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Da Camera 15-16 Season Brochure.indd 1 3/26/15 4:05 PM AT A SARAH ROTHENBERG SEASONGLANCE artistic & general director SEASON OPENING NIGHT ő Dear Friends of Da Camera, SNAPSHOTS OF AMERICA SARAH ROTHENBERG: Music has the power to inspire, to entertain, to provoke, to fire the imagination. DAWN UPSHAW, SOPRANO; THE MARCEL PROUST PROJECT It can also evoke time and place. With Snapshots: Time and Place, Da Camera GILBERT KALISH, PIANO; WITH NICHOLAS PHAN, TENOR Sō PERCUSSION AND SPECIAL GUESTS Thursday, February 11, 2016, 8:00 PM takes the work of pivotal musical figures as the lens through which to see a Saturday, September 26, 2015; 8:00 PM Friday, February 12, 2016, 8:00 PM decade. Traversing diverse musical styles and over 600 years of human history, Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center the concerts and multimedia performances of our 2015/16 season offer unique perspectives on our past and our present world. ROMANTIC TITANS: BRENTANO QUARTET: BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 5 AND LISZT THE QUARTET AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Our all-star Opening Night, Snapshots of America, captures the essence of the YURY MARTYNOV, PIANO Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 7:30 PM American spirit and features world-renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw. Paris, city Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 7:30 PM The Menil Collection of light, returns to the Da Camera stage in a new multi-media production The Menil Collection GUILLERMO KLEIN Y LOS GUACHOS inspired by the writings of Marcel Proust. ARTURO O'FARRILL Saturday, March 19, 2016, 8:00 PM Two fascinating explorations of film and music take us to opposite historical AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center vistas: Carl Theodor-Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc takes us to medieval Saturday, October 24, 2015; 8:00 PM SOLZHENITSYN AND PROKOFIEV: Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center France, a voyage intensified by live performances of 15th-century music by the THE WAR YEARS renowned Orlando Consort, and Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble AZAR LAWRENCE: IGNAT SOLZHENITSYN, PIANO Roomful of Teeth presents a brand new film oratorio, The Colorado, THE LOVE SUPREME 50TH ANNIVERSARY BAND Tuesday, March 22, 2016; 7:30 PM co-commissioned by Da Camera. The Grand Canyon's spectacular Colorado WITH JEFF “TAIN” WATTS The Menil Collection Friday, November 6, 2015, 8:00 PM River Basin and the sustainability of our planet are the subjects of this SILENT FILM AND MEDIEVAL MUSIC visual and musical tour-de-force. Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC ELIAS QUARTET: BEETHOVEN PERSPECTIVES ORLANDO CONSORT Other highlights include the 1940’s-50’s in the Soviet Union with pianist Thursday, November 12, 2015, 8:00 PM Friday, April 1, 2016, 8:00 PM Ignat Solzhenitsyn performing Prokofiev: The War Years and joining me in a Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center conversation about his father, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The 1960's are the focus THE COLORADO: A FILM ORATORIO of two contrasting tributes to John Coltrane's landmark release in 1965: MELISSA ALDANA AND CRASH TRIO ROOMFUL OF TEETH, GLENN KOTCHE Azar Lawrence's Love Supreme 50th Anniversary Band with Jeff “Tain” Watts; Saturday, December 5, 2015, 8:00 PM AND JEFFREY ZIEGLER and Imani Winds and Harlem String Quartet in Passion for Bach and Coltrane. Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center Tuesday, April 12, 2016; 8:00 PM And the 1980’s era of the reign of Michael Jackson takes on a new sound in the INNER WORLDS: Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center hands of the inimitable SFJAZZ Collective. SCHUMANN, LIEBERSON AND RILKE SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE: Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 7:30 PM Beethoven, whose music defines the age of revolution and enlightenment, has MUSIC OF MICHAEL JACKSON The Menil Collection a special place in the season. Beethoven Perspectives opens with the Saturday, April 16, 2016, 8:00 PM Elias Quartet in an all-Beethoven program, continues at the Menil Collection MONTROSE TRIO HOUSTON DEBUT Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center with Liszt's dazzling arrangement of Beethoven Symphony No. 5 performed by WITH RICHIE HAWLEY, CLARINET KRISTÓF BARÁTI, VIOLIN; Friday, January 29, 2016, 8:00 PM pianist Yuri Martynov, and concludes in the spring with two nights of Beethoven KLÁRA WÜRTZ, PIANO Violin and Piano Sonatas by the acclaimed Kristóf Baráti/Klára Würtz duo, whose Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center BEETHOVEN SONATAS recordings of the complete cycle have taken the music world by storm. GREGORY PORTER Monday, April 25, 2016, 7:30 PM Part I Friday, February 5, 2016, 8:00 PM Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 7:30 PM Part II The diversity of the Latin jazz heritage is present: Arturo O'Farill leads the Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center The Menil Collection Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, a second-generation institution in the Cuban jazz SEASON FINALE tradition; pianist Guillermo Klein and his stellar band los Guachos represent PASSION FOR BACH AND COLTRANE international innovation growing out of Argentinian roots. Those two ensembles IMANI WINDS, HARLEM QUARTET and 2013 Monk competition winner Melissa Aldana and Crash Trio all make their AND SPECIAL GUESTS Da Camera debuts. Friday, May 6, 2016, 8:00 PM Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center Sarah Rothenberg Da Camera 15-16 Season Brochure.indd 2 3/26/15 4:05 PM AT A SARAH ROTHENBERG SEASONGLANCE artistic & general director SEASON OPENING NIGHT ő Dear Friends of Da Camera, SNAPSHOTS OF AMERICA SARAH ROTHENBERG: Music has the power to inspire, to entertain, to provoke, to fire the imagination. DAWN UPSHAW, SOPRANO; THE MARCEL PROUST PROJECT It can also evoke time and place. With Snapshots: Time and Place, Da Camera GILBERT KALISH, PIANO; WITH NICHOLAS PHAN, TENOR Sō PERCUSSION AND SPECIAL GUESTS Thursday, February 11, 2016, 8:00 PM takes the work of pivotal musical figures as the lens through which to see a Saturday, September 26, 2015; 8:00 PM Friday, February 12, 2016, 8:00 PM decade. Traversing diverse musical styles and over 600 years of human history, Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center the concerts and multimedia performances of our 2015/16 season offer unique perspectives on our past and our present world. ROMANTIC TITANS: BRENTANO QUARTET: BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 5 AND LISZT THE QUARTET AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Our all-star Opening Night, Snapshots of America, captures the essence of the YURY MARTYNOV, PIANO Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 7:30 PM American spirit and features world-renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw. Paris, city Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 7:30 PM The Menil Collection of light, returns to the Da Camera stage in a new multi-media production The Menil Collection GUILLERMO KLEIN Y LOS GUACHOS inspired by the writings of Marcel Proust. ARTURO O'FARRILL Saturday, March 19, 2016, 8:00 PM Two fascinating explorations of film and music take us to opposite historical AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center vistas: Carl Theodor-Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc takes us to medieval Saturday, October 24, 2015; 8:00 PM SOLZHENITSYN AND PROKOFIEV: Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center France, a voyage intensified by live performances of 15th-century music by the THE WAR YEARS renowned Orlando Consort, and Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble AZAR LAWRENCE: IGNAT SOLZHENITSYN, PIANO Roomful of Teeth presents a brand new film oratorio, The Colorado, THE LOVE SUPREME 50TH ANNIVERSARY BAND Tuesday, March 22, 2016; 7:30 PM co-commissioned by Da Camera. The Grand Canyon's spectacular Colorado WITH JEFF “TAIN” WATTS The Menil Collection Friday, November 6, 2015, 8:00 PM River Basin and the sustainability of our planet are the subjects of this SILENT FILM AND MEDIEVAL MUSIC visual and musical tour-de-force. Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC ELIAS QUARTET: BEETHOVEN PERSPECTIVES ORLANDO CONSORT Other highlights include the 1940’s-50’s in the Soviet Union with pianist Thursday, November 12, 2015, 8:00 PM Friday, April 1, 2016, 8:00 PM Ignat Solzhenitsyn performing Prokofiev: The War Years and joining me in a Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center conversation about his father, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The 1960's are the focus THE COLORADO: A FILM ORATORIO of two contrasting tributes to John Coltrane's landmark release in 1965: MELISSA ALDANA AND CRASH TRIO ROOMFUL OF TEETH, GLENN KOTCHE Azar Lawrence's Love Supreme 50th Anniversary Band with Jeff “Tain” Watts; Saturday, December 5, 2015, 8:00 PM AND JEFFREY ZIEGLER and Imani Winds and Harlem String Quartet in Passion for Bach and Coltrane. Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center Tuesday, April 12, 2016; 8:00 PM And the 1980’s era of the reign of Michael Jackson takes on a new sound in the INNER WORLDS: Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center hands of the inimitable SFJAZZ Collective. SCHUMANN, LIEBERSON AND RILKE SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE: Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 7:30 PM Beethoven, whose music defines the age of revolution and enlightenment, has MUSIC OF MICHAEL JACKSON The Menil Collection a special place in the season. Beethoven Perspectives opens with the Saturday, April 16, 2016, 8:00 PM Elias Quartet in an all-Beethoven program, continues at the Menil Collection MONTROSE TRIO HOUSTON DEBUT Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center with Liszt's dazzling arrangement of Beethoven Symphony No. 5 performed by WITH RICHIE HAWLEY, CLARINET KRISTÓF BARÁTI, VIOLIN; Friday, January 29, 2016, 8:00 PM pianist Yuri Martynov, and concludes in the spring with two nights of Beethoven KLÁRA WÜRTZ, PIANO Violin and Piano Sonatas by the acclaimed Kristóf Baráti/Klára Würtz duo, whose Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center BEETHOVEN SONATAS recordings of the complete cycle have taken the music world by storm.