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This performance will not include an intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY SONNY ROLLINS was born Walter Theodore film Alfie. At decade’s end he undertook one final hiatus, Rollins in Harlem, , on September 7, 1930, to studying Zen Buddhism in and yoga in . He parents native to the Virgin Islands. His older brother and considered leaving music permanently in order to pursue sister were also musically inclined, but only Rollins veered spiritual studies, but a teacher convinced him that music away from after his uncle, a professional was his spiritual path. In 1972, with the encouragement saxophonist, introduced him to and . He gravitated and support of his wife Lucille, who had become his business to the tenor saxophone in high school, inspired in particular manager, Rollins returned to performing and recording, and by Coleman Hawkins. By the time he was out of the release of Next Album. He has worked with school, Rollins was already working with big-name all-star ensembles, including Tommy Flanagan, Jack musicians such as Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, and DeJohnette, Stanley Clarke, and Tony Williams. Roy Haynes. In 1951, he debuted as a leader on In 2001, he won a Grammy Award for “Best Prestige; his affiliation with that label also produced Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group” classics such as , Worktime, and for This Is What I Do. In 2005, he won a Grammy (with John Coltrane). for “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo” for Why Was I From early 1956 until he went out on his own Born?. Rollins received a “Lifetime Achievement permanently as a leader in the summer of 1957, Award” in 2004 from the National Academy of Rollins played in the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Recording Arts and Sciences. Rollins was inducted Quintet, one of the most definitive Hard-Bop into the Academy of Achievement in 2006 at the ensembles of its day. Often with his own pianoless International Achievement Summit in . trio, Rollins then entered a tremendously fertile period In the midst of a spate of honors – including a Grammy during which he recorded major works such as A Night at Award for “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo” and “Artist of the the Village Vanguard, Way Out West, and Freedom Suite. In Year” and “Tenor Saxophonist of the Year” from the Jazz 1959, Rollins took the first of his legendary sabbaticals from Journalists Association and the Down Beat Critics Poll – music. Living on ’s lower East Side, he was often Rollins has just released his first new studio recording in five spotted on the nearby Williamsburg Bridge at night, deep in years – Sonny, Please – on his own Doxy label. a rigorous practice regimen. The new CD captures his working “at a good When Rollins returned to performing in 1961, he pitch,” as Rollins puts it. The group consists of trombonist recorded The Bridge with Jim Hall and , Clifton Anderson; bassist Cranshaw, an esteemed Rollins led a quartet with trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer collaborator since 1959; guitarist Bobby Broom; drummer Billy Higgins, and recorded with his idol Hawkins. He Steve Jordan; and percussionist Kimati Dinizulu. The CD is also received a Grammy nomination for his score for the a mix of originals and standards from his boyhood. g

2 Harold Thau in association with Aruba Productions presents

DIRECTED BY Randal Myler

MUSICAL DIRECTOR Seth Weinstein

COSTUME DESIGN PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Betsy Waddell Alison Pellegrini

SOUND DESIGN TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR Mike Ponder Sharlyne Shlayan

GENERAL MANAGER Almost Heaven, LLC

CASTING DIRECTOR Arnold Mungioli

FEATURING FIDDLE Michael Bojtos Cady Finlayson Rosie Mattia Benjamin Zep Misek Ryan Nearhoff Vita Tanga Vernae Taylor KEYBOARDS Seth Weinstein

Sunday, April 6, 2008, 3:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

3 MUSICAL NUMBERS

All of My Memories For Bobbie Rhymes & Reasons Draft Dodger Rag Take Me Home, Country Roads Rhymes & Reasons (Reprise) Fly Away I Guess He’d Rather Be in Colorado Rocky Mountain High Matthew / Weapons Calypso

INTERMISSION

Thank God I’m a Country Boy Grandma’s Feather Bed Love / Leave Medley Leaving on a Jet Plane For You Looking for Space (Excerpt) I’m Sorry Sunshine on My Shoulders Looking for Space Poems, Prayers & Promises Yellowstone Encore

BIOGRAPHIES MICHAEL BOJTOS holds a bachelor of fine arts a Good Man, Charlie Brown. In 2007, she debuted in the degree in musical theater performance from East Carolina musical Follow Me in the role of Mistress of Ceremonies. University. His credits include starring roles in Dora the Mattia starred in the independent feature filmAnd So Life Explorer’s Pirate Adventure (international tour), Thomas the Goes On, which was screened at the Montclair Film Festival Tank Engine Live! On Stage (world premiere), A Chorus Line, and Hoboken International Film Festival. She would like to Godspell, Hair, Grease, and Little Shop of Horrors. He sends thank all of her family and friends for their constant support thanks and love to family. and God for natural gifts and guidance. ROSIE MATTIA is originally from Rochester, New BENJAMIN ZEP MISEK is excited to join the cast York, and graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a bachelor of of Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. Misek trained at arts degree in musical theater. She also studied at Middlesex American Musical Dramatic Academy in New York. His University in London, England, in an intensive acting regional theater credits include Made in America: Irving Berlin program. Mattia’s favorite regional roles include Philia in and Fiddler on the Roof (Gretna Theatre). Misek’s other A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Hodel theater credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor in Fiddler on the Roof; Rizzo in Grease; and Lucy in You’re Continued on page 5

4 Dreamcoat, Kiss Me Kate, Harvey, Smoke on the Mountain, Centre Georges Pompidou in his hometown Paris. Tanga is a and West Side Story. He would like to thank his family for sought-after freelance musician and composer in film scoring their love and support. and the World/Urban music industry. For more details, log RYAN NEARHOFF’s credits include Anything on to myspace.com/vitaaguitar. Goes (Williamstown Theater Festival), SETH WEINSTEIN (Music Director/Keyboards) (Williamstown), The Wonderful World of Christmas composed the music for the recent Off- musical (Candlelight Pavillion), Seussical, Cabaret, and Big River. How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes. He has also performed alongside Gladys Knight, The Doobie He also wrote a commissioned suite inspired by the Brothers, and Chicago at the Honda Center in Anaheim. paintings of Marc Chagall, which premiered in 2007, and has Nearhoff is a graduate of State University, performances scheduled this year in and Germany. Fullerton with a bachelor of fine arts degree in musical He has directed the musicals Titanic, Side Show, Guys and theater. He would like to thank everyone who supports him Dolls, Rags, Fiddler on the Roof, Do I Hear a Waltz?, and on and off stage. A New Brain. Weinstein toured for two seasons with the VERNAE TAYLOR, a New Jersey songstress, makes international company of Fosse. For more information, visit her touring debut with Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. www.sethweinstein.com. Taylor graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in RANDAL MYLER (Director) was nominated for communications. She has balanced acting and singing with an Outer Critic’s Circle Award for “Outstanding Direction teaching seventh and eighth grade. Her credits include of a Musical” for Hank Williams: Lost Highway, which Quilt, African Extravaganza, The Wiz, Smokey Joe’s Café, and he wrote with Mark Harelik at the Little Shubert. He is Showtime at the Apollo tour. She would like to dedicate this also the co-author and director of It Ain’t Nothing But the performance to “The World’s Greatest Aunt” for supporting Blues at , which received four Tony Award her since the beginning of her career at age 5, and to her nominations, including “Best Musical” and “Best Book of talented brother for his wisdom and constructive criticism. a Musical.” He wrote and directed the Off-Broadway hit CADY FINLAYSON (Fiddle) has played the fiddle Love, Janis, which ran for two years at the former Village since childhood and is described as “a remarkable talent” Gate. He has directed at Ambassador Theater in New York, and “one of America’s top Celtic fiddlers.” Finlayson has Promenade Theatre, The New Victory Theater, Manhattan performed in venues across the country, including Carnegie Ensemble Theater, and Joe’s Pub . He has Hall, Palace Theatre Cleveland, and Palace on the Green. also directed at theaters across the country, including Seattle The Cady Finlayson Band plays throughout the East Coast Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, The Kennedy and its music can be heard in the filmsThe Emerald Diamond, Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, Mark Taper Snakes and Ladders, and Random Acts. Finlayson’s three CDs, Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, which blend traditional fiddle tunes with American Folk Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company, Alabama roots, have attracted listeners from to Japan. In Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Marines Memorial 2007, she released her latest CD, Irish Coffee, which has been Theater, Laguna Playhouse, Britt Music Festival, Bay Street called delightful and spirited. Finlayson received a master Theatre, Northlight Theatre, the Royal George Theatre, of music degree from Mannes College The New School for Florida Studio Theatre, Barter Theatre, Repertory Music. Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Ryman Auditorium, VITA TANGA (Guitar) is the music producer and Zachary Scott Theatre, Cerritos Center for the Performing co-founder of the band Liquids. In 2007, the group released Arts, Virginia Stage Company, Kansas City Repertory its first CD,Da’Juice, which shines an unusual light on Theatre, Theatre Aspen, Rubicon Theatre Company, themes such as drug addiction and domestic violence. In Vineyard Playhouse, and Ensemble Theatre Company. studio, Tanga performs on several instruments, blending Myler’s other projects include co-adapting and directing Fire Soul, Rock, Trip Hop, and Funk with a subtle French touch on the Mountain (Critics Pick, Chicago Tribune and Chicago dubbed “Aquatic Soul.” He has performed and recorded on Sun-Times) and directing Union City, New Jersey, Where Are four continents from in New York to You? with Rosie Perez. g

5 presents JUILLIARD JOEL SMIRNOFF, VIOLIN RONALD COPES, VIOLIN SAMUEL RHODES, VIOLA , CELLO

Friday, April 11, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

Please hold your applause until after all movements of a work have been performed, and do not applaud between movements. Thank you for your cooperation.

As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

PROGRAM

Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 6 Franz Joseph Haydn Allegretto – Allegro (1732-1809) Fantasia: Adagio Menuetto: Presto Finale: Allegro spirituoso

Quartet No. 13 in b-flat minor, Op. 138 Adagio – Doppio movimento – Tempo primo (1906-1975)

INTERMISSION

Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 Allegro (1770-1827) Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando Adagio molto e mesto Theme Russe: Allegro

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6 BIOGRAPHIES The JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET, of the publication’s annual International Directory of the internationally renowned for performances characterized by Performing Arts. October 11, 2006 marked the Juilliard its clarity of structure, beauty of sound, purity of line, and String Quartet’s 60th anniversary. A yearlong celebration extraordinary unanimity of purpose, has long been recognized followed, including performances of seven complete Bartók as the quintessential American string quartet. cycles (the quartet played the American premiere of the In a history of “firsts,” the quartet was the first ensemble Bartók cycles at Tanglewood in 1948) in major cities to play all six Béla Bartók quartets in the , and throughout the United States and Japan, beginning with a it was through the group’s performances that the quartets of two-concert cycle at Alice Tully Hall in New York. In honor were rescued from obscurity. An ardent of both the Juilliard String Quartet’s 60th birthday and the champion of contemporary American music, the quartet Dmitri Shostakovich centennial, Sony BMG Masterworks has premiered more than 60 compositions of released a two-CD set of Quartet Nos. 3, 14, American composers, including works by some and 15, and the Piano Quintet with Yefim of America’s finest Jazz musicians. Amongst its Bronfman. thousands of performances of the great classics The Juilliard String Quartet appears of Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus regularly in the prestigious halls of the world, Mozart, , and , including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the quartet has also performed the complete the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and Wigmore Ludwig van Beethoven cycles in many cities Hall in London. While in Salzburg, the of the world, including New York, , and quartet was showcased on National Public Bonn. Radio’s Classical music show, Performance The ensemble has been associated with Today, hosted by Fred Child. A highlight of Sony Classical, in its various incarnations, the Juilliard String Quartet’s 2008 European since 1949. In celebration of the quartet’s tour included its visit to Madrid, where the 50th anniversary, Sony released seven CDs quartet performed on the Royal Family’s set of containing previously unreleased material as well as notable inlaid Stradivari instruments at the Palacio Real. performances from the quartet’s award-winning discography. Special events of recent seasons include a pair of With more than 100 releases to its credit, the ensemble concerts presented by the in is one of the most widely recorded string quartets of our Walt Disney Concert Hall; the world premiere of Ezequiel time. Its recordings of the complete Beethoven quartets, Viñao’s Quartet II, The Loss and the Silence, commissioned the complete Schoenberg quartets, and the for the group by The in honor of its 2006 and string quartets have all received Grammy centennial; and international performances of the quartet’s Awards. Inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National own arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of the Academy for Recording Arts and Sciences in 1986 for its Fugue. This season the Juilliard String Quartet participates recording of the complete Bartók string quartets, the Juilliard in celebrations of ’s 100th birthday at the String Quartet was awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik Ravinia Festival and at The Juilliard School, where it will Prize in 1993 for “Lifetime Achievement” in the recording perform the world premiere of Carter’s new Clarinet Quintet industry. In 1994, its recording of quartets by Ravel, Debussy, with Charles Neidich. The quartet also tours throughout and was chosen by the Times of London as the United States and Europe with notable appearances at one of the 100 best Classical CDs ever recorded. the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia At Tanglewood in 1997, the Juilliard String Quartet’s Chamber Music Society; the La Jolla Music Society; the founder and first violinist retired from the Chamber Music Society of Detroit; the Concertgebouw in group after 50 years. Earlier that season, Musical America Amsterdam; the Cité de la Musique in Paris; and its annual named the quartet “Musicians of the Year,” making it the residency at Tanglewood. first Chamber music ensemble ever to appear on the cover Continued on page 8

7 In January 2008, Chamber Music America presented of the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet, the Los Angeles Piano past and present members of the Juilliard String Quartet with Quartet, and the Audubon String Quartet, he served on the the organization’s highest honor, the Richard J. Bogomolny faculties of the University of California at Santa Barbara and National Service Award, in recognition of the quartet’s Michigan State University. He performs and teaches at the incalculable contributions to American Chamber music. Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine, Violinist JOEL SMIRNOFF is a native of New York and has been a participant at the Bermuda, Cheltenham, City and has been a member of the quartet since 1986 and Colorado, Marlboro, and Olympic music festivals. He has the ensemble’s leader since 1997. Formerly the group’s also appeared in solo recitals throughout the United States second violinist, Smirnoff attended the University of and Europe. Copes studied at the Oberlin Conservatory with Chicago and The Juilliard School and was a member of the David Cerone and at the University of Michigan with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for six years. Second-prize late Paul Makanowitzky. winner in the International American Music Competition Violist SAMUEL RHODES, a native of New York, in 1983, he made his New York recital debut in 1985 at appears in recitals and as an orchestral soloist in addition Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. Smirnoff has participated in to his activities as a composer and teacher. Celebrating his the world premiere of numerous Contemporary works, many 36th season as a violist of the Juilliard String Quartet, faculty of which were composed for him. He is chair of the violin member, and chair of viola at The Juilliard School, he is department at The Juilliard School and pursues an active also associated with the Marlboro Festival and Tanglewood. career as a conductor in the United States and abroad. Rhodes’ solo appearances include recitals at the Library In 1997, violinist RONALD COPES joined the of Congress, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, The Juilliard ensemble as second violinist and was appointed to the School, and ’s Miller Theater. He violin faculty at The Juilliard School. Formerly a member earned his bachelor of arts degree from College and a master of fine arts degree from Princeton University, where he studied composition with the late Roger Sessions and the late Earl Kim. Born in Connecticut to a family of enthusiastic amateur musicians, JOEL KROSNICK has been the cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet since 1974. He performs annual recitals at Merkin and Weill Recital Hall in New York with his sonata partner of more than 20 years, pianist Gilbert Kalish. Krosnick has recorded much of the sonata repertoire, including the complete Beethoven sonatas and variations and works by Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev, Carter, Debussy, Leos Janacek, , , and Paul Hindemith. His principal teachers were William D’Amato, Luigi Silva, Jens Nygaard, and Claus Adam, whom he succeeded in the Juilliard String Quartet. While at Columbia University, he began his lifelong commitment to Contemporary music and has performed and premiered many works, including Donald Martino’s Cello Concerto, ’s Cello Concerto No. 2, and several pieces by Shapey. Appointed to the faculty of The Juilliard School in 1974, Krosnick has been chair of the cello department since 1994. He has been associated with the Aspen and Marlboro music festivals, Tanglewood Music Center, Yellow Barn, and Kneisel Hall. g

8 Opus 3 Artists presents WU MAN, PIPA ANCIENT DANCES

Saturday, April 12, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

Please hold your applause until after all movements of a work have been performed, and do not applaud between movements. Thank you for your cooperation.

As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

9 PROGRAM

Xi Yang Xiao Gu (Flute and Drum Music at Sunset) Classical (Civil) The Sound of Bells and Drums From a Distant Temple Along the River Moon on the Eastern Mountain Breeze Over the Quiet Water Shadows of Flowers Clouds and Water Far Away Become as One Fishermen’s Song in the Evening Waves Lapping at the Shore The Returning Boat

Shi Mian Mai Fu (Ambush Laid on Ten Sides) Classical (Martial)

Xiao Yue Er Gao (High Little Moon) Classical

Zhongguo Pop for pipa solo (2005) Anthony Paul De Ritis (b. 1968)

Dance of the Yi People (1960) Wang Huiran (b. 1936)

Collage (2000) Wu Man (b. 1963)

INTERMISSION

Ancient Dances – Three Poems by Li Bai (701-762) Chen Yi and Wu Man for pipa and percussion (2005) (b. 1953) and (b.1963) Cheering (Riding on My Skiff) Chen Yi Longing (Night Thoughts) Wu Man Wondering (The Cataract of Mount Lu) Chen Yi

Barry Dove - Percussion Catherine Owens - Videographer Larry Neff - Lighting Design and Technical Adviser Wang Jiaxun, Guo Daxiang, and Lu Weiming - Calligraphers Wu Man - Concept Commissioned by Walton Arts Foundation

Exclusive Management: OPUS 3 Artists 470 South New York, NY 10016

10 BIOGRAPHY WU MAN, cited by the Los Angeles Times as “the Man has released several albums, including Wu Man – artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western Pipa From a Distance, Chinese Music for the Pipa, Chinese World,” emigrated to the United States from China in 1990 Traditional & Contemporary Music for Pipa & Ensemble, and and is considered by many of today’s prominent composers – a recording of Grammy-winning composer-conductor Dun’s including Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Tan Ghost Opera with the . On the recent Wu Dun, and Bright Sheng – as a foremost proponent of both Man and Friends album, which celebrates the variety of the traditional and Contemporary pipa repertoire. world’s plucked instruments, she performs with musicians ANCIENT DANCES, Man’s collaborative multimedia from Uganda, Ukraine, and the southern Appalachian production with composer Chen Yi and videographer Mountains. In 2005, Nonesuch Records released You’ve Catherine Owens, is a mesmerizing exploration of two Stolen My Heart, a recording with Man, singer Asha Bhosle, venerable Chinese traditions: calligraphy and pipa music. and the Kronos Quartet paying homage to Rahul Dev Internationally renowned virtuoso Man premiered the piece Burman, a composer of classic Bollywood songs. The album at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, followed by a performance was nominated for a Grammy for “Best Contemporary World at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York and several other Music Album” in 2006. A Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe well-received concerts throughout the United States. Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University, Man has Brought up in the Pudong School of pipa playing, key projects in the works for Nonesuch, including a recording one of the most esteemed classical styles of Imperial China, of Riley’s Cusp of Magic with the Kronos Quartet, and an Man graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in album of and traditional and Contemporary Beijing, where she was the first to receive a master’s degree in pipa repertoire. g pipa playing. She won the top prize in China’s first National Music Performance Competition. As the first musician from AD PerfArt_Crrts Mi2859 10/26/06 1:33 PM Page 1 China to perform at the White House, Man has inspired dozens of concerto compositions and Chamber works by a new generation of Chinese composers. In 1999, noted cellist Yo-Yo Ma honored her with the “City of Toronto Protégé Prize” in music and communication. She continues to perform with Ma on his Silk Road Project, a nonprofit arts-and-cultural organization that Ma founded in 1998 with the mission of promoting a cultural exchange of ideas through the arts and uniting entertainers and audiences around the globe. With the Silk Road Project, Man has performed in concerts throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Extensive touring has Visit us before or after taken her to major music halls, including New York’s Lincoln the performance! • Serving flavorful varieties Center, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center; Amsterdam’s at breakfast, lunch and dinner Concertgebouw; and the Great Hall in Moscow. Touring • Special theatre menus has given her ample opportunities to work with icons such • Call ahead for priority seating as violist Yuri Bashmet, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, conductors MIMI’S CAFE CERRITOS (562) 809-0510 Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Stern, and the Kronos Across the street from the Performing Arts Center Quartet. Man has performed solo with the world’s most COMPLIMENTARY APPETIZER or DESSERT With purchase of an entrée when you bring celebrated orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, ticket stub from today’s performance LIMIT ONE PER TABLE the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

11 presents CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO PAUL RICHARDS BERT LAMS HIDEYO MORIYA

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 7:30 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. A question-and-answer session will immediately follow this performance. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO (CGT) consists The trio met in England at one of ’s of Paul Richards of , Utah; Bert Lams of courses in 1987. After completing several of Brussels, Belgium; and Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo, Japan. Its these intensive courses, the three toured worldwide with stunning virtuosity and precision playing have earned the Fripp’s League of Crafty Guitarists. Richards, Lams, and trio a strong following, with significant crossover in the Moriya founded CGT in 1991, honing their intricate Progressive, Acoustic, and Classical music scenes. CGT’s original compositions, Surf music cover songs, and Classical music was featured on the televised 1998, 2000, 2002, and composition re-workings. 2004 Olympics, and also on CBS, NBC, CNN, and ESPN Since its inception, the trio has released 11 CDs. programs. CGT performed on the 2003 Grammy-nominated These include six studio albums featuring original works track Apollo on ’s Pieces of the Sun; and CGT from CGT and a variety of Classical works such as Johann music was sent into outer space as wake-up music for the Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue and Ludwig van crew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour. Throughout Beethoven’s 5th Symphony; four live releases featuring the the past 14 years, CGT has shared the stage with superb trio at its best onstage; and a Christmas CD with familiar and performers such as , , John not-so-familiar holiday music. g McLaughlin, John Scofield, Tito Puente, and .

12 presents AXIS DANCE COMPANY

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Judith Smith

DANCERS Rodney Bell • Lisa Bufano • Margaret Cromwell • Rodrigo Esteva Sonsherée Giles • Bonnie Lewkowicz • Alice Sheppard • Judith Smith

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR EDUCATION DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR (To Joe Goode) Annika Nonhebel Mollie McFarland Jessica Swanson

CHOREOGRAPHERS Joe Goode • Margaret Jenkins • Victoria Marks • Kate Weare

ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER COMPOSER/IMPROVISER Melanie Elms MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST

LIGHTING DESIGNER PRODUCTION MANAGER COSTUME DESIGNER Patrick Hajduk Dylan McMillan Sonsherée Giles Heather Basarab Jose Marie Francos

TOUR ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER Iva Walton Karen Schiller

Friday, April 18, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

AXIS Dance Company 1428 Alice Street, Suite 200 Oakland, California 94612 [email protected] / www.axisdance.org Phone: 510-625-0110 Fax: 510-625-0321

13 PROGRAM

FOREGONE (2007) Choreography: Kate Weare Dancers Rodney Bell, Lisa Bufano, Margaret Cromwell, Alice Sheppard, and Judith Smith Music: The Seldom Scene, In the Pines; , Silver Dagger; and Gillian Welch, I’m Not Afraid to Die Lighting Design: Patrick Hajduk Costume Design: Sonsherée Giles

I love the main ingredients of good dancing: physical courage and heartfelt choices. While creating Foregone in the studio, it was so exciting to watch the AXIS dancers explore my movement in their gorgeous, unexpected, and meaningful ways. Foregone is a dance about loving - how painful, raucous, and foolish it can be, and how we go on doing it no matter what. I dedicate this dance to Judith Smith, a visionary thinker with the heart of a wild horse. My deepest gratitude and respect to all who worked hard for this dance: Alice, Annika, Iva, Judy, Lisa, Margaret, Mollie, Patrick, Rodney, and Sonsherée. – Kate Weare

DANCING TO MUSIC (restaged 2006) Choreography: Victoria Marks Dancers Lisa Bufano, Margaret Cromwell, Sonsherée Giles, and Alice Sheppard Music: Wim Mertens, Casting No Shadow From the album a man of no fortune and with a name to come Lighting Design: Patrick Hajduk

Dancing to Music was made in 1988 in the midst of a yearlong Fulbright Fellowship in London. This respite from New York came at a time when I wanted to strip movement down to its most essential elements in an effort to better understand how meaning arises from movement. When a friend played Wim Mertens’ music, I wondered if I could dance to the music with only my eyes. It was through the act of seeing that I felt I could best approach the emotional intensity that I heard in the music. – Victoria Marks

INTERMISSION

THE BEAUTY THAT WAS MINE, THROUGH THE MIDDLE, WITHOUT STOPPING (2007) Conceived, choreographed, and written by Joe Goode in collaboration with the dancers Assistant Director: Jessica Swanson Dancers Rodney Bell, Lisa Bufano, Margaret Cromwell, Sonsherée Giles, and Judith Smith Music: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Waltz for Strings and Tuba; Paul Cantelon from the movie Everything Is Illuminated, Little Jonathan/The Wall, and Prologue/Babushka Costume Design: Sonsherée Giles Set Design: Chris Hammer Lighting Design: Heather Basarab

14 THE BEAUTY THAT WAS MINE (Continued)

What do we see? Is the actuality of the seen entity ever close to what we presume it to be? Is seeing somehow limited? Does it imply an unnecessary separation between viewer and viewed? It has been my delight to explore these questions with my AXIS collaborators. I am indebted to them for their willingness to reveal themselves and to take this journey with me. – Joe Goode

This piece was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, Doris Duke Fund for the National Dance Project, a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts with additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Fund for Artists, and the following commissioners: Gloria E. Aguila, Shelley Bergum, Joseph and Anna dos Ramos, Bruce Dugstad, Patricia Dunne and Dunne Painting, Susan Foster, Marilynn Hall and Alan Baskin, Elliot and Linda Halpern, Mishana Hosseinioun, Jon C. Houde, Dougal MacKinnon, Chuck and Thoebe McAvoy, Charles and Gerry McAvoy, Bernadette Mendoza, Tom Metz and David Brightman, Parker Monroe and Teresa Darragh, Edward Ortiz, John Steinberg and Lauren Steinberg, and Marilyn Straka.

WAYPOINT (2006) Choreographer: Margaret Jenkins with Melanie Elms Dancers Margaret Cromwell, Rodrigo Esteva, Sonsherée Giles, Bonnie Lewkowicz, Alice Sheppard, and Judith Smith Music: Fred Frith’s Measured Motion was commissioned by AXIS and composed during a residency at Jourparjour, La Corbiére, Switzerland, in 2006 (www.jourparjour.net). It was recorded and mixed at Guerrilla Recordings with engineer Myles Boisen in 2006. Piano recorded at New Improved Recording Studios with engineer John Finkbeiner. Guitar, bass, organ: Fred Frith Piano: Heather Heise Trumpet: Darren Johnston Violin: Carla Kihlstedt Percussion: William Winant Recordings of Judith Smith’s wheelchair: Patrice Scanlon Lighting: Jose Maria Francos Costumes: Sonsherée Giles

Waypoint was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the East Bay Fund for Artists, and the following commissioners: Justine Ballantyne; Shelley Bergum; Anne Bleecker Corcos; Mary Ann Dreiling; Bruce Dugstad; Richard Ellis and Don Jacobs; Susan Foster; Marilynn Hall and Alan Baskin; Pat and Susan Hendrix; Jon Houde; Mishana Hosseinioun; Sondra Jensen; Deborah Kaplan; John Killacky and Larry Connolly; Bonnie Lewkowicz and Paul Church; J. Dougal MacKinnon, M.D.; Charles and Gerry McAvoy; Chuck and Thoebe McAvoy; Parker Monroe and Teresa Darrah; Laurie Posner; Leslie Riley; John Steinberg and Lauren Steinberg; and Marilyn Straka.

15 BIOGRAPHIES Since 1987, AXIS DANCE COMPANY has created an collaboration with the University of Linz. In 2006, she was awarded innovative body of work, which has received acclaim from an the Franklin Furnace fund for performance art for her work wearing international audience. The company is known for setting high artistic table-leg stilts. When Boston presenter Jeremy Alliger introduced her and educational standards in the emerging field of physically integrated to choreographer Heidi Latsky, she began working in Modern dance. dance. More than any other company in the United States, AXIS She has performed at The Kennedy Theater in Washington, D.C.; has been a bridge between Contemporary and physically integrated The ; Judson Memorial Church; Long Island dance. Under the artistic direction of Judith Smith, its repertory – University; The Balancing Acts Disability Arts Festival in Calgary; and which includes works by renowned choreographers such as Stephen for audiences in Boston and Vienna. In 2007, she moved from the East Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigood, Sonya Delwaide, Coast to work with AXIS. Bufano was a competitive gymnast until a Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, and Margaret Jenkins – has garnered bacterial infection led to the amputation of her fingers and both feet five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. The company has created more when she was 21. She then pursued her interest in art, animation, and than 40 repertory works, two evening-length works, and several pieces sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. After a for young audiences. AXIS has been featured in several national and 15-year career as a visual artist, Bufano now finds dance with AXIS to local broadcasts, including public KQED’s Spark program in be challenging and engaging. She would like to thank Peter Couture, 2004, WNET’s nationally broadcast production of People in Motion, a prosthetist with Next Step O&P, for 13 years of encouragement and the documentary video Dancing From the Inside Out. AXIS’ and friendship. Next Step O&P fits Bufano’s prosthetics and cheetah extensive community education/outreach program, (running) legs. Dance Access, and its youth component, Dance MARGARET CROMWELL (Dancer) Access/KIDS!, offers classes and workshops for is originally from Oklahoma. She received her adults and youth of all abilities, school assemblies, bachelor of fine arts degree from North Carolina presentations, lecture demonstrations, and School of the Arts in Modern dance performance residencies locally and abroad. Dance Access is and composition. Cromwell taught dance at a a model program that received a California Arts secondary school in St. Lucia, West Indies, before Council “Exemplary Arts” award in 2002 and moving to the Bay Area to earn her master of fine was presented in the Kennedy Center’s national arts degree from Mills College. She joined AXIS Imagination Celebration at the 2002 Olympic Arts in 2006. Festival. RODRIGO ESTEVA (Guest Dancer), a This performance is funded in part by the native of Mexico, has dedicated his life to dancing National Dance Project of the New England in festivals and theaters in the United States and Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from internationally. He began movement studies in Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional Ballet with Dagmar Kortum and Modern dance funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon with Federico Castro. He has also trained in Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and JP Morgan Tai Chi Chuang, Capoeira, and extensively in Chase. improvisation. Esteva has been a guest dancer JUDITH SMITH (Artistic Director) is and choreographer with numerous renowned a founding member of AXIS. Upon taking over artistic leadership companies, including Pearson Widrig Dance Theater and En dos of the company in 1997, AXIS began commissioning works by some Partes, directed by acclaimed choreographer Gerardo Delgado. In of the nation’s best choreographers and launched the Dance Access 1994 and 1998, he received support from the National Foundation for community education/outreach program. Smith teaches dance the Arts and Culture of Mexico to study at the Merce Cunningham and lectures at community organizations, schools, universities, and Studio, Nikolais and Luis Dance Lab, and the Trisha Brown School. conferences. She serves on the advisory boards of the Maggie Allesee He has also written a book, Imaginacion en Movimiento (Imagination in National Center for Choreography, the National Art and Disability Movement). He is the artistic director for Dance Monks, which was Center, and Bates Dance Festival. formed in 1999 with Mirah Moriarty. For more information, visit RODNEY BELL (Dancer) joined AXIS in 2007 and has www.dancemonks.com. been dancing for 12 years. In 1995, Bell joined New Zealand’s Touch SONSHERÉE GILES (Dancer and Costume Designer) is from Compass Dance Company. He was a member of Poutokomanawa New Orleans, Louisiana. Before moving to the Bay Area, Giles taught (a Māori Kapa haka group). In addition to his talents as a dancer dance and yoga in Jacksonville, Florida, in the public school system and choreographer, Bell teaches mixed ability dance and shares his and universities. She then moved to the Bay Area and received her technique and knowledge through various workshops and dance master of fine arts degree in dance performance and choreography intensives. An avid wheelchair basketball player, Bell represented from Mills College. In 2001, she began collaborating with Judith New Zealand from 1999 to 2006 and represented Auckland in the Smith to combine movement, sound, video, and sculpture to create New Zealand Wheelchair Basketball Championships from 1996 to performances. As a costume designer, she has created costumes for 2006. He was featured on 60 Minutes, The Good Morning Show, and many dancers. In 2005, she officially joined AXIS Dance Company Māori Television. Bell appeared in a production of Nga Moemoea (The and considers it a deep honor to dance with the company. Dreamers) in 1997. BONNIE LEWKOWICZ (Dancer), a native of Detroit, LISA BUFANO (Dancer) is from Boston, Massachusetts. She Michigan, studied Ballet, Tap, and Jazz from ages 5 to 15 when an began her career as a dancer in 2005, which led to an international Continued on page 17

16 all-terrain vehicle accident left her paralyzed. Through a contact teaching residency in 2004 in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Beijing, improvisation workshop, she discovered dance again. She is a co- China; and the 2005 premiere of running with the land at the opening founder of AXIS Dance Company. Of her various roles as teacher, of M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in the Barbro Osher Sculpture dancer, and administrator, her favorite is teaching children. She feels Garden, commissioned by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. blessed to have worked with choreographers Bill T. Jones, Stephen In 2005, Jenkins and five members of her company were invited to Petronio, Joe Goode, Sonya Delwaide, Ann Carlson, and Margaret Kochi, India, to participate in a four-week rehearsal and performance Jenkins. She has a bachelor’s degree in recreation therapy. residency. The time in India allowed Jenkins to work with dancers in ALICE SHEPPARD (Dancer), a former musician and literature collaboration with her company to develop the source material for A professor, grew up in England and moved to the United States in Slipping Glimpse. The work premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the 1991. She began dancing late in life after she explored movement Arts in 2006 and in Calcutta, India, in 2007 followed by an extensive in response to a dare from disabled dancer Homer Avila. She soon tour of the United States. Jenkins has received numerous commissions uncovered her passion for dance. Sheppard made her professional and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Irvine Fellowship debut in New York with Infinity Dance Theater as a wheelchair in Dance, the Arts Commission Award of Honor, dancer. She loves to explore a wide variety of dance forms and is and the Bernard Osher Cultural Award. She participated in the particularly interested in work that challenges the conventional Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange, Choreographers in Action, understanding of the relationship between dance and disability. She is and the Center for Creative Research in New York. The Margaret delighted to be working with AXIS. Jenkins Dance Lab hosts many of these activities and provides a unique JOE GOODE (Choreographer) is also a writer and director rehearsal space for dancers and her company. For more information, whose first concern is to provide a “deeply felt, profoundly human visit www.mjdc.com. experience” in the theater. He is widely known as an innovator VICTORIA MARKS (Choreographer) creates dances for in the field of dance for his willingness to collide movement with the stage, film, communities, and professional dancers. Her work spoken word, song, and visual imagery. His work has been recognized addresses the body itself, as it serves as a touchstone for larger with numerous awards and prizes, including a New York Dance and discourses on wellness, desire, rhetoric, and power. Marks is a professor Performance Award (Bessie) and several Isadora Duncan Dance of choreography in the department of World Arts and Cultures at Awards. Goode was commissioned by the Magic Theatre to write and UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995. Before taking her direct The Body Familiar. He has also been awarded fellowships from post at UCLA she lived in London where, for three and a half years, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and she worked on her own choreographic projects and served as head the James Irvine Foundation. Goode has been honored with awards of choreography at London Contemporary Dance School. In 2005, for excellence by the American Council on the Arts and the Business Marks received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, in 2004, she was Arts Council/San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. He received the the recipient of the Irvine Dance in California “Dance: Creation to Heritage Award from the California Dance Educators Association. Performance” grant as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Goode’s work has been commissioned by dance companies throughout company grant. She is a 2002 recipient of a California DanceMaker the United States and his performance/installation works have been Grant through the Irvine Foundation and a 2001 grant recipient from commissioned by the UCLA Fowler Museum, Krannert Art Museum, the Cultural Affairs Council of Los Angeles for Against Ending. The the Capp Street Project, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, and piece won four Lester Horton Dance Awards. In 1997, Marks was the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The Joe Goode Performance honored with the Alpert Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Group (formed in 1986) has toured throughout the United States, Choreography.” She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships Canada, Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Goode is known as a master teacher; his summer workshops in “felt Foundation for the Arts, and the London Arts Board. She received performance” attract participants from around the world. Goode is a Fulbright Fellowship in choreography and numerous awards for her a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley, in the dance films, including the Grand Prix in the videosDanse Festival department of theater, dance, and performance studies. (1995 and 1996), the Golden Antenae Award from Bulgaria, the IMZ MARGARET JENKINS (Choreographer) is a teacher, mentor, Award for “Best Screen Choreography,” and the “Best of Show” in the and a designer of unique community-based dance projects. She began Dance Film Association’s Dance on Camera Festival. her early training in San Francisco, however, she moved to New York KATE WEARE (Choreographer) is a young choreographer in the ’60s to study at Juilliard. She then returned to California to train recently described by John Rockwell of as helping at UCLA before going back to New York to dance with such companies to define the next generation of dance makers. Weare is the recipient of and choreographers as Jack Moore, Viola Farber, Judy Dunn, James residency awards from The Joyce Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Cunningham, and Gus Solomon, as well as Twyla Tharp’s original Program, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Maggie Allesee National company with Sara Rudner. Jenkins was a faculty member at the Center for Choreography, and Dance New Amsterdam. She has twice Merce Cunningham Studio and often restaged Cunningham’s works for been commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop. The Kate Weare companies in the United States and Europe. In 1970 she opened one Company won New York’s 2007 Artists With Audiences Responding of the West Coast’s first studio-performing spaces and formed her own to Dance Show! (a competition in which the audience chooses the best company in 1973, for which she has created more than 75 works and Modern dance act). Weare was recently nominated for a 2008 Alpert toured regularly throughout the United States and abroad. Jenkins’ Award in the Arts for dance. In 1994, she earned her bachelor of fine activities include a 2003 residency in Kolkata, India, to create a new arts degree from CalArts and maintains a bicoastal presence, showing dance for the Tanusree Shankar Dance Company; the 2004 premiere of a new site-specific work,Danger Orange, in San Francisco; a three-week Continued on page 18

17 work annually in New York and San Francisco. For more information about Kate Weare Company, visit www.kateweare.com. FRED FRITH (Composer/Improviser/Multi-instrumentalist) has spent more than 30 years creating a musical bridge between Rock and new music. The co-founder of the British underground band Henry Cow (1968-1978), Frith moved to New York in the late ’70s. He has since worked with many musicians and groups, including John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, Bob Ostertag, Massacre (with and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Tom and Zeena), and , a sextet performing an extensive repertoire of his compositions. He has written for dance for more than 30 years, working with choreographers Bebe Miller, François Verret, Amanda Miller, and Peggy Piacenza. He composes for film The( Tango Lesson, Rivers and Tides, Thirst, Yes), theater (with Matthew Maguire’s Creation Company in New York), and for ensembles such as ROVA Sax Quartet, Ensemble Modern, , and his own critically acclaimed Guitar Quartet. He is known worldwide as an improvising guitarist, and has played bass in John Zorn’s Naked City, violin in Lars Hollmer’s Looping Home Orchestra, and guitar on recordings ranging from The Residents and René Lussier to and Amy Denio. Frith is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s award-winning documentary Step Across the Border. He is a professor of composition at Mills College. g

AXIS Fall and Spring 07/08 National Tour is sponsored by the MetLife Foundation with additional support from TARGET and the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts.

AXIS also gratefully acknowledges support from the City of Oakland Cultural Arts & Marketing Department, Alameda County Arts Commission, CA Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Banks Family Fund, Betty Faber Fund, The Brickyard II Family Fund of the East Bay Community Foundation, Cresent Porter and Hale, East Bay Community Foundation, Betty Faber Fund of the San Francisco Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bill Graham Foundation, Morris Stulsaft Foundation, Oakland Methodist Foundation, The O’Leary/Thiry Family Fund, TARGET, San Francisco Foundation, Special People In Need, True North Foundation, Van Loben Sels RembeRock Foundation, VSA Arts/ Arts Connect All, and the Zellerbach Family Fund. AXIS would like to thank everyone at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts for being such wonderful hosts and for inviting AXIS to perform. A special thanks to Craig Springer and Michael Wolf.

18 presents THETHE LOVIN’ GRASS SPOONFUL ROOTS Featuring Originaland Lead Singer ROB GRILL

THE GRASSand ROOTS THE LOVIN’Featuring Original SPOONFUL Lead Singer ROB GRILL Saturday,Saturday, AprilApril 19,19, 2008,2008, 8:008:00 PMPM There will be one 20-minute intermission. There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHIES One of the founding members of THE GRASS In 1965, as the British Invasion dominated the ROOTS, ROB GRILL went on to chart 29 singles (13 of American music scene, THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL held which earned Gold-record status), two Gold albums, and on to many of the Top 10 spots on both sides of the pond. one Platinum album. In the history of Rock ‘n’ Roll, only Combining the best of Folk and Rock ‘n’ Roll, with an added nine bands (including ) have charted more hits touch of Country music, the group delivered hit after hit, on Billboard’s Hot 100 than The Grass Roots. From 1967 to including Summer In The City, Did You Ever Have to Make Up 1972, the group set a record for being on the charts for 307 Your Mind, Daydream, Nashville Cats, Darling Be Home Soon, straight weeks. The band’s legacy of hits includes classics Six O’Clock, She Is Still a Mystery, and Never Going Back. such as Let’s Live for Today, Two Divided by Love, Where Were The group also wrote and performed songs for two soundtrack You When I Needed You, The River Is Wide, I’d Wait a Million albums, ’s What’s Up, Tiger Lily? and Francis Years, and Heaven Knows. Ford Coppola’s You’re a Big Boy Now. On March 6, 2000, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. g

19 presents DINO ROCK in A DINOSAUR BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS

Sunday, April 20, 2008, 3:00 PM

This performance will not include an intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHIES In DINO ROCK’S A DINOSAUR BOOK OF which called Dino Rock “one of the best children’s theater WORLD RECORDS, featuring puppets and live performers, companies on the market today.” exploration is the name of the game. The show, which The acclaimed A Dinosaur Book of World Records has premiered at the Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater in been embraced by both children and adults at such venues Washington, D.C., in 1998, introduces record-holding as Boston’s Museum of Science in Massachusetts; the Palace reptiles of the Mesozoic Era: Arabela, the most confused Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio; the Brooklyn Academy of Archaeopteryx; Sheoow Sheoow the Microraptor, the Music in New York; Oregon’s Holt Center; and the Luther smallest; Gabi Gallimimus, the fastest; Burbank Theatre in Santa Rosa, Shy Kyle the Ankylosaurus, the California. widest; and Thumbs the Iguanodon, With the help of colorful the first plant-eater identified. Besides characters such as Danny Diplodocus, encouraging kids to unearth fun and “Hack” the Hadrosaur, and their facts about nature’s own real-life life-sized prehistoric friends, Dino dinosaurs, the show highlights two Rock continues to make the world of pervasive themes: There are always new exploratory science exciting, enjoyable, discoveries to be made in science, and and accessible for audiences of all records made today can be broken tomorrow. ages. The popular ensemble, which has sold more than Dino Rock has performed in 38 states and Canada, 100,000 award-winning recordings worldwide, has produced delighting millions of children and their parents. It a number of other reptilian-themed shows, including The started in 1982 when accomplished children’s entertainers Great Dinosaur Mystery, Dinosaur Babies, Dinosaurs Forever, MICHELE VALERI and MICHAEL STEIN recorded Dinosaurus Chorus, Divertimento in D(inosaur), T-Rex’s Dinosaur Rock!, an educational collection of songs about an Holiday Surprise, Dinosaur Desperados, and Mi Casa Es Su eccentric yodeling paleontologist who brings the extinct Casa. The Mi Casa Es Su Casa album was selected by Parents’ reptiles back to life with his magical spells. The album won Choice magazine as the best musical recording of 1981 and a Parents’ Choice magazine award and an “American Library was featured in a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America. Association ALSC Most Notable Award.” Award-winning In 2000, Valeri’s Dreamosaurus album was nominated for a producer-composer Valeri and fiddler Stein then teamed with Grammy for “Best Musical Recording for Children,” and it Emmy award-winning puppeteer INGRID CREPEAU to won the 1999 “Children’s Music Web Award.” g bring Dinosaur Rock! to the Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater,

20 presents SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY Founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon in 1973 at the Sweet Honey In The Rock’s discography ranges from Washington, D.C., Black Repertory Company, SWEET Gospel to Folk and children’s recordings. The group has HONEY IN THE ROCK’s name is derived from Psalm earned numerous Grammy Award nominations and honors 81:16 about the promise to a people of being fed honey for its contributions to the compilation albums Folkways: A from the rock. Honey is an ancient substance, sweet and Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly and nurturing; rock is an elemental strength, enduring the cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins. PBS aired Sweet winds of time. The metaphor of “sweet honey in the rock” Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice, a documentary about the exemplifies these six women, whose repertoire is steeped group by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson. in the sacred music of the black church, the clarion calls Reagon penned the 1993 book We Who Believe in Freedom - of the civil-rights movement, and songs about the struggle Sweet Honey in the Rock Still on the Journey, which chronicles for justice everywhere. Performing a capella, along with the history of this extraordinary group. hand percussion instruments, the group’s blend of lyrics, Sweet Honey In The Rock has traveled to communities movement, and narrative encourages activism and sings throughout the United States and around the world, raising the praises of love. The music speaks out against oppression the voice of hope, love, justice, and peace through song. Its and exploitation. Lyrics are simultaneously interpreted in 34th season promises to be as full as the last with the group’s American Sign Language. latest CD, Experience…101. g

21 presents GREEN EGGS & HAMADEUS COMPOSER/CONDUCTOR Robert Kapilow with New and Members of the Riverside County Philharmonic

SPECIAL GUESTS Sherry Boone, Soprano and Kyle Alexander Brenn, boy soprano

STAGE DIRECTOR Daniel Pelzig

PROGRAM

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro (1756-1791) Menuetto: Allegretto

Green Eggs & Ham Robert Kapilow

Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 6:30 PM

This performance will not include an intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

22 BIOGRAPHIES For more than a decade, ROBERT KAPILOW the James Thurber story with a libretto by Hilary Blecher. has brought the joy and wonder of Classical music – and Another popular family piece by Kapilow is Play Ball!, a unraveled some of its mysteries – to audiences of all ages setting of Casey at the Bat. and backgrounds. Characterized by his unique and unerring Involving large communities in the inspiration ability to create an “aha” moment for his audiences and and compositional process of his commemorative works, collaborators, whatever their level of musical sophistication Kapilow has left a profound mark on the nation’s cities and or naivety, Kapilow’s work brings music into people’s lives – regions. After receiving great acclaim for Citypiece: DC opening new ears to musical experiences and helping Monuments (a millennium composition commissioned by the people to listen actively rather than just to hear. As The Kreeger Museum for the Kennedy Center and the National Boston Globe said, “It’s a cheering thought that this kind Symphony Orchestra), Kapilow reprised his interactive of missionary enterprise did not pass from this earth with compositional format in a statewide project commissioned . Kapilow is awfully good at by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra what he does. We need him.” and the state of Louisiana as part of the Kapilow’s range of activities is 2003 celebrations for the bicentennial of the astonishingly broad, including his What Makes Louisiana Purchase. It Great? presentations, family compositions, Another project by Kapilow examined FamilyMusik events, and Citypieces. The reach and reflected on the historic impact of the of his interactive events and activities is wide – Lewis and Clark expedition (commemorating geographically and culturally – from Native its bicentennial) from the perspective of the American tribal communities in Montana to Native American Indian. The large choral inner-city high school students in Louisiana. and orchestral work Summer Sun, Winter Kapilow’s popularity and appeal have been Moon premiered in 2004. reflected in two notable invitations – to appear As a conductor, Kapilow has led many on NBC’s Today show in conversation with of America’s top orchestras, including the Katie Couric, and to write a book for Wiley & National Symphony, the Philadelphia Sons (to be published later this year). Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the St. What Makes It Great? now sells out regular subscription Louis Symphony. He has also led numerous new works of series in New York’s Lincoln Center, Boston, Kansas City, musical theater, ranging from the Tony award-winning Nine and Vancouver. New series have recently been added at on Broadway to the premiere of Frida for the opening of Stanford University and the Smithsonian in Washington, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and D.C. premieres of works for the American Repertory Theater. Kapilow has written numerous commissioned works, He is the conductor and creative director for FamilyMusik including the first musical setting for Dr. Seuss’Green for the Boston Celebrity Series and at New York’s Lincoln Eggs and Ham. His inimitable presentation Green Eggs & Center. He has been the conductor and director of Hamadeus, now available on CD, includes his own work FamilyMusik for New York’s 92nd Street Y, co-director of the and Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in a lively mix of Rutgers SummerFest Festival, assistant conductor of the discussion and performance. In 2004, Lincoln Center’s Opera Company of Boston, music director of the touring Mostly Mozart Festival presented Kapilow’s And Furthermore company Opera New England, conductor of the Kansas City They Bite, a companion piece to Carnival of the Animals, Symphony’s summer Family Fare program, and the music and Great Performers of Lincoln Center boasted a new series director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra for five seasons. of Kapilow’s FamilyMusik programs during the 2004-2005 At the age of 19, Kapilow interrupted his academic season. Kapilow’s other compositions include Dr. Seuss’ work at Yale University to study with the legendary Nadia Gertrude McFuzz; a Christmas-Hannukah pair of pieces; Boulanger. Two years later, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Kapilow’s first Opera, Many Moons, which is based on Continued on page 24

23 from Yale he continued his studies at the Eastman School of tour credits include Carousel (Carrie), Phantom of the Opera, Music. After graduating from Eastman, he returned to Yale and Les Miserables. Internationally she has appeared in where he was assistant professor for six years. Carmen Jones (Cindy Lou) at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Kapilow’s career has been marked by numerous Off Broadway, Boone wrote and starred in The Super Star awards and grants. He won first place in the Fontainebleau Artist Show, which she developed with director Tamilla Casadesus Piano Competition and was the second-place Woodard. She also appeared in First Lady Suite (Marian winner of the Antal Dorati Conductor’s Competition with Anderson) and the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s the Detroit Symphony. Kapilow was a featured composer Only Heaven. Boone’s regional credits include Intimate on Chicago Public Radio’s prestigious Composers in America Apparel (Mayme), My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), and Master series and is a recipient of an Exxon Meet-the-Composer Class (Sharon). grant and numerous American Society of Composers, Her Opera credits include The Scrimshaw Violin (Band Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) awards. He was the Leader) and Guest from the Future (Olga). She debuted at first composer ever to be granted the rights to set Dr. Seuss’ Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in Kapilow’s Green words to music, and his music is published exclusively by G. Eggs & Hamadeus and also debuted with The National Schirmer. Kapilow lives in River Vale, New Jersey, with his Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in Kapilow’s wife and three children. And Furthermore, They Bite!, returning the following year SHERRY BOONE (Soprano) has appeared on to perform in his Two by Seuss. She has been a guest soloist Broadway in Jelly’s Last Jam (Maman), Master Class (Sharon), with the , The Toronto Symphony, An Evening Honoring , Michael John LaChiusa’s The Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and the Hartford Marie Christine (Marie Christine), and Ragtime. Her national Symphony. Boone also starred with renowned authors Gish Jen, Walter Mosley, Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz, and noted violinist Cho-Liang Lin in Stirring the Pot - Celebrating the Color Experience in the USA. Patina Catering Boone is founder and artistic director of Opera & at Home, a cutting-edge Opera company dedicated to Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts increasing Opera’s audiences internationally by creating a invite you to attend a “heart-to-heart exchange” between the audience and the singer. The company was established in 1998. Bridal Showcase A published lyricist and poet, Boone collaborated with composer Sean Jeremy Palmer and Opera at Home to Saturday, April 19, 2008 produce and direct the new Opera Ellen Craft. Based on true 11am–3pm events, the production was recognized as “Best Ensemble Performance” at the 2004 New York International Fringe Featuring a tasting by Patina Catering, Festival. Boone premiered her new single, WE ARE, in June a couture fashion show, 2007. For more information, visit www.operaathome.org. and booths by expert wedding vendors. KYLE ALEXANDER BRENN is thrilled to be playing the role of Sam. His recent productions include Off- $5 per person Broadway Growing Up 70s with Barry Williams, Please Don’t Cerritos Performing Arts Center Eat the Daisies reading, and The Sound of Music in Yorktown. 12700 Center Court Drive., Cerritos Brenn has been in multiple productions at Crystal Theatre in Connecticut, including The Pirate Chamber, a musical RSVP to Rosemay Vera he wrote, composed, and directed. He is currently writing [email protected] 714 540 0500, ext 113 his next musical set to be staged in January 2009. He gives special thanks and love to Nancy Carson, Cheryl Kemeny, Kapilow, Amelia DeMayo, his family, and teachers. g

24 presents JOHN BYNER opening for LYNDA CARTER Sunday, April 27, 2008, 3:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is prohibited.

BIOGRAPHIES JOHN BYNER is a very funny man. Merv Griffin cabaret show, ABC San Francisco hailed, “[She has] one of thought so when he hired the young comedian to appear the most beautiful voices now performing in cabaret.…[The on his Talent Scouts television program. So did Ed Sullivan, show] is magnificent and what cabaret is all about.” She who asked Byner to appear on his Toast of the Town show has performed in a London production of Chicago as well as more than two dozen times in a decade. Byner starred with in Chicago’s 10th Anniversary on Broadway, alongside Ann musician Al Hirt in eight CBS television specials and with Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, Joel Grey, and Chita Rivera. Eddy Arnold on The Kraft Music Hall show. In 1967, Byner Carter also produced and hosted a series of five Emmy joined Liza Minnelli for The Kraft Music Hall special Woody award-winning television variety specials in which she Allen Looks at 1967. sang, danced, and appeared with guests such as , Byner has made more than 30 appearances on The Kenny Rogers, George Benson, Merle Haggard, and Tom Tonight Show and numerous stints on the popular Carol Jones. Burnett Show. He guest-starred on series such as Get Smart, After winning the Miss World USA crown in 1972, Maude, The Odd Couple, Soap, Silk Stalkings, and Dharma Carter found success as an actress in the Wonder Woman & Greg. Byner appeared in the Bizarre series for six seasons, television series. She has also starred in the televised series Comedy on the Road for four seasons, Relatively Speaking for 90 Partners in Crime and the frontier drama Hawkeye. Her episodes, and CBS’ The John Byner Comedy Hour. television credits include Family Blessings, Secrets Between His film credits includeWhat’s Up, Doc?; The Last of Friends, and She Woke Up Pregnant, which all ranked in the Cowboys; The Man in the Santa Claus Suit; Three on a the Top 10. Carter produced and starred in the films Date; and The Big Time. Byner’s screen credits are not always Hotline, Stillwatch, Born to Be Sold, and The Last Song. She seen, but many times just heard. He was the voice of Gurgi had leading roles in the movies Daddy and Posing: Inspired and Doli in the Disney filmThe Black Cauldron and voiced by Three Real Stories and starred in the title role in Rita many characters in the popular cartoon series The Ant and Hayworth: The Love Goddess. the Ardvark. His other animated credits include The Pink On the big screen, Carter most recently appeared in Panther, Rug Rats, and . As a standup comedian, the Disney filmSky High and 2005’s The Dukes of Hazzard. Byner has performed in the showrooms of Las Vegas, the She also starred in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Latin Quarter, and the Copacabana. Park and Super Troopers. Carter recently appeared in the As a singer and an actress LYNDA CARTER is television show Smallville. g recognized as a “wonder woman.” In a recent review of her

25 presents ROBERT BELINIĆ, GUITAR Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 7:30 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

Please hold your applause until after all movements of a work have been performed, and do not applaud between movements. Thank you for your cooperation.

As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

PROGRAM

Lachrimae John Dowland My Lady Hunsdon Puffe (1563-1626) A Fancy The Most Sacred Queene Elizabeth, Her Galliard

Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat Major, BWV 998 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introduction, Theme, and Variations on a Theme from Fernando Sor Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Op. 9 (1778-1839)

INTERMISSION

Sonata Leo Brouwer Fandangos y Boleros (b. 1939) Sarabanda de Scriabin La Toccata de Pasquini

Three Croatian pieces Ante Cagalj Rodrigo in Zagora (b. 1954) St. Duje’s Bells Song and Dance

Three Venezuelan Folk dances Antonio Lauro Aire de Joropo (1917-1986) El Marabiño Seis por derecho

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26 BIOGRAPHY ROBERT BELINIĆ discovered a passion for music guitarist has participated annually in the International at the tender age of 3, when he embraced the drum. When Summer School for guitar on the Croatian island of Hvar. he was 8, the young musician starred in Tale From Croatia, The highly respected program features workshops led by the first film released in the newly independent nation. By eminent professors and musicians from around the world. age 11, he began Classical guitar lessons at a music school Praised by Sandiego.com as “a genius, a poet, a super- in Kutina, a small town in central Croatia, and studied with sensitive musician,” Belinić has performed extensively in renowned Croatian guitar composer Ante Cagalj, whose the United States and abroad. His U.S. recitals have been work has inspired generations of Croatian musicians and the well-received at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; acclaimed Zagreb Guitar Quartet. the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; New York’s The first guitarist to win the 2002 Young Concert Merkin Concert Hall; Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New Artists International Auditions in New York, Belinić York; the La Jolla Music Society in San Diego; University graduated from the Leopold Mozart Hochschule für Musik of Nebraska at Omaha; Western Michigan University; and in Augsburg, Germany, where he currently holds an Southwest Missouri State University. assistantship and is pursuing postgraduate studies with award- A proud participant of the Grand Teton Music winning guitarist Franz Halász. Festival’s Medalist Series in Wyoming, which features A founding member of the Croatian Guitar Quartet, musical competitions and recitals given by prize-winning Belinić boasts a career with an impressive string of talents, Belinić has also performed in the John E. Marlow distinctions. The sole winner of the 2001 Young Concert Guitar Series in Washington, D.C., and the Gainesville Pro Artists European Auditions in Leipzig, Germany, Belinić also Musica Concert Series in Georgia. A versatile musician, received the prestigious “Ivo Vuljevic Award” for best young he has been a guest soloist with the Phoenix Symphony, Croatian musician in 2002. He was recently honored in the Kentucky’s Paducah Symphony Orchestra, Yugoslavia’s first Parkening International Guitar Competition and earned Zagreb Philharmonic, and the Zagreb Soloists. Belinić’s a “Beracasa Foundation Prize” for his stirring performance global appeal is undeniable, as evidenced by his numerous at the Montpellier Radio-France Festival, a summer event recitals in Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, , celebrating Jazz and Classical music. Since 1995, the Germany, Lichtenstein, and the Czech Republic. g

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29 Friends of Arts Education at the Cerritos Center It’s for the kids! It is our belief that when you bring the arts into children’s lives, you give them new ways to see the world.

The Friends of Arts Education is a non-profit organization that recognizes the arts as a vital and indispensable part of a comprehensive education. We strive to ensure that all children in our communities have an opportunity to experience the power and beauty of the performing arts.

The arts are an integral part of cultural literacy; they encourage creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. The arts enable students to build self-esteem and self- discipline as well as teach cooperation and effective expression. Research shows that integrating the arts into the school curriculum improves academic achievement, motivates attendance, increases test scores and promotes involvement.

All our programs are provided free of charge to schools and we serve over 100,000 children, teachers and families every year!

The Friends programs are designed to support the California State Board of Education Visual and Performing Arts standards for kindergarten through grade twelve.

We offer: o Daytime Educational Performances by world-class artists o Professional Development Workshops for teachers o Creative Expressions program for students o Performing Arts Scholarships for high school seniors o Artists in the Classroom o Family Arts Festival o Art S.M.A.R.T. activities for at-risk youth detainees 15th Annual Gala Family Arts Festival Sunday, June 1, 2008 Saturday, April 26, 2008 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Annual Gala is our biggest fundraising event of A day of arts and fun for the whole family! the year – this elegant evening includes dinner, silent Experience hands-on arts activities, the interactive and live auctions, and world-class entertainment! Musical Zoo, and over 40 performances on five This year’s theme is “100 Years of Broadway” different stages.

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