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A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION LIVE at the DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION NOVEMBER 6 & 7, 2018 Photo by Norman Seeff 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 Brandi Carlile Glen Hansard Emmylou Harris Norah Jones Table of Contents Chaka Khan p3 Welcome Diana Krall p4 Joni Mitchell Bio Kris Kristofferson What an incredible honor and privilege it is to welcome each of p6 The Universe of Joni Los Lobos with La Marisoul, you to celebrate one of the world’s most remarkable artists — Joni p8 Joni — A Tribute at 75 Mitchell. I am so pleased you have joined us for what I know will be two nights of extraordinary performances by an amazing array p10 Song List Cesar Castro & Xochi Flores 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 Los Angeles can throw! p14 Featured Artists Seal I am so proud that we at The Music Center could make it happen. p17 Band Bios James Taylor As an artist, Joni pushed the boundaries; she challenged the narrative, quite evident in the 1960s, that a woman couldn’t be in p19 Birthday Wishes Rufus Wainwright charge of her own destiny. 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 Brian Blade 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 Greg Leisz 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 albums. 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 The Fiddle and the Drum, 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. Court and Spark [1974] was created with have become classics. ”River,” “Big Yellow Heading to art school in Calgary the jazz-fusion group The L.A. Express. Taxi,” and “A Case of You” 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 album 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, Henry Lewy, by overdubbing Joni's other fellow unknowns Neil Young 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 Reprise the GRAMMY®- winning Turbulent Indigo Records. Her first record, Song to a Seagull, [1994]. She has also recorded an orchestral was released in 1968. retrospective, Travelogue [2002]; two A wholly original masterpiece buoyed by live recordings, Miles of Aisles [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 tomorrow. 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 release of For the Roses, 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, the band 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.
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