre for “ordinary” people
Mozart’s Magic Flute – The Story
ACT 1
Tamino, a young traveler who is passing
through the realm of the Queen of the
Night, is being pursued by a fire-breathing
beast. He cries for help and faints with
terror. Three Ladies – warriors of the
Queen – hear his cries and spear the beast.
Seeing how handsome the young man is,
they go to tell the Queen what happened.
Papageno, a bird catcher, is trying to lure
birds into his net using his whistle. As
Tamino regains consciousness, the birds
are scared away. Papageno is a natural
improviser and he claims credit for killing
the fire-breathing beast. The Three Ladies
reappear and punish Papageno for his lie
by locking his mouth with a padlock. They
show Tamino a picture of the Queen’s
daughter, Pamina, whom they say has
been kidnapped by an evil man – Sarastro.
Tamino falls in love with the picture and
promises to rescue the beautiful girl. The
Queen of the Night arrives and urges a very
frightened Tamino to keep his promise to
rescue Pamina. To help him, he is presented
with a Magic Flute. Papageno’s padlock
is removed and he is ordered to help
Tamino and given a set of magic bells. Both
instruments, bells and flute, have the power
to help the owners and to change evil into
good. Three spirits materialize. They send
the Ladies to sleep and offer to guide the
men to Sarastro’s camp. Papageno and
Tamino are pointed in the right direction
but get separated. Papageno by chance
happens upon Pamina with her jailer,
Monostatos. Rescuing Pamina, Papageno
shows her a picture of Tamino, and she
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innocently tries to speak to her lover; he
falls in love with him. Tamino meanwhile
refuses to answer her words of love and
has been led by the Spirits to the outside
she leaves broken-hearted. Papageno,
of the camp. He meets a Comrade of
however, cannot manage to keep quiet
Sarastro, who tells him that Sarastro is not
and he fails the first trial. The Queen of
evil, but good. In his confusion and despair,
the Night appears and orders Pamina to
Tamino plays the Flute and is answered
kill Sarastro, giving her a knife for the task.
by Papageno’s bird whistle. He runs in
Sarastro’s Comrades try to restrain the
the direction of the sound but misses
Queen but are killed by her soldiers as
the escapees. Monostatos recaptures
she escapes. In spite of this, Sarastro still
Papageno and Pamina, but Papageno
pursues his doctrine of forgiveness and
plays his magic bells and Monostatos is
reconciliation and refuses to seek revenge.
seduced by their enchantment. As they
Heartbroken and depressed at Tamino’s
make to escape again, Sarastro’s arrival
rejection, Pamina attempts suicide but
is announced. Pamina tells Sarastro she
is restrained by three Spirits. Having
was escaping from Monostatos, partly
completed the trial of silence,
because he attempted to rape
Tamino is reconciled with
her. Monostatos, who has
Pamina, and she undertakes
managed to capture
to complete his trials
Tamino, demands that
with him. Together, they
Sarastro put the intruder
complete the second
to death. Sarastro is
“Leaves you with
trial, the trial of fire,
angered at the behavior
a rare sense of life and go on to the third
of Monostatos towards
enhancing joy.”
trial, the trial of water.
Pamina and has him
– Sunday Times UK
At first it appears that
imprisoned instead.
they have drowned,
He then orders that
but they are revived
Tamino attempt various
and Tamino completes his
trials to prove he is worthy
initiation. Papageno, upset
of Pamina’s love. Papageno
at his failure with the trials and
reluctantly accompanies him.
disheartened by his failure to find a woman,
contemplates suicide but is stopped by
ACT 2
the three Spirits who introduce him to the
At a meeting of the elders, Sarastro
girl of his dreams, Papagena. Guided by
proposes that Tamino undergo initiation
the wicked Monostatos, the Queen of the
into their Brotherhood. If Tamino is
Night makes another attempt on Sarastro’s
successful in the trials, Sarastro proposes
life but fails. Sarastro holds out his hand
that he will hand joint power to both
to her offering reconciliation; she refuses
Pamina and Tamino. The elders are at first
and leaves as the Comrades celebrate the
outraged that a woman should jointly rule
dawn.
over them, but after some hesitation they
agree to the plan. The first of the trials
undertaken by Tamino and Papageno is
a trial of silence. Pamina appears and
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2014-2015 The Broad Stage Artists-in-Residence
CALDER QUARTET
SUN / OCT 19 / 4 PM
Benjamin Jacobson, violin
Andrew Bulbrook, violin
Jonathan Moerschel, viola
Eric Byers, cello
Yulia Van Doren, guest artist, soprano
Up Close & Classical series at The Broad Stage
is made possible by a generous gift from
Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation.
Total Run Time: 90 minutes
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10����������������������������� Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
with Yulia Van Doren
String Quartet No. 3, “Jagdquartett”��������������� Jörg Widmann (b. 1973)
There will be one 15 minute intermission.
String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810,����������� Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
“Death and the Maiden”
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there is no video, audio recording, or still photography of any kind allowed during the performance.
Prior to the performance, and upon returning from intermission, please unwrap any hard candy and
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The Calder Quartet, called “outstanding”
and “superb” by The New York Times,
performs a broad range of repertoire at an
exceptional level, always striving to channel
and fulfill the composer’s vision. Already
the choice of many leading composers
to perform their works – including
Christopher Rouse, Terry Riley and Thomas
Adès – the group’s distinctive approach is
exemplified by a musical curiosity brought
to everything they perform, whether it’s
Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, or sold-out
rock shows with bands like The National or
The Airborne Toxic Event. Known for the
discovery, commissioning, recording, and
mentoring of some of today’s best emerging
composers (over 25 commissioned works
to date), the group continues to work and
collaborate with artists across musical
genres, spanning the ranges of the classical
and contemporary music world, as well
as rock and visual arts; and in venues
ranging from art galleries and rock clubs
to Carnegie and Walt Disney concert halls.
Inspired by innovative American artist
Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet’s
desire to bring immediacy and context to
the works they perform creates an artfully
crafted musical experience. The 2013-14
season saw debuts for the Calder Quartet
at New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (performing a
Bartók cycle with a signature Calder twist),
the Phillips Collection in Washington DC,
and London’s Wigmore Hall. The group
premiered a new work by Pulitzer Prizewinning composer David Lang with Los
Angeles Master Chorale. Other highlights
include returns to Rockport Chamber
Music Festival, Bravo! Vail Valley Music
Festival, Cal Performances, and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic’s 2014 Minimalist
Jukebox. Also in 2013-14, recordings from
the group’s Eclectic Currents Project – a
Kickstarter-funded commissioning project
with the aim of recording and releasing 12
new quartets from 12 young composers
– were released. In 2012-13, the Calder
Quartet continued an impressive run of
collaborations and commissions with
concerts across the globe. In the spring
of 2013, the quartet performed Terry
Riley’s “The Sands” with the Cleveland
Orchestra. The quartet debuted at
Vancouver’s Music on Main/Modulus
Festival, opened both the Chamber Series
and Parallels Series at Amherst College,
and premiered three new works at L.A.’s
Getty Museum. The group continued
its regular concerts with ArtPower UC
San Diego, returned to Australia with an
appearance at the Adelaide Festival (with
Iva Bittova), and made its London debut
at the 2013 Barbican Festival. The group
has also maintained an active recording
schedule. The quartet with pianist Gloria
Cheng recorded works by Messaien and
Saariaho for the Harmonia Mundi release
entitled The Edge of Light. They also teamed
with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott
to record Mozart concertos for Bridge
Records. Other recent highlights include
a premiere of a new clarinet quintet by
Aaron Jay Kernis at La Jolla Music Society
SummerFest, performances at the Laguna
Beach Festival alongside Joshua Bell and
Edgar Meyer, and at Stanford Lively Arts
and Le Poisson Rouge (NYC) with Grammywinning pianist Gloria Cheng. The quartet
debuted at the Edinburgh International
Festival (broadcast on BBC-3), and
made its Austrian debut at the Esterhazy
Palace. They have performed at top halls
and festivals across the globe including
Carnegie Hall, Washington Performing Arts
Society, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival,
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The Calder Quartet Residency at The Broad
Stage has been made possible in part through
a generous grant from the Colburn Foundation.
ABOUT
in 2009, the Melbourne Festival in 2010,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Melbourne
and at CAL Performances in 2011. Of the
Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Big
Stockholm performance, The Guardian
Ears Festival in Knoxville, New Haven’s
said, “the Calder Quartet played the
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, and
most insightful and moving performance
The Hollywood Bowl. The Calder Quartet
of Thomas Adès’s “Arcadiana” I’ve ever
has toured across North America with
heard.” In 2011 the Calder Quartet
So Percussion, and with rockers Andrew
launched a non-profit dedicated to
W.K. and The Airborne Toxic Event. The
furthering its efforts in commissioning,
quartet has been featured on KCRW’s
presenting, recording, and education.
Morning Becomes Eclectic, The Late Show
The non-profit has co-commissioned
with David Letterman, The Tonight Show
works with the Getty Museum, Segerstrom
with Jay Leno, The Tonight Show with Conan
Center for the Arts, and the Barbican
O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late
Centre; funded the recording of 12 string
Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The group
quartets commissioned for the
has long-standing relationships
Calder Quartet by emerging
with composers Terry Riley,
composers; and made
Christopher Rouse, and
possible visits to Inner City
Thomas Adès. The Calder
Arts and Chinatown’s
Quartet first met Riley
Castelar Elementary as
when they shared a
“One of America’s great
part of LA’s Best. The
concert as part of the
young string quartets”
Calder Quartet formed
L.A. Philharmonic’s
at the University of
Minimalist Jukebox
– The Boston Globe
Southern California’s
Festival in 2006. They
Thornton School of Music
subsequently released
and continued studies at
a limited edition vinyl
the Colburn Conservatory
release of Riley’s Trio and
of Music with Ronald Leonard,
Quartet in commemoration
and at the Juilliard School, where
of the composers’ 75th birthday.
it received the Artist Diploma in Chamber
The Calder is the first quartet in two
Music Studies as the Juilliard Graduate
decades to have a work written for them
Resident String Quartet. The quartet
by composer Christopher Rouse. An album
regularly conducts master classes and
of works by Rouse, called Transfiguration,
has been featured in this capacity at
was released in 2010. After featuring
the Colburn School (where the quartet
the music of Thomas Adès on their first
was in residence for three years), the
recording in 2008 (along with Mozart
Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of
and Ravel), the group worked directly
Music, University of Cincinnati College
with the composer on a performance of
Conservatory, and USC Thornton School
“Arcadiana” as part of the Green Umbrella
of Music.
Series at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The relationship evolved into collaborating
on concerts together at the Stockholm
Philharmonic Orchestra’s Konserthuset
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About the Program
“When I wished to sing of love, it turned to
sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow,
it transformed for me into love”
– Franz Schubert
“My compositions spring from my sorrows.
Those that give the world the greatest
delight were born of my deepest griefs.”
– Franz Schubert
Schubert’s chamber music, now a
cornerstone of the cannon, was largely a
private affair in his lifetime. He passed away
never seeing some of his greatest works
published or hearing them performed
publicly. These concerts explore two
of Schubert’s greatest works-his Death
and the Maiden quartet, and his final
chamber work, the Cello Quintet in C
Major, in a context of works by composers
he influenced and those who influenced
him, including those affiliated with both
Viennese schools and a new work by
Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason.
Calder quartet is joined by the young
soprano Yulia van Doren in Second
Viennese School composer (and Los
Angeles resident) Arnold Schoenberg’s late
Romantic 2nd string quartet. Ms. Van Doren
is known to LA audiences through her
performances with The Los Angeles Master
Chorale (Brahms Requiem), Pasadena
Symphony (Mahler 4), and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic (she created the lead female
in Shostakovich’s Orango directed by Peter
Sellers). Schubert’s Death and the Maiden
is a staple of the quartet literature and is
Schubert’s meditation on death closely
connected to song.
Benjamin Jacobson, violin, made his
solo debut at age 13 with the San Diego
Symphony. A graduate of the University
of Southern California and the Colburn
Conservatory, Jacobson studied primarily
under Robert Lipsett. Career highlights
include performances with the Colburn
Orchestra, as well as chamber and recital
appearances at Chamber Music Sedona
in Sedona, Arizona. He has also appeared
as a soloist with the Culver City Chamber
Orchestra, the Zipper Orchestra, and
the USC Thornton Symphony. Jacobson
currently resides in New York. He performs
on a Joseph Antonius Rocca violin c. 1837,
on loan from the Mandell Collection.
Andrew Bulbrook, violin, enjoys a
diverse and exciting musical career. A
Massachusetts native, Andrew began violin
lessons at age six and made his solo debut
with orchestra at age 15. As a soloist and
recitalist he has appeared with ensembles
such as the Boston Classical Orchestra,
the Colburn Orchestra, and the American
Youth Symphony in venues from Boston’s
landmark Jordan Hall to Royce Hall in Los
Angeles. Intrigued by the role of classical
music in today’s society, Andrew has been
a commentator on classical radio stations
throughout the United States. Andrew is
an alumnus of the University of Southern
California, where he received his B.A in
economics with highest honors and was
named a USC Renaissance Scholar. His
principal teachers are Robert Lipsett,
Michele Kim, and Zinaida Gilels. He
performs on a violin by Francesco Ruggieri,
c. 1673 (ex-Ernst, ex-Persinger).
Jonathan Moerschel, viola, was born
in Boston, Massachusetts into a musical
family. His mother, a pianist, and his father,
a cellist in the Boston Symphony, fostered
his early studies both in piano and violin.
At the age of sixteen, he began studying
the viola with John Ziarko in Boston and
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America, Europe, and Australia. At 18, Byers
chamber music with the violist from the
made his solo debut with the Cincinnati
Kolisch Quartet, Eugene Lehner. Moerschel
Symphony Orchestra as winner of the
made his Boston Symphony Hall solo debut
Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra
with the Boston Pops Orchestra under
Competition. After studies with Alan Harris
Keith Lockhart in 1997 after taking first
and Richard Aaron, he worked with cellist
prize in the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ronald Leonard at USC Thornton School
Competition. He received his Bachelors
of Music, where he earned his Bachelor
and Masters degrees in viola performance
of Music. He continued his studies at the
from the University of Southern California,
Colburn Conservatory and received an
studying under Donald McInnes and
Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School.
Ralph Fielding. Moerschel was a longtime
member of the USC Early Music Ensemble,
Yulia Van Doren, guest artist, soprano,
playing the baroque tenor viola, and the
was recently recognized by Opera Magazine
USC Contemporary Music Ensemble,
as “a star-to-be” following her Lincoln
with which he appeared on the
Center debut. A RussianLos Angeles Philharmonic’s
American soprano, her recent
Green Umbrella Series. He
debut with the Toronto
recently appeared on the
Symphony Orchestra
“…Calder takes
Chamber Music Sedona
was acclaimed as “This
its place as one of
series in Sedona,
year’s big revelation
Arizona, performing
America’s most satisfying
… a ravishing lyric
with members of
— and most enterprising
voice and an ease with
the Chamber Music
— quartets.”
vocal ornamentation
Society of Lincoln
that turned her into an
– Los Angeles Times
Center. Moerschel is an
enchanted songbird”
alumnus of Kneisel Hall,
(Toronto Star). Recent
Bowdoin Music Festival,
and upcoming performance
Aspen Music Festival, and the
highlights include debuts
Music Academy of the West, where
with the Philadelphia Orchestra;
he received the viola fellowship. He plays
LA Philharmonic; Netherlands Radio
on the “ex-Adam” Gasparo da Salo made in
Philharmonic Orchestra; Hungarian Radio
the late 16th century on generous loan from Symphony Orchestra; Opera Royal de
the Stradivari Society.
Versailles; Opera de Nice; Macau and
commissioned for her by the Carnegie Hall
Corporation. The only singer awarded a top
prize in all four US Bach vocal competitions,
within just a few seasons she has been
presented as a soloist by almost all of the
North American early music festivals and
orchestras. Her recordings include two
Grammy-nominated opera recordings with
the Boston Early Music Festival, and the
world-premiere recording of Shostakovich’s
Orango, recorded with the LA Philharmonic
and released by Deutsche Grammophon.
Yulia is an Astral Artist, a Paul and Daisy
Soros Fellow, and a Beebe Grant recipient.
www.yuliavandoren.com.
Upcoming Calder Quartet Residency
performances
UTR: Calder Quartet,
with Bear McCreary &
Special Guests
FRI / NOV 7, 2014 / 8 PM [The Edye]
Fairy Tales UnScripted –
Calder and Impro TheatRE
SUN / MAR 22, 2015 / 2 PM
Calder Quartet with
guest Robert deMaine
THU / APR 9, 2015 / 7:30 PM
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Cartagena International Music Festivals;
the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Tanglewood,
Ojai, and Oregon Bach Festivals; and the
symphonies of San Francisco, Toronto,
Cincinnati, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville,
Columbus, Colorado, Phoenix, Pasadena,
Albany, and Asheville. She made her
Concertgebouw debut in the title role of
Handel’s Acis and Galatea, and debuted
at Carnegie Hall premiering a work
Eric Byers, cello, has been called “ideally
eloquent” by the Los Angeles Times, and
is active as a chamber musician, soloist,
and composer. Recognized with top prizes
at the Aspen Music Festival Concerto
Competition, USC Concerto Competition,
Pasadena Showcase Instrumental
Competition, and National American String
Teachers Association Competition, he has
concertized in North, Central and South
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Program
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SON MAYOR
The 25th anniversary and official CD release
SAT / OCT 25 / 7:30 PM
sep/oct 2014
“…the very
purpose of our
endeavor…is to
create human bridges
through music.”
– Eddie Ortiz,
Musical Director
Special Guests
Jose “Perico” Hernandez, vocal and percussion
Juliana Glader Munoz, lead vocal
Joey D’Leon, congas, timbales, bata drums
Total Run Time: 90 minutes
This evening’s program will be announced from the stage.
Los Muñequitos De Matanzas, as well as
an exclusive audience for Jennifer Lopez’s
wedding in 2001 and an Arista Records
after-party for Clive Davis. Son Mayor
however, does not lose sight of fans; the
band loves being a part of everyone’s lives
and making personal connections. Due to
such success, this great musical group has
been awarded numerous awards for their
participation and dedication from various
organizations including the city of LA, in
addition to being considered the Best
Salsa Band by LA Weekly in its annual Best
of LA edition. Son Mayor’s legacy is one of
passion and musical integrity! Bringing their
very best to every performance…leaving
the audience asking for more.
“Nothing makes us feel better than to see
people enjoying our music and allowing us to
come into their homes, nightclubs and lives.
The music we make comes from our hearts,
and is the very purpose of our endeavor—
which is to create human bridges through
music.”
–Eddie Ortiz, Musical Director
There will be no intermission.
Out of consideration for your fellow patrons and respect to the performers, please be reminded that
there is no video, audio recording, or still photography of any kind allowed during the performance.
Prior to the performance please unwrap any hard candy and silence all cell phones and other
electronic devices, and please, no texting.
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Eddie Ortiz, musical director
Julian Ortiz, bass
Alfred Ortiz, congas and vocals
George Ortiz, timbales
Matt Amper, piano
Saul Marambio, lead vocal
Norrell Thompson, lead vocal
Serafin Aguilar, trumpet
Peter Grenn, trumpet
Eric Jorgensen, trombone
Francisco Torres, trombone
Ron Segovia, baritone sax
Son Mayor is one of the most popular and
sought-after Latin bands in the city of Los
Angeles. The unmistakable vintage and
contemporary Cuban sound captivates
people from all walks of life, and fills the
souls of those who seek expression through
artistic movement. This high-energy band
performs for countless corporate events
and special occasions, including wellknown premier salsa clubs throughout
Southern California. Son Mayor began
about 25 years ago; the heart behind
Son Mayor started with a young teenager
named Eddy as he heard Oscar D’Leon for
the first time on the radio. The sound that
so captivated him changed the course of
his musical career for life. Eddie Ortiz and
his undeniable talent is the driving force
behind the essence of Son Mayor; a humble
individual that leads the artistic style and
demands nothing less than perfection
from his brothers Julian, Alfred “El Niño”,
Georgie, and the rest of his extended family
…the band. The success behind the music
has led the band to open and perform
alongside top artists such as Chucho
Valdez at the Hollywood Bowl, Tito Puente,
Celia Cruz, Los Van Van, Sonora Ponceña,
Oscar D’Leon, El Canario, Ozomatli, and
UPCOMING AT THE BROAD stage
Theatergroep Kwatta presents
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
MANXMOUSE: THE MOUSE
WHO KNEW NO FEAR
The Jazz Initiative
THE MARK TURNER QUARTET
Lathe of Heaven
KING LEAR
NOV 4 –16
FRI / OCT 24 / 7:30 PM
SUN / SEP 28 / 8 PM [The Edye]
Direct from the UK, Shakespeare’s ultimate
tragedy comes to The Broad Stage in a highoctane whirl of love and deceit, delivered
with a thrilling physicality. Best known for
his role on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air, Joseph Marcell (King Lear) is joined
onstage by a powerhouse cast for one of
the deepest artistic explorations of the
human condition. Produced by the brilliant
and daring Shakespeare’s Globe, this King
Lear will leave you breathless with its style,
wit, and gusto.
SAT / OCT 25 / 11 AM, 1 PM, & 3 PM
In a career that spans two decades and
encompasses a broad array of musical
ventures, saxophonist Mark Turner has
emerged as a towering presence in
the jazz community. A New York Times
profile of Turner titled “The Best Jazz
Player You’ve Never Heard” called him
“possibly jazz’s premier player,” noting
his reputation amongst his peers and his
influential stature in the jazz world. This
is an extremely rare LA appearance by
one of the great NY voices of jazz – highly
recommended!
[The Edye]
Ages 7+
Get ready to fall in love with the most
adorable little mouse! Join Manxmouse on
a special adventure. This timeless tale of
kindness, friendship, and bravery against all
odds will capture young audience members
and their families with its imaginative use of
found objects, puppetry, and music. Based
on the novel by Paul Gallico, this imaginative
production is a delightful tale of what
happens when we face our fears.
This program was made possible in part by a grant
from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa
Monica Arts Commission, and support from the
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through
the Los Angeles Arts Commission.
Jazz and Blues at The Broad Stage made
possible by a generous gift from Richard and
Lisa Kendall.
Under the Radar
Under the Radar
Quincy Jones presents
JULIA HOLTER AND RAMONA
GONZALEZ OF NITE JEWEL
KNOWER
SAT / OCT 18 / 8 PM [The Edye]
SUN / OCT 26 / 8 PM [The Edye]
With music that is impossible to describe
but easy to appreciate, Los Angeles artists
Julia Holter and Nite Jewel represent
two of the most respected voices in the
art pop/experimental field. Their albums
have received praise and attention from
countless sources including NPR, Pitchfork,
LA and NY Times, The Guardian etc. This is
a rare live performance between the two
artists that promises to be unforgettable.
Knower is Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi,
a duo from Los Angeles creating electronic
funk-pop characterized by explosive grooves,
colorful harmonies, funky female vocals,
and vast electro-acoustic soundscapes.
Both graduates from music conservatories,
Knower’s sound is an indescribable mix of
virtuosic musicianship and pop sensibilities.
With video pyrotechnics and high-octane
sounds, Knower’s show will raise the roof at
The Edye!
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DORRANCE DANCE:
THE BLUES PROJECT
Shakespeare at The Broad Stage made possible
by a generous gift from Linda and Michael Keston.
SAT / NOV 1 / 7:30 pm
Michelle Dorrance is pure dynamite,
blasting open our notions of tap with every
stomp, stamp, and shuffle. Her marriage
of tap and modern dance comes off as
“edgy, seductive, and smart” (The Chicago
Tribune), thrilling audiences during recent
debuts at the Spoleto and Jacob’s Pillow
Dance festivals. Her company will perform
with Toshi Reagon and her live band for
The Blues Project, featuring imaginative
choreography, bluesy rhythms, and some of
the most stunning tap artists dancing today.
The presentation of Dorrance Dance: The Blues
Project was made possible by the New England
Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project,
with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, with additional support from the
National Endowment for the Arts.
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PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE ARTS
Education & community
Education & Community
Programs.
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“The in-school workshop for Henry VIII was
profoundly transformative. It’s the first time my
students have ever been to a show and the in-school
workshop got them past their fear of ‘Oh my god,
Shakespeare.’ Thank you for that. It changed the
culture at our school.”
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The Broad Stage Education department offers In-School
and Professional Development Workshops in association
with select Student Matinees. Anne Scatolini,
a teacher at Phoenix Continuation High School
joined us last season at In-School workshops
for Henry VIII and Professional Development
for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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“I would never have called myself a ‘Lover of Shakespeare,’
but hearing Henry VIII spoken in my native language has made
a believer and a lover out of me. Rock on Willy Shakes!”
- Adan Hernando, Student at Phoenix Continuation School
Check out www.thebroadstage.com/education for how to support
Education or get involved!
Photos by Jackie Rosas
Education and Community at The Broad Stage is supported in part by Austin and Virginia Beutner, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, Herb Alpert Foundation,
John W. Carson Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, The Green Foundation, SMC Associates, Matthewson Charitable
Trusts, The Roth Family Foundation, Bank of the West, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, Leonard M. Lipman
Charitable Fund, and the Colburn Foundation.
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Support the broad stage
the next generation of arts lovers
the next generation of arts lovers
Santa Monica College is hosting campus events at your favorite venue
throughout the year. The college offers a wide range of experiences for
moderate cost or free!
Full listing and ticketing can be accessed online at
www.smc.edu/eventsinfo or by phone at 310.434.3005.
Professional Art Gallery
SMC’s Barrett Gallery highlights
established and emerging artists who
live and work in Southern California,
and provides opportunities for students
to show in a professional gallery
environment. Marian Winsryg, curator.
2 Dance Companies
Students choreograph and
perform dazzling and high-energy
interpretations. SMC’s Global Motion
showcases world dance styles, from
ballet to flamenco to hip hop and more.
SMC’s Synapse Dance Theater offers
contemporary ballet, modern, jazz,
and other contemporary styles.
Sight Readings: A 35-Year Survey of
Work by Roxanne Sexauer
Tue, Sep 2 – Sat, Oct 11
Franklyn Phillips: “Pyrometrics”
A Retrospective in Ceramics
Tue, Oct 28 – Sat, Dec 6
SMC Wind Ensemble
With origins that trace back to SMC’s
marching band, the 75-member wind
ensemble performs traditional and
modern compositions twice each
semester. Kevin McKeown, director.
Synapse Dance Theater
Contemporary Dance Ensemble
Fri | Nov 21 | 7:30 pm
Sun | Nov 23 | 4 pm & 7:30 pm
SMC Resident Symphony Orchestra
Established in 1985 and composed of
both student and community players,
SMC’s resident 85-member symphony
orchestra performs classical works
twice each semester on the Broad
Stage. James Martin, director.
Global Motion World Dance Company
Sat | Dec 6 | 4 pm & 7:30 pm
Sun | Dec 7 | 7:30 pm
SMC Symphony Orchestra
Sun | nov 23 | 4 pm
SMC Wind Ensemble
Sun | OCT 26 | 4 pm
Sun | NOV 30 | 4 pm
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It takes a village to build
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Art Gallery
Endeavor Agency
Artists’ Entry
A Gift from Emeritus College
Balcony East Door
Roth Family Foundation
Box Office
Dr. Sheldon and Judith Spector Family
Balcony Restrooms
Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee
for the Arts
Chorus Dressing Room 1
A Gift from Emeritus College
Chorus Dressing Room 2
For Eugene and Mary Imada
Conference Room
Alison and Richard Crowell
Crowell Café
Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
East Lounge
Blanca Malpartida-Girard and Donald Girard
Fountain
Frank and Kathrine Baxter
Grand Stair
In Honor of Herbert and Trudl Zipper
Green Room
Wally and Shirl Grayson
House Curtain
Ginny Mancini
Ladies Lounge
In Memory of Nora Kaye Ross and
Herbert D. Ross
Lead Actor Dressing Room 1
Dr. Ava Shamban
Lead Actor Dressing Room 2
Werner and Mimi Wolfen
Lobby Art Commission
The Mary Pickford Foundation
Main Stage
The Esper A. Petersen Foundation and
Ann Petersen and Leslie Pam, PhD
Mezzanine Box 1
In Memory of Henry Mancini
Mezzanine Box 3
Jennifer and Royce Diener
Mezzanine Box 4
Santa Monica College President’s Box
Balcony Box 5
Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Balcony Box 6
Ziering Family Foundation
Orchestra Doors
Offices of Los Angeles County Supervisor
Zev Yaroslavsky
Orchestra Pit
Norma Ring
Orchestra Shell
Walter Arlen, Howard Myers and Edith A. Wachtel
Rehearsal Rooms
Eva and Marc Stern
Steinway Concert Grand Piano
The Jack and Hanna Kennedy Family Trust
Upper Lobby
The Annenberg Foundation
West Garden Terrace
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The Broad Stage is grateful to Santa
Monica College Presidents Dr. Piedad
Robertson (1995-2006) and Dr. Chui
L. Tsang (2006 to present), along with
the Trustees of Santa Monica College,
for launching The Madison Project
and guiding it to fruition.
$500,000 & Above
Anonymous
The Eli & Edythe Broad
Foundation
Ahmanson Foundation
$100,000 – $499,000
Anonymous
Ambassador Frank & Kathy
Baxter
Laurie & Bill Benenson
John Bernatz & Joseph Marek
Alison Bryan Crowell & Richard
R. Crowell
Endeavor Agency
Daniel Greenberg & Susan
Steinhauser
The Hoffman Family
Foundation
Ron Kastner
Jack & Hanna Kennedy Family
Trust
Ginny Mancini
Nancy & Howard Marks
Moss Foundation
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Mary Pickford Foundation
Roth Family Foundation
SMC Community Services
SMC Emeritus College
Sterling Foundation
Eva & Marc Stern
U.S. Senate & House
Appropriations Committee
Mimi & Werner Wolfen
$25,000 – $99,999
Anonymous in Honor of Dustin
Hoffman
Carlson Family Foundation
Roma Cockins
Jennifer & Royce Diener
Dale & Don Franzen
Blanca Malpartida-Girard &
Donald Girard
Sheila Gold Foundation
Good Works Foundation
Shirl & Wally Grayson
Bill Imada in Honor of Eugene
& Mary Imada
Bruce Johansen
In Honor of Jack Delson
Janice M. & Roy D. Miller
Esper A. Petersen Foundation,
Ann Petersen & Leslie Pam
In Memory of Nora Kaye Ross &
Herbert D. Ross
Ava Shamban
Sophia & William Shamban
Ed Stotsenberg
Office of Los Angeles County
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky
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$10,000 – $24,999
Meribeth Brand
Jack Delson
Drs. Gerald Berke & Karen
Duvall
First Federal Bank
Mary & Robert Estrin
Jonathan & Karin Fielding
Susan & Charles Franklin
Faye Grant & Stephen Collins
Peggy & Sam Grossman
Kayne Foundation
Dr. Harold & Molinda Karpman
W.M. Keck Foundation
Patricia & Michael Klowden
LLWW Foundation
Rosemary & Milton T. Okun
Leanna & Marc Primiani
Frank Stiefel & BJ Dockweiler
Susan R. Stockel
Stratton-Petit-Sosin
Foundation
Wishingrad-Lehman Family
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Thank you to our founders who helped
bring The Broad Stage to life.
broad stage opportunities
Acknowledgements
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Thank you to our donors who help
keep the performing arts thriving
west of the 405.
List reflects donations made through August 11, 2014.
$100,000 & Above
Anonymous
Ahmanson Foundation
Austin & Virginia Beutner
The Eli & Edythe Broad
Foundation
Richard Kendall & Lisa See
Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E.
Deutsch Foundation
$50,000 to $99,999
John W. Carson Foundation
Helen Bing
Dunard Fund
Gordon P. and Ann G. Getty
Daniel Greenberg &
Susan Steinhauser
Sarah Ketterer
The Ralph M. Parsons
Foundation
Eva & Marc Stern
Ziering Family
Foundation
Selim K. Zilkha & Mary
Hayley
$25,000 to $49,999
The Herb Alpert Foundation
Laurie & Bill Benenson
City of Santa Monica Cultural
Affairs Division
The Colburn Foundation
Alison Bryan Crowell &
Richard R. Crowell
Elizabeth Bixby Janeway
Foundation
Linda & Michael Keston
Leonard M. Lipman
Charitable Fund
Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors through the
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Los Angeles County Arts
Commission
Susan R. Stockel
Anne Taubman
Werner & Mimi Wolfen
Mrs. Marilyn Ziering
$15,000 to $24,999
Ambassador Frank &
Kathy Baxter
Kelly & Robert Day
Jane Deknatel & John Seddon
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund
The Rosalinde & Arthur
Gilbert Foundation
The Green Foundation
Liz Levitt Hirsch
Los Angeles
Philanthropic
Committee for the
Arts
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth
Karmin
Catherine Popesco
$10,000 to $14,999
Robert & Sara Cannon
Nace and Francine
Cohen Foundation
Leslie & John Dorman
Mara and Mark
Hofman
Norman & Sadie Lee
Foundation
James & Laura Maslon
Anita & Larry Miller
Claudio and Armelle
Pinkus
Ralph & Amelia
Saltsman
Sheppard, Mullin,
Richter and Hampton
LLP
Eric L. Small
Doris Sosin & Rolfe
Wyer
Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon
Spector
Mary Hart & Burt
Sugarman
Victoria Sussman
Flora L. Thornton
Foundation
Rosanne Ziering
$5,000 to $9,999
Anonymous
Howard & Susan
Aminoff
The Attias Family
Foundation
Jamie Bishton &
Christian Kraus
Debra & Norris
Bishton, Jr.
Jennifer & Royce
Diener
Anna Sanders Eigler
Dora Fourcade
The Getty Foundation
Diane & Peter Gray
Lawrence Heller &
Jude McGee
John and Kathy
Kissick
Paul Lester
Ginny Mancini
Ms. Supriya Pande &
Mr. Sangam Pant
Lyle & Lisi Poncher
Judith Taylor
Dr. Chui L. Tsang
$2,500 to $4,999
Marcia Adelstein &
Aaron Mendelsohn
Mark Adler & Joanie
Diener
Edward and Alicia
Garcia Clark
Bati & Jerry Cohen
Trudi Cohen
Lee & Ann Cooper
Hope Copeland
Bettina & Glenn Duval
Janice Ellis
Russell & Carol
Faucett
Honor and Stavros
Fraser
Dwayne A. Gathers
Leslee Hackenson and
Roger Allers
Coco and Frans
Klinkenberg
Jennifer & William
Kozicki
Karen Locke
Anita Lorber
Renee & Meyer Luskin
Ann Mulally
Anil and Shaheen
Nanji
Linda and Gary
Nathanson
Christine Marie Ofiesh
Kay Pattison
Dale Prokupek
Toby and Jerome
Rapport
Arnold & Joan Seidel
Bradley Tabach-Bank
and
Dee Dee Dorskind
Top Brass Marketing,
Inc.
Stanley Zax
$1,500 to $2,499
Anonymous
Larry & Helen Albright
Dr. Sophie
Andriaschuk & Leslie
MacConnell
Association of
Performing Arts
Presenters
Bank of the West
The Bencivengo
Family
Helen Bing
Ellen and David Braun
Marcy Carsey
Teresa M. Castelli
Samuel Culbert and
Rosella Forte
Susan and Jeffrey
Davidson
David Body &
Stephanie Delange
Marian Dewitt
BJ Dockweiler and
Frank Stiefel
Good Works
Foundation
Ms. Billie Fischer
Kara Fox & Family
Whitney Green
Audrey & Arthur N.
Greenberg Fund
Robert Greenwald &
Heidi
Frey-Greenwald
Frank Gruber and
Janet Levin
Beverly Haas
Christine & Charles
Haskell
Lisa Hilton
Dr. Sam Ho
Marcia Howard
Mary & Dan James
Sharon L. Johnson
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Samuel & Paulette
Kardashian
Sharon Keith
Tim Kittleson
Stuart and Barbara
Klabin
Michael & Patricia
Klowden
Sandra Krause and
William B. Fitzgerald
Madeline & Charles
Leavitt
Ronald and Patricia
Lebel
Scott & Susan Lord
Heather MacPherson
Glennis & Jim Malcolm
Dr. & Mrs. H. Reed
Metzger
Susan Morse and
Robert Lemelson
Judy Neveau
Regina Pally and
James Korb
Eleanor and James
Randall
Thomas L. Safran
Linda & Peter
Schlesinger
Michael & Laurie
Schur
Judith Smith-Foote
Ms. Diana Soltesz
Rita Rose Soshnik
Mark & Sarah
Stegemoeller
Eric and Ruth Stockel
Christina Tarantola &
Scott Meyer
Brigitta Troy & Alden
Lawrence
Jon and Sandy Willen
Jeffrey and Dorée
Winant
Marlene Young
Maria & Renzo
Zecchetto
Scott Zimmerman &
Amy Hogue
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of the theater
in the community,
it’s the size of
the community
in the theater.
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$500 to $1,499
Anonymous (5)
Susan Adelman and
Claudio Llanos
Andrew and Brenda
Allocco
Robert C. Anderson
Joseph Argilagos
Judith & Lloyd
Armstrong
Denise Bachman
David & Margaret
Barry
Rick & Shelley Bayer
Rosario Bayon
The Beeks Family
Carol and Bob
Beitcher
Joni & Miles Benickes
Sheldon Benjamin and
Constance Chesnut
Richard Bentley
Stephen Bergens
Leslie Berger and Paul
Williams
Ellen Bergeron & Gary
Ottoson
Drs. Gerald Berke and
Karen Duvall
Laurie Bernhard
Shannon Gaughan and
John Bowman
Miriam & Peter
Braveman
Dr. Thomas Brod
Rob Brofman
Markell Brooks
Marshall Bull
Joan Caplis
J & S Carlson
Dr. Jonathan Carp
Neil & Karen Carrey
Janet Carter
Bob & Jenny Chartoff
Martha J. Chase
Barbara Cohn
Robert & Audrey
Cowan
Ms. Lauri Crane
Robert G. Finnerty &
Richard Cullen
Gleam Davis & John
Prindle
Kaitlin Drisko
Howard and Marjorie
Drubner
Ray Duncan
Elmer & Evelyn Easton
Ann Ehringer
Mary L. Estrin
Fariborz Farnad
Dr. Jonathan E.
Fielding and Mrs.
Karin B. Fielding
Sydney M. Finegold,
M.D.
Nick & Kathy Franklin
Lora Fremont
Drs. Richard & Sharon
Friedman
Kathleen Garfield
Don & Blanca Girard
Gary Glick
Lorena Gonda
Wayne and Susan
Gradman
Susan Greenberg
Aliza & Marc Guren
Laura Guthman
Salli and Bernard
Harris
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel B.
Haveson
Judy Hellinger
Marci and Mitchell
Heskel
Lynne & Phil
Himelstein
Susan & David L.
Hirsch III
Sue & Larry Hochberg
Dustin & Lisa Hoffman
Gloria & Willard Huyck
Akieva Jacobs
Nancy Jacoby
Trent Jones
Eleanor Kalman
Dr. Kathy Kaprinyak
Patricia Keating
Ann Zwicker Kerr &
Ken Adams
Jonathan Kirsch
Dr. Karen Kleeman
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Rosalie Kornblau
Natalie and Glen
Kraemer
Larry Layne &
Sheelagh Boyd
Janet Leahy and
Richard Farber
Thierry Leduc
Sandra & Joseph Lee
John Leland & Jody
Krantz
Mike & Aliza Lesser
Saul E. Levi & Marsha
N. Levine
Laurie Lieberman &
Chris Harding
Jody and David
Lippman
Elisabeth Lipsman
Bonnie MacBird
Timothy Macker
Carla Malden
James Mangold &
Cathy Konrad
Emily Masters
Ernie & Marj Meadows
Judith Meister & Paul
Silvern
Professors Anne &
Ronald Mellor
Andy and Laura
Mintzer
Mike Nelson &
Michelle Murray
Miriam Muscarolas
Deborah & Richard
Nathan
Mumsey and Allan
Nemiroff
Kim Nicholas
Chris Nixon & T.R.
Gregory
Tom Paris & Lauren
Smith
Shirley Peppers and
Roger Fox
Darcy Pollack
Jack & Jane Pollock
Michael Powell & Dr.
Sheila Phillips
Rabbi Steven Carr
Reuben
PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE ARTS
Emilie Robertson &
Robert Spich
Alice Rogers
Patricia Rosenburg &
Bud Heumann
Lael R. Rubin
Janet Salter, In
Memory of Maxwell
Salter
Jay and Linda
Sandrich
Steven Saucer
Dr. Heinrich & Barbara
Schelbert
Nancy Schneider
Mickey Kantor & Heidi
Schulman
Joanne & Gilbert
Segel
Marvin & Natalie
Shapiro
Victoria Shilton
Lynn Brody Slome &
Ansel Slome
Jodi Swartz
Alice and Norman
Tulchin
Lauree Berger Turman
Toby and Bob Waldorf
Debra & John Warfel
Peter & Nora Wendel
Lindsay Wilcox
J. Zaitlin
Ira and Godeleine
Ziering
Harry Zinn & Dwight
Turner
Betty & Saul Zucker
THE ARTS
INSPIRE
EVERY ONE
OF US.
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Acknowledgements
Handcrafted, American-made furnishings
Visit our Culver City Showroom at the Helms Bakery
8707 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
www.roomandboard.com
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BuSIness Circle
thanks
Season Sponsors:
Media Sponsors:
sep/oct 2014
The Broad Stage Business Circle:
Marina del Rey Toyota
Bank of the West
DISTINC
Green Hasson Janks LLP
Greenberg Traurig
Keenan and Associates
The Broad Stage Patron Services Associates
Kai Collins, Jessica Jazayeri, Sierra Kenoly, Nishita Lal
The Broad Stage Production Assistants
Trevor Adams, Ikem Asimonye, Princella Baker Jr., Lauren Feidner, Tyler Fromson, Cindy Hayward, Mary Howard,
Nikki Hyde, Molly Lewis, Alec Meacham, Janai President, Mary Taylor
The Broad Stage Ushers
Jeff Braden (Asst. House Manager), Stephanie Blank (Volunteer Coordinator), Carolina Bonitatis, Lorenzo Burton,
Don Calhoun, Marcisha Dortch, Ashlei Grant, Alejandro Gonzalez, Daniel Hitchingham, Jonathan Kasheri,
Mikesha Rowe, Sylvester Shadawvine, Alonzo Zeyala, Hector Zurita
The Broad Stage Volunteer Corps
Mary Adamson, Rachel Almo, Julia Amorosi, Nancy Arnheim, Diana Attias, Jennie Bejnar, Deborah Bellini,
Marian Blount, Harriet Bonn, Esther Cameron, Lloyd Cameron, Evita Chelsow, Nancy Cott, Rosalinda Cruz,
Larry Davis, Maureen Dodson, Marie Dubrow, Suzanne Edwards, Janis Flax, Kathy Forsman, Georgette Gedey,
Ruth Getzoff, Wally Grayson, Alex Grover, Bogda Gruber, Charles Guinn, Bruce Hackett, Gretchen Hays,
Sheila Himelsein, Geraldine Kennedy, Camille Kesterman, Ruth Lerner, Bonnie Levin, Margo Lieberman,
Roy Liebman, Ellen Lind, Ruth Linnick, Leonard Lipman, Diane Locklear, Edith London, Francine Lyness,
Evelyn Maggiore, Shoshant Maler, Victoria Marinez, Marcia Mazria, Sima Mehraban, Margaret Miller, Mary Moran,
Michael Muttera, Teri Muttera, Denise O’kelly, Mary Phillips, Zelda Pollock, Joanne Press, Judy Raffel,
Sheila Raznick, James Saigali, Simone Saigali, Miriam Schoor, Fannie Schwartz, Susana Schuarzberg,
Joyce Simmons, Jerry Simpson, Margaret Smith, Frances Sotcher, Joyce Stein, Carolyn Taffel, Bill Taub,
Diane Taub, Barbara Taylor, Victoria Von Roth, Jim Walsh, Edith Wander, Mickey Waring, Rosemarie Wolff
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staff
The Broad Stage Artistic
Advisory Board
Dustin Hoffman, Chair
Plácido Domingo
Dan Guerrero
Jake Heggie
Jacques Heim
Marilyn Horne
Tom Hulce
Kent Nagano
Jon B. Platt
Lisa See
Ruth Seymour
Adam Venit
Frederica Von Stade
Lula Washington
sep/oct 2014
The Broad Stage Board of Directors
Austin Beutner, Chair
Dr. Chui L. Tsang, SMC Founding Chair
Dr. Susan Aminoff
Laurie Benenson
Jamie Bishton
Alison Bryan Crowell
Jennifer Diener
Dwayne A. Gathers
Daniel Greenberg
Dr. Nancy Greenstein
Mary Hayley
Lawrence Heller
Barbara Herman
Mara Hofman
Richard Kendall
Sarah H. Ketterer
Supriya Pande
Anne Taubman
Rosanne Ziering
The Broad Stage Jazz Council
Herb Alpert
Quincy Jones
Joon Lee (The Blue Whale)
Ruth Price and Jeff Gauthier (The Jazz Bakery)
Daniel Seeff (Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz)
Luciana Souza
Ben Wendel
Santa Monica College Board of Trustees
Dr. Susan Aminoff, Chair
Rob Rader, Vice Chair
Dr. Nancy Greenstein
Dr. Louise Jaffe
Dr. Margaret Quiñones-Perez
Barry A. Snell
Dr. Andrew Walzer
Daniel Kolko, Student Trustee
Dr. Chui L. Tsang, Superintendent/President
Santa Monica College Staff
Donald Girard, Senior Director of Government
Relations and Institutional Communication
Linda Sullivan, Director of Facilities Programming
David Toledo, Technical Director
Tom Carter, Lead Technician
Sean Conlin, Events Technician
The Broad Stage
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Amy Kirkland, General Manager
Development
Lloyd Tanner, Director of Development
Julia Paras, Associate Director of Development
Jonathan Redding, Grants Manager & Dramaturg
Kayleigh MacPherson, Individual Giving Manager
Chris Konish, Development Associate
Patron Services
Susanna Erdos, Manager, Patron Services
Nathalie Choupay, Assistant Manager,
Patron Services
Jill Cepela, Coordinator, Patron Services
Marketing
Natasha Shrieves, Director of Marketing &
Communications
David Halperin, Marketing Coordinator
Education
Carolyn Palmer, Director of Programming &
Education
Alisa De Los Santos, Manager of Education &
Community Programs
Klarissa Leuterio, Education & Community
Programs Associate
Production
Ernest Figueroa, Producer
Ben Wendel, Producer, Under the Radar &
Jazz Initiative
Eric Bloom, Company Manager
Juli Figueroa, Production Coordinator
Operations
David Kessler, Operations Manager
Kate Meyer, Concessions Manager
Finance
Ian Wilson, Accounting Manager
Elizabeth Hernandez, Accounting Associate
Gail Johnson, Administrative Assistant
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