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Streaming Premiere – Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 7pm

Real Enemies featuring Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society

This version of Real Enemies was created exclusively for Cal Performances by Darcy James Argue, Isaac Butler, and Peter Nigrini, and produced by Beth Morrison Projects.

Darcy James Argue, Isaac Butler, director and Peter Nigrini, media designer

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Darcy James Argue, conductor , piccolo, flute, alto flute, soprano and alto saxophones Rob Wilkerson, flute, , soprano and alto saxophones Sam Sadigursky, E-flat clarinet, B-flat clarinet, A clarinet, John Ellis, B-flat clarinet, , tenor saxophone Carl Maraghi, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone Seneca Black, , Jonathan Powell, trumpet, flugelhorn Matt Holman, trumpet, flugelhorn Adam O’Farrill, trumpet, flugelhorn , trumpet, flugelhorn Nadje Noordhuis, trumpet, flugelhorn Mike Fahie, Ryan Keberle, trombone Jacob Garchik, trombone Jennifer Wharton, bass trombone, Sebastian Noelle, acoustic and electric guitar Adam Birnbaum, acoustic and electric piano, Matt Clohesy, contrabass and electric bass, electronic effects Jon Wikan, drum set, cajón Special appearance by James Urbaniak

Production Staff Daniel Vatsky, film editor Vernil Rogers, recording Brian Montgomery, recording and Paul Suarez, assistant recording engineer Bradley Buehring, photography consultant Andreas Roalsvig, camera Melanie St. Claire, assistant Sam Campbell, assistant camera operator Ryan Gohsman, assistant manager Tim Love, assistant stage manager Chris Clark, gaffer

Co-commissioned by the Academy of , the Fromm Music Foundation, and Beth Morrison Projects Real Enemies is supported by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, primarily supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funds come from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Note: following its premiere, Real Enemies will be available on demand through January 19, 2021.

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Shadow Histories and Hidden Breaths: E.M. Forester famously wrote, “The king How Real Enemies Investigates died and then the queen died is a story. The the Conspiracy Theory king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.” by Isaac Butler Causality lies at the heart of all narrative. As the five years since we madeReal Without causality, all that remains are isolated Enemies have made abundantly clear, conspir- events. Conspiracy theories take these isolated acism is less a river running through our cul- events, and insert causality, making them into ture than the ocean on which our national a plot. On a basic level, conspiracy theories are psyche floats. Belief in conspiracies is one of the simply another form of narrative sense-making, defining aspects of modern culture. It tran- like taking the stars in the sky and weaving scends political, economic, and other divides. them into mythical scorpions and crabs and Conservative or liberal, rich or poor, religious hunters.

or secular, across all races and backgrounds These particular narratives tend to flourish there exists a conspiratorial strain of thought at times when we have genuine cause to distrust that maintains the existence of secretive forces those in power. When we learn that the NSA plotting against us, or controlling our fates. The has been monitoring our emails and cataloging Declaration of Independence contains a con- our phone calls, or that the FBI ran a secret ille- spiracy theory about King George III’s plans gal program for decades dedicated to destroy- for the colonies, weaving conspiracism into the ing the American Left, or that the CIA secretly very fabric of our nation’s origin. dosed prisoners, drug addicts, housewives, and When composer Darcy James Argue, media prostitutes with LSD as part of its mind control designer Peter Nigrini, and I set out to investi- research, the only natural response is: “What gate conspiracy theories, we realized very swiftly else are they hiding from us?” that we were actually investigating the nature of As befitting a journey into postwar paranoia, narrative itself. The word “conspiracy” comes the score draws heavily on 12-tone techniques from the Latin conspirare, which literally means even as it departs at times from conventional “to breathe together,” but in its everyday usage notions about how those techniques are sup- meant “to agree” to or “to plot.” A plot is, of posed to be employed. In Real Enemies, the course, also a story, or a narrative. 12-tone row is a deep structural device, not just

2 PROGRAM NOTES for the music, but for the formal and visual and ideas found in the American collective con- development of the entire work. Other musical scious. Nearly every image and word you will touchstones include the film scores of Michael see or hear while watching it is a quotation from Small and David Shire, Nicaraguan singer- a primary source, the result of years of intensive Carlos Mejia Godoy, early 1980s research into the historical roots, iconography, LA electrofunk-influenced , intricately ideology, rhetoric, and psychology of conspira- layered polyrhythms at the intersection of post- cies and the theories that love them. Everything minimalist and contemporary in it is something someone, somewhere, has , and much more. asserted is the truth, but in an age when the Real Enemies is ultimately a work of nonfiction, truth has become increasingly elusive, we all which is to say, it is an exploration of real-world have to decide what we believe, what stars we’ll beliefs. The show collages together text, imagery, connect, and what new constellations we’ll form.

CREATIVE TEAM heim Fellowship, a Doris Duke Artist Award, and countless commissions and fellowships. His Darcy James Argue (composer/conductor) is the most recent recording—2016’s prescient Real “hyper-literate composer who leads the Secret Enemies—was named a Top 20 jazz recording Society” (Nate Chinen, NPR), an 18-piece big of the decade by Stereogum. ensemble “now renowned in the jazz world” (Giovanni Russanello, The New York Isaac Butler (director/co-creator) is the co-author Times). Argue brings a seemingly anachronistic of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent ensemble into the 21st century through his of Angels in America and the forthcoming The “ability to combine his love of jazz’s past with Method, both published by Blooms bury. The more contemporary sonics like indie-influenced World Only Spins Forward, an oral history of electric guitar and bass, as well as Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America and its tricks culled from his study of classical music” era, was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR (Seth Colter Walls, Pitchfork). As a Vancouver- and a Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book. born, Brooklyn-based “visionary arranger” Butler’s work as a theatrical director has been (Steve Futterman, The New Yorker), Argue has seen on stages across America, including at the earned three Grammy nominations, a Guggen- Brook lyn Academy of Music, Town Hall, Joe’s

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Pub, Woolly Mammoth, and La Jolla Playhouse. PRODUCTION STAFF He also created Lend Me Your Ears: A Podcast About Shakespeare and Politics for Slate.com, Daniel Vatsky (film editor) has worked on a where he now co-hosts the podcast Working, wide range of projects that include film pro- which features interviews with artists about the ductions, documentaries, live performances, creative process. and theatrical projection design. He has collab- orated with noted artists including Laurie Peter Nigrini (media design) has been a pioneer Anderson, , Ric Burns, Bill Moy - in the integration of digital projection technol- ers, and . Selected film credits in- ogy and live theater for the past 15 years. Some clude the PBS/WGBH American Experience of his designs on Broadway include Ain’t Too documentaries New York: A Documentary Film, Proud—The Life and Times of the Tempta tions, Death and the Civil War, and The Eugenics

Beetlejuice, Dear Evan Hansen, The Sponge Bob Crusade. Recent theater credits include editing Musical, A Doll’s House Part 2, Amé lie, An Act of for Dear Evan Hansen, Ain’t Too Proud—The God, The Heidi Chronicles, Gore Vidal’s The Best Life and Times of the Temptations , and Sweat Man, and Fela! Projects of note in other venues on Broadway, and at the National include Man in the Ring (Huntington Thea - Theatre (UK). He holds a BFA in filmmaking tre), The White Card (A.R.T), Here Lies Love and from the State University of New York Purchase Grounded (The Public Theater), Dave (Arena College, and an MS in integrated digital media Stage) Wakey Wakey (Signature), The Grace from the NYU Tandon School of . Jones Hurricane Tour (NYC), Don Giovanni and Lucia di Lam mer moor (Santa Fe Opera), Blind Vernil Rogers (recording engineer) is a live Date (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance), and Life and studio recording engineer and in & Times (Nature Theater of Oklahoma/Burg - 2019 became the assistant director of theater, ). Nigrini is currently working on and touring at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has Deep Blue Sea (Bill T. Jones at the Park Avenue been engineering for over 16 years and has Armory), MJ: The Musical (Broadway), and worked with acclaimed artists such as the late Ritual of Breath, a new chamber opera by , , Arturo O’Farrill Jonathan Berger. (and his Afro Orchestra), and Cecile

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McLorin Salvant. Rogers has engineered for The Cat. Montgomery has won three Grammy Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society for the past Awards for his work with Paul McCartney, years and has toured several times locally , and the Maria Schneider and abroad with the band. He has been an inte- Orchestra. His community involvement includes gral part in bringing Argue’s projects such as being a member of both NARAS and the Audio Brooklyn Babylon and Real Enemies to life. In Engineering Society. He is a past governor of the 2017, Jazz News wrote, following one of New York Recording Academy and is currently Argue’s performances, “ And also hats off for serving on the Producers and Wing the sound: Kings Place… was designed as an committee for the New York chapter. acoustic hall, and I have never heard a sound engineer render amplified sound in it quite so Bradley Buehring (cinematography consultant) vividly and convincingly.” is a Brooklyn-based director, cinematographer,

Brian Montgomery (recording/mixing engineer) and composer. He initially studied music, earn- has worked with many of the world’s finest ing a BM in percussion performance and an artists, , and producers. At last count, MM in music composition from the University he has been involved with well over 300 major of Louisville before turning his focus to film- label recordings. Montgomery learned his craft making. For the past several years, Buehring has sitting behind some of the greatest “ears” in the worked as a director of photography in business while working on staff at New York, lensing feature , shorts, docu- Avatar Studios (formerly Power Station) in mentaries, and a variety of other projects. As a . Industry luminaries such as photographer documenting the experimental , Elliot Scheiner, and Bob Clear- music and performance art scene in New York, mountain are among his engineering mentors. his photographs have been featured in publica- Montgomery has also worked often with jazz tions such as , Wall Street engineering giants James Farber, Joe Ferla, and Journal, Hyperallergic, and The Wire. David Baker. In 2006, he had the honor of winning a TEC Award (Best Record Production Karl Kim (director of photography) is an award- ) for his engineering work on Donald winning cinematographer with eight feature Fagen’s critically acclaimed solo album Morph films, as well as television, broadcast, commer-

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cial, corporate, and music projects to his Downbeat magazine, and was hailed as “an elo- credit. New York-based, he has worked around quent dispatch from the heart of the contem- the world for multiple clients. porary piano trio tradition” by the New York Times. Birnbaum is an assistant professor of jazz at SUNY Purchase and a Steinway Artist. DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY Trumpeter Seneca Black has one of the unpar- alleled resumes in the music business. In 1997, Adam Birnbaum is emerging as one of the top at age 19, he was hired as lead trumpet with young voices in . Since arriving on the and the Lincoln Center Jazz New York scene in 2003, he has become in- Orchestra. After seven years, he spent the next creasingly prominent performing in clubs and decade with jazz legend . In the

festivals around the world. A diverse performer, summer of 2017, the Chamber Society of Birnbaum is a member of the Quar - Lincoln Center presented a celebration of the tet, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and Darcy classical compositions of Ornette Coleman, in James Argue’s Secret Society as well as a which Black was invited to play “The Sacred frequent performer with the likes of Cecile Mind of Johnny Dolphin” (one of Coleman’s McLorin Salvant, Regina Carter, Terell Stafford, rarely performed masterpieces, a work known and many others. His early education took for its extreme virtuosity for solo trumpet, place in . In 2001, Birnbaum became drums, and double string quartet). Black is a a member of the inaugural class of jazz studies longtime member of Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro- at the Juilliard School. After graduating in 2003, Latin Jazz Orchestra and a regular Secret Soci - he won the American Jazz Piano Competition ety member since 2007. In recent years, he has (2004) to become the American Pianists established ongoing relationships with the Association’s Cole Porter fellow in jazz. Since Mingus Orchestra as well as New Orleans then, Birnbaum has established a busy per- homeboy, Harry Connick Jr. forming career as a sideman and as a leader. Three of a Mind, his latest album as a leader, Matt Clohesy, an acclaimed Australian bassist, received four stars and an Editor’s Pick in left his hometown of Melbourne for the United

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States in 2001. Based in New York City, he He was place winner of the presti- has since gained international recognition as gious Saxophone Competi - an acoustic and electric bassist. Clohesy has tion in 2002, received three commissions from toured and/or recorded with such notable band the Jazz Gallery for the creation of new work, leaders as Sea mus Blake, Kurt Rosen winkel, and was selected as the 2014 Make Jazz Fellow , Eric Reed, , Ingrid by the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Jensen, , Laurence Hob good, Ellis can be heard on more than 150 Donny McCaslin, Tom Scott, Sean Jones, as a sideman and has released 11 albums as a Jonathan Kreisberg, Joel Frahm, , leader, three of those featuring his New Mike Moreno, Will Vinson, John Ellis, Jo Orleans-centered band Double-Wide. The Ice Lawry, , Alan Ferber, Eric Siren, his most recent album, was released on Alexander, Jr, Diego Urcola, Parade Light Records on March 20, 2020.

David Weiss, JD Allen, Jon Gordon, David Mike Fahie is a jazz trombonist and composer Schnitter, Brad Shepik, and Maria Schneider, living in Brooklyn. His current projects include as well as with the John Hollenbeck Large a collaboration with legendary trumpet player Ensemble. Clohesy regularly collaborates with John McNeil (Plainsong, Destiny Records), Grammy-nominated and Downbeat award- the Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra (Urban(e), winning composer Darcy James Argue’s Secret Greenleaf Music), and the Mike Fahie Quintet Society. In the pop world, he has performed (Anima , Brooklyn Jazz Underground). He is with Grammy winner Colbie Caillat and can also an in-demand sideman in New York be heard often with the Chris Bergson Band City, playing with many accomplished groups. and Dana Fuchs Band. Fahie is the lead trombonist of Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, a three- Grammy- John Ellis is widely recognized as one of New nominated ensemble. He is the principal trom- York’s premier tenor saxophonists. A sideman bonist of the Gramercy Brass Orchestra of to artists as diverse as bass icon , New York and a member of the Gramercy Brass organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith, and MacArthur Quintet. He is also a regular member of the Fellow Miguel Zenon, Ellis has performed ex- Dan Pugach Nonet, the Emilio Solla Tango Jazz tensively around the world for the last 20 years. Or ches tra, and the Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orches -

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tra. As a composer, Fahie has received numer- , and university ensembles ous commissions, including three for premieres worldwide. He has taught at at the Festival of International Schools at Car - and is currently a jazz arts faculty member at negie Hall. He was a finalist for the prestigious the Manhattan School of Music. Thelonious Monk International Trom bone Competition and was the first-ever Canadian Born in Vancouver and raised in Nanaimo, Fulbright Scholar in jazz. Ingrid Jensen has been hailed as one of the most gifted improvising trumpeters of her Jacob Garchik, a multi-instrumentalist and generation. She graduated from Berklee College composer, was born in San Francisco and has of Music in 1989, moved to Europe to teach at lived in New York since 1994. At home in a the Bruckner Conservatory, and returned to the wide variety of styles and musical roles, he is a East Coast three years later to embark on a full- vital part of the Downtown and Brooklyn fledged music career. Jensen is currently serving scene, playing trombone in groups ranging as the interim associate dean and director of from jazz and contemporary classical ensem- jazz arts at the Manhattan School of Music. ble to Balkan brass bands. He has released four She leads her own groups and is a featured albums as a leader, including The Heavens: member of Artemis (on Blue Note). For more, The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album. In 2018, please visit www.ingridjensen.com. he won the “Rising Star – Trombone” category in the Downbeat Jazz Critic’s Poll. Since 2006, Hailed in the Downbeat International Critics Garchik has contributed nearly 100 arrange- Poll as No. 1 trombonist and a ments and transcriptions for player “of vision and composure” according of music from all over the world. His arrange- to the New York Times, Ryan Keberle has de- ments were featured on Floodplain (2009), veloped a unique voice both on his instrument Rainbow (2010), A Thousand Thoughts (2014), and as a composer, and is distinguished as one Folk and Ladilikan (both in 2017), and of jazz’s most adventurous new players. His Landfall (2018). In 2017, he composed the flagship ensemble Catharsis has released five score for The Green Fog, a found-footage re- albums—three on ’ Greenleaf make of Vertigo, directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Music —to worldwide critical ac- Johnson, and Galen Johnson. claim. Their latest album, The Hope I Hold, was released this past spring and has been highly Hailed by the New York Times as a “conscien- acclaimed around the world with praise such tious” and “perceptive young trumpeter,” Matt as: “accessible and thoughtful, lyrical and cere- Holman has distinguished himself as a com- bral… Keberle and his bandmates weave their poser, conductor, bandleader, and top-tier solo - voices together with supple ease and under- ist in many of the leading jazz ensembles of our stated grace to conjure a collective sound that time. He has performed and/or recorded with embraces the listener while rewarding closer Billy Childs, , , attention” (Shaun Brady, Downbeat). Keberle Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, the John has also worked in endlessly varied settings Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Fred Hersch, Bang with musicians ranging from superstars to on a Can’s Asphalt Orchestra, the Joel Harrison up-and-coming innovators, in jazz, , Large Ensemble, , New York Voices, R&B, and classical music. As a featured soloist and many others. Holman’s adventurous cham- with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, he collab- ber-jazz recordings When Flooded (2014, orated with on the 2015 single Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records) and The “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime).” Tenth Muse (2017, New Focus Recordings), both received four-star reviews in Down Beat. Baritone saxophonist Carl Maraghi moved to As a large-ensemble composer, Holman has New York City from to study at the penned works for Stefon Harris, Jane Monheit, Juilliard School and has performed at the White

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Darcy James Argue Isaac Butler Peter Nigrini Vernil Rogers Karl Kim

Bradley Buehring Daniel Vatsky Adam Birnbaum Seneca Black Matt Clohesy

John Ellis Mike Fahie Jacob Garchik Matt Holman Ingrid Jensen

Ryan Keberle Carl Maraghi Sebastian Noelle Nadje Noordhuis Adam O’Farrill

Jonathan Powell Sam Sadigursky Jennifer Wharton Jon Wikan Rob Wilkerson

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House for two presidents. Maraghi has recorded the New York Times and hailed for its “embrace and performed with the Grammy-nominated of both lyrical intricacies and rockish swagger” Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society and bass (Nate Chinen). master Rufus Reed’s Grammy-nominated large ensemble and is part of the two-time The Australia-born and -based Nadje Noord - Grammy-winning Christian McBride Big huis possesses one of the more unforgettably Band. Maraghi has also performed with Wyn - lyrical in modern music, and has been ton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center described as “one of the most compelling voices Orches tra, Harry Connick Jr., , and to emerge on her instrument in recent years” trumpet icon . He tours and (Dan Bilawksy, All About Jazz). Her deeply-felt, records regularly in the United States, Canada, clarion tone and evocative compositional gifts and Europe. Maraghi has recorded with Alicia meld classical rigor, jazz expression, and world Keys, and played with Bruce Springsteen, as music accents into a presentation that is dis- well as with Stewart Copeland, drummer of the tinctively unique. Noordhuis was one of 10 Police. He is part of the Uptown Jazz Tentet and semi-finalists in the 2007 Thelonious Monk the New View Saxophone Quartet. Maraghi has International Jazz Trumpet Competition and been a teacher at NJPAC was selected as a Young Artist and Fordham University in New York City. in 2012. Based in New York since 2003, she is He composes for and leads projects including a member of the multiple Grammy-winning his own quartet/quintet/sextet, saxophone en- Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Grammy- semble, and nonet. Maraghi plays on wooden nominated Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Frederic Lebayle mouthpieces on all saxophones and the Grammy-nominated Anat Cohen and on a D’Addario clarinet mouthpiece, and Tentet. Noordhuis has three albums of original uses D’Addario reeds exclusively. compositions on her record label, Little Mystery Re cords, and a vinyl release on Newvelle Re - Guitarist-composer Sebastian Noelle has spent cords captured live in Muri, Switzerland. More much of his life traveling an elusive path be- information at www.nadje noordhuis.com. tween two worlds. In life, he moves back and forth between his native Germany and his Brooklyn-bred trumpeter Adam O’Farrill is adopted home of New York City; in his art, he a “rising star as a player and composer” navigates the more fluid boundaries between (PopMatters) and “a blazing young trumpet tal- the abstract and the emotional. Noelle’s cre- ent” (The New York Times). Begin ning his career dentials since arriving in New York in 2002 in his teenage years by performing with his fa- include more than a decade with groups includ- ther, the Grammy-winning pianist and com- ing Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society (appear- poser Arturo O’Farrill, Adam has gone on to ing on two Grammy-nominated recordings), work with a wide range of artists including the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop Orchestra, , Mary Halvorson, Mula- and the New York Jazzharmonic. He has also tu Astatke, Brasstracks, Samora Pinder hughes, performed at prestigious jazz festivals such as and Onyx Collective. His most recent album, Newport, North Sea, Montreux, and Moers. 2018’s El Maquech (Biophilia Records), received Noelle has released three CDs on the European critical acclaim, including from Street -NewTalent label: Across The River Journal, which wrote that “the band presents (2006), featuring Donny McCaslin, Ben Street, rambunctious music that is equally rustic and and Ari Hoenig; Koan (2011), with Loren Still- modern,” as well as Best of the Year mentions man, , Thomson Kneeland, from the Boston Globe and the NPR Jazz Critics and Tony Moreno; and Shelter (2016), with Poll. In the spring of 2019, O’Farrill won the Marc Mommaas, Matt Mitchell, Matt Clohesy, Downbeat Critics Poll for Rising Star Trum - and Dan Weiss. His music has been praised by peter. As a sideman, his discography includes

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Mary Halvorson’s Artlessly Falling, Rudresh time member of the legendary rock/jazz group Mahanthappa’s Bird Calls, Arturo O’Farrill’s Blood, Sweat & Tears. He is a Yamaha artist and Cuba: The Conversation Continues, Stimmer- plays Yamaha and exclu- man’s Goofballs , Tarun Balani’s The Shape of sively. www.jonathanpowell.net. Things to Come, and upcoming releases from Anna Webber and Aaron Burnett. Sam Sadigursky lives in New York and enjoys playing with musicians like Fred Hersch, Brad Dave Pietro’s talents as a gifted saxophonist, Mehldau, Darcy James Argue, Matt Mitchell, composer, and educator have made him an Emilio Teubal, Pablo Mayor, Jamie Baum, in-demand who has performed in Gabriel Kahane, Lucia Pulido, and many jazz clubs, festivals, and halls in more others. He has released four albums of his than 30 countries throughout Asia, Australia, own music for New Amsterdam Records, a col- Europe, and North and South America. He is a laborative album with Laurent Coq called member of the Grammy Award-winning Maria Crosswords , and Follow the Stick for BJU Schneider Orchestra and the Grammy-nomi- Records. Most recently, Sadigursky became a nated groups the Project and Darcy member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and was James Argue’s Secret Society. Pietro has also the onstage clarinetist for the Tony Award- toured and performed with the bands of winning Broadway musical The Band’s Visit. , , , and . As a leader, Jennifer Wharton is a low brass specialist based he has released nine CD’s with musicians in- in New York City. Though she started with clas- cluding , Kenny Werner, Ben sical music, Wharton also has deep roots in jazz Monder, , , and Scott and commercial music. Until the current pan- Colley. Pietro’s latest CD, Hypershere (Artist - demic, she was performing in Share, 2020), features , Ryan on Broadway. Wharton is a member of the Keberle, Gary Versace, Johannes Weiden muel - Grammy-nominated jazz orchestras Darcy ler, and Johnathan Blake. He is currently the James Argue’s Secret Society, the Alan Ferber director of jazz studies at . , and the Terraza Big Band. She has Pietro is sponsored by D’Addario Woodwinds also performed or recorded with the Van guard and the Conn-Selmer Instrument Company. Jazz Orchestra, All Star Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Ayn Inserto Jazz Originally from Largo, Florida, Jonathan Orchestra, Jihye Lee Jazz Orchestra, Big Heart Powell picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, Machine, many at-home virtual big bands, and never to look back. Though jazz was his first with her husband, trombonist/composer John and greatest love, he soon began incorporating Fedchock. Wharton just recorded Not A Novelty, elements of North Indian classical music, elec- her sophomore album with her band Bone - tronica, hip hop, and 20th-century classical gasm. It will be released on Sunnyside in April music into his original compositions. These in- 2021. www.jenniferwharton.com. fluences are heard and felt on Powell’s debut album, Transcend, self-released in 2010, and its Drummer, percussionist, and composer Jon follow up album, Beacons of Light, released in Wikan was born in Petersburg Alaska, and 2015 on Truth Revolution Records. He has raised in Seattle, Washington. His dossier is shared the stage and with loaded with names of legends and masters for renowned musicians and artists including Eddie whom he has accompanied over the years, Palmieri, Blood Sweat and Tears, Ricky Martin, ranging from his early days with Herb Jeffries , OMI, Miguel Zenon, and Ar turo and the Mills Brothers to providing some of the O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Or ches tra, to essential cajón sounds on Maria Schneider’s name a few. In 2018, Powell also became a full- recordings. The instrumentalists and bands that

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he has supported include Project O, the Projects and HERE Arts Center co-founded the Infinitude Project with the Jensen Sisters, Ingrid PROTOTYPE Festival, which showcases con- Jensen’s quartet and quintet, the Jim Knapp Big temporary opera-theater and music-theater Band, Nordic Connect, Geoffrey Keezer’s trio, projects over 10 days each January. The and the Invisible Sounds Project with Ingrid New Yorker recently wrote that the festival is Jensen and Steve Treseler. More can be found at “Essential to the evolution of American opera,” www.jonwikan.com. and the New York Times called the festival “Bracingly innovative… a point of reference.” Saxophonist Rob Wilkerson is an Albuquer- BMP’s 2014 bi-coastal expansion to que, NM native based in Brooklyn, NY since sprang from growing partnerships with institu- 2001. As well as a leader/composer of his own tions such as the Los Angeles Opera, the Los ensemble, he is a long-time member of Darcy Angeles Philharmonic, Ford Theatres, and James Argue’s Secret Society and Alan Ferber’s RVCC. BMP is a National Sawdust Artist in Big Band (both nominated for multiple Gram - Residence. www.bethmorrisonprojects.org. my awards). Since 2005, he has toured the world with Michael Bublé, appearing on several Grammy and Juno award-winning albums. Special thanks to Lindsey Turteltaub. Wil kerson has been a featured soloist and per- forms regularly with the Chelsea Symphony in New York City, and performed Michael Tilson “Best Friends Forever” was premiered by the Thomas’ Four Preludes on Playthings of the Brussels Jazz Orchestra at Jazz Middleheim on Wind with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018. August 13, 2015. Real Enemies was previewed He played woodwinds for the Tony Award- by Secret Society on September 10, 2015 at the winning Avenue Q from 2017–19 and performs Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, and pre- and records with many of NYC’s top big bands. miered at the 2015 BAM Next Wave Festival, Wilkerson is currently an adjunct professor at November 18–22, 2015. the Hartt School at the University of Hartford. He is a Selmer Paris and Vandoren Artist. “Dark Alliance” contains musical elements paraphrased from “Un Son Para Mi Pueblo,” music and by Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, PRODUCER © 1981 Ocarina-ENIGRAC. Used with per- mission. Since 2006, Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) has been a tastemaker at the forefront of musical Narration in “Who Do You Trust” and “You and theatrical innovation by supporting living Are Here (Reprise)” contains excerpts from and their collaborators during the The Paranoid Style in American Politics by creation of groundbreaking new works in Richard Hofstadter © 1964 Richard Hofstad- opera-theater and other kinds of vocal theater. ter, and Real Enemies by Kathryn S. Olmsted “Responsible for a sizable portion of the © 2009 by Oxford University Press, Inc.; and strongest new opera mounted in the 21st cen- original text by Isaac Butler © 2015 Isaac tury” (The New Yorker) BMP encourages risk- Butler. Used with permission. taking by all its artists, resulting in provocative works that represent a dynamic and lasting Narration recorded by James Urbaniak at legacy for a new American canon. During the Starburns Industries in Burbank, CA, engi- 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons, BMP produced neered by Dustin Marshall. © 2014 James 185 performances on five continents. Urbaniak. Used with permission. BMP’s commitment to cutting-edge musical expression has created “its own genre” (Opera Original studio recording recorded at MSR News) of originality. In 2013, Beth Morrison Studios, Studio A, New York, NY, February 1–4,

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2016. Produced by Alan Ferber, Brian Mont - ARTISTIC PLANNING gomery, and Darcy James Argue. Recorded Katy Tucker, Director of Artistic Planning and mixed by Brian Montgomery and mas- Robin Pomerance, Artistic Administrator tered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound. DEVELOPMENT Released by New Amsterdam Records. Taun Miller Wright, Chief Development Officer Elizabeth Meyer, Director of Institutional Giving Jennifer Sime, Associate Director of Beth Morrison Projects Development, Individual Giving Beth Morrison, President and Creative Jamie McClave, Individual Giving Producer and Special Events Officer Jecca Barry, Executive Director Alex Higgins, Director of Annual Fund

Kim Whitener, Consulting Producer EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Brian Freeland, Director of Production Rica Anderson, Interim Director, Artistic Literacy Robert Phillip Smith, Associate Producer Laura Abrams, Artistic Residencies and Public Engagement Manager Ashley Peters, Finance Manager Melanie Milton, PROTOTYPE Festival HUMAN RESOURCES Producer Judy Hatch, Human Resources Director Victoria Preis, Marketing Manager Shan Whitney, Human Resources Generalist Catherine Hancock, Social Media Manager MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Jenny Reik, Director of Marketing and Communications For Cal Performances at Home Ron Foster-Smith, Associate Director of Tiffani Snow, Producer Marketing Jeremy Little, Technical Director Mark Van Oss, Communications Editor For Ibis Productions, Inc. Louisa Spier, Public Relations Manager Jeremy Robins, Supervisor Cheryl Games, Digital Platform Program Colin Gee, Editor Manager Zach Herchen, Post-Production Jeanette Peach, Public Relations Senior Associate Elise Chen, Email Production Associate For Future Tense Media Lynn Zummo, New Technology Coordinator Jesse Yang, Creative Director Terri Washington, Social Media and Digital Content Specialist For Cal Performances EXECUTIVE OFFICE OPERATIONS Jeremy Geffen, Executive and Artistic Director Doug Warrick, General Manager Kelly Brown, Executive Assistant to the Director Jeremy Little, Production Manager Alan Herro, Production Admin Manager ADMINISTRATION Kevin Riggall, Head Carpenter Andy Kraus, Director of Strategy and Matt Norman, Head Electrician Administration Tom Craft, Audio/Video Department Head Calvin Eng, Chief Financial Officer Jo Parks, Video Engineer Rafael Soto, Finance Specialist Amy Ferrara, Event Manager/Greek Theatre Marilyn Stanley, Finance Specialist Tiffani Snow, Event Manager Gawain Lavers, Applications Programmer Ginarose Perino, Rental Business Manager Ingrid Williams, IT Support Analyst Rob Bean, Event Operations Manager Sean Nittner, Systems Administrator Marybeth Baluyot, Assistant Manager, Audience Services Loretta Hill, Office Manager

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STAGE CREW TICKET OFFICE Charles Clear, Senior Scene Technician Liz Baqir, Ticket Services Manager David Ambrose, Senior Scene Technician Gordon Young, Assistant Ticket Office Manager Jacob Heule, Senior Scene Technician Sherice Jones, Assistant Ticket Office Manager Jorg Peter “Winter” Sichelschmidt, Jeffrey Mason, Patron Services Associate Senior Scene Technician Joseph Swails, Senior Scene Technician Mark Mensch, Senior Scene Technician Opening fanfare used by permission from Jordi Mathison Ott, Senior Scene Technician Savall from his 2015 recording of Monteverdi's Mike Bragg , Senior Scene Technician L'Orfeo on Alia Vox. Ricky Artis, Senior Scene Technician Robert Haycock, Senior Scene Technician Major support for the Cal Performances STUDENT MUSICAL ACTIVITIES Digital Classroom is provided by Wells Fargo. Brad Brennan, Director, Student Musical Activities Mark Sumner, Director, UC Choral Ensembles Major support for Beyond the Stage is provided Bill Ganz, Associate Director, by Bank of America. UC Choral Ensembles Matthew Sadowski, Director, Cal Marching Band calperformances.org Ted Moore, Director, UC Jazz Ensembles © 2020 Regents of the University of California Brittney Nguyen, SMA Coordinator

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