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Sarah Rothenberg Artistic & Genera l Director NO PLACE LIKE HOME SEASON 2017-18 Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence and Innovation in Music SEASON AT A GLANCE From Harlem to Havana From Renaissance to Reich Cy Twombly and Music Harlem Quartet with Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord Claire Chase, flute Aldo López-Gavilán, piano Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 7:30 PM Monday, April 2, 2018, 7:30 PM Saturday, September 23, 2017, 8:00 PM The Menil Collection Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 7:30 PM Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Charles Ives’s America: Hymns, The Menil Collection’s Cy Twombly Gallery Robert Glasper Experiment Songs, Sonatas Juilliard String Quartet Friday, October 6, 2017, 8:00 PM Jeremy Denk, piano; Stefan Jackiw, violin Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Friday, April 6, 2018, 7:30 PM and Houston Chamber Choir Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 7:30 PM Quatuor Mosaïques Performing Arts Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 7:30 PM Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center Brad Mehldau Trio The Menil Collection Charles Lloyd and The Marvels Friday, April 13, 2018, 8:00 PM A Stranger I Arrive, A Stranger I Depart featuring Bill Frisell, guitar and Schubert’s Winterreise Eric Harland, drums Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Tyler Duncan, baritone; Friday, February 2, 2018, 8:00 PM Wartime Stories Sarah Rothenberg, piano Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Reich and Messiaen Monday, October 23, 2017, 7:30 PM Sérgio and Odair Assad, guitars and St. Lawrence String Quartet Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 7:30 PM Avi Avital, mandolin Sarah Rothenberg, piano The Menil Collection Saturday, February 17, 2018, 7:30PM Saturday, April 21, 2018, 8:00 PM Tiempo Libre Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Friday, November 10, 2017, 8:00 PM James K. Schooler Memorial Concert Poetry and Music: Exile and Return Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Garrick Ohlsson, piano Sarah Rothenberg, piano and Friday, March 2, 2018, 8:00 PM Songs of Freedom: poet Adam Zagajewski Cullen Theater, Wortham Center A Tribute to Abbey Lincoln, Monday, April 30, 2018, 7:30 PM Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone Mingus Big Band Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 7:30 PM Featuring René Marie, Theo Bleckmann and featuring Helen Sung, piano MATCH: Midtown Arts and Saturday, March 24, 2018, 8:00PM Alicia Olatuja Theater Center Houston Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00 PM Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Dianne Reeves Friday, May 4, 2018, 8:00 PM OPENING NIGHT Cullen Theater, Wortham Center From Harlem to Havana NO Harlem Quartet with PLACE LIKE Aldo López-Gavilán, piano HOME 17 SEASON Saturday, September 23, 2017, 8:00 PM Dear Friends of Da Camera, 18 Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center “No Place Like Home” is a season theme with multiple meanings. As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we thank the Aldo López-Gavilán Epílogo Houston community for our vibrant home. The city’s characteristic openness and entrepreneurial spirit have allowed Antônio Carlos Jobim The Girl from Ipanema Da Camera to thrive, grow as the city grows, and become a nationally-recognized leader of innovation and excellence in Dizzy Gillespie A Night in Tunisia chamber music and jazz. Frank Churchill Someday My Prince Will Come We celebrate our rich past by bringing back old friends like the Juilliard Quartet, and as Houston’s premiere jazz presenter, Aldo López-Gavilán Viernes de Ciudad we salute the city’s contributions to this art form with three Jazz Homecomings of native stars as part of our 7 concert series. Billy Strayhorn Take the A Train We look to the role of “home” for composers, from the evolution of “house music” chamber forms like the string quartet and Joaquín Turina La Oración del torero Beethoven’s piano sonatas to American maverick Charles Ives’s haunting childhood memories of hymns and folk tunes. Edvard Grieg String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27 “No Place Like Home” also asks questions about the meaning of home on a larger scale. What is America? The vitality of our Harlem Quartet (Ilmar Gavilán, violin; Melissa White, violin; Jaime Amador, viola; Felix Umansky, cello); American music-making thrives on diversity, from musicians from around the world who have chosen to make America their Aldo López-Gavilán, piano and guest composer home to American-born artists of a variety of heritages. Many musicians today are true global citizens, in both their musical collaborations across nationalities and embracing of multiple styles: Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital, guitarists Sérgio and Odair The Harlem Quartet hail from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the American Midwest, but they call Harlem – with its Assad, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. The question of home also brings up its opposite: homelessness and exile. Schubert’s spectacular diversity and rich artistic history – home. They are dedicated to advancing diversity in classical great song cycle, Winter’s Journey, eloquently evokes a solitary wanderer, and we place this masterwork next to the evocative music while engaging new audiences with varied repertoire. Cuban piano prodigy Aldo López-Gavilán, installations of Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum at the Menil Collection. Times of war invariably bring out the fragility of home, brother of the Quartet’s Ilmar Gavilán, is known for his mastery of both classical piano repertoire and the and we present 20th-century masterpieces of great inspiration created under heartbreaking circumstances, including Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent Quartet for the End of Time. Afro-Cuban jazz tradition. His performances with the Harlem Quartet offer a dynamic mix of classical repertoire, jazz standards and López-Gavilán's own compositions. Da Camera’s 30th season engages us in the extraordinary range of emotions that music can evoke, allows us to share human experiences across cultures and time. We invite you to join us on this musical adventure. “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent” – Cincinnati Enquirer on Harlem Quartet “ Sarah Rothenberg Simply a genius, a star. Artistic & General Director “ – Chucho Valdés on Aldo López-Gavilán SEASON AT A GLANCE From Harlem to Havana From Renaissance to Reich Cy Twombly and Music Harlem Quartet with Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord Claire Chase, flute Aldo López-Gavilán, piano Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 7:30 PM Monday, April 2, 2018, 7:30 PM Saturday, September 23, 2017, 8:00 PM The Menil Collection Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 7:30 PM Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Charles Ives’s America: Hymns, The Menil Collection’s Cy Twombly Gallery Robert Glasper Experiment Songs, Sonatas Juilliard String Quartet Friday, October 6, 2017, 8:00 PM Jeremy Denk, piano; Stefan Jackiw, violin Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Friday, April 6, 2018, 7:30 PM and Houston Chamber Choir Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 7:30 PM Quatuor Mosaïques Performing Arts Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 7:30 PM Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center Brad Mehldau Trio The Menil Collection Charles Lloyd and The Marvels Friday, April 13, 2018, 8:00 PM A Stranger I Arrive, A Stranger I Depart featuring Bill Frisell, guitar and Schubert’s Winterreise Eric Harland, drums Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Tyler Duncan, baritone; Friday, February 2, 2018, 8:00 PM Wartime Stories Sarah Rothenberg, piano Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Reich and Messiaen Monday, October 23, 2017, 7:30 PM Sérgio and Odair Assad, guitars and St. Lawrence String Quartet Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 7:30 PM Avi Avital, mandolin Sarah Rothenberg, piano The Menil Collection Saturday, February 17, 2018, 7:30PM Saturday, April 21, 2018, 8:00 PM Tiempo Libre Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Friday, November 10, 2017, 8:00 PM James K. Schooler Memorial Concert Poetry and Music: Exile and Return Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Garrick Ohlsson, piano Sarah Rothenberg, piano and Friday, March 2, 2018, 8:00 PM Songs of Freedom: poet Adam Zagajewski Cullen Theater, Wortham Center A Tribute to Abbey Lincoln, Monday, April 30, 2018, 7:30 PM Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone Mingus Big Band Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 7:30 PM Featuring René Marie, Theo Bleckmann and featuring Helen Sung, piano MATCH: Midtown Arts and Saturday, March 24, 2018, 8:00PM Alicia Olatuja Theater Center Houston Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00 PM Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Center Dianne Reeves Friday, May 4, 2018, 8:00 PM OPENING NIGHT Cullen Theater, Wortham Center From Harlem to Havana NO Harlem Quartet with PLACE LIKE Aldo López-Gavilán, piano HOME 17 SEASON Saturday, September 23, 2017, 8:00 PM Dear Friends of Da Camera, 18 Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center “No Place Like Home” is a season theme with multiple meanings. As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we thank the Aldo López-Gavilán Epílogo Houston community for our vibrant home. The city’s characteristic openness and entrepreneurial spirit have allowed Antônio Carlos Jobim The Girl from Ipanema Da Camera to thrive, grow as the city grows, and become a nationally-recognized leader of innovation and excellence in Dizzy Gillespie A Night in Tunisia chamber music and jazz. Frank Churchill Someday My Prince Will Come We celebrate our rich past by bringing back old friends like the Juilliard Quartet, and as Houston’s premiere jazz presenter, Aldo López-Gavilán Viernes de Ciudad we salute the city’s contributions to this art form with three Jazz Homecomings of native stars as part of our 7 concert series. Billy Strayhorn Take the A Train We look to the role of “home” for composers, from the evolution of “house music” chamber forms like the string quartet and Joaquín Turina La Oración del torero Beethoven’s piano sonatas to American maverick Charles Ives’s haunting childhood memories of hymns and folk tunes. Edvard Grieg String Quartet No.