PERFORMING ARTS MAGAZINE
INSIDE MAR / APR 2019 The art of commissioning, the legacy of Matthew Shepard, and late works by great composers.
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Stanford Live Staff P—5 & Sponsors
Welcome P—6
Upcoming Events P—8
Scene & Heard P—14
Campus Partners P—16
The Art of Commissioning Behind the Scenes P—32
Membership P—34 by Chris Lorway & Rob Bailis Stanford Live & P—36 Stanford Live’s Executive Director and Bing Concert Hall Cal Performance’s Interim Artistic Director share their Donors take on the importance of commissioning new works Calendar P—38
Plan Your Visit P—39 PAGE—22
Featurette Featurette
The Guardian reviews Sō Percussion’s A note from Jason Marsden, Executive haunting work, From Out A Darker Sea Director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, on the legacy of Matt and p—18 Conspirare’s stunning musical tribute
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Infographic Photo Essay
A look at late works by In preparation for Kaneza Schaal’s GO great composers FORTH in the Bing Studio, learn more about the work and its inspirations p—20 p—30
Cover: Composer Jimmy López and librettist Nilo Cruz’s work, Dreamers, will be performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, London on March 18 at Bing Concert Hall. Dreamers is co-commissioned by Cal Performances and Stanford Live, and created with funding from a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission.
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PHOTO CREDITS
On the cover: Jimmy López and Nilo Cruz, photo credit: Franciel Braga & Oscar Landi; Page 14: Photos 1 & 6–8 by Harrison Truong, 2 by Vanessa Chung, 3–5 by Joel Simon; Page 16: Photo 1 - Josiah McElheny (U.S.A., b. 1966) Island Universe, 2008. Dimensions variable. Chromed aluminum, handblown glass and electric lights. © Josiah McElheny. Photo © Stephen White. Courtesy White Cube, London, Photo 2 by Tamir Kalifa, Photo 3 - Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz (Edward Kienholz: U.S.A., 1927–1994; Nancy Kienholz: U.S.A., b. 1943), The Billionaire Deluxe, 1977. Metal, Fresnel lens system, light bulb, and solid-state electronic second counter. Gift of the Marmor Foundation (Drs. Michael and Jane Marmor) from the collection of Drs. Judd and Katherine Marmor, 2007.57; Page 18: Photo by Mark Pinder; Page 20 & 21: Photos courtesy of Creative covia.org/los-gatos-meadows Commons; Page 22: Photo courtesy of Sadler’s Wells; Page 23: Photo courtesy of Volcano Theater Company; Page 24: Photo by Azar Kafaei; Page 27: Photo courtesy of Volcano Theater Company; Pages 28 & 29: Photos courtesy of Cadenza Artists; 110 Wood Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95030 Page 30: Photo 1 courtesy of Kaneza Schaal, Photo 2 courtesy of Creative Commons; Page 31: Photos courtesy of Kaneza Schaal; Page 32: Photos by Joel Simon; Page 34: Photo courtesy of Sadler’s Wells; Page 35: Image by Hybrid Design
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CHRIS LORWAY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn’t commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music...we’d still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense.”
—HA-JOON CHANG
The arts have long been a beneficiary world’s leading artists. This has included Stanford Live presents of various forms of philanthropy. From projects like Taylor Mac’s 24 Decades of a wide range of the finest the Medici to major corporations, artists Popular Music, Nitin Sawhney’s Dystopian performances from around the over the centuries have found patrons Dream and Danny Elfman’s Violin world, fostering a vibrant learning who value their work and invest in its Concerto. For this reason, I’ve written community and providing dis- creation and development. an article for this issue that gives you a tinctive experiences through the deeper look into why it is important for performing arts. With its home at One of my favorite things about my job us to participate in these initiatives. Bing Concert Hall, Stanford Live is is getting involved in commissioning and simultaneously a public square, a co-producing. During my tenure at the In addition, we look at other exciting sanctuary, and a lab, drawing on Luminato Festival, I was fortunate to be works coming to Stanford Live this spring the breadth and depth of Stanford part of creating dozens of new works including Sō Percussion’s meditative University to connect perfor- that had me working alongside artistic and haunting look at life in small UK mance to the significant issues, heroes of mine, including Philip Glass, communities post-Thatcherism, Kaneza ideas, and discoveries of our time. Leonard Cohen, Atom Egoyan, Joni Schaal’s exploration of rituals and the Mitchell, and Cirque du Soleil. afterlife, and Conspirare’s emotional tribute to Matthew Shepard. Since coming to Stanford Live, I’ve been developing more co-producing I hope that you will be as moved by and residency activities to deepen our these performances as we were. institutional connection with some of the
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MAR / APR 2019 7:30 PM MARCH 6 WEDNESDAY, WHEN: far-ranging soundscapes. directs thisvoyage through Conductor Nic McGegan new, sacred andsecular. eclectic program of oldand silver vocal styleto an her singularburnished- Anne Sofie von Otter lends Megastar mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter Sofie Anne Orchestra and Philharmonia Mezzo-soprano Baroque Chorale CLASSICAL For thefull calendar, visit live.stanford.edu. HALL BING CONCERT VENUE: 8 between oldandnew music. showcases thesynergies Leonarda inaprogram that by Arvo Pärt andIsabella compositions andworks presents heracclaimed Caroline Shawasshe composer andperformer Join Pulitzer Prize–winning 8:00 PM MARCH 7 THURSDAY, WHEN: for Old Instruments New and Old Music Old and New Sessions CLASSICAL PBO PBO BING STUDIO VENUE:
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CABARET/JAZZ DANCE WORLD Matt Ray Batsheva Dance Canela y Limón:
Plays the Music of Company Germán López and Hoagy Carmichael Antonio Toledo Venezuela
WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: FRIDAY, BING STUDIO TUESDAY, MEMORIAL FRIDAY, BING STUDIO MARCH 8, MARCH 12 AUDITORIUM MARCH 15 9:00 PM 7:30 PM 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 7:00 PM
CABARET Jazz pianist, vocalist, and In Venezuela, famed Timple player Germán Justin Vivian “ingenious” (New York Times) choreographer Ohad Naharin López and guitarist Antonio arranger Matt Ray takes and his dancers explore the Toledo perfectly bring to Bond us through an evening dialogue and conflict between life the classic music of highlighting the music of one movement and content in two the Canary Islands. Be of the essential architects 40-minute sections performed transported to the famed with pianist and of the classic American back-to-back. archipelago in this special music director songbook. night at the Bing Studio. Matt Ray Generously supported by Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum
WHEN: VENUE: FRIDAY, BING STUDIO THEATER CABARET CLASSICAL MARCH 8, 7:00 PM Old Stock: Ben Caplan Philharmonia SATURDAY, MARCH 9, A Refugee Accordionist and Orchestra, London 9:00 PM pianist Graham Scott Love Story Conductor Mx Justin Vivian Bond is Esa-Pekka Salonen a trans-genre artist living 2b theatre company in New York City. As a performer both on and off WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: Broadway, Mx Bond has FRIDAY & BING CONCERT SATURDAY, BING STUDIO MONDAY, BING CONCERT received numerous accolades SATURDAY, HALL MARCH 16 MARCH 18 HALL MARCH 15 & 16 10:00 PM 7:30 PM including an Obie Award 7:30 PM (2001), a Bessie Award (2004), Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the a Tony nomination (2007), Philharmonia Orchestra, London and the Ethyl Eichelberger A music-theater work starring Ben Caplan is a songwriter, in a celebration of immigrants, Award (2007). rising actor Ben Caplan and performer, and entertainer in including a performance of laced with the klezmer music the most time-honored sense Dreamers by Jimmy Lopez and Nilo of the Eastern European of the word. This late-night Cruz as well as Stravinsky’s Firebird. shtetl, Old Stock illuminates set takes place after Caplan’s Generously supported by the the ability to love even after performance of Old Stock: Koret Foundation. Dreamer is the horrors of war. A Refugee Love Story on the co-commissioned by Cal main stage. Generously supported by Performances and Stanford Live Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum with support from the William 9 and Flora Hewlett Foundation STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE MAR / APR 2019
JAZZ JAZZ/POP Oscar, Kim Nalley With Love Band
A Tribute to the Pay Respect to Late Oscar Peterson Aretha Franklin
WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: FRIDAY, BING CONCERT SATURDAY, BING STUDIO MARCH 22 HALL MARCH 23 HALL 7:30 PM 7:00 PM & CABARET CABARET 9:00 PM Meow Meow The Quebe
and Thomas Sisters Oscar Peterson was one of Two wonderful Bay Area the finest pianists of the artists—the dynamic duo of Lauderdale Hulda, Grace, and 20th century—and a prolific vocalist Kim Nalley and pianist Sophia Quebe composer. Join us for a Tammy Hall—honor the one Hotel Amour special evening hosted by and only Aretha Franklin. Peterson’s daughter Céline and featuring a star-studded roster of performers who join
WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: forces to shine a light on WEDNESDAY, BING STUDIO THURSDAY, BING STUDIO MARCH 20 MARCH 21 works by Peterson and more. 7:00 PM & 7:00 PM 9:00 PM
NEW MUSIC/VOCAL Cellular Season The queen of chanson, When the Quebe Sisters from post-postmodern diva Meow Texas take the stage and the Songs Announcement Meow collaborates with Pink triple-threat fiddle champions Event Martini bandleader Thomas start playing and singing in Meredith Monk Lauderdale for an intimate and members of multipart harmony, audiences 2019–20 Season evening in the Bing Studio. are usually transfixed and iSing Silicon Valley then blown away.
WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: SATURDAY, BING CONCERT WEDNESDAY, BING CONCERT APRIL 6 HALL APRIL 10 HALL 7:30 PM 6:00 PM
Voice is paired with FREE EVENT • Executive Director movement, instrumentation, Chris Lorway will introduce and video in Cellular Songs, the season at this special a work inspired by biological event at Bing Concert Hall, processes that can serve as a joined by a surprise musical prototype for human behavior guest! This event is free and in our tumultuous world. open to all. Learn more and RSVP at live.stanford.edu.
10 CLASSICAL Australian Chamber Orchestra
Artisic director Richard Tognetti, pianist Paul Lewis
WHEN: VENUE: SUNDAY, BING CONCERT MARCH 31 HALL 2:30 PM
The afternoon’s offerings will include the U.S. premiere of Palo Alto’s best Samuel Adams’ “Movements (for us and them)” (a Stanford Live cocommission); Mozart’s address. Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 313; and Brahms’ Sextet Located steps from downtown Palo Alto in G Major, op. 36, arranged for and University Avenue and just blocks from string orchestra. Stanford, Webster House offers you world-
This performance is generously class community living. supported by Trine Sorensen and Michael Jacobson. Webster House makes it easy for you to stay connected to the vibrancy of Palo Alto while CLASSICAL enjoying convenient services and security for What Makes the future. It Great? Explore your options and learn more about Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony feat. Webster House. For information, or to Rob Kapilow schedule a visit, call 650.838.4004.
WHEN: VENUE: THURSDAY, BING CONCERT APRIL 11 HALL 7:30 PM
The master musician, expert explainer, and audience fave Rob Kapilow returns to Stanford Live. Kapilow’s covia.org/webster-house final program of the 401 Webster St, Palo Alto, CA 94301 season features Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, A not-for-profit community owned and operated by Covia. License No. performed by the Stanford 435202504 COA# 328 Symphony Orchestra. JAZZ CHAMBER NEW MUSIC/MULTIMEDIA Emmet Cohen Tesla From Out Trio Quartet a Darker Sea
w/ Tootie Heath Sō Percussion and Sheila Jordan
WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: FRIDAY & BING STUDIO SUNDAY, BING CONCERT TUESDAY & BING STUDIO SATURDAY, APRIL 14 HALL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 & 13; 2:30 PM APRIL 16 & 17 7:00 PM & 7:00 PM 9:00 PM VOCAL
Considering Pianist Emmet Cohen and As winner of the 2017 John A beautiful multimedia his trio join forces with living Lad Prize, the Tesla Quartet, exploration of the disastrous Matthew Shepard legend Albert “Tootie” Heath named after scientist Nikola closing of the Britain’s coal and singer Sheila Jordan in Tesla, earned a spot in mines and the communities’ Conspirare back-to-back sets in the Stanford Live’s season for steps toward recovery. Bing Studio. its innovative spirit and Generously supported by the astonishing youthful mastery. Western States Arts Federation and the National Endowment WHEN: VENUE: SATURDAY, BING CONCERT for the Arts. APRIL 13 HALL 7:30 PM
NEW MUSIC/MULTIMEDIA THEATER
Considering Matthew Shepard, Amid the Go composed by choral ensemble Noise Forth Conspirare’s artistic director Craig Hella Johnson, is a Sō Percussion Kaneza Schaal musical and multimedia response to the antigay hate crime 20 years ago that WHEN: VENUE: WHEN: VENUE: THURSDAY, BING CONCERT FRIDAY, BING STUDIO captured the world’s attention. APRIL 18 HALL APRIL 26, 7:30 PM 8:00 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2:30 PM & 8:00 PM
Four Tet and Tortoise meet Go Forth draws inspiration Aphex Twin and Brian Eno from the Egyptian Book of in Sō Percussion’s breakout the Dead, a text originally project of original music, intended to provide the Amid the Noise. deceased with a blueprint to the afterlife. Learn more Generously supported by the about this performance on Western States Arts Federation pg. 30 and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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1 DON’T WORRY, 2 I’M WITH BE HAPPY FRED HERSCH
Singer Bobby McFerrin For years, Fred Hersch (the and ensemble Gimme5 fan) listened to the music of performed to a sold-out Fred Hersch (the jazz pianist). house at Bing. Joining them They even received each on stage were student other’s emails by accident. vocalists from Stanford a At the Bing Studio, they finally cappella group Talisman. met in person!
3 ROCKING OUT TO 4 MARSALIS CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE MAGIC PEDAGOGY
5 In January, we hosted our Branford Marsalis and his first ever full-day conference quartet brought the house on Culturally Responsive down in Stanford Live’s first Pedagogy and the Arts. performance of 2019. The goal of this day of hands- on workshops, presentations, 6 FINDING THE and discussions was to ATTRACTION inspire deeper learning and move schools toward greater Australian dance company equity—and showcase Dancenorth brought its how the arts can drive this award-winning work Attractor approach. See more on pg. 32. to Bing Concert Hall. Over 40 audience volunteers took part in a choreographed portion of 5 BRINGING BACK the performance. FROST
Construction is well underway at the Frost Amphitheater. Stanford Live partnerships 8 with concert promoter Goldenvoice and the San Francisco Symphony are set to bring this historic venue back to life in summer 2019.
7 A NEW BREED 8 MARDI GRAS OF BRASS FUNK
It was a funky, swingin’ time New Orleans–based band in the Bing Studio cabaret Cha Wa lit up the Bing Studio with the players of New cabaret with the fiery energy Breed Brass Band. of the big easy. Campus Partners
MAR / APR 2019 groundbreaking exhibits. to experience two Visit theCantor ArtsCenter museum.stanford.edu. Learn more at Holley works. four previously unexhibited exhibition, whichfeatures conjunction with theMITM performing attheCantor in today, willbespeakingand artists andmusiciansworking most innovative contemporary Lonnie Holley, oneof the On Fri., March 8, at5:30 pm, production.each object’s materials thatinformed subject, content, andthe the relationship between 1950, thisexhibition explores Using works created since Pigott Family Gallery Through August 18 1950 (MITM): ArtSince MessageThe MediumIsthe the multiverse. imagines theexpansion of sculptural exhibition that Come see thismonumental history of modernism,andart. intersection of physics, the explores theunexpected Josiah McElheny’s work Freidenrich Family Gallery Through August 18 Josiah McElheny:IslandUniverse August 18attheCantor. pieces willbeondisplayuntil McElheny’s bigbang–inspired 1
16 roots injazz,soul, andfunk. with personal narrative—with improvisational andimbued style thatiscompletely Holley possesses a musical Entirely self-taught, Lonnie 2 2 1 3 of “medium.” that explore thenotion into three broad categories 1950Art Since isdivided Message:The MediumIsthe 3
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From Out A Darker Sea at the Saint-John-the-Baptist-Church, Newcastle Photo: Mark Pinder From Out a Darker Sea Review— Elegiac Tribute to Britain’s Coal Miners
By Dave Simpson
The hypnotic beats and electronic peak a century ago, Britain’s coal- Time spent in England’s mining areas noises of Brooklyn-based ensemble mining industry employed more than a has allowed Brooklyn-based quartet Sō Sō Percussion conjure the sights and million people. Today the figure is under Percussion to develop an understanding of sounds of industrial England 700 and many of the former mining industrial power and the lives of those who communities have never recovered. once helped build it. Performing in sacred Editor’s Note: This article was That gargantuan decline forms the spaces—cathedrals and churches—in originally published in The Guardian backdrop to this unusual audio-visual these former coal-mining areas gives From on November 23, 2017. show: a haunting and often deeply Out a Darker Sea an elegiac air. Haunting “Our civilization is founded on coal” moving requiem for an industry and electronic noises and held vocal notes wrote George Orwell in 1937; at its its people. hang in the air like coal dust. Xylophones, 18 “...the collage of powerful dialogue and often bleakly beautiful, mesmeric music emphasizes the sense of loss and the sacrifices of those who built the nation.”
bells, and percussion beat out the hypnotic narrative in the persona of a wife- thuds echo around the cathedral like rhythms of a working pit. turned-caretaker of a miner with motor slamming iron doors. neuron disease. Quillen intersperses Using art, film, and photographic backdrops, This is a somber and unsettling work, her comments (“My first husband was a the performance divides into four but the collage of powerful dialogue and miner, too, but he died of throat cancer, chapters. “Coal and Flower” contrasts idyllic often bleakly beautiful, mesmeric music from the dust”) with his own motor yellow fields and the black mineral that lies emphasizes the sense of loss and the neuron sufferer father’s diary (“Apr 5. underneath. Someone paints over the day’s sacrifices of those who built the nation. Weak. Limp. Intestinal distress”). An newspaper in black and yellow and the pages One emerges with a deeper respect for eerie silence precedes the final chapter, are then transported over the audience via all who spent—and even gave—their which musically soundtracks the screen a pulley. “Four Portraits” (filmed in former lives bringing us the black stuff. testimony of a northeast miner who mining region East Durham) depicts the saw his young workmate killed in the mundanity of modern lives, compared to the pit in the ‘80s and then journeyed with toil and sweat of mining, as people eat a From Out a Darker Sea simple meal or toy with a PlayStation. the body to the surface and the boy’s Sō Percussion waiting father. “And the screams of that Tue & Wed, Apr 16 & 17, 7:00 pm For the third chapter, “Harold and Sylvia,” man, seeing his son…I’ll never forget Bing Studio quartet member Josh Quillen delivers a that,” says the miner, as successive 19 Late Works by Great JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (MARCH 31, 1658 – JULY 28, 1750) Composers MASS IN B MINOR (COMPLETED 1749)
Most of this work’s component parts This season’s last performance date from various times in Bach’s of What Makes it Great with long residence in Leipzig; they were Rob Kapilow focuses on Schubert’s assembled to form a complete mass only Unfinished Symphony, one of the near the end of his life. Bach never heard the work in its entirety, but it represents a composers final works. collection of movements in diverse styles.
When it comes to last words, there is a kind of poetry in even the most tragic ones. The same could 1658—1750 5 be said of last works by famous composers. These five works all show their composers at the height of their powers, even though they all would pass on shortly thereafter.
1756—1791
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (JANUARY 27, 1756 – DECEMBER 5, 1791) REQUIEM: LEFT UNFINISHED
Composed in 1791 as Mozart was on his deathbed, Mozart’s Requiem was commissioned by an anonymous nobleman who had intended to pass off the work as his own to commemorate the death of his wife.
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StanfordLive_Magazine_Spreads_Apr_Mar_2019_D2-fixed.indd 3 2/13/19 10:01 AM LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827 (DECEMBER 17, 1770 – MARCH 26, 1827) STRING QUARTET IN B FLAT MAJOR, OP. 130 (PUBLISHED 1827)
Beethoven sketched at least a dozen possible themes for this quartet’s finale before deciding on a gigantic fugue. It was first performed on March 21, 1826, and audiences were bewildered by its “incomprehensible” nature. By September, Beethoven rewrote the finale to a much lighter one, just a few months before he would pass.
1732—1809
1797-1828
FRANZ SCHUBERT (JANUARY 31, 1797 – NOVEMBER 19, 1828) WINTERREISE (PUBLISHED 1827)
Composed almost entirely of minor keys, Winterreise was one of Schubert’s final song cycles. The work conveys a mournful character that reflects some of the personal trauma that Schubert was experiencing during the end of his life. JOSEPH HAYDN (MARCH 31, 1732 – MAY 31, 1809) THE CREATION (COMPLETED 1798) What Makes It Great? In 1808 (a year before Haydn’s death), a Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony performance of at Vienna’s University The Creation feat. Rob Kapilow was organized in Haydn’s honor. On his arrival, he Thu, Apr 11 was carried on an armchair and met Ludwig Van 7:30 PM Beethoven and Maestro Antonio Salieri. Bing Concert Hall
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Yang Liping's Rite of Spring will be one Stanford Live's co-productions in the 2019–20 season. The Art of Commissioning
Chris Lorway & Rob Bailis
On a cold Friday afternoon in January in its evolution. It was the final major association with the Moveable Beast 2019, about 100 people gathered workshop focused on the integration Collective), introduced the creative at a small rehearsal hall in Toronto. of a new libretto and contemporary team and described both the work done The group was evenly split between musical arrangements before the work to date and what was still to come. The artists and supporters who had come moves into its staging and production audience was composed of leaders together for the first reading of Scott phase in advance of its world premiere from the Canadian artistic community Joplin’s Treemonisha, a new music at Stanford Live in 2020. (whose feedback at this stage in the theater work based on the ragtime process could be extremely helpful) and composer’s only opera. The project has Ross Manson, the artistic director of another cohort integral to the success been in development for years, and this Volcano Theatre (the Toronto-based of the work—its coproducing partners. reading represented a critical moment company spearheading the project in
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“Co-producers allow artists and companies to test the boundaries of their art form and trespass into unfamiliar territories.”
Creative team Jessie Montgomery, Weyni Mengesha, and Ross Manson take a look at the original printed score for Treemonisha, hand-delivered to the The Library of Congress by Scott Joplin in 1911. Commissioning and coproducing are critical components of the current arts ecology. These terms are seen as synonymous, but there is a slight difference between the two. The Cambridge Dictionary defines commissioning as a process “to formally choose someone to do a special piece of work, or to formally ask for a special piece of work from someone.” Coproducing, on the other hand, flips the origin of the idea from the commissioner to the artist, who assembles a group of supporters to help realize a new work they desire to create.
“For new work that is being built to tour, especially work with a potential global impact, coproducing support is essential,” says Manson. “It not only adds a revenue stream that helps the work come into being (usually the most difficult phase to fund, since it requires a communities to participate directly in Through these activities, investment leap of faith), but it also adds a stamp of the life and work of the artist and to partners focus foremost on creativity, approval that can leverage support from feel a different sense of investment risk, and, as a result, the complexities of other institutions and individuals. The and relationship with both the creative trial and error. Very rarely (if ever) does importance of both of these components process and the final product. It a work leap onto the stage fully formed. in the development of live performance also allows presenters, curators, and It will go through many iterations, both work cannot be underestimated.” audiences alike to consider the life cycle before and after its premiere, as it finds of an artist—what it means to engage its way to its best possible incarnation. In a sense, commissioning and with and invest in an artist’s body of coproducing is the lifeblood of work, rather than just a single piece “Coproducers allow artists and the industry. It provides a way for selected for a season’s program. companies to test the boundaries
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of their art form and trespass into the difference. When organizations of to collectively premiere major new unfamiliar territories,” declares Farooq different sizes, capacities, audiences, works like Jimmy López and Nilo Cruz’s Chaudhry, a well-respected producer and interests work together, they oratorio Dreamers and Treemonisha in the who has worked with Akram Khan, Nitin can service a commission as it Bay Area, ensuring more people get to Sawhney, and Yang Liping. “As well develops far more effectively than experience them. as providing cash funds and physical a freestanding organization. resources, an institutional commitment “We have accomplished so much built on a strong artistic agenda Even in competing markets, together that we simply could not manifests itself in critical feedback organizations are finding ways to have accomplished apart,” says Rob during the creative process. I have no work together around residency and Bailis, interim artistic director at Cal doubt that without coproducers and commissioning that previously would Performances. “Our collaboration on commissioners, we would not be able to have been unlikely if not impossible. The these particular initiatives was well- produce daring and adventurous work, multiyear commission and residency balanced and conceived from the which is essential for keeping our art project between Stanford Live and Cal beginning and played to our very relevant and meaningful.” Performances is a great example. The different strengths as partners.” Koret Foundation generously provided The act of commissioning has largely both organizations with funding to help The Kronos Performing Arts Association migrated to institutions rather bring unique work to the Bay Area that (KPAA) has commissioned more than than individuals. Rarely does one could only happen via partnership. 1,000 new works and arrangements organization have the capacity to And The Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions, for the Kronos Quartet since the develop a major new work on its own. launched by the Hewlett Foundation in group was founded in 1973. Many of This is where consortia really make all 2017, provides an additional opportunity the pieces written for the ensemble
Kronos Quartet performed The Green Fog in our 2017–18 season.
24 Business, have been recorded, performed by other groups, and used in dance, Art & theater, and film projects. Music meet box Classes One of the more recent Kronos projects office. commissioned by SFFilm and Stanford Private Live was The Green Fog, an experimental Music film homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Lessons Encore connects Vertigo. After its premiere at the Castro your business Theatre in San Francisco and later Financial to arts patrons that year at Stanford Live, the film got Aid picked up for a commercial run in the Offered. wherever they are. U.S. and Europe. More recently, the film was awarded the L.A. Film Critics Association’s Independent/Experimental Film Award and was named by Vulture as one of the 10 best movie scores of 2018.
To learn what Encore can “It would not be possible to commission REGISTER NOW! do for your business, visit work without an adventurous arts4all.org encoremediagroup.com. list of partners,” proclaims Janet All Ages, All Abilities Cowperthwaite, managing director of KPAA. “With this project and others, Stanford Live is impacting creative expression around the world, literally.”
Being attached to works that receive these types of accolades is a great way to build an institutional brand. As the work travels to other markets domestically and internationally, it carries the Stanford Live name and signals to both artists and potential future partners the organization’s commitment to investing in living artists.
“Without new artistic voices, the times in which we live cannot be reflected back to us with the richness and depth that helps us understand them,” says Manson. “And without the essential support of commissioners, these new voices can’t find their way to the stage.”
For artists to know that their work will have a life over several seasons— traversing geographies, communities, and venues—is a very exciting prospect. It also opens up the possibility for each of those communities to influence that work in its own way, within its own context for the project. And for universities, it provides an opportunity to engage artists in forward-thinking research and artistic development.
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that without new art, our cultural institutions will fossilize,” says composer Samuel Adams, whose piece Movements (for us and them) will receive its U.S. premiere at Stanford Live this spring. “New art is not only a necessary tool to probe our contemporary experience, but it also, at its very best, injects new energy and meaning into the body of older work we already know and love. TRANQUILITY IN THE HEART OF INNOVATION Beyond this, the commissioning of Relax and recharge in our Silicon Valley oasis. new work provides an institution like Stanford University with the opportunity Menlo Park, CA | 866 241 2431 | [email protected] | stanfordparkhotel.com to articulate its vision as one that leans—emphatically—into the future.”
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Mar 18, 2019 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall
Australian Chamber Orchestra Mar 31, 2019 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall
See page 34 for more information about how to support Stanford Live’s commissioning and residency programs.
Look out for more information on upcoming Stanford Live commissions in our 2019–20 season, to be announced in April. Scott Joplin’s TREEMONISHA Produced by Volcano Theatre with Moveable Beast Collective and co-commissioned by Stanford Live. Coming April 2020 FEATURETTE
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New Tribute to Matthew deemed ‘An American Classic’
By Jason Marsden, Executive Director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation
One of the most remarkable elements Now joining this creative assembly of Matthew Shepard’s continuing comes an oratorio that will surely legacy is the powerful inspiration his assume a place in the American choral life and death have provided to artists music canon: Considering Matthew of every genre. He has motivated Shepard. A labor of love of many years’ painters, poets, sculptors, authors, standing for Grammy award-winning librettists, playwrights and pop stars. conductor Craig Hella Johnson, the His story has been adapted and 100-minute piece made its world debut re-adapted, translated and taught, in Austin, Texas, Pasadena and Los rehearsed and recited. It will endure in Angeles. It tells the story of Matt’s life, our history so long as our civilization his love of Wyoming, his murder and marks meaningful events in the quest the shockwaves it sent out throughout for human rights. the LGBTQ+ community and the world media in 1998. 2 28 STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE MAR / APR 2019
“As a friend of Matt’s who lived through the dark days after his attack...it was deeply touching to sit amongst a thousand strangers, sharing tears and laughter and ultimately, a sense that the hopes Matt had for a better world are very much still potential realities, if we can work together to achieve them.”
Considering Matthew Shepard draws on the foundational J.S. Bach settings St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion but also on Persian mysticism, drum rituals and American genres as diverse as jazz and guitar- rock. But throughout it speaks to the listener from a deeply emotional and philosophical perspective — how we love one another, turn away from darkness and embrace the suffering we so often turn away from, in order to better understand the power of tragedy to transform our hearts.
As a friend of Matt’s who lived through the dark days after his attack and observed first-hand the outpouring of grief, outrage and activism it spurred from coast to coast and overseas, it was deeply touching to sit amongst a thousand strangers, sharing tears and laughter 3 and ultimately, a sense that the hopes 1. Matt had for a better world are very Conspirare performs the heart of this darkness. Johnson’s much still potential realities, if we Considering Matthew colleague, the composer Robert Kyr, can work together to achieve them. Shepard in attendance, called the new work Courtesy of ‘an American classic.’” Cadenza Artists For a review of the piece on
Austin360.com, American-Statesman 2. freelance art critic Luke Quinton Matthew Shepard wrote: “Considering Matthew Shepard Considering Matthew Shepard is a stunning work, largely because Conspirare 3. Conspirare performs it succeeds at being so audacious. Saturday, Apr 13 Considering Matthew It treats a deadly serious topic with 7:30 PM Shepard surprising levity, and at the same Bing Concert Hall Courtesy of time makes a shrewd connection to Cadenza Artists
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GO FORTH by Kaneza Schaal
Kaneza Schaal is a artistry. Don’t miss brilliant emerging your chance to see this theater artist, and beautiful work this April her piece GO FORTH in the Bing Studio. concentrates our season’s essence in a visceral performance. Invoking ancient African myths and rites, it upholds the sacredness of black lives, reawakens us to mortality’s mystery, and reveals the ways that longing for eternal life spurs all human 1 30
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MAR / APR 2019 educational andengagement come. TheFund also supports the culture for decadesto and multimedia—will enrich dance, theater, spoken word, whose work—spanning music, of artists, writers, anddirectors support invests inthecareers artists of ourtime. This by some of themostexciting help bringto life new works and Programming Fund to Stanford Live Commissions We recently established the generosity of ourdonors. made possiblethrough the Commissions like these are Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music The Commissions and Commissions The Programming FundProgramming 34 anchor our2019-20 season: Two majorcommissionswill nationally and internationally. performing artsfieldboth creativity andaleaderinthe Stanford asacenter for audiences andestablished Music, have reached global A 24-Decade History of Popular as Taylor Mac’s groundbreaking partners around theworld, such and co-commissionedwith Works we have commissioned with these commissions. programming associated
650.497.4809 [email protected] or please contact Nicola Rees at Stanford Livegivingopportunities, For more information about and to stages worldwide. works to ourcommunity be central to bringingthese and Programming Fund will Yang Liping. TheCommissions China’s leadingchoreographer, Stravinsky’s and anew dancework set to U.S. andCanadian artists, Treemonisha by ateam of a reimagining of Scott Joplin’s The
Rite of Springby Our 2019–20Our Season Bing Fling 2019
Excitement is building for this year’s edition of Bing Fling, our annual dinner and concert to thank our Stanford Live Bing members for their generosity. Taking place on Saturday, May 11, this year’s event celebrates the reopening of Stanford’s beloved Frost Amphitheater. Bing members will enjoy a reception and seated dinner on the Frost Amphitheater stage followed by “The History of Frost,” a performance in Bing Concert Hall featuring a group of special musical guests who will honor Frost’s decades of legendary performances.
For information on Bing member benefits, including complimentary tickets for the Bing Fling reception, dinner, and performance, Our 2019–20 please visit live.stanford.edu/support. Season
We’re looking forward to announcing the 2019–20 Stanford Live season this April and to sharing the compelling themes and stunning artistry that await our community. Executive Director Chris Lorway will introduce the season at a special announcement event on April 10 at Bing Concert Hall, joined by a surprise musical guest!
This event is free and open to all. Learn more and RSVP at live.stanford.edu.
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Friedman Lisa Voge-Levin Bing Concert Hall Donors Elyce Melmon Gary Gibbons Dr. and Mrs. R. Jay Whaley Evelyn Miller E. Alexander Glover Jeri & Kevin Wheaton Norman Naimark & Katherine Jolluck The Goldhaber-Fiebert Family Diane Wieder BUILDING DONORS Christine & Ronald Orlowski Paul Goldstein & Dena Mossar Curt Williams Shari & Donald Ornstein Ron & Jan Grace Paul Williams & Helge Ternsten Peter and Helen Bing Nancy & Stephen Player Harry & Diane Greenberg Catherine Wilson & Steven Callander Cynthia Fry Gunn and John A. Gunn Barbara & Warren Poole Linda & John Griffin Mike Wright The John Arrillaga Family Kitty & Lee Price Waldo Griffin Warren Wu Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Tony, Myrla, and Sarah Putulin Ann & Barry Haskell Mary H. Young Roberta and Steve Denning Richard & Karen Recht Tanya Hastings Cristina Zappacosta Elizabeth and Bruce Dunlevie Maureen & Paul Roskoph Karin Heck Selma Zinker Jill and John Freidenrich Elise & Jay Rossiter Jeffrey & Caron Heimbuck Frances and Theodore Geballe Marianne Russo Wendy & John Hillhouse PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Andrea and John Hennessy Loren & Shelley Saxe Jeanne Hochman Leslie and George Hume Bebe & Rich Hoppe Linda Schlein Helen & Peter Bing Susan and Craig McCaw Linda Hubbard Paula & George Schlesinger The Bullard Family Deedee and Burton § McMurtry Rob Huffman & Emily Smith The Schwabacher Family Mary & Clinton Gilliland Linda and Tony Meier Robyn & Mark Setzen Edmon Jennings Marcia & John Goldman Wendy Munger and Leonard Gumport Craig Sherman & Susan Shin Patricia Johnson Stephanie & Fred Harman Jennifer Jong Sandling and Judith & William Shilstone Arthur Johnson Leslie & George Hume M. James Sandling Diane & Branimir Sikic Jane & Bill Johnson Trine Sorensen & Michael Jacobson Regina and John Scully Mary Ann Sing Zeev Kaliblotzky Bonnie & Marty Tenenbaum Madeline and Isaac Stein Hannah & Richard Slocum Stina & Herant Katchadourian The Wollenberg Foundation Karen & Frank Sortino Ron Katz & Libby Roth Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Saroja Srinivasan Barney & Keats Barbara & Charles Stevens Shirley Kelley INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS BING EXPERIENCE Lynn & Richard Kelson Eleanor Sue FUND DONORS Rosi & Michael Taymor Michael & Wendy Kirst $100,000+ Jan Newstrom Thompson & Paul Goldstein Norman & Nina Kulgein The Koret Foundation With appreciation for the following Penelope & Robert Waites Ralph & Rose Lachman donors, who provide major support for Joan & Roger Warnke Uri Ladabaum $50,000 - $99,999 Patti & Ed White Cathy & Dick Lampman The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation programming and musical instruments John & Jane Williams Catherine Kawon Lee for Bing Concert Hall. $10,000 - $49,999 Polly Wong & Wai Fan Yau Laurie Leventhal-Belfer Anonymous Anonymous Mitchell & Kristen Yawitz Reuben Levy Claire & Herbert Lindenberger California Arts Council Apogee Enterprises, Inc. Edward Lohmann Chamber Music America The Adolph Baller Performance Fund SUPPORTER Marion & Erick Mack Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation for Bing Concert Hall ($250 - $499) Nancy Marks & Steve Mitchel National Endowment for the Arts Friends of Music at Stanford Jane & Thomas Marshburn Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Funds Fred and Stephanie Harman Anonymous (20) Mark Mathisen Fong Liu Matthew & Marcia Allen Laure & Sam Mazzara $1,000 - $9,999 Elayne and Thomas Techentin, Dana & Juliana Andersen James McClelland & Heidi Feldman Aaron Copland Fund for Music in memory of Beatrice Griffin Richard & Delores Anderson Michael McFaul & Donna Norton Western States Arts Federation Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Dan & Leslie Armistead Maura McGinnity & Erik Rausch The Fay S. and Ada S. Tom Family Contributions listed are from current Stanford James & Jennifer Bae Wallace Mersereau Turner Corporation Live members who made gifts through Anne & Robert Baldwin Alan F. Miller The Frank Wells Family 01/30/19. 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