GRAND PERFORMANCES BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dorothy L. Herbst CHAIR Gary Wexler CO-VICE CHAIR As I am writing this, we are still in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the memory of most Americans. And, because of 300 – 350 S. GRAND AVENUE, LOS ANGELES Roy Zuloaga this, we expect more and more families to turn to Grand Performances to keep the arts and culture in their lives. We know that California Plaza parking is $7.50 after 5 PM on weekdays and all day Saturdays and Sundays on CO-VICE CHAIR Mark Vargas many major funders and corporate sponsors won’t be able to be supportive in 2009. But we also know that some are specifically Grand Performances event dates. We suggest carpooling. SECRETARY Mark Flaisher sticking with us, expecting our series to be even more appreciated in these tough times. We also know that individual donors— FROM THE HARBOR FREEWAY (110) NORTH OR SOUTHBOUND TREASURER people like you—are going to be the critical force in keeping our program stable, keeping incredible international artists on our Exit Fourth Street, staying on the left. Turn left onto Olive Street. The California Plaza parking Craig Bloomgarden IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR stage and keeping the spirit of Grand Performances vibrant and exciting for all who attend. Please be as generous as you can be facility is located on the left. Joanna Elliott Jan Geringer when supporting Grand Performances, and remember how much the art on our stages means in your life. Your contribution will FROM THE HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY (101) NORTHBOUND Deborah Glusker be more important than ever and appreciated more than you can imagine in this year of many changes. Exit Grand Avenue. Turn right on Grand Avenue. Turn left onto 1st Street. Turn right onto Olive Street. Ayahlushim Hammond Gideon Kracov One thing that will not change is our commitment to excellence—the excellence of the performers and performances Straight on Olive Street. California Plaza parking facility is located on the right. Wendy Leitman Karen Molleson that we present; the excellence of the experiences that we aim to provide; and, the excellence of our efforts to let people in FROM THE HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY (101) SOUTHBOUND Robert Roback every community in Los Angeles know that they are welcome to be part of our audience. Exit Temple Street. Turn left onto Temple Street. Make first right turn to Hope Street. Turn left onto Dan Rosenfeld Chris Safarian We want our programming to connect with you and we believe that we have a responsibility to expand our services so 1st Street. Turn right onto Olive Street. Straight on Olive Street. California Plaza parking facility is Martha Saucedo that you can truly consider how each performance can lead to greater understanding of our world. located on the right. Tim Smith Jay Stark We have offered post-performance discussions selectively for a number of years. We intend to increase them and to expand DASH ROUTE B (CHINATOWN – FINANCIAL DISTRICT) Martha Welborne, FAIA opportunities for audience members to share their reactions to the performances we present. It has been said that “art is a lie in Runs from 5:50am – 6:30pm, every 5 minutes weekdays. For further information please call STAFF the service of truth,” and we want to give our audience members opportunities to discuss such questions as “What truths did 213-808-2273 or visit the website at www.ladottransit.com Michael Alexander (21 SEASONS) EXECUTIVE & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR this art reveal, and what was it good for?” We hope that the art you discover on our stages helps you discover truths about your METRO RAIL Kristine Arellano (2 SEASONS) MARKETING ASSISTANT world, your neighbors and yourself. We hope that, by offering more opportunities to be involved in each presentation, we are From the Metro Rail RED Line, exit at Pershing Square and leave by the north stairs leading to 4th Mark Baker (11 SEASONS) offering you expanded opportunities to discover the value that the arts have in your life beyond just being entertained. and Hill Streets. California Plaza is located one block away at 4th and Olive Streets. For further TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Alyssa Conrad (3 SEASONS) Most of all, we look forward to welcoming you to another exciting season of music, dance, film and theatre featuring information please call 1-800-COMMUTE. DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Leigh Ann Hahn (18 SEASONS) exciting local and international artists. Your dancing, laughing and sharing the moment with the others who have come to DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING / 1 One California Plaza 4 Spiral Court 7 Museum Tower 9 Wells Fargo Center ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Grand Performances helps make our seasons the successes that they are. 2 Two California Plaza 5 Omni Los Angeles Hotel 8 Colburn School of P Parking Entrances Lee Lawlor (2 SEASONS) Performing Arts BUSINESS MANAGER Michael Alexander 3 Watercourt 6 MOCA Alice Platt (9 SEASONS) DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GENERAL MANAGER Dean Porter (9 SEASONS) DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Fred Stites (18 SEASONS) PRODUCTION MANAGER Zindy Landeros Valle (9 SEASONS) OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

CALIFORNIA PLAZA James A. Doolittle Foundation RUBY | $1,000 Clara & Larry Yust Aileen Adams & Geoff Cowan THE VOICE: UNIVERSAL AND UNIFYING MOVIES THAT MATTER NON PROFIT ORG. CORPORATE PARTNERS Downtown Center Business Zayda & Craig Bloomgarden Barbara & Stanley Zax Byron Gross & Ricky Tovim CALIFORNIA PLAZA U.S. POSTAGE The 2009 Grand Performances Season would Improvement District Gordon Crawford Roy Zuloaga Judith Siegel & PLAZA COMMONS, INC. The sweet cry of a newborn heralds the beginning of a new life, Grand Performances is pleased to present our Movies That PAID not take place without the support from these BOARD OF DIRECTORS and it will be followed by years of exploring what yells, squeaks, Matter series—films that promote social activism, that encourage Many audience members don’t realize that Grand Gary Platt Manufacturing V. Dunlap Michael Goldstein LOS ANGELES, CA corporate partners of California Plaza. SAPPHIRE | $500 Natalie Park laughs, coos, songs, sonorous oratory and whispers can produce. deeper thinking about the world community that we share with Performances is an independent non-profit, with Maguire Properties Graphics & Beyond Joanna Elliott & Jonathan Wechsler Nancy & Peter Auerbach Barbara Enloe Hadsell & CHAIR – MAGUIRE PROPERTIES, PERMIT NO. 3828 ONE & TWO CALIFORNIA PLAZA This summer, Grand Performances explores that most basic of people from so many different cultures and that serve as catalysts only 7% of our budget coming from government arts Omni Los Angeles Hotel Greenberg Glusker Mark Flaisher Mark Baker Douglas Hadsell David B. Shahriari instruments—the human voice—as used by singers and actors for ongoing discussions about the issues that demand our attention agencies. More than ever, significant support, from The James Irvine Foundation Jan Geringer & Mitch Fogelman Jean Francois Cote Robin & Douglas Hinchliffe VICE-CHAIR – OMNI LOS ANGELES HOTEL Fletcher Jones Foundation Deborah Glusker Lucia Cha & Travis F. Addison working on their own and in concert with others. This year we invited as world citizens living in an ever more challenging times. audience members like you, is critical to this year’s GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Hal & Eunice David MAGUIRE PROPERTIES world-class programming at Grand Performances. The Community Redevelopment Mendocino Farms Ayahlushim & Chris Hammond Michael J. Downer Jerrold Asao Hiura artists who have created international reputations for themselves Agency of the City of Los Angeles Mexican Consulate Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch Frank Ellsworth Susan Jaffee GRAND PERFORMANCES by testing the limits of how the vocal traditions of their cultures MUSIC, MOVEMENT, MEANING If you haven’t already become “friends” with our Red MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATION Department of Cultural Affairs, Ralphs Scott Kelley Julia Newton & Michael Feibish Liz & Glenn Johnson can fuse with others or be pushed into new and uncharted realms Please note the specially marked MMM events on the Buckets, they will be attending all of the performances Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Misty Sanford & Gideon Kracov Steven Kanter Grand Performances is a member of the following City of Los Angeles Noemi & Marcelino Ford-Livene professional associations that serve our field. or how their voices can give life to the thoughts and emotions of schedule. These programs will be followed by facilitated audience again this season. Our Red Buckets are a way for Los Angeles County Arts Commission Deutsch Foundation Wendy Leitman & Jonathan Harris Thadeus Frazier-Reed Rosalie Kirsch Arts for LA literary artists and composers who need these talented performers discussions designed to give everyone participating the opportunity audience members to donate by cash or check during Wells Fargo Anne & Rick Llewellyn Marie Lamotte Association of Performing Arts Presenters National Endowment for the Arts Leonard R. Garner, Jr. to bring their words and music to audiences. Throughout the season to share reactions to the presentations and to discuss the different the performances, but while the Red Bucket dollars Xerox Foundation Roella & James Louie Steven Lavine California Arts Advocates Bobbie & Philip Glusker California Association of Nonprofits audiences will glimpse history as voices interpret the work of “messages” that people get from these performances. In a 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite A-4, Los Angeles, California 90071 are very important to us, they only cover 5% of our CORPORATIONS & James Ortiz & Richard Malott Susan & Steven Glusker Lee Lawlor California Presenters GRAND PERFORMANCES Eleanor Portilla Maynard Susie North Emily Dickinson and Paul Robeson and taste contemporary creations community as diverse as Los Angeles, it is inevitable that different overall fund-raising goal. The rest is left to the FOUNDATIONS Sheelagh Boyd & Larry Layne Dance Resource Center Current Resident JEWELS Dance/USA through the voices of Columbia’s Toto La Momposina, Canada’s people will “see” different things in the performance. The Music, generous individuals, corporations, and foundations Aaroe Associates Charitable Jon Neudstadter Michelle & Richard Lewis Mimi Perloff THE GRAND JEWELS | $10,000+ Grand Avenue Partners Tanya Tagaq, Los Angeles’ Inspiration House Poetry Choir and others Movement and Meaning program is your opportunity to talk with noted in this brochure. Foundation Laurel Newmark Janice Melton Guilherme Rafols Anonymous (2) LA Inc. all as part of our series “The Voice: Universal and Unifying” supported other audience members about the performance you have The Robert M. Adams Foundation Alice Platt & Dan Newmark Terry & Jeffrey Paule Judith & James Roach North American World Music Coalition We would love to see your name in these pages next The Macdonald Family experienced. Everyone is welcome—please plan on participating. AEG Tut & Gary Platt Dean Porter Stefani & Milt Rosenberg Western Arts Alliance in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. season and discuss with you the many other benefits The Ahmanson Foundation DIAMOND | $5,000 Jennifer & Robert D. Roback Heidi Duckler & Daniel Rosenfeld Mark Saltzman & of becoming a donor. For information on Grand Bank of the West Anonymous Chris Safarian Carol & Carl Selkin Walter Hubert Performances Jewels: Grand Performances’ individual Employees Community Fund of Dorothy L. Herbst Kristin & Tim Smith Jean Singh Kristen Schwarz MEDIA SPONSORS 2009 SEASON OFFICIAL SPECIAL EVENTS SPONSORS giving program, or on Corporate or Foundation giving, Boeing California Ginny Mancini Jay Stark Laurie F. 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Mark Vargas And the many other “Jewels” who Grand Performances Karen Molleson & Lowell Hill Florence & David Conrad The Walt Disney Company Martha & John Welborne send checks and drop donations 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite A-4 Anne & Jim Rothenberg Dana & Gary Wexler into our Red Buckets. Los Angeles, CA 90071 300 – 350 S. GRAND AVENUE, LOS ANGELES California Plaza parking is $7.50 after 5 PM on weekdays and all day Saturdays and Sundays on Grand Performances event dates. We suggest carpooling. FROM THE HARBOR FREEWAY (110) NORTH OR SOUTHBOUND Exit Fourth Street, staying on the left. Turn left onto Olive Street. The California Plaza parking facility is located on the left. FROM THE HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY (101) NORTHBOUND Exit Grand Avenue. Turn right on Grand Avenue. Turn left onto 1st Street. Turn right onto Olive Street. Straight on Olive Street. California Plaza parking facility is located on the right. FROM THE HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY (101) SOUTHBOUND FRIDAY, JUNE 26 @ 8 PM Exit Temple Street. Turn left onto Temple Street. Make first right turn to Hope Street. Turn left onto WHICH WAY HOME 1st Street. Turn right onto Olive Street. Straight on Olive Street. California Plaza parking facility is Executive produced by John Malkovich's Mr. Mudd located on the right. Productions, this unprecedented, revelatory documentary DASH ROUTE B (CHINATOWN – FINANCIAL DISTRICT) (directed by Rebecca Cammisa), follows three unaccompanied Runs from 5:50am – 6:30pm, every 5 minutes weekdays. For further information please call children on a harrowing odyssey that takes them from their homes 213-808-2273 or visit the website at www.ladottransit.com SATURDAY, JUNE 13 @ 7 PM in Latin America, through Mexico with one mighty shepherding THE MUSIC OF hope: to reach the United States, where they can either METRO RAIL reunite with their own families who made the journey before From the Metro Rail RED Line, exit at Pershing Square and leave by the north stairs leading to 4th BATTLESTAR GALACTICA them, or create new lives for themselves. and Hill Streets. California Plaza is located one block away at 4th and Olive Streets. For further Begin your summer musical journey with composer Presented in Association with Los Angeles Film Festival. information please call 1-800-COMMUTE. Bear McCreary's live performance of the critically acclaimed original score for the award-winning drama series "Battlestar 1 One California Plaza 4 Spiral Court 7 Museum Tower 9 Wells Fargo Center Galactica." He and his team of world class musicians lead the 2 Two California Plaza 5 Omni Los Angeles Hotel 8 Colburn School of P Parking Entrances jump from the small screen to the concert stage via a 3 Watercourt 6 MOCA Performing Arts thunderous blend of percussive, orchestral, rock and world music influences. McCreary's iconic score, "the most innovative THURSDAY, JULY 9 @ 8 PM music on TV today" (Variety), will thrill fans of all musical MUSICOLOGY 301: WITH HAL DAVID genres in this one-of-a-kind event. If you have ever had a lyric running through your head, it is likely that you have heard the work of Hal David—the FRIDAY, JUNE 19 @ 8 PM Grammy Award/Oscar-winning lyricist who, most famously, gave SATURDAY, JUNE 20 @ 8 PM voice to music by Burt Bacharach sung by America’s most popular CALIFORNIA PLAZA James A. Doolittle Foundation RUBY | $1,000 Clara & Larry Yust Aileen Adams & Geoff Cowan singers for over a half a century. Join us as musicologist Alan CORPORATE PARTNERS Downtown Center Business Zayda & Craig Bloomgarden Barbara & Stanley Zax Byron Gross & Ricky Tovim CITY OF LOS ANGELES (COLA) Warner converses with this national legend as they talk about The 2009 Grand Performances Season would Improvement District Gordon Crawford Roy Zuloaga Judith Siegel & Many audience members don’t realize that Grand not take place without the support from these Gary Platt Manufacturing V. Dunlap Michael Goldstein ARTISTS PROJECT putting the human voice into the music we have all heard corporate partners of California Plaza. SAPPHIRE | $500 FRIDAY: Lionel Popkin, Bruce Bauman and Cheng-Chieh Yu on radio, in films and on Broadway. Performances is an independent non-profit, with Maguire Properties Graphics & Beyond Joanna Elliott & Jonathan Wechsler Nancy & Peter Auerbach Barbara Enloe Hadsell & only 7% of our budget coming from government arts Greenberg Glusker Mark Flaisher Douglas Hadsell SATURDAY: Alejandra Flores, Gloria Enedina Alvarez Omni Los Angeles Hotel Mark Baker FRIDAY, JULY 10 @ NOON agencies. More than ever, significant support, from The James Irvine Foundation Jan Geringer & Mitch Fogelman Jean Francois Cote Robin & Douglas Hinchliffe and Houman Pourmhedi audience members like you, is critical to this year’s Fletcher Jones Foundation Deborah Glusker Lucia Cha & Cheng-Chieh Yu’s imaginative solo choreography for Dancing GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Hal & Eunice David ROCKY DAWUNI world-class programming at Grand Performances. The Community Redevelopment Mendocino Farms Ayahlushim & Chris Hammond Michael J. Downer Jerrold Asao Hiura Mother Courage explores the themes of feminism and martiality, Socially conscious Afro roots Reggae music from L.A.-based Agency of the City of Los Angeles Mexican Consulate Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch Frank Ellsworth Susan Jaffee questioning women’s roles and relationships to martial cultures. sensation Rocky Dawuni, who has been hailed as “Ghana’s If you haven’t already become “friends” with our Red Department of Cultural Affairs, Ralphs Scott Kelley Julia Newton & Michael Feibish Liz & Glenn Johnson There Is An Elephant In This Solo is Lionel Popkin’s rich and Buckets, they will be attending all of the performances Bob Marley” by New Nation, England’s leading influential City of Los Angeles Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Misty Sanford & Gideon Kracov Noemi & Marcelino Ford-Livene Steven Kanter again this season. Our Red Buckets are a way for contradictory work that offers metaphors on identity and what Afro-Asian weekly newspaper. Los Angeles County Arts Commission Deutsch Foundation Wendy Leitman & Jonathan Harris Thadeus Frazier-Reed Rosalie Kirsch truly lies beneath—all performed in a fluidly bulky elephant audience members to donate by cash or check during National Endowment for the Arts Wells Fargo Anne & Rick Llewellyn Leonard R. Garner, Jr. Marie Lamotte costume. Award-winning author Bruce Bauman’s staged reading FRIDAY, JULY 10 @ 8 PM the performances, but while the Red Bucket dollars Xerox Foundation Roella & James Louie Bobbie & Philip Glusker Steven Lavine accompanied by female voice brings to life the written word, are very important to us, they only cover 5% of our CORPORATIONS & James Ortiz & Richard Malott Susan & Steven Glusker Lee Lawlor ¨ GRAND PERFORMANCES while Persian classical santur master Houman Pourmehdi uses ROCKY DAWUNI, MC RAI overall fund-raising goal. The rest is left to the FOUNDATIONS Eleanor Portilla Maynard Sheelagh Boyd & Larry Layne Susie North JEWELS spoken word and music to examine his personal history and the Acoustic world reggae sound, and rockin’ Raï inflected electro pop generous individuals, corporations, and foundations Aaroe Associates Charitable Jon Neudstadter Michelle & Richard Lewis Mimi Perloff THE GRAND JEWELS | $10,000+ centuries-old umbilical connection to his homeland. Writer and meet on stage to create a global musical feast. noted in this brochure. Foundation Laurel Newmark Janice Melton Guilherme Rafols Anonymous (2) visual artist Gloria Enedina Alvarez crosses borders and generations The Robert M. Adams Foundation Alice Platt & Dan Newmark Terry & Jeffrey Paule Judith & James Roach We would love to see your name in these pages next The Macdonald Family Tut & Gary Platt Stefani & Milt Rosenberg with her thought-provoking TierraCentro: Echoing Lines/Grabados SATURDAY, JULY 11 @ 8 PM AEG Dean Porter season and discuss with you the many other benefits entre Memorias. Artist and spoken word performer Alejandra Flores The Ahmanson Foundation DIAMOND | $5,000 Jennifer & Robert D. Roback Heidi Duckler & Daniel Rosenfeld Mark Saltzman & of becoming a donor. For information on Grand Chris Safarian Walter Hubert brings some of today’s most sobering and visceral news headlines BUIKA & PERLA BATALLA Bank of the West Anonymous Carol & Carl Selkin Buika is a Spanish singer of Equatorial Guinean heritage. Performances Jewels: Grand Performances’ individual Kristin & Tim Smith Kristen Schwarz front-and-center in a solo presentation. Employees Community Fund of Dorothy L. Herbst Jean Singh Jazz, bolero, flamenco, funk—all of these genres are giving program, or on Corporate or Foundation giving, Jay Stark Terry & Madeline Schwarz PLEASE NOTE: MATURE CONTENT AND STRONG LANGUAGE IN Boeing California Ginny Mancini Laurie F. Allen & Michael F. Wolf fluidly woven together, then layered with her husky, sensual please contact Alice Platt at (213) 687-2190. California Community Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Gerald A.Tomsic Mara Simmons SOME PERFORMANCES. COLA Fellowship performances are part of the EMERALD | $2,500 voice, and an electric stage presence. Perla Batalla fuses The Capital Group Companies Gary Stewart Alison Morgan & Department of Cultural Affairs’ Cultural Grant Program. Contributions of any amount are always welcome and Victoria Kirsch & Michael Alexander TOPAZ | $250 traditional Mexican mestiza sounds with an eclectic mix of Charitable Foundation Kathy & Fred Stites Parke Skelton much appreciated. Please make your gift today! Margaret Adams & Joel Edstrom Shaindy & Seth Alexander bluesy ballads, alternative folk and her rich, beautiful voice. Casa Cocina y Cantina Francine Lipsman-Tansey & Bonnie Voland Donations are fully tax-deductible and can be sent to: Heather & Paul Haaga Janelle & Jasen Boyington City National Bank Michael Tansey Hayley Voland Leigh Ann Hahn Alicia G. & Edward E. Clark Concord Document Services, Inc. Mark Vargas And the many other “Jewels” who Grand Performances Karen Molleson & Lowell Hill Florence & David Conrad The Walt Disney Company Martha & John Welborne send checks and drop donations 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite A-4 Anne & Jim Rothenberg Dana & Gary Wexler into our Red Buckets. Los Angeles, CA 90071 FRIDAY, JULY 31 @ NOON FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 @ NOON & 8 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 @ 8 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 @ 8 PM FRIDAY, JULY 17 @ NOON LO CÒR DE LA PLANA TOTO LA MOMPOSINA Y The all-male French acapella group Lo Còr de la Plana is unlike EL COLEGIO DEL CUERPO JUSTO ALMARIO’S SUS TAMBORES A fusion of modern dance vocabularies and Afro-Indian Caribbean tradition any other band touring today. The music is sung in a disappearing The music of coastal Colombia comes alive in Toto la Momposina’s AFRO-COLOMBIAN ENSEMBLE makes Cartegena, Colombia-based Colegio del Cuerpo one of the most language called Occitan. The voices are sometimes augmented energetic stage performance. Handclapping, guitarron, gaita (a cactus wood Native Colombian and Los Angeles resident, Justo Almario interesting dance companies coming out of South America. With a core with hand drums and tambourines with vocal melodies related flute with a bagpipe sound)—all are augmented with pulsating cumbia brings his Colombian, Afro-Cuban, jazz-funk fusion ensemble complement that is from some of the poorest barrios, what unfolds on stage to Arabic music, Gregorian chants, and percussive call-and- style sounds, touches of Cuban son, Afro Latin beats and indigenous for a tasty noon-time treat. is oftentimes some of the most breathtaking physical dance expressions. response hintings from Africa. Indian music, to deliver the hypnotic polyrhythmic traditional sounds.

FRIDAY, JULY 31 @ 8 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 @ 8 PM FRIDAY, JULY 17 @ 8 PM LO CÒR DE LA PLANA & ROKIA TRAORÉ CUCU DIAMANTES & WATCHA CLAN FISHTANK ENSEMBLE One of the most formidable stage performers in today's African music SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 8 PM Cucu Diamantes, firecracker co-founder of New York-based Grammy- world, Malian singer-songwriter Traoré is known for her authentic roots nominated Latin fusion band Yerba Buena steps out with her own solo See Friday, July 31 description for Lo Còr de la Plana. LA Weekly calls Fishtank Ensemble “…the rompin', stompin' sound. Her cool, urban, Afro-soul fuses North African rhythms, EMILY DICKINSON: ensemble. She will charm, seduce and entice in this performance. French/western pop style sounds with traditional arrangements. FRIDAY, JUNE 26 @ 8 PM Marseilles, France-based Watcha Clan’s, drum 'n' bass and reggae leaders of cross-pollinated Gypsy music.” This is a wild THIS AND MY HEART BESIDES Actress Linda Kelsey (“Lou Grant”), soprano Anne Marie Ketchum and rhythmic templates form the backbone of their sound. Mix in Balkan experience you’ll never forget. WHICH WAY HOME THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 @ 8 PM pianist Victoria Kirsch combine their talents to explore the worlds of Executive produced by John Malkovich's Mr. Mudd Gypsy brass, Ashkenazi/Sephardic flavors, and the group’s multi-lingual American literary icon Emily Dickinson through her poetry and letters. Productions, this unprecedented, revelatory documentary lyrics and what emerges is a thick, trance-like stew of body moving music. INSPIRATION HOUSE POETRY CHOIR: This moving theatrical presentation also features songs by Aaron (directed by Rebecca Cammisa), follows three unaccompanied VOICEMUSIC FOR WHOLE LIVING Copland, Lori Laitman, Tom Cipullo and Steve Heitzeg. children on a harrowing odyssey that takes them from their homes SATURDAY, JULY 18 @ 8 PM Curated by Peter J. Harris, the program will feature sets by a male choir and SATURDAY, JUNE 13 @ 7 PM in Latin America, through Mexico with one mighty shepherding ALBITA SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 @ 7 PM a female choir, culminating in a finale of the Whole, blending the VoiceMusic THE MUSIC OF hope: to reach the United States, where they can either Grammy-winning Cuban-American singer, producer and composer MENTIRITAS, LA SANTA CECILIA of all poets, accompanied guitarist Curtis Robertson, Jr., and cellist Maria reunite with their own families who made the journey before Albita is "…the reincarnation of a 1930's European chanteuse, a Elena Gaitan's virtuosic improvisation. The poets read their work while BATTLESTAR GALACTICA them, or create new lives for themselves. & MR. VALLENATO musicians respond, blending words, intonations, audience response and Begin your summer musical journey with composer Berlin Cabaret singer transfused with Latin blood." So says Los Presented in Association with Los Angeles Film Festival. Take a Los Angeles journey through Latin America with the dynamic silence into a sonic tapestry both entrancing and exhilarating Angeles Times writer Mike Clary. One would be hard pressed to find MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 @ 8 PM Bear McCreary's live performance of the critically acclaimed tongue-in-cheek, dance-party cumbia, ska, R&B, banda sounds of original score for the award-winning drama series "Battlestar any statements to the contrary. It will be standing room only for this event because your feet will command you to dance! Mentiritas, and the forceful vocal styling of La Santa Cecilia’s La FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 @ NOON THE LARAMIE PROJECT EPILOGUE Galactica." He and his team of world class musicians lead the The Laramie Project Epilogue is a staged reading of a new Our fundraiser takes place earlier this evening. Preferred seating for Marisoul as she sings a smorgasbord of classic and jump from the small screen to the concert stage via a contemporary pan-Latin songs. It’s cumbia and Colombian roots ADAAWE play being presented on Broadway and various venues across the fundraiser attendees. See website for details. This six-member international group of women—from Kenya, Morocco, thunderous blend of percussive, orchestral, rock and world music, but most of all it’s Mr. Vallenato’s salt-of-the-earth U.S. that honors the memory of murdered gay college student Matthew THURSDAY, JULY 9 @ 8 PM Brazil and the United States—blend drums, percussions and voices with music influences. McCreary's iconic score, "the most innovative accordion driven sound that conjures images of dense bar-rooms, Shepard. This 11th anniversary presentation seeks to bring together high-octane funk, Gospel-infused lyrics and pure joy. music on TV today" (Variety), will thrill fans of all musical MUSICOLOGY 301: WITH HAL DAVID THURSDAY, JULY 23 @ 8 PM and smoldering bodies swaying in the tropical heat. communities to educate, debate, inspire and raise our genres in this one-of-a-kind event. If you have ever had a lyric running through your head, MUSICOLOGY 302: FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 @ 8 PM collective consciousness of civil rights, violence and bigotry. it is likely that you have heard the work of Hal David—the FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 @ NOON & 8 PM FRIDAY, JUNE 19 @ 8 PM Grammy Award/Oscar-winning lyricist who, most famously, gave PAUL ROBESON – HUMANITY’S VOICE RAHIM ALHAJ SATURDAY, JUNE 20 @ 8 PM voice to music by Burt Bacharach sung by America’s most popular UCLA Lecturer Paul Von Blum sheds light on renaissance man HAEGUMPLUS Grammy nominated Iraqi virtuoso oud player Rahim AlHaj has CITY OF LOS ANGELES (COLA) singers for over a half a century. Join us as musicologist Alan Robeson giving voice to theatre, opera and spirituals as well as to Award-winning Korean-born musician Kang Eun-Il is regarded as the recorded with flamenco, jazz and rock musicians, including Michael Warner converses with this national legend as they talk about civic and human rights causes while addressing the rising demand definitive force behind the contemporary use of the traditional Stipe and R.E.M. For this performance he is joined by renowned ARTISTS PROJECT putting the human voice into the music we have all heard for much of Africa’s liberation from colonial control. haegum—a two-stringed instrument with a rod like neck attached to percussionist Souhail Kaspar. FRIDAY: Lionel Popkin, Bruce Bauman and Cheng-Chieh Yu on radio, in films and on Broadway. a hollow wooden box. What sets her group HaegumPlus apart is the daring addition of non-traditional music genres (jazz and European SATURDAY: Alejandra Flores, Gloria Enedina Alvarez FRIDAY, JULY 24 @ NOON & 8 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 @ 8 PM FRIDAY, JULY 10 @ NOON classical) and western instruments, to create distinctive lyrical and Houman Pourmhedi THE BAD PLUS sounds with a universal appeal. EL TREN FANTASMA Cheng-Chieh Yu’s imaginative solo choreography for Dancing ROCKY DAWUNI “Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-60's jazz and (THE GHOST TRAIN ) MEXICO, 1927 Mother Courage explores the themes of feminism and martiality, Socially conscious Afro roots Reggae music from L.A.-based indie rock.....” The New York Times. The Bad Plus is an SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 @ 8 PM El Tren Fantasma was directed by Gabriel Moreno, one of Mexico’s questioning women’s roles and relationships to martial cultures. sensation Rocky Dawuni, who has been hailed as “Ghana’s audacious, rule-breaking jazz trio that crunches and at times pioneering and most engaging silent film directors. Tonight’s film was There Is An Elephant In This Solo is Lionel Popkin’s rich and Bob Marley” by New Nation, England’s leading influential pulverizes swing to let improvisational freedom shine. Mingus, Monk, TANYA TAGAQ & HYPERPOTAMUS re-edited by Filmoteca de la UNAM using original footage to reconstruct contradictory work that offers metaphors on identity and what Afro-Asian weekly newspaper. all the fearless fathers of jazz would have been proud of this forward Groundbreaking Inuk throat singer, Tanya Tagaq makes music that lost sequences with archival photographs. A new score and sound truly lies beneath—all performed in a fluidly bulky elephant thinking group that has the temerity to re-invent classic rock tunes is both unusual and universally appealing on a most primal level. track has been electronically composed by Mexico City native costume. Award-winning author Bruce Bauman’s staged reading FRIDAY, JULY 10 @ 8 PM such as Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” and Nirvana’s “Smell’s Like Teen In performance she emits highly expressive, oftentimes unnerving Bernardo Feldman to give us a distinctive and updated experience. accompanied by female voice brings to life the written word, ¨ Spirit.” Wendy Lewis, Minneapolis vocalist, poet and frontwoman for visceral sounds that push the boundaries of emotions to the while Persian classical santur master Houman Pourmehdi uses ROCKY DAWUNI, MC RAI delight of the audience. Hyperpotamus is a solo voice with four indie-rock band Redstart adds another daring dimension. SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 @ 8 PM spoken word and music to examine his personal history and the Acoustic world reggae sound, and rockin’ Raï inflected electro pop microphones, a loop station pedal and gallons of water. Huh? centuries-old umbilical connection to his homeland. Writer and meet on stage to create a global musical feast. SATURDAY, JULY 25 @ 8 PM You’ve got to see it to believe it. NÖMADAK TX visual artist Gloria Enedina Alvarez crosses borders and generations Nömadak Tx is a luscious musical travelogue that follows with her thought-provoking TierraCentro: Echoing Lines/Grabados SATURDAY, JULY 11 @ 8 PM CURUMIN & NOVALIMA SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 @ 8 PM two Basque percussionists taking their txalaparta— entre Memorias. Artist and spoken word performer Alejandra Flores Japanese-Brazilian Luciano Nakata Albuquerque—front-man for a unique super marimba played by two people—to India, Lapland, brings some of today’s most sobering and visceral news headlines BUIKA & PERLA BATALLA Curumin—happily mixes breezy ballads, 70s Brazilian pop, and KB SOLOMON— Mongolia and the Saharan desert to meet and fuse their music with Buika is a Spanish singer of Equatorial Guinean heritage. front-and-center in a solo presentation. off-kilter soul, with reggae, greasy spoon funk and hip hop. that of remote nomadic peoples who each live in unique locations. Jazz, bolero, flamenco, funk—all of these genres are SPEAK OF ME AS I AM PLEASE NOTE: MATURE CONTENT AND STRONG LANGUAGE IN Traditional Afro-Peruvian marinera folkloric rhythms meets hip hop fluidly woven together, then layered with her husky, sensual Paul Robeson, the renowned singer, actor, lawyer, athlete and SOME PERFORMANCES. COLA Fellowship performances are part of the beats, funk, salsa and dub in Novalima’s progressive, innovative FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 @ NOON voice, and an electric stage presence. Perla Batalla fuses political activist is stirringly chronicled in music and words in Department of Cultural Affairs’ Cultural Grant Program. sound. Get ready to dive into Latin America’s 21st century sound. traditional Mexican mestiza sounds with an eclectic mix of KB Solomon’s one-man show. This presentation honors the legacy of EL COLEGIO DEL CUERPO **Due to the nature of live performances, this schedule is subject to change. C. Bernard Jackson who we honor annually for his contributions to our city. The company will use the entire plaza as it brings the work to our Please call our concert line at 213-687-2159 to confirm events or to be added to bluesy ballads, alternative folk and her rich, beautiful voice. the mailing list. **Unauthorized use of recording equipment of any kind during audience in a special lunchtime presentation that emulates its street any performance is prohibited. Audience members who may need to use phonic performances in Cartegena, Colombia. ear sound amplification system, please notify us 48 hours in advance. NON PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID LOS ANGELES, CA PERMIT NO. 3828

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