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A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION LIVE AT THE DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION NOVEMBER 6 & 7, 2018 Photo by Norman Seeff. Norman by Photo The Music Center Presents

Photo by Henry Diltz / Morrison Hotel Gallery. A Birthday Celebration Live At The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion November 6 & 7, 2018 FEATURING

Photo by Norman Seeff. Norman by Photo Glen Hansard Norah Jones Table of Contents Chaka Khan p3 Welcome Diana Krall p4 Bio Kris Kristofferson What an incredible honor and privilege it is to welcome each of p6 The Universe of Joni you to celebrate one of the world’s most remarkable artists — Joni p8 Joni — A Tribute at 75 Los Lobos with La Marisoul, Mitchell. I am so pleased you have joined us for what I know will p10 Song List Cesar Castro & Xochi Flores be two nights of extraordinary performances by an amazing array Photo by Nurit Wilde. of singers and musicians, all of whom have been inspired by Joni’s p13 Our Own Hejira Graham Nash masterful music. This is a birthday party only can throw! p14 Featured Artists Seal I am so proud that we at The Music Center could make it happen. p17 Band Bios As an artist, Joni pushed the boundaries; challenged the narrative, quite evident in the 1960s, that a woman couldn’t be in p19 Birthday Wishes Rufus Wainwright charge of her own . She took control of her professional p21 The Music Center's Soirée journey and made choices based on what she wanted, not what p26 About The Music Center WITH those in the music industry tried to dictate. She moved the field forward, something I truly respect, making music her own and Jon Cowherd reframing what songwriting and vocal music could be.

Co-Musical Director/Drums Co-Musical Director/Piano For those reasons and so much more, we are thrilled to celebrate Joni’s birthday. During our gala on the second night of these Christopher Thomas concerts, we will bestow her with The Music Center’s Excellence in the Performing Arts Award, acknowledging her pioneering spirit Bass Guitar & Pedal Steel and timeless art and music.

Thank you, Joni, for all you have given us, for this incredible Marvin J. Sewell Jeff Haynes chance to produce these concerts and to show how incredibly Guitar Percussion grateful we are. And thank you to our wonderful audiences for your support.

We hope you enjoy the celebration. Ambrose Akinmusire Bob Sheppard Trumpet Woodwinds Rachel S. Moore President & CEO

Scarlet Rivera WELCOME TO CELEBRATION A JOYOUS The Music Center Guest Artist / Violin 3 oberta Joan Anderson (“Joni”) was born Joni went on to serve as producer for most popular music standards, Both Sides Now in Fort MacLeod, Alberta, on November of her subsequent . She produced [2000]. In 2007, the Alberta Ballet Company 7, 1943. Joni was an only child whose artistic and recorded Blue [1971], a unique collection staged the ballet , talents blossomed early as she began of songs, performed with an emotional choreographed to a collection of Joni’s drawing at a young age. While she was honesty that resonated with a wide recordings. Her last recording of new always a lover of music, it wasn't until high audience. Blue is considered by many material was Shine [2007]. school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, that critics to be one of the best LPs of pop Although Joni’s sophisticated music rarely Joni began performing. She bought a ukulele music ever created. ascended the pop charts (“Help Me” and soon began playing in the local club, Joni's most commercially successful LP, reached #7 in 1974), many of her songs The Louis Riel, in 1962. [1974] was created with have become classics. ”River,” “Big Yellow Heading to art school in Calgary the -fusion group The L.A. Express. Taxi,” and “” are instantly after graduation, Joni auditioned at a The Hissing of Summer Lawns [1975] steered recognizable. “Woodstock” has become coffeehouse called The Depression and her away from traditional pop forms into the anthem of the 60s’ counter-culture immediately landed a regular gig there. formats of complex lyrics and melodies, movement and “Both Sides Now” has Weighing two viable career options — art or accompanied by a variety of jazz musicians. been recorded more than 1250 times by music — she decided to focus on the latter. Her Hejira [1976] shed much of the other artists. instrumentation, creating a minimalist Joni moved to Toronto in 1964 and immersed Three Junos, nine GRAMMYs® (plus the recording with an expansive ambience herself in the fledgling Yorkville folk scene, Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement achieved with the help of her sound performing in coffeehouses along with Award), the Governor General's Award for engineer, , by overdubbing Joni's other fellow unknowns and Lifetime Artistic Achievement, the Canadian electric rhythm guitar. In 1978, one of jazz's Gordon Lightfoot. It was during this Music Hall of Fame and Songwriter’s Hall of great geniuses, Charles Mingus, approached time that Joni’s songwriting skills began Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Joni to propose a collaboration. The result to emerge. a Polar Music Prize are but a few of Joni’s was Mingus [1979], released shortly after awards and accolades. Moving stateside in 1965, Joni worked the Mingus's untimely death from ALS. coffeehouse circuit for the next three years, All told, Joni’s creative output includes Dog Eat Dog [1985] featured Joni's playing as many as 20 sets a week. David 30+ musical releases and countless exploration of sociopolitical themes set Crosby caught her performance in a Florida paintings and drawings. She continues to complex synthesizer arrangements. club in 1967, was “stunned” by her talent, to create to this day. In the 1990s, her acoustic guitar playing and invited her to Los Angeles. came back to the forefront and produced Soon thereafter Joni signed with the GRAMMY®- winning Records. Her first record, , [1994]. She has also recorded an orchestral was released in 1968. retrospective, Travelogue [2002]; two

A wholly original masterpiece buoyed by live recordings, [1974] Joni Mitchell biography provided by her unique songwriting and guitar style, and Shadows and Light [1980]; and an Mark Scott and Les Irvin. this album still sounds fresh and timeless orchestrated collection of 50 years later.

The Music Center’s Excellence in the Performing Arts Award/2018 Presented to Joni Mitchell

The Music Center honors Joni Mitchell with The Music Center’s Excellence in the Performing Arts Award, recognizing her pioneering spirt and timeless art and music. The Music Center first bestowed this award, which salutes individuals who are innovators in the creative and performing arts, upon another great artist — actress, dancer and singer Rita Moreno — in 2016. Joni continues to be an inspiration to the artists of today

Photo by Norman Seeff. Norman by Photo and . Her many talents and artistic contributions epitomize The Music Center’s belief in the power of the arts to deepen the cultural

4 lives of all. 5 Film photo credits: Right, black and white photo: Nurit Wilde. All other photos by Henry Diltz / Morrison Hotel Gallery.

By Jörn Weisbrodt they show a deep commitment to nature, Joni herself performed twice at The Music friendship, simplicity and harmony. There is Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. In 1972, “Naturally, like most humans, I love Joni,” no person with a greater smile on her face after the of , the Los Chrissie Hynde wrote to me when I asked when you arrive for a visit. Angeles Times headline read, “Joni Mitchell her to be in these shows. In my head, her in a Giant Living Room,” and, two years later, Chrissie unfortunately couldn’t be in the reply turned into, “If you are human, you after Court and Spark, the headline read, show. But many others are here. These love Joni Mitchell.” Therefore, “barbarians” “New Joni sparks Dancing in the Aisles.” The shows were a year-and-a-half in the making. would not love Joni. Loving Joni Mitchell is contemplative and the ecstatic, the intimate I asked Joni whether she would give me a sign of being human, a sign for humanity. and the extrovert, the Apollonian and the her blessing to let The Music Center put on Her songs probe into the deepest and soar Dyonisian, “thaw out or freeze” as she says these shows celebrating her 75th birthday. to the highest points of our existence. in “Hejira,” probably my favorite song. These She did. Then, it was obvious to me that are the poles of our existence, even though There is an unprecedented marriage of Brian Blade had to be my first call, to we often try to whittle those extremes down intimacy and universality that permeates all ask him to be the music director and put for our own comfort, sanity and survival. her work. Her art compares with no other, together. In pop music, people But not so her. She is the kite that flies but it relates to all of us. Joni Mitchell is a generally feel that as long as you stick more high among lightning and thunder between wanderer and explorer in a Nietzschean or less to the melody and the lyrics of a the sky and the earth, and we receive and sense (the German philosopher is one of song, you are properly interpreting that cherish the light and energy she sends her favorite writers), a cartographer of the song. Not with Joni’s music. Harmonies, down to earth. heart and mind. The unchartered territory chord voicings and arrangements are is her , yet she reveals it as familiar to absolutely integral to what constitutes the “You are my favorite actor in the world,” us. I believe I speak for more than myself song. Nobody would dream of changing the I told the great Austrian actor Walter in saying these shows are a homecoming piano parts for Schubert’s “Winterreise” and Schmidinger years ago. He replied with a for all of us. Her music makes us feel still claim they are singing his compositions. sarcastic smile, “Why not the universe?” human, complete and at home, despite Brian knows this. Continuing my journey of faux-pas, on the the fact that her “default setting” is that day of the first show in Toronto, overcome In January, my husband, our daughter of the traveler. She longs for distance, for with emotion, I told Joni in her hotel room, and I visited Joni who loved playing pool as expressed in many of her lyrics: “You are my favorite female artist.” Her with our then 6-year-old child. Over the “clouds at icy altitudes,” “skate away,” reply was, “Why female?” And she is right, clicking sounds of the colorful balls hitting “wanderlust,” “porous with travel fever.” why female. The greatest art is neither each other, I asked Joni if there were any That desire for and ability to think about male nor female; it is human, and it is singers she would enjoy hearing perform infinity is what differentiates us from all otherworldly. Joni, tonight I think we are her songs. Many of those names she gave living creatures. There is no one that nails all here to say, you are our favorite artist. me are in the cast today. Music producer infinity better than Joni Mitchell. And only (To which she might say, "Why artist?”) Danny Kapilian —whom I also worked with the British painter J.M.W. Turner could be Happy birthday! on a similar show in 2013 for Joni’s 70th called her equal with clouds. “God is alive birthday at Massey Hall, as part of Toronto’s in Joni Mitchell” someone scrawled across Luminato Festival — then joined the team. a poster for shows she performed in March Many others followed to help, advise and 1968 at Canterbury House. support, all fans or long-time friends of her described her as “Queen Undisputed of music, culminating in the gatherings and Mind Beauty.” celebrations today. When you enter into And, at the same time, there is no one who Joni’s world, you enter into a giant network Jӧrn Weisbrodt is the artistic producer to The Music Center and creator of these shows. He is also the artistic director is more down to earth than Joni. The homes of friends, so you cannot help but feel of ALL ARTS, a streaming platform and broadcast channel she creates, the gardens, her paintings, are intimately connected to her. We are all here dedicated to Arts and Culture by WNET and former artistic far from being “ice cream castles in the air;” tonight as her friends. director of the Luminato Festival in Toronto. Photos by Norman Seeff. Norman by Photos

6 7 Film photos by Henry Diltz / Morrison Hotel Gallery. JONI—A TRIBUTE AT 75 By Dr. Daniel J. Levitin in multidimensional ways. Any single one of those elements of her music could stand on its own and still th For two nights, we celebrate Joni's 75 birthday with a be better than anything else out there. But she pulls tribute to her and her music, the kind of thing she has them all together, organically, into a unified whole. rarely participated in up to this point. But 75 is a special The result is breathtaking. occasion that commands special attention. At 75, Joni I fell in love with Joni through her music in the is still young of mind and spirit, full of wit and humor. late 1960s, and she never stopped surprising me, album And, charmingly, she stills enjoys watching cartoons by album. To talk of genres with Joni is to miss the (we share a special affection for Loony Tunes and Puss point. It is 10 genres, and it is its own genre. Mingus, in Boots). an ambitious collaboration with the great jazz bassist, Writers have difficulty capturing what is special about was seen as a departure by many, but, in fact, she had Joni's music because they tend, myopically, to focus sown the seeds of jazz already through collaborations on just one element — the lyrics, the exotic chords, with Tom Scott, , and others the tunings, the melodies, her role as cultural or in earlier albums. And, if one listens closely, her music generational spokesperson, that smile. It is all of brought together the chordal play of and these together, and it is more. What's missing from Bartók. Her vocal phrasing has the fluidity of Billie most accounts is the way her music makes us feel: Holliday, the wit of Annie Ross, the romanticism of Édith the evocative, deep effect it has on us — not just while Piaf. There's rock, African drumming, folk, ambient and we're listening, but in the way those songs stay with us, art music, classical strains and rock across the catalog. sometimes for a lifetime. I met her 25 years ago, and we became friends. After Joni’s music uniquely shows the power of music to teach falling in love with her music, I fell in love with her. And us about ourselves. Prior to her, we had Tin Pan Alley, who wouldn't? I have never met anyone like her. She Broadway, pop - songs that told a story, but one that perfectly balances the physical, emotional, spiritual and was about people who were clearly overt characters in intellectual, hovering over each sector, never staying a story (think “Mack The Knife” or “Oklahoma!”). Joni’s too long in any one of them, maintaining an astonishing songs, whether they were actually about her or not (she sense of balance and harmony. Talking to her leads to says they weren’t, but perhaps she is being writerly coy) the most stimulating conversations imaginable. And so revealed the inner workings of a keenly analytical mind charismatic! I didn't know people could be that way. And turned inward, plumbing the depths of what it means perhaps they can't: I've never met anyone else like her, to think and what it means to feel … what it means to be and I've never heard of anyone who has. human, with our flaws, our frustrated desires and our In 200 years, I think we will still be singing some of the disappointments. We've learned to better understand music we love today: the Psalms, Lennon & McCartney, our own emotions by listening to her write and sing Cole Porter, Mozart and Mitchell. And I think our about hers. I think you’d have to go back 2500 years to descendants will still reserve a special place in their King David (the Psalms of the Old Testament) to find hearts for Joni. They will be happy to let her take them music that explored emotion as well as Joni does. to wherever she wants to go because they know it will I intentionally didn't say her music conveys emotion, be a fantastic ride, that they'll be entertained, and which opera and so many popular songs do. Joni they'll come back to their lives with some insight, introduced something deeper, the exploration of warm-heartedness and hope they didn’t have before. emotion through four different lenses. She applies As two fans once told Joni, “before there was Prozac, an analysis of the intellectual, spiritual, physical and there was you.” As a psychologist, I would say the best visceral sides of a story. Anyone else with her gift of cure for depression may be to take two Joni Mitchells Photo by Henry Diltz / Morrison Hotel Gallery. words might have let the music play second fiddle. and call me in the morning. The astonishing thing is that Joni's chords, melodies and the vocal performance are all equal partners with the words, reinforcing them and adding to them

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin is a Los Angeles-based neuroscientist, musician and author who studies the music and the brain. Three of his books, This Is Your

Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, and The Organized Mind discuss Joni Mitchell's work. Photo by Norman Seeff.

8 9 an uptight bed and breakfast are recounted BOTH SIDES, NOW in one of the album's memorable verses: Joni Mitchell wrote “Both Sides, Now” SONG LIST ‘While the boarders were snoring / Under in March 1967, inspired by a passage in (in alphabetical order) crisp white sheets of curfew / We were Henderson the Rain King, a 1959 novel by newly lovers then / We were fire in the stiff- Saul Bellow. “I was reading Saul Bellow's A CASE OF YOU blue-haired-house rules.’” Henderson the Rain King on a plane, and, Mitchell spoke to Cameron Crowe for a early in the book, Henderson the Rain 1979 interview: “‘The Blue BLUE King is also up in a plane. He's on his way album, there’s hardly a dishonest note From the Rolling Stone review in 1971: to Africa, and he looks down and sees in the vocals,’ she said. ‘At that period “has the secret, ineffably sad feeling of a these clouds. I put down the book, looked in my life, I had no personal defenses. Billie Holliday song. Joy, after all, can be out the window and saw clouds too, and I I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack shared with everybody, but intense pain immediately started writing the song. I had of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely leads to withdrawal and isolation. ‘Blue’ is no idea that the song would become as no secrets from the world and I couldn’t a distillation of pain and is, therefore, the popular as it did.” pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be most private of Joni’s private songs. The happy. But the advantage of it in the music beauty of the mysterious and unresolved COURT AND SPARK was that there were no defenses there melody and the expressiveness of the From Pitchfork: “Her 1974 commercial break- either.’ ‘A Case Of You’ benefits from the vocal make this song accessible to a out, ‘Court and Spark,’ found her backed intimacy and lack of filter, enhanced by general audience. But ‘Blue,’ more than by first-call jazz session cats L.A. Express. the spare instrumentation: James Taylor any of the other songs, shows Joni to be It was her official severance from folk music. on acoustic guitar, Russ Kunkel on drums twice vulnerable: not only is she in pain Court is her most pop album and gave her and Joni on Appalachian dulcimer.” as a private person, but her calling as an three chart hits, going gold five weeks after artist commands her to express her despair its release. Mitchell's production features ALL I WANT musically and reveal to an audience of heavy and sudden multi-tracked swells of From The Atlantic: “Listen to the first line record-buyers.” her voice that spike melodies like a choir the time,’ Mitchell said. ‘They wouldn't have the thrill she finds in new lovers. But, like flowers around his neck, and then one day, of All I Want, the album's first track: ‘I am of accusing angels and mimic strings and said it if it had been written by a man.’ The the true poet she is, she never explicitly they take him out and shoot him. It’s kind on a lonely road / and I am traveling’ — BORDERLINE horns. Now six albums deep on the topic of song is propelled by the explosive fretless states to whom she’s speaking, which allows of a macabre thing to say, isn’t it, I guess?” Mitchell repeating that last word four From a 2014 Joni Mitchell interview with love and loss, Court has a marked cynicism. bass of Mitchell newcomer Jaco Pastorius, listeners to insert themselves and their times, leaning into it …” McLean’s: “The song investigates why It's a grown-up album about arriving at the a flamboyant jazz-rock legend whose life imaginations into the song.” NOTHING CAN BE DONE people divide. In Japan, they have a pecking intractable issues of adult love.” ended tragically with a drug overdose From The New York Times, March 17, 1991: AMELIA order of smart and dumb according to in 1987. ‘He was the bass player of my DREAMLAND “‘Oh I am not old / I'm told / But I am not From the 1996 interview blood. A man asked me what my blood type COYOTE dreams,’ Mitchell said. ‘I can't imagine From the 1975, Village Voice review: young,’ Joni Mitchell sings in ‘Nothing Can with Joni Mitchell: “I wrote the album while is because he thought I was A-type — which From jonimitchell.com: “An upbeat, playful Hejira without him.’” “In ‘Dreamland,’ Airto's drum becomes Be Done,’ from her new album, Night Ride traveling cross-country by myself, and there he said was ‘smart blood.’ It is human account of an unrepentant ladies’ man the beat of a pep rally where the chant Home. ‘Must I surrender with grace / The is this restless feeling throughout it ... the nature to pull rank one way or another. {‘He's got another woman down the hall, but DON’T INTERRUPT is a jingly montage of racist images and things that I loved when I was younger?’ sweet loneliness of solitary travel. In this By principle or blood type.” he seems to want me anyway!’} encountered THE SORROW quasi-ads, and the result is Mitchell's she asks. ‘What do I do here with this song, I was thinking of Amelia Earhart and on a roadhouse dance floor. Eventually the From the 1975 Rolling Stone review: “In greatest third-person song: a frightening, hunger?’ Ms. Mitchell's stoic reply to her addressing it from one solo pilot to another, cad shows enough humanity to earn the ‘Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow,’ a poem of funny parody of how television and own question, repeated almost like a sort of reflecting on the cost of being a songwriter's pity — and a one-night stand. almost impenetrable mystery, she [Joni] advertising corrupt ideas by turning them mantra throughout the song, is simply: woman and having something you must do.” ‘People considered it aggressive for a voices the core of her vision. Among other into commercial products with a putative ‘Nothing can be done.’” woman to be talking and acting this way at things, the song parallels modern forms erotic value. This is stuff Mitchell knows A STRANGE BOY of female subjugation with both Christian to her bones. Sexual corruption may be From jonimitchell.com: “Mitchell's and African mythology in imagery that is the metaphor for material corruption, and sometimes cruel, sometimes self-critical disjunctive and telegraphic: Mitchell makes the most of it, warping account of the affair she had with one He says ‘Your notches liberation doll’ every syllable into a hooker's come- of two men with whom she drove from And he chains me with that serpent on, obviously enthralled by the rotten L.A. to New England in the spring of 1976. To that Ethiopian wall opulence she excoriates. She is herself, One of the men was a former boyfriend Winds of change patriarchs after all, one of the ultimate products from Australia, the other — the ‘strange Snug in your bible belt dreams.” of imperialism: a jaded Hollywood star.” boy’ of the title — was an airline steward in his 30s still living with his parents. DOWN TO YOU FOR THE ROSES ‘He was psychologically astute and From Paste Magazine, 2017: From Joni Mitchell's introduction to the severely adolescent at the same time,’ “With spiraling, interwoven orchestration, song at Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1972: she remembers. ‘There was something Court and Spark’s ‘Down To You’ rightly “This is another new song. It’s called ‘For the seductive and charming about his childlike won a GRAMMY® for Best Arrangement Roses,’ and it comes from the expression, qualities, but I never harbored any illusions Accompanying a Vocalist in 1974. With ‘to run for the roses.’ You know what that’s about him being my man. He was just a big Mitchell’s quintessentially raw self- all about: that’s when you take this horse kid in the end.’ The relationship lasted only awareness, the lyrics almost certainly seem and, you know, like he comes charging into a short time, but its flaming early days in to be a reflection on her own character and the finish line, and they throw a wreath of

10 11 a young girl incarcerated in one of Ireland’s Magdalene institutions — The Magdalene PRODUCTION CREDITS SONG LIST CONTINUED Laundries — for being over 20, unmarried

and attractive. The song is an exceptional Artistic Producer JÖrn Weisbrodt example of taking a news topic and finding Senior Producer Nick Schwartz-Hall the human side that speaks of the injustice, OUR OWN Music Producer Danny Kapilan but never sounds like it’s a protest song — Director of Production Jason Clark From the 1974 review in the The New York it never talks at the listener, takes a Production Manager Patrick Traylor Times: “Not all of Mitchell's songs focus position and pounds at it. It simply takes Asst. Production Manager Teresa Hartmann solely and inwardly on love. She's fine a first-person account and uses elegant Stage Manager Melissa Kaye Tosto at telling tales too, like the fast and racy metaphor, figurative language and prosody Lighting Designer John Torres ‘Raised on Robbery’ about a prostitute HEJIRA Projection Designer Michael Oshann to bring the speaker’s situation to life.” vainly attempting to make a sale in a bar.” Live Sound Mixer Masanori Yura By Danny Kapilian, JONI 75 music producer TWO GREY ROOMS Video and Projection Provided by Night Light Inc. RIVER Joni Mitchell wrote a wordless vocal melody “It’s a long, long way from Canada ... ” is the opening line of Joni’s Backline Provided by Lon Cohen From the Washington Post: “James Taylor, and instrumental accompaniment for the “Dreamland” from the album Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter. Audio Gear provided by South Bay Sound & Light who knows the song better than just about song in 1982 during the sessions for her Well, ain’t that a fact. anybody aside from Mitchell, said in a Back Wall Visuals and Audio Clips: Images of album . She titled Joni Mitchell’s journey — “just like this train” — shakes us, wakes 2006 interview with the Post that ‘I don’t paintings by Joni Mitchell courtesy of Joni Mitchell it “Speechless” as lyrical inspiration for us, inspires us to laugh (with rich layers of irony), to cry (to the know why it’s suddenly getting picked up and photographed by Allan May. the song escaped her until 1989 when she depth of our souls) and to dream of the immense insignificance as a Christmas song. But some things just Photos by Norman Seeff, Henry Diltz and Nurit Wilde encountered the story of New German of our existence. become identified as seasonal songs, and Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, courtesy of the artists and Morrison Hotel Gallery. this is now one of them.’ At the time, Taylor What an honor to assemble this cast and to create this special who, amid the repression of Germany’s Excerpt from “Both Sides, Now — Live at The Isle had just released James Taylor at Christmas, celebration of Joni and her music with Brian Blade and these antigay Paragraph 175 laws, was left of Wight Festival 1970” courtesy of Eagle Rock which included ‘River’ — a song he’d first truly remarkable musicians. Our singular musical guests broken-hearted by a male lover in his youth. Entertainment. all know and love Joni, and we thank them for sharing their heard decades earlier, when Mitchell In a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles wisdom and innovation here with us. All on this stage are Sound clips of interviews with Joni Mitchell played it at her home in Los Angeles in 1970, Times, Mitchell says of the song: “It's a story Joni’s musical compadres. courtesy of Malka Marom. shortly after it was written. ‘Most Christmas of obsession ... about this German aristocrat songs are light and shallow, but ‘River’ is who had a lover in his youth that he never Thank you, Joni Mitchell, for sharing your boundless and Joni Mitchell album covers courtesy of a sad song,’ Taylor said. ‘It starts with a got over. He later finds this man working on generous gifts of sound and vision. Happy and blessed birthday Warner / Chappell Music and . description of a commercially produced a dock and notices the path that the man from all of us. version of Christmas in Los Angeles ... then takes every day to and from work. So the juxtaposes it with this frozen river, which aristocrat gives up his fancy digs and moves says, “Christmas here is bringing me down.” to these two shabby gray rooms overlooking It only mentions Christmas in the first this street, just to watch this man walk to verse. Then it’s, “Oh, I wish I had a river I and from work. That's a song that shows my could skate away on” — wanting to fall into songs aren't all self-portraits.” this landscape that she remembers. It’s such a beautiful thing, to turn away from WOODSTOCK the commercial mayhem that Christmas From a pbs.org interview with David Yaffe, becomes and just breathe in some pine author of Joni Mitchell's bio Reckless needles. It’s a really blue song.” Daughter: “As rock and folk musicians from around the country headed to Woodstock THE BOHO DANCE in August of 1969, Mitchell stayed behind. From the 1976 Rolling Stone review: “Images She was scheduled to perform on ‘The of entrapment and enslavement (an artist Dick Cavett Show’ the day after the festival to his patrons) also inform ‘The Boho ended and, nervous that her return home Dance,’ set in New York. Inspired by The would be delayed, her agent David Geffen Painted Word, Tom Wolfe's clever diatribe asked her not to go. Bitterly disappointed, against the art world establishment, this she followed the legendary festival from recollected dialogue depicts the hypocrisy afar and wrote the song ‘Woodstock,’ a of a scene that only pretends not to be song that held tremendous emotional thoroughly commercialized.” weight for her. The lyrics are not really a celebration, especially when you hear the THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES way she sings it. It’s a dirge. The first few From songchops.com: “On her 1994 album times she performed it, she burst into tears, Turbulent Indigo Joni Mitchell has one of the because it brought back the intensity of the most descriptive, powerful songs you’ll ever experience and was so moving.” hear. She crafts a first-person story about Photo by Norman Seeff. Norman by Photo

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15 Awards. Hernandez ® Awards and wonthe award ® two Latin GRAMMY for Best Rock Alternative Latin Album in 2014. The group was also nominated for has collaborated with The Roots, Elvis Costello, Pepe Aguilar, Gibbons from ZZ and Julion Top, Alvarez, others.among LA MARISOUL La Marisoul Hernandez began her singing career at 14-years-old on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, playing traditional Boleros and Rancheras. She started the group La Santa Cecilia in 2007 alongside Miguel“Oso” Ramirez, Pepe Carlos and Alex Bendana and, together, the group has released six albums. La Santa Cecilia has been nominated for three GRAMMY Award-winners David ® Hidalgo, Louis Perez and Steve Berlin of Los Lobos perform a powerhouse mix of rock, Tex-Mex, country,folk, R&B, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music, which Perez once called “the soundtrack of the barrio.” With its humble beginnings as a garage band in 1973 in East Los Angeles, Los Lobos has seen much success. Its worldwide crossover hit, “La Bamba,” from the 1987 film of the same name, reached #1 on the U.S. and UK singles charts. Now celebrating its 45th anniversary, Los Lobos still jams with the same raw intensity, featuring music that is culturally rich, rocking and lyrically provocative. These concerts the be will first-time members of Los Lobos will perform music by Joni Mitchell live. LOS LOBOS Multiple GRAMMY

Photos by Henry Diltz / Morrison Hotel Gallery. Award-winner ® Kris Kristofferson has recorded 28 albums, including three with pals Nelson,Willie Cash Johnny Waylon and Jennings as part of The Highwaymen. Kristofferson has spent three decades performing concerts all over the world, most recently in a solo acoustic setting, which puts the focus on the songs. His renown as a songwriter triggered Kristofferson’s successful career as a musician and led to an acting career. In 1969, Kristofferson joined Joni Mitchell, , Graham Nash and Shel Silverstein for an evening at ’s home, showcasing music at a gathering that has been described as one of the most potent assemblages of songs showcased for the first time in one place. KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Heralded as an artist’s artist, three-time GRAMMY

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Award-winning jazz Award-winner Chaka ® ® . Khan joined James Taylor and pianist and world-renowned singer Diana Krall is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. date, To her albums have garnered five GRAMMY Khan has influenced generations of recording artists. A songwriter, actor, philanthropist,author, entrepreneur and activist, Khan has the rare ability to sing in seven music genres, including R&B, pop, rock, gospel, country, world classical. and music Throughout her legendary career, she has released 22 albums and racked up 10 #1 Billboard magazine charted songs, seven RIAA certified gold singles and 10 RIAA certified gold and platinum albums. Khan was invited by Joni Mitchell to sing on the song “Dreamland” for Don album Juan’sMitchell’s Reckless Daughter Mitchell’s celebrate to Hancock Herbie induction Songwriters the into Canadian Hall of Fame. DIANA KRALL Multiple GRAMMY CHAKA KHAN CHAKA One of the world’s most celebrated musicians, with a rich musical legacy, 10-time GRAMMY Awards and 10 Juno® Awards and have also earned nine gold, three platinum and seven multi-platinum albums. any artistry transcends unique Krall's single musical style and has made her one of the most recognizable artists of our time. Krall recorded Joni Mitchell’s Case “A of on You” Krall’s 2002 album Live in and has performed song “Amelia” Mitchell’s from the album Hejira in her live shows. .

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Award-winner, , her self-described ® ® Awards and signaling a ® Award-winning album The Joni Letters NORAH JONES Nine-time GRAMMY Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage with the 2002 release of Come Away With Me “moody little record” that introduced a singular new voice. Jones grew into sweeping global phenomenon, thea 2003 GRAMMY paradigm shift away from the prevailing pop music of the time. Since then, Jones has sold 50 million albums worldwide. Jones’In 2007, rendition of Mitchell’s song “Court and Spark” was featured on Herbie Hancock’s multi-GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement award in 2018. HarrisIn 2007, recorded Mitchell’s song “The Magdalene Laundries” for celebrating CD tribute multi-artist a Mitchell’s music, which was released Nonesuchby Records. EMMYLOU HARRIS EMMYLOU A 14-time GRAMMY Emmylou Harris’Emmylou contributions as a singer and songwriter span 40 years. Harris,who is known as muchfor eloquentlyher straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive singing, has recorded more than 25 albums. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and earned a GRAMMY ,

An Album to Benefit , (2011), the latter reaching debuting at number 30 on nominated singer-songwriter ® , Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Glen Hansard releases music under his own name and is also a member of the bands The Frames and The Swell Season. Hansard starred in the movie “Once” and was honored with an Oscar for his song “Falling Slowly.” Joni Mitchell’s song “Coyote” was the first song of hers to fully captivate Hansard, who subsequently recorded the song in the studio with drummer Brian Blade for a project still to be released. GLEN HANSARD GLEN Academy Award-winning multi- and GRAMMY BRANDI CARLILE Over the course of her acclaimed career, Brandi Carlile has released seven albums, including The Story (2007), Give Up the Ghost (2009) and Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony number on 14 the Rock Top Albums chart. In Carlile May 2017, released Cover Stories Years of The Story War ChildWar the Billboard 200. She released her latest album, By The Way, I Forgive You in February 2018. While on tour she regularly performs select Mitchell Joni honor. Mitchell's songs Joni in

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GRAHAM NASH JAMES TAYLOR SEAL BRIAN BLADE CHRISTOPHER THOMAS MARVIN J. SEWELL GRAMMY® Award-winner and two-time As a recording and touring artist, London-born multi-platinum singer- While studying at Loyola University GRAMMY®-nominated Christopher Marvin J. Sewell is a musician, composer Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee James Taylor has touched people with songwriter Seal has been focused in New Orleans, Brian Blade met Jon Thomas was born in 1970 in St. Louis, and producer whose distinct sound Graham Nash has produced a his warm baritone voice and distinctive on a single creative pursuit: expressing Cowherd and the two began making M.O. Although he’s the only musician in encompasses a “fantasy fusion” of remarkable body of work, beginning style of guitar-playing for more than 40 the full experience of love through music together. The pair formed Brian his family, Thomas took to music as if he jazz, blues, funk, alternative and world with the Hollies in the 60s and years. Over the course of his celebrated song. Known for his one-of-a-kind Blade & The Fellowship Band in 1997 were a born legacy. His musical venture music. Sewell has performed with such continuing through his union with career, Taylor has sold more than 100 soaring, husky baritone voice and and has released five albums. Blade began with the violin, and then quickly legendary musicians as Von Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young) and his million albums, earning gold, platinum classic songwriting, Seal has seen has performed and toured with Daniel gravitated towards the cello. He began Freeman, , Billy Branch, solo recordings. His songs, including and multi-platinum awards for classics success across numerous genres of Lanois, Ellis Marsalis, Bob Dylan and his bass studies under the guidance Jody Christian, Big Time Sarah, and “Teach Your Children,” “Our House,” ranging from Sweet Baby James in 1970 music. His smooth vocal delivery many other artists and, since 2000, of Henry Lowe, principal bassist of Barbara La Shore. He had a 15-year “Just A Song Before I Go,” “Immigration to October Road in 2002. He has won on hits like “Crazy” and “Kiss from a has been the drummer with The Wayne the St. Louis Symphony. Thomas later collaboration with multiple GRAMMY® Man” and “Chicago/We Can Change multiple GRAMMY® Awards and has been Rose” quickly cemented his status as a Shorter Quartet. He has recorded and attended the University of Wisconsin Award-winning recording artist The World” among many others, are inducted into both the Rock & Roll Hall formidable singer, and, over the years, toured with Joni Mitchell since 1995, in Madison where he studied under the Cassandra Wilson, serving as lead part of the collective DNA of an entire of Fame and the prestigious Songwriters he’s extended his influence with a wide performing on her albums Taming The tutelage of Richard Davis. He continued guitarist, arranger, band leader, and generation. Nash, who shared Joni Hall of Fame. In 2012, Taylor was catalog of original music and soulful Tiger, Travelogue and Shine. his education at the University of New musical director. In addition to leading Mitchell’s home in Los Angeles, was awarded the distinguished Chevalier covers earning him multiple GRAMMY® Orleans, studying music fundamentals The Marvin Sewell Group, he has toured inspired to write the song “Our House” of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Awards and selling more than 30 million and jazz improvisation and played and played with a host of leading when, on a dreary day, the two visited French government and the National albums worldwide. Seal was invited by weekly shows with his mentor and artists including Angelique Kidjo, a local restaurant and Mitchell found Medal of Arts by President Barack Joni Mitchell to sing on her song “How teacher, Ellis Marsalis. Herbie Hancock, Charles Earland, a vase in a nearby antique store that Obama in a White House ceremony. In Do You Stop,” which was featured on her , Chaka Khan, Brian Blade, she bought and filled with flowers November 2015, Taylor was presented album Turbulent Indigo. Tom Scott, and while Nash lit a fire. According to a 2016 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, many more. interview in Performing Songwriter, and, in December 2016, he received the Nash said, “‘Now, my and Joan’s life at Kennedy Center Honors. Taylor and the time were far from ordinary … and I Mitchell share a special friendship, thought, ‘What an ordinary moment.’” which began early in their career in the JON COWHERD 1970s and continues to this day. Jon Cowherd is best known for his long- running partnership with drummer/ bandleader Brian Blade, with whom he co-founded the GRAMMY®-nominated Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band. GREG LEISZ ® RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Together, their acclaimed, influential Greg Leisz is a GRAMMY -Award winning Recognized as one of the great male albums showcase Cowherd's multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and JEFF HAYNES vocalists, composers and songwriters Jeff Haynes is a GRAMMY®-Award stellar keyboard work and singular producer whose resume is impressive. of his generation, Rufus Wainwright has winning, world-renowned percussionist compositional skills. In 2017, Cowherd He has been a recording and touring released eight studio albums, three who has toured with everyone from released Gateway, a new recording guitarist and pedal steel player for DVDs and three live albums including the Pat Metheny Group, on the exclusive, vinyl only Newvelle many artists, including Eric Clapton, the GRAMMY®-nominated Rufus Does and Boney James, to Harry Belafonte . He has played and Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, k.d.lang, Judy Live at Carnegie Hall. Wainwright’s and Peabo Bryson. He is the founder recorded with Joni Mitchell as part Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Bill celebrated first opera, “Prima Donna,” and president of Komunyaka Music, of a collaboration with Brian Blade Frisell, Charles Lloyd and Robert Plant, premiered in 2009 to much acclaim Inc., a multi-faceted music production & The Fellowship Band. to name a few. Leisz played on the Joni and his second opera, “Hadrian,” Mitchell albums including Turbulent company offering percussion-based commissioned by the Canadian Opera Indigo (1994), (1997), workshops featuring professional Company, premiered in October 2018 in and Shine (2007), and was a member storytellers, spoken word artists, Toronto. Wainwright immersed himself of her live touring band in 1998. dancers and musicians. His creative in Joni Mitchell’s material when he direction as a producer of the performed at “Joni: a Portrait in Song — GRAMMY®-nominated audio book A Birthday Happening Live at Massey Pete Seeger Storm King has been Hall” in Toronto in 2013. recognized with acclaim from Publisher’s Weekly, , AudioFile Magazine and School Library Journal.

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AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE BOB SHEPPARD SCARLET RIVERA Photo by Henry Diltz / Morrison Hotel Gallery. During his 15-year career, Ambrose For more than four decades, multi- Scarlet Rivera is known for her Joni, my influences were Hendrix, Akinmusire has paradoxically situated instrumentalist Bob Sheppard has contributions to the recordings and Clapton, Page, Beck and you. I got himself in both the center and the played on countless sessions with an performances of Bob Dylan, , One of a kind … you set the bar "them" mostly down — I still can't periphery of jazz, most recently astounding crop of A-list jazz giants — , Keb ‘Mo, very high. Thank you for the years emerging in classical and hip hop among them Chick Corea, Freddie and Sylvia Tyson (Ian and Sylvia). She figure out your guitar work. circles. His unorthodox approach to Hubbard, Michael and Randy Brecker, was a featured soloist with the Duke of inspiration and encouragement.x sound and composition make him a Mike Stern, Herbie Hancock, Kurt Elling, Ellington Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Thanks for all those songs. — Don Henley regular on critics polls and have earned Dianne Reeves, Lyle Mays, John Beasley the Kennedy Center and the Carnival of H A PPY BIRTHDAY! him grants and commissions from the and Steps Ahead. He has also recorded Venice, Italy. Rivera’s styles span a wide Doris Duke Foundation, the MAP Fund, and toured as a leader, contributed to range including rock, folk, country and Love you, the Kennedy Center and the Monterey hundreds of movie and TV soundtracks, Americana, world music, blues, Celtic For Joni on her birthday Jazz Festival. Akinmusire is a rigorous served as an educator and more. In 1991, music, new age and classical. Rivera Joe Walsh practitioner with an uncompromising he recorded his first album as a leader, came to international acclaim on Bob Once in a writing jam I listened dedication to creation. “I’ve learned to Tell Tale Signs, for the Windham Hill Dylan’s Desire and Hard Rain albums intently to Ladies of the Canyon. accept the consequences of believing Jazz label. Since then he’s released and is included on his Biograph and Happy birthday to the most in invention and creativity. You’re several other solo projects, most Bootleg compilations. Under her own elegant, badass word warrior. I was released and went on to write gonna be misunderstood. But my horse recently Close Your Eyes and From The name, Rivera has 15 albums to her credit blinders have gotten a lot longer and Hip, both for BFM Jazz. He has also spent and has performed in the U.S., Europe Much love and gratitude for and record my album Blue River. lot thicker over the years.” significant time working with pianist and Asia. the soundtrack of my life. Billy Childs’ ensembles and drummer Joni was and still is a true Peter Erskine’s trio. ——— Susan Sarandon exceptional godmother and an inspiration to my own singing daughter Sari. Joni — To a beautiful Joni, may your day be the best day women, artist and ever. --- Love, friend, I love you. Happy birthday, David Gef fffen I am old enough to have bought Joni Mitchell’s early records when they came out. I learned to play Happy happy birthday Both Sides, Now as did many, many Joni with love and others. When she began to musically congratulations on explore more widely, I followed, your amazing life, and but sometimes, at that age, I got thanks from the whole lost. That said, I took inspiration world for your beautiful from her willingness to risk, to art and music. change and to explore. Each new —Buff f fy Sainte-Marie record would be something difff ferent — sometimes with broad public appeal, sometimes not; but it all “I skate in my dreams, and seemed to balance out, which was a Joni’s voice is there.” lesson for everyone. Photos by Nurit Wilde. Laurie Anderson — David Byrne

18 19 Joni is part of my childhood, my life. Joni’s songs ARE my tattoos! Her poetry has gotten me through many rough roads. I love the long talks we’ve had through the years and her insights, her paintings, her laughter...even her scoldings. I love her. Photo by Norman Seeff...... Unrivalled, un- compromised, creativity Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Rosanna Arquette unbounded. Joni, your opulence spills Dorothy Chandler Pavilion over in demigod-like It’s dif ficult to separate out proportions. My God Honoring the influence Joni Mitchell lady, how we worship JONI MITCHELL had on my life as a woman, you. so entwined is her voice in 5:30 p.m. my personal history, the most Happy Birthday in intimate moments of it; how primary colours (and a Red Carpet Arrivals her music defined the very few you’ve invented..) feeling of being alive for Love, Chrissie Hynde 6:30 p.m. me, for oh these many years. Concert I have often thought: I wish I could thank her, but there Happy birthday. Birthday Celebration Dinner isn’t a big enough word for In partnership with Vanity Fair the real gratitude I feel. With love and admiration, Hers is a necessary artistry. Warren & Annette Eva and Marc Stern Grand Hall I wish I could thank her immediately following the concert mother and father for bringing this incomparable artist into When I listen to Joni Mitchell, she takes me on The Music Center’s Excellence being 75 years ago. What a in the Performing Arts Award good idea that was. an emotional journey. — Marina Abramovic presented by Cameron Crowe Meryl Streep with a performance by Film photo credits: Left black and white photo: Nurit Wilde. All other photos by Henry Diltz / Morrison Hotel Gallery. The art of Joni is an elemental Jeremy Dutcher treasure, like sunshine or pure running water or wind through leaves. She is a force of nature with the voice of a rebellious angel.

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20 21 YOUR IMPACT Your support is vital to allow The Music Center We gratefully acknowledge supporters to extend the accessibility of the performing of The Music Center’s Soirée: JONI 75 arts to new generations and diverse audiences Soirée Co-Chairs Soirée Committee through nationally recognized education PREMIER SPONSORS Kiki and David Gindler Rosanna Arquette programs that support life-long learning in The Field Family Foundation the arts, world-class dance presentations Barbara and Jay Rasulo John Beug and Cidney Vinall that inspire and enchant audiences and Kiki and David Gindler Catharine and Jeffrey Soros LeVar Burton free and low-cost community programming Terri and Jerry Kohl that reaches across boundaries of age, race, Lisa Specht Cameron Crowe Porsche Cars North America ethnicity, gender and beyond. Eva and Marc Stern Willem Dafoe Barbara and Jay Rasulo Phil A. Swan Dr. Annette Ermshar Lisa Specht and Mr. Dan Monahan Eva and Marc Stern Soirée Hosts Lisa Field PREMIER PATRONS PREMIER PATRONS PATRONS Rachel S. Moore Lisa and Andrew Gilford CONTINUED Robert J. Abernethy Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Battle Jr. Radhika Jones Jake Gyllenhaal Susan Baumgarten Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Adamo Marie H. Song and Armie Hammer Mimi R. Song Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter Alfred E. Mann Family JoAnn and Wade Bourne Isabelle Huppert Foundation Linda May and Jack Suzar Vin and Erica Di Bona Anjelica Huston Anonymous Walter Ulloa and Amy Forbes Dr. Debra Luftman Elton John and David Furnish Cindy and Tony Canzoneri Alexandra Seros Alyce Williamson and Mr. Harlan Gibbs Photo by Matt Barnes. Frances McDormand Consul General of Canada Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie Orna and Keenan Wolens Diane G. Medina in Los Angeles Mrs. Madeline Gussman Jennifer Diener Family Foundation Liz Levitt Hirsch Julianne Moore The Eli and Edythe Broad SPONSORS Barbara and Dan Horwitz IATSE Local 33 Jeremy Dutcher is a classically Teresita and Shelby Notkin Foundation Bank of America / Jane Jelenko Allison and Richard Roeder trained operatic tenor and Dr. Annette Ermshar Merrill Lynch Joyce and Mel Keefer composer who blends his Isabella Rossellini and Mr. Dan Monahan David Geffen Foundation Marla and Cary Lefton Robin Lewin Wolastoq First Nation roots into Susan Sarandon Michael Gendler and Lisa and Andrew Gilford Jessica Teich Tracey Lewin his music. Dutcher’s debut album, Lisa See and Richard Kendall Cindy Miscikowski LSMK Investments HUB International Insurance Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, Norman Seeff and Sue Kiel Richard and Allison Roeder Jeanne McDonald-Powers Services Inc. involves the rearrangement of Sharon Stone Catharine and Jeffrey Soros and Travis Powers Gerry Ibañez and Aja Bell Diane G. Medina 110-year-old recordings from his Norman F. Sprague Jr. Meryl Streep James D. Laur Ellen Pansky community. In September 2018, Foundation Brad and George Takei LLWW Foundation Karen Kay Platt and Larry Platt Dutcher received the Polaris Judith Reichman, M.D. Naomi Watts Jerry Moss Music Prize, one of Canada's most Lisa See and Richard Kendall Alyce Williamson Molly Munger and Jane Semel, M.D. prestigious music prizes, for the Stephen English Nancy Stark and Stanley Iezman album. “ ... if you lose the language, Teresita and Shelby Notkin Julia Strickland and Timothy Wahl you lose an entirely distinct way Phil A. Swan Simms / Mann Family Foundation Christopher and Clare Phillips Tayback of experiencing the world.” HONORARY GIFTS Anonymous, California Union Assets, LLC / US Forever Assets, LLC, Djuna and Swis Osborne as of October 16, 2018

22 23 The Music Center gratefully acknowledges NORMAN SEEFF for generously donating his images and his creativity.

One of the world’s most celebrated photographers, Norman Seeff agreed very early on in the planning of JONI 75 to donate the use of his photos of Joni Mitchell from over a dozen photo sessions he had with her throughout the years. He has been a generous collaborator with The Music Center throughout the development of both the concerts and the Soirée. Seeff’s newly released book, Joni Mitchell: The Norman Seeff Sessions, featuring never-before-seen photos, is available in the lobby for purchase.

Porsche is a proud sponsor of The Music Center’s Soirée: JONI 75 and wishes Joni Mitchell a very happy “What strange prizes these battles bring …” 75th birthday. Our support enables The Music Center to extend the (Happy Birthday) accessibility of the performing arts to new generations and diverse audiences, enriching the lives of every resident of Los Angeles County.

24 25 BUILDING SERVICES THE MUSIC CENTER Jenna Loredo Head Usher Robert Smith Head Audio, STAFF Carlos Acosta Engineer Seng Neth Head Usher Eric Amaya Engineer Steve Olear Manager, Guest Services Aaron Staubach Head Electrician, Sonia Amezcua Santa Roman-Garcia Rachel S. Moore Coordinator Head Usher Ahmanson Theatre Ramon DeLeon Lead Engineer Kyle Smith Head Usher Kevin Wapner Head Audio, President & CEO Erik Ekserjyan Mailroom Clerk Linda Walker House Manager, Concert Hall Howard Sherman Ruben Enriquez Mailroom Clerk James Wright Head Electric, Nick Garcia Engineer Jeanice Williams Coordinator, Ahmanson Theatre Executive Vice President Jose Godinez Engineer Tours & Special Events SAFETY & Chief Operating Officer Damon Joseph Demetra Willis Apprentice Engineer Head Usher Edward Hennings Francisco Loayza Manager William Taylor Lead Engineer HUMAN RESOURCES Delia Martin Office Services Manager SCHEDULING & EVENTS Senior Vice President, Finance / CFO Cynthia Covarrubias Manager Keith McTague Director & Chief Engineer Liliana Gonzalez Coordinator Gloria Schaffer Senior Director Valentine Gelman Michael Muñoz Mailroom Clerk Lisa King Coordinator Senior Vice President, Advancement Adrian Padilla Engineer INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Joie Lopez Booking Manager Jose Quintero Ken Dickinson Marisol Moro Bonnie Goodman Landscaping IT Manager Scheduling Administrator Ismael Rodriguez Engineer John Mejia IT Specialist Sharon Stewart Director Senior Vice President, Alex Romero Engineer MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Ken Talley Scheduling Administrator Marketing & Communications Jeff Rowland Assistant Chief Engineer Ismael Tenorio Coordinator 2018/2019 MUSIC CENTER Austin Carroll Manager, Digital Media Jose Santillan Engineer Bill Williams Administrator Ming Ng Lisa Ducore Director, Public Relations BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gerard Silva Lead Engineer Stephanie Kao Manager, Web Content SECURITY MANAGEMENT Vice President, Community Brandon Villalobos Engineer & ADMINISTRATION and Digital Analytics OFFICERS Jay Rasulo Engagement William Back COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Paul Mercado Coordinator Lieutenant, A.M. 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Ahmanson Judith Beckmen Planning FOUNDERS Ieisha Howell Executive Assistant Adrian Rodriguez Sergeant, Logistics Sandor Otott Wallis Annenberg Controller Rosa Bautista Administrator & Scheduler and SOCC Lisa Quang Jill Baldauf Ronald W. Burkle Senior Accounting Clerk Jane Jackson Director, Founders PRODUCTION Gonzalo Silva Captain, Event Operations Cindy Rauch Manager, Accounts Payable / Elia Ortega Phoebe Beasley Amb. (ret.) John B. Reservation Coordinator Shawn Anderson Group Michael Tanner Head Carpenter, Marcell Stuart Johnson Darrell Brown Emerson* Accounts Receivable Coordinator Sergeant, Lisa Sloot Ahmanson Theatre Administrator, Donor Records Security Badges & Keys Kimaada M. Brown Lois Erburu Shane Anderson Head Flyman, ADVANCEMENT Edward Too Captain, Administration Dannielle Campos Richard M. Ferry Azul Amaral Programming and Ahmanson Theatre Bennett Anderson SPOTLIGHT Greg T. Geyer Brindell Gottlieb Coordinator Production Manager Jason Clark Director Sara Boretz Bernard A. 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26 27 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

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JANICE HAHN, Fourth District KATHRYN BARGER, Fifth District SHEILA J. KUEHL, Third District, Chair HILDA L. SOLIS, First District MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS, Second District

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28 Photo by Norman Seeff.