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^ for immediate release LACMA Public Programs MAY 2013 Art & Music series: Steve Reich & Gallery Discussion: The Art of indian performance Tuesday Matinee: Dishonored Friends Looking Talks & Courses Dance Camera West 12th Annual DCW Dance Media Festival May 3, 2013 | 3 pm Bing Theater and Wilshire Stair Fountain | 3–9 pm | General admission: $15 | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online Dance Camera West's 2013 festival theme, Get Wet , promises an exhilarating celebration of screen dance, live dance, and water. Prints and Drawings Council Lecture: Rembrandt's Sub-Plots and Diversions May 4, 2013 | 2 pm Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations required Peter Parshall will discuss Rembrandt's innovative and engaging storytelling. Whether it is an illustration of a biblical text, a brief sketch executed in the studio, or a fully imagined moment, Rembrandt's ability to convey the human subtleties of an event is legendary, and uncovering the strategies he employed offers an oblique view of his artistic character. Parshall was curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from 1999 until 2010, and has written and lectured widely on the art of northen Europe and the Renaissance. The Art of Wine: Monet to Matisse & French Cafe Society May 4, 2013 | 6 pm LA Times Central Court | $95, $85 LACMA members | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. Enjoy a wonderful evening exploring French art and fine French wine. First you will tour the French art galleries with museum educator Mary Lenihan and learn how the end of outmoded laws and regulations after the French Revolution enabled the flourishing Parisian café and restaurant culture. You'll then enjoy a wine tasting of five French wines along with entertaining commentary by Barbara Baxter of Planet Wine. Featured will be a Vintage Cru Classe from the renowned Château Brane-Cantenac, beautifully paired with cheese and pâté. Curator Walkthrough: Japanese Prints - Hokusai at LACMA May 5, 2013 | 2 pm Pavilion for Japanese Art | Free with museum admission, no reservations Robert T. Singer, department head and curator of Japanese art, will lead a tour of Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA . On display will be a range of works by Katsushika Hokusai including color woodblock prints, surimono, drawings, and pages from woodblock printed books. This exhibition was made possible through the recent gift by Max Palevsky of the complete set of Hokusai’s legendary series A Tour of Waterfalls in the Provinces and through generous loans from the Barbara Bowman Collection. Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking May 9, 2013 | 12:30 pm BP Grand Entrance | Free with museum admission, no reservations Join museum educator Jennifer Reid for a one-hour facilitated gallery discussion exploring the unique medium of printmaking through the work of renowned Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai and American printer Jack Stauffacher. Examine two very different approaches to the printing press: the 19th-century woodblock print, and modern typography, and the creative potential of each. This discussion will focus on the exhibitions Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA and Jack Stauffacher: Typographic Experiments . Cur-ATE: Latin America May 13 and 14, 2013 | 6:30 pm BP Grand Entrance | $100, $90 LACMA members; tickets include parking, tour, and dinner | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. Trace the history of Mexico’s art and cuisine, from 16th century colonization by the Spanish to the 19th century wars of independence, with food historian Maite Gomez-Rejón. The tour of LACMA's rich collection of Latin American art will conclude with a dinner by Ray’s Chef Kris Morningstar, featuring Latin American dishes. A wine menu by sommelier Paul Sanguinetti will be available for pairing at additional cost. Indian Dance Performance May 18, 2013 | 7 pm Bing Theater | $25 general admission; $20 LACMA members and seniors (62+); $10 SAAC members and students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. With powerful imagery and captivating movement, the Shakti Dance Company's Davadasi: The Eternal Dancer transports the audience into the world of ancient Indian temple tradition. This classical Bharata Natyam production created by master choreographer Viji Prakash and accompanied by live music brings to the American stage for the first time the story of the devadasis , dancers to the gods. MUSIC Programs Art & Music An Afternoon with Composers Stewart Copeland & Michael Gordon Presented by LACMA & Long Beach Opera May 4, 2013 | 2 pm Bing Theater | $25/$40 VIP; $20/$30 VIP for LACMA and LBO members; $5 for students with ID (VIP includes a small individual bottle of wine from LACMA’s Plaza Café) | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. 2 Composers Stewart Copeland, founding member of The Police, and Michael Gordon, cofounder of the Bang on the Can Festival, discuss their operas The Tell-Tale Heart and Van Gogh with Andreas Mitisek, artistic and general director of the Long Beach Opera. Members of the Long Beach Opera will perform excerpts from both works. Copeland, former drummer and founder of the rock band The Police , is the recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival's first Outstanding Music Award. Michael Gordon's music merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power embodying, in the words of The New Yorker' s Alex Ross, "the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz, and the intransigence of classical modernism." Steve Reich & Friends May 7, 2013 | 7:30 pm Bing Theater | $30 general admission; $25 LACMA members and seniors; $5 for students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. In celebration of James Turrell: A Retrospective , Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Steve Reich comes to LACMA for an evening of performances devoted to his music by the Lyris Quartet, pianists Vicki Ray and Joanne Pearce Martin, and a percussion ensemble led by CalArts’ David Johnson. New and old works on the program include Different Trains , WTC 9/11 , Sextet , Piano Phase , and Clapping Music . Sundays Live Sundays Live is an ongoing series and includes free classical music concerts presented by LACMA in cooperation with Friends of Sundays Live. These concerts take place in the Bing Theater and feature mid-career professionals and student virtuosos taking center stage. Please note: Sundays Live concerts can be heard live via streaming audio at lacma.org, or by delayed broadcast the following Wednesday at noon on KCSN, 88.5 FM. Bing Theater | Free, no reservations The Colburn School Orchestra, Maxim Eshkenazy, Conductor May 5, 2013 | 6 pm Perfoming Dvo řák: Symphony No. 9, New World , and Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2. The Lyris Quartet May 12, 2013 | 6 pm Performing Beethoven: Quartet F major, Op. 59, No.1, Rasumovsky , and Gerard Schurmann: String Quartet No. 2. The Crossroads Orchestra, Alexander Treger, Conductor May 19, 2013 | 6 pm Performing Dvorak: Serenade and works by Mozart and Bartok. Emerging Artists from the Colburn School Sunday, May 26, 2013 | 6 pm Performing works to be announced. Jazz at LACMA Featuring the art of jazz as practiced by leading Southern California artists, these free concerts are presented at the BP Grand Entrance every Friday evening from April to November. Friday Night Jazz is made possible by K-JAZZ 88.1. BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations 3 Charles Owen Quintet May 3, 2013 | 6 pm World-class tenor sax, soprano sax, and flute player Charles Owens is a fearless virtuoso with his own distinctive musical voice. A featured soloist with the Clayton Hamilton Orchestra, he also serves as conductor of the Luckman Jazz Orchestra. Over the years, he has worked with Horace Tapscott, the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, James Newton, John Carter, and Patrice Rushen. Greg Reitan Trio May 10, 2013 | 6 pm Pianist and composer Greg Reitan is the leader of an award-winning trio that placed second in the 1996 Hennessy Jazz Search in New York. 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Recalling the sounds of esteemed fret-board masters Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Pat Martino, and Pat Metheny, Schalk expands on the tradition by playing dynamic music expressing thoughtfulness and original artistic abilities as one of today's authentic jazz guitarists. Sandra Booker May 31, 2013 | 6 pm Sandra Booker is regarded as one of the emerging and important voices in modern jazz vocal music, and was selected as finalist last fall in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Highly respected by her contemporaries for her virtuosic scat ability, impeccable timing, crystalline tone, and irrepressible musicality, the New Orleans native has a style that is familiar and completely new, all at the same time. She has performed with many jazz luminaries and rising stars including Lalo Schifrin, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr., the New Orleans Jazz Messengers, Patrice Rushen, and Karen Briggs. Latin Sounds Relax in Hancock Park as world-renowned artists play the hottest sounds from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, and Los Angeles. The concerts are every Saturday 5 pm–7 pm, May through September at the Dorothy Collins Brown Amphitheater at LACMA, in Hancock Park north of the museum.
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