2007-2008 Season Sponsors

The City of Cerritos gratefully thanks our 2007-2008 Season Sponsors for their generous support of the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

Season 07/08

Your Favorite Entertainers, Your Favorite Theater

If your company would like to become a Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts sponsor, please contact the CCPA Administrative Offices at (562) 916-8510. presents MOIRA SMILEY & VOCO

MOIRA SMILEY JOHN BALLINGER • JESSICA BASTA • JESSICA CATRON • CHRISTINE ENNS

Thursday, March 6, 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 Singer-composer MOIRA SMILEY is based in Los the composers for TRIP Dance Theatre’s Synergy at Ford Angeles and performs and writes an extraordinary range of Amphitheatre. She has received several grants for her Bartok vocal music. Recently, she premiered the critically acclaimed Sings project creating new vocal music around the piano Ukrainian-based Rusalka with the women’s vocal ensemble miniatures of composer Béla Bartók. Smiley’s neo-traditional KITKA; re-opened the Getty Villa performing the Sorceress hymn Stand in That River is popular around the world. in Henry Purcell’s Opera Dido and Aeneas; recorded a solo MOIRA SMILEY & VOCO fuses a new sound Rua, a compilation of Irish, Appalachian songs; and with voices, banjo, cello, and percussion that is rooted in toured with Goin’ South Band and the Irish band Molly’s traditional song. A vibrant, fast-rising force on the Folk Revenge. music scene, the group brings percussive movement and Smiley was born in Vermont and graduated from warm wit to festivals across the and Canada. Indiana University (IU) with a degree in Early Music Vocal Founded in 2006, the group was chosen to represent FAR- Performance. While at IU, Smiley toured with her vocal West at Folk Alliance ’07. National a capella champions in quartet VIDA, singing a cappella Folk songs. VIDA went 2007, VOCO has been touring and performing music from on to record three of traditional and original songs, its CD Blink at the Kate Wolf Festival, California WorldFest, performed at prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, and WorldOne Festival, Lotus Festival, The Getty Center, and UCLA Live, and was featured in Billboard magazine. Smiley the San Luis Mozart Festival The ensemble performs an writes music for choral groups worldwide, dance and theater amazing spectrum of music that it describes as “post-Folk, ensembles, and film. She won the Lester Horton Award for improvisation-built songs, ballads, vocal symphonies, and “Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance” along with dance songs.” g

2 presents CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

INON BARNATAN, PIANO STEPHEN TAYLOR, OBOE DAVID SHIFRIN, CLARINET PETER KOLKAY, BASSOON STEWART ROSE, HORN

MUSIC FOR WINDS Friday, March 7, 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.

3 PROGRAM

Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Ludwig van Beethoven and Horn, Op. 16 (1770-1827) Grave – Allegro ma non troppo Andante cantabile Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

Barnatan, Taylor, Shifrin, Kolkay, and Rose

Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon Jean Françaix Prélude: Moderato –Più vivo, poco portamento, (1912-1997) animato – Tempo I Allegretto assai Elégie: Grave Scherzo Taylor, Shifrin, and Kolkay

INTERMISSION

Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Bassoon Francis Poulenc Lent – Presto (1899-1963) Andante con moto Rondo: Très vif

Barnatan, Taylor, and Kolkay

Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Horn, K. 452 (1756-1791) Largo – Allegro moderato Larghetto Rhondo: Allegretto

Barnatan, Taylor, Shifrin, Kolkay, and Rose

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s touring program is made possible in part by the Lila Acheson and DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

Opus 3 Artists 470 Park Avenue South, 9th Floor North New York, New York 10016 www.opus3artists.com

4 BIOGRAPHIES The CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CMS’ discography ranges from Johann Sebastian Bach CENTER (CMS) is one of 12 constituents of Lincoln to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and includes critically acclaimed Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing recordings of Antonin Dvořák, Ludwig van Beethoven, arts complex in the world. Along with other constituents and William Walton. Fi Magazine named CMS’ recording such as the New York Philharmonic, Ballet, of Bach’s Complete Brandenburg Concertos “one of the best Lincoln Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, the recordings of the year” in 1996. The ensemble’s recent CMS’ home base is Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center. releases include Felix Mendelssohn – Sextet, Op. 110 & Through its performance, education, and recording activities, Octet, Op. 20 and the Grammy-nominated The Complete it draws more people to Chamber music than any other Chamber Music of Claude Debussy, both on the Delos label. organization of its kind. The blossoming career of pianist INON BARNATAN As plans for Lincoln Center for the Performing takes him to some of the most important music centers and Arts were in the final stages in 1965, the distinguished festivals worldwide. In addition to making his New York American composer and president of recital debut at Carnegie Hall, he has Lincoln Center, William Schuman, appeared at The Metropolitan Museum conceived of an organization dedicated of Art, Salla Verdi, the Royal Festival to performing the finest Chamber Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein, music. This association, to be housed the Louvre, Shanghai’s Arts Theater, in its own specially designed recital and the Rising Stars series of the hall, would take its place among the Ravinia and Gilmore festivals. This finest Ballet, Symphonic, and Opera season, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw companies at Lincoln Center. Pianist will present a three-concert project, Charles Wadsworth became the center’s conceived and organized by Barnatan, artistic director. Under the inspiring featuring the solo, Chamber, and song leadership of patron Alice Tully, the output of Franz Schubert’s last year. The plan was brought to fruition. On September 11, 1969, Alice project will feature Barnatan along with the Belcea Quartet, Tully Hall opened with CMS’ first performance, beginning a baritone Christopher Maltman, and pianist Jonathan Biss. new era for Chamber music in the United States. In 2004, His orchestral appearances include performances with CMS appointed cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han as the Houston Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Jerusalem artistic directors. They succeeded Wadsworth (1969-1989), Symphony, Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Fred Sherry (1989-1993), and David Shifrin (1993-2004). la Suisse Romande, and the Shanghai Symphony. He has CMS’ annual activities include a full season of concerts appeared at festivals in the United States and Europe with and activities, national and international tours, nationally the Jerusalem String Quartet, Cho-Liang Lin, Miriam Fried, televised broadcasts on Live From Lincoln Center, and regular Gary Hoffman, and Liza Ferschtman. His debut CD of appearances on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. piano works by Schubert was released in 2006. Barnatan is a Besides its ability to regularly program a variety of member of Chamber Music Society Two. Chamber works, CMS’ achievements include innovative STEPHEN TAYLOR is one of the most sought- projects such as collaborations with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie after oboists in the country. He holds the Mrs. John D. Zane Dance Company and Jazz at Lincoln Center; thematic Rockefeller III solo oboe chair at The Chamber Music “series within a series,” such as two Musical Evolutions Society of Lincoln Center. Taylor is solo oboe with New examinations; and the highly successful Great Day in New York Woodwind Quintet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Luke’s York, which brought together New York composers in all Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of Chamber musical genres for a festival in collaboration with Merkin music), American Composers Orchestra, New England Bach Concert Hall. Festival Orchestra, and the Contemporary music group Continued on page 6

5 Speculum Musicae, and co-principal oboe with Orpheus Shifrin is the recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship from Chamber Orchestra. He appears regularly as soloist and the National Endowment for the Arts. Chamber musician at Spoleto, Caramoor, Aldeburgh, Bassoonist PETER KOLKAY has already amassed Bravo! Vail Valley, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music an impressive list of accolades in his performing career. He Northwest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music was the first bassoonist to win first prize at the Concert Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Schleswig- Artists Guild International Competition, and an Avery Holstein. Among his more than 200 recordings are Johann Fisher Career Grant, and the first on his instrument to Sebastian Bach arias with Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen become a member of Chamber Music Society Two. His Battle, Bach’s Oboe d’Amore Concerto, Wolfgang Amadeus upcoming concerts include an appearance with the Colonial Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, premiere recordings of the Symphony in Harold Meltzer’s Likes and Unlikes, which Wolpe Oboe Quartet, works of André Previn, and Elliott was commissioned for Kolkay by the Concert Artists Carter’s Oboe Quartet, for which he received a Grammy Guild. He has been presented by Chicago’s Dame Myra nomination. He has premiered many of Carter’s works Hess Memorial Concert Series and New York’s Symphony including A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Syringa, Tempo e Space and is a member of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra. An Tempi, Trilogy for Oboe and Harp, and A 6 Letter Letter. avid performer of Contemporary Chamber music, he has Taylor trained under Lois Wann and Robert Bloom at the recently given the New York premieres of Paul Moravec’s Juilliard School, where he is a faculty member, as well as Andy Warhol Sez and Russell Platt’s Quintet for Bassoon with the Yale School of Music, SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY and Strings. As the recipient of the Carlos Surinach Prize, Purchase, and the Manhattan School of Music. He plays a awarded for dedication to American music, he premiered The rare Caldwell model Lorée oboe. Dark Hours, a work written for him by Judah Adashi. He An Avery Fisher Prize winner, clarinetist DAVID is an advocate of Elliott Carter’s music, having included a SHIFRIN is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, world premiere (Retracing for solo bassoon) and a New York recitalist, and Chamber musician. This season he celebrates premiere (Au Quai for bassoon and viola) on his New York his 19th year as an Artist of the Chamber Music Society. recital debut program at Weill Recital Hall. An assistant From 1992 to 2004 he served as artistic director, inaugurating professor at the University of South Carolina, Kolkay holds the CMS Two program and the annual Brandenburg degrees from Lawrence University, the Eastman School of concerto concerts. Presently in his 27th year as artistic Music, and Yale University. director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, The New York Times has noted hornist STEWART he has collaborated with the Guarneri, Tokyo, and Emerson ROSE for his “remarkable virtuosity, agility and fluency, string quartets and is a member of the Kavafian-Schub- and his ability to retain the horn’s cheery rusticity.” He will Shifrin Trio. This season he will perform in Beijing as soloist be the soloist in the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s with the orchestra of the Central Conservatory. Previous Synaxis at Carnegie Hall with the Orpheus Chamber seasons include engagements with the Chamber Orchestra Orchestra, where he is a member. A native of New York of , Fort Worth Symphony, Detroit Symphony, City, he has been principal horn of the Orchestra of St. and orchestras in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. His recordings Luke’s since 1983 and of the New York City Opera Orchestra have received three Grammy Award nominations and his since 1989. He has also performed on numerous occasions as performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Mostly guest principal horn with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Mozart Festival Orchestra was named “Record of the Year” the New York Philharmonic, and the St. Paul Chamber by Stereo Review. He has released two CDs of Lalo Schifrin’s Orchestra, and as guest musician with the Ensemble compositions, one of which was nominated for a Latin Wien-Berlin and the MET Chamber Ensemble. He has Grammy Award. At home with the work of Contemporary appeared at the Marlboro, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, composers such as John Adams, Joan Tower, Bruce Adolphe, Spoleto, Edinburgh, and Eastern Shore festivals. Rose has Ezra Laderman, John Corigliano, and Bright Sheng, he made more than 100 recordings of Chamber music and recently commissioned a clarinet concerto from Ellen Taaffe orchestral literature for the BMG, SONY Classical, Deutsche Zwilich, which he premiered with the Buffalo Philharmonic. Grammophon, EMI, and Music Masters labels. g

6 presents AN EVENING WITH THE RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO RAMSEY LEWIS, PIANO LARRY GRAY, BASS LEON JOYCE, JR., DRUMS

Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:00 PM

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

BIOGRAPHY A Chicago native born in 1935, RAMSEY LEWIS experience performing Jazz music. The emerging Ramsey represents the great musical diversity for which the Windy Lewis Trio featured some members of The Cleffs – Lewis on City is noted. He began taking piano lessons at the age piano, Eldee Young on bass, and Redd Holt on drums – after of 4 and soon after he began learning basic piano-concert other members of the group deployed for the Korean War. repertoires. Since the formation of his trio, Lewis has recorded Although Lewis was exposed to Jazz by listening to nearly 80 albums and CDs. Both as a member of the Ramsey records his father played at home, he had no experience Lewis Trio and as a solo performer, Lewis has earned Grammy playing Jazz. Lewis was 15 when a church musician, Wallace Awards for “Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Small Burton, asked him to join his Jazz band, The Cleffs. Burton Group or Soloist With Small Group” for The In Crowd (the coached and helped the young musician learn the language Ramsey Lewis Trio - 1965); “Best R&B Group Performance, of Jazz. The seven-piece group provided Lewis’ first real Vocal or Instrumental” for Hold It Right There (Lewis - 1966); Continued on page 8

7 and “Best R&B Instrumental Performance” for Hang on Sloopy (Lewis - 1973). In addition to recording albums and performing live, Lewis hosts WNUA-FM Chicago’s weekday morning drive- time radio show, The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, for which he was awarded Radio & Records’ 1999 and 2000 “Personality of the Year Award.” In January 2007, the show began syndicating nationwide. He also hosts the syndicated Legends of Jazz With Ramsey Lewis, a two-hour radio program that airs in more than 75 cities throughout the United States. In 2003 Lewis teamed with Larry Rosen, founder and former president of GRP Records, and entrepreneur Lee Rosenberg to form LRSmedia, an independent music entertainment company that creates and produces branded entertainment properties for distribution across broadcast, live, and recorded media. Along with PBS station WTTW- Chicago, LRSmedia has co-produced a series of 13 Legends of Jazz programs, making it the first time in 40 years that Jazz has received television coverage. g

8 presents Friday, March 14, 2008, 8:00 PM Saturday, March 15, 2008, 8:00 PM

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

BIOGRAPHY The GIPSY KINGS’ spell is undeniable; its mystique, Gitana, which explored the band’s rich roots and colorful indisputable. What began as a band of two brothers who heritage in music, provided an evocative glimpse performed on the streets of Cannes, , has evolved into into the vanishing lifestyle and vibrant traditions of the a first-rate group that flavors Flamenco with Western Pop and gypsy culture, further adding to Gipsy Kings’ mystique and Latin tempos. magazine described the seven- allure. member troupe’s intoxicating sound as “a boundless realm The ensemble has continued to dominate the charts where Spanish Flamenco and Romany rhapsody meet Salsa with instrumentals, dance gems, and moving ballads from Funk, by way of Morocco and the its string of Gold albums, including Middle East, and where hot-blooded Mosaïque, , , Gipsy passion reigns supreme.” Kings Live, Tierra Gitana, and Cantos In 1987 Gipsy Kings released de Amor. Its infectious Love & Liberté the blockbuster Bamboleo, from its was nominated for a 1995 Grammy self-titled debut album. The troupe for “Best World Music Album,” and has had a long-time presence on the 1995 Platinum compilation The Billboard’s World Music and Latin Best of the Gipsy Kings dominated the charts with sizzling hits such as music charts for more than a year, a Volare, , and the romantic feat almost unheard of for a group that ballad . To date, the group does not record in English. has sold more than 13 million albums In an effort to bring its music worldwide, and its fervent guitar-playing and impassioned closer to Flamenco’s origins, Gipsy Kings recorded its 2004 vocals have become the trademarks of the Rumba Flamenca Grammy-nominated acoustics Roots album without electric tradition. instruments or a drum set. What resulted was an enchanting Gipsy Kings has also seduced Hollywood with its and bittersweet album deemed a “treasure” by Billboard, magic and mystery. Director Peter Weir chose the band’s Sin prompting People magazine to proclaim: “Way beyond the Ella for the soundtrack to his 1993 drama Fearless. Oscar strictures of language, these 16 songs will resonate with winners Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (also known as The anyone who loves heartfelt, meticulously performed music.” ) used the group’s blazing version of Hotel In 2006, the group continued its epic musical journey California in their 1998 crime comedy . with the release of Pasajero. The 14-track album, produced Pierce Brosnan’s 1989 romance thriller The Heist and Vanessa by Phillipe Eidel, built on the musical style established on Williams’ 1998 musical romance Dance With Me also featured Roots and added the fiery Latin American flavors that long Gipsy Kings’ music. The 1996 PBS documentary Tierra have been a part of the Gipsy Kings sound. g

9 presents THAT’S ITALIAN! A BIG BAND MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA starring JULIUS LA ROSA PETE BARBUTTI DICK CONTINO FRANKIE RANDALL

with THE HARRY JAMES TRIBUTE ORCHESTRA

conducted by VINNIE FALCONE (’S CONDUCTOR)

Sunday, March 16, 2008, 3:00 PM

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

BIOGRAPHIES Born and raised in , JULIUS LA ROSA Audiences and critics admire his talent, with The New York began his professional music career in the Navy, where Times stating, “His singing is very direct and unpretentious – he spent his final months singing with the United States he can wrap his voice tenaciously around a melody line and Navy Band in Washington, D.C. It was there that he was bring out the best in it. He is certainly an equal partner to discovered by . After hearing La Rosa sing, the song lyric.” Godfrey approached him and said, “Young man, when you Musician and comedian PETE BARBUTTI was a get out, come see me. You’ve got a job.” From 1951 to 1953, founding member of the musical-comedy-vocal quartet The La Rosa was a member of the television series Arthur Godfrey Millionaires. The group toured the country for six years, and His Friends. This led to performances at prestigious settling in Chicago, then , where it quickly became venues such as Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia’s Academy of a favorite on the . After two years in Las Music, and the famed nightclub Rainbow and Stars. Vegas, the group disbanded and Barbutti started working as a La Rosa’s recording career included popular songs standup comic in Washington D.C. such as Anywhere I Wander; Eh, Cumpari; and Domani. Continued on page 11

10 During this period, Steve Allen saw a locally produced the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City for videotape of Barbutti and booked him as a regular on his a four-week engagement. Hotel developer Steve Wynn popular late-night television show. One of those shows was impressed, and offered Randall a contract to perform was seen by Nat King Cole, who signed on Barbutti for at the hotel for as long as he wished. In 1983, Wynn asked an extended concert tour. Next came performances on Randall to become the hotel’s entertainment director, where Godfrey’s famous radio show and a regular spot on The Garry he played an integral part in the Golden Nugget achieving Moore Show. top status in Atlantic City. He later became vice president Barbutti continues to be in demand, performing of Bally’s hotel and casino while continuing his musical frequently in Las Vegas and throughout the country. He performances. conducts a comedy workshop in Las Vegas, in which he In 1991, Randall resigned from Bally’s to return full tutors young comics in the art of working in concert and time to his musical career. Shortly thereafter, Allen asked on television. Barbutti has received numerous awards, him to record a compilation of never-recorded Allen including “Entertainer of the Year” in Las Vegas and Atlantic originals. The CD, Frankie Randall Sings Steve Allen, was City, an “Artistic Achievement Award” from the American released on USA Records. Federation of Musicians, and a “Most Valuable Player Award” Radio station WRDR in Atlantic City asked Randall from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. to record a CD for its audience. Unforgettable included five As a high school student in Fresno, DICK CONTINO of Randall’s original compositions and musical offerings from led a double life as a football player and an accomplished Ivory Blackwood and Al Alberts. Other Randall recordings accordion player. After graduation, Contino chose to pursue include Frankie Randall Sings and Swings, Frankie Randall at It music and his family decided to move to . Just Again, Words and Music, Let’s Make Christmas Everyday, and prior to moving, he was introduced to a talent scout for Totally Frankie. g ’s The Original Youth Opportunity Program and AD PerfArt_Crrts Mi2859 10/26/06 1:33 PM Page 1 auditioned for the show. Contino was selected as one of four contestants to appear on the initial Philip Morris broadcast, and he won the $5,000 Grand Prize. Today, Contino is recognized as a legendary virtuoso of the accordion. Although best known for his million sellers Lady of , Granada, and Tico Tico, he is also an accomplished vocalist. Contino is the subject of Dick Contino’s , a book by famed screenwriter (L.A. Confidential), and Accordion Man by Bob Boye. FRANKIE RANDALL, a “Casino Legends Hall of Fame Inductee” and recipient of a star on Palm Spring’s Walk of Stars, is an entertainer, vocalist, and a Classical Visit us before or after and Jazz pianist, arranger, conductor, and composer. Born the performance! in Clifton, New Jersey, as Frank Joseph Lisbona, Randall • Serving flavorful varieties at breakfast, lunch and dinner became a “professional” musician at the age of 13, which led • Special theatre menus to a booking at the popular New York hot spot Jilly’s. That’s • Call ahead for priority seating where a life-changing event – a meeting with Frank Sinatra – MIMI’S CAFE CERRITOS (562) 809-0510 took place. Sinatra helped Randall obtain a recording Across the street from the Performing Arts Center contract with RCA, which led to numerous television COMPLIMENTARY APPETIZER or DESSERT With purchase of an entrée when you bring appearances, including a regular role on The ticket stub from today’s performance Summer Show. LIMIT ONE PER TABLE Randall continued to perform in top cabaret venues throughout the world. In 1982 he was asked to appear at

11 presents NOCHE FLAMENCA

DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER Martín Santangelo

Soledad Barrio

FEATURED GUESTS Juan Ogalla and Antonio Rodríguez

CANTAORES Manuel Gago • Emilio Florido

GUITARISTS Miguel Pérez • Eugenio Iglesias

These performances are made possible in part with support by the National Endowment for the Arts. Noche Flamenca is proudly sponsored by La Bella Strings and Intrend International.

All Choreography by Martín Santangelo and Company members Original Music by Miguel Pérez and Eugenio Iglesias Vocal arrangements by Manuel Gago and Emilio Florido Artistic Director and Producer: Martín Santangelo Lighting Design by Mark London Costume Designer for La Mujer del Mar: Olive Wong Technical Director: Leo Janks Company Manager: Carlos Pérez Vega Representation: Laura Colby, Director, Elsie Management

Friday, March 21, 2008, 8:00 PM

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

12 PROGRAM

LA MUJER DEL MAR Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen The Company Choreography by Martín Santangelo and the Company

La Mujer Del Mar was made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, and MetLife Foundation.

SOLO DE CANTE Emilio Florido or Manuel Gago

TANGOS Soledad Barrio and Juan Ogalla

SOLEA POR BULERIAS Performed and Choreographed by Antonio Rodríguez

INTERMISSION

FARRUCA Performed and Choreographed by Juan Ogalla

SOLO DE GUITARRA Miguel Pérez or Eugenio Iglesias

SOLEA Performed and Choreographed by Soledad Barrio

ESTA NOCHE NO ES MI DÍA The Company Choreography by Martín Santangelo

This piece was created in memory of the singer Antonio Vizarraga, a founding member of Noche Flamenca who recently passed away. We miss you dearly Antonio.

For information on Noche Flamenca and to join our mailing list, please visit www.nocheflamenca.com

The Company would like to thank the staff of the New England Foundation for the Arts and the hubsites of the National Dance Project for supporting the creation of La Mujer del Mar.

I became drawn to The Lady From The Sea and all of Henrik Ibsen’s plays because I feel a similarity between the messages in his plays and the reason Flamenco exists. This message or theme is the defense of individuality, and the individual’s need to act upon it. This action develops our consciousness, questions society’s ideals, and propels us to open our voices and souls to break with the false and repressive ideals within the society we live in. The intense “cry” or “scream” that lies dormant and develops inside of many of Ibsen’s characters, reminds me again and again of the intense and savage expression of flamenco song, dance, and music. George Bernard Shaw sums it up as simply as the morals of Ibsen’s plays “illustrate his thesis that the real slavery of today is slavery to the ideals of virtue…” - Martín Santangelo

13 BIOGRAPHIES Under the direction of Martín Santangelo, the award- with Maria Benitez’s Teatro Flamenco, the Lincoln Center winning NOCHE FLAMENCA has become Spain’s most Festival of the Arts, Paco Romero’s Ballet Espanol, and Maria successful touring company. Formed in 1993 by Santangelo Magdalena. He also appeared in Julie Taymor’s Juan Darien and his New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) award- at Lincoln Center. Santangelo choreographed and performed winning wife, Soledad Barrio, the company regularly tours in Eduardo Machado’s Deep Song, directed by Lynne Taylor- worldwide. Performance highlights in North America Corbett, and choreographed Romeo and Juliet for the Denver include Berkeley’s Cal Performances, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Theater Center. He has directed and choreographed Bodas Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the American Dance Festival, de Sangre, The Lower Depths, La Celestina, A Streetcar Named Wolf Trap, and the Hollywood Bowl. Internationally, the Desire, and productions in Spain and . In company has appeared on stages in , New Zealand, 2000 Santangelo was nominated for CalArts/Alpert Awards Greece, and Egypt. With annual in the Arts. He is married to seasons in New York City Soledad Barrio and they have two and Buenos Aires, and return daughters, Gabriela and Stella. engagements at theaters all over SOLEDAD BARRIO the world, the company has a (Dancer) was born in Madrid, dedicated global audience. Spain. She has appeared as soloist Hailed by critics for with Manuela Vargas, Blanca del its transcendent and deeply Rey, Luisillo, El Guito, Manolete, emotional performances, Noche Cristobal Reyes, El Toleo, Ballet Flamenca is recognized as Espanol de Paco Romero, and the most authentic Flamenco Festival Flamenco. Barrio has touring company in the field performed throughout Europe, today. Santangelo has successfully brought to the stage Japan, North America, and South America with Alejandro the essence, purity, and integrity of one of the world’s most Granados, Isabel Bayón, Jesus Torres, Miguel Pérez, Manolo complex and mysterious art forms without the use of tricks or Marin, Javier Barón, Merce Esmeralda, Rafael Campallo, gimmicks. All aspects of Flamenco dance, song, and music and Belén Maya. She has won awards from more than 12 are interrelated and given equal weight in the presentations countries worldwide for her excellence in dance and was of Noche Flamenca, creating a true communal spirit within awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) the company – the very heart and soul of Flamenco. In for “Outstanding Creative Achievement” in 2001. Barrio is support of its mission to educate and enlighten audiences a founding member of Noche Flamenca. about Flamenco, the company offers extensive residency JUAN OGALLA (Dancer) was born in Cádiz, programs that reach out to people of all ages. With company Spain, and started as a professional at the age of 15. He members based in Spain, Noche Flamenca is registered in the was a member of the Company Manuel Morao, Ballet de United States as a non-profit organization with its office and Cristina Hoyos, Manuela Carrasco, and Company of Maria representation based in New York City. Noche Flamenca’s Pages. Ogalla has participated in Festival Internacional de artistic integrity has been recognized with awards from the Mont de Marssans, Festival de Música y Danza de Granada, National Dance Project (2006) and the Lucille Lortel Award Festival Flamenco de Mahón, and Festival Querencias en for “Special Theatrical Experience” (2003). Ceret. He has performed in the tablaos (flamenco bars) Casa MARTÍN SANTANGELO (Artistic Director), a Patas, El Arenal, and Los Gallos; in theaters throughout native New Yorker, was inspired to train in the form of Europe, Japan, North America, and Spain as a soloist; Flamenco and moved to Madrid, Spain, in 1992. He studied Festival de Jerez; and Paris Opera. He is currently working with Ciro, Paco Romero, El Guito, Manolete, and Alejandro on a production with Manuela Ríos and Arcángel. This is Granados. As a Flamenco dancer, he performed throughout Ogalla’s third season with Noche Flamenca. Spain, Japan, North America, and South America, appearing Continued on page 15

14 ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ (Dancer), otherwise Maria Jimenez, and Matilde Coral. Pérez has also performed known as “El Chupete,” was born in 1974 in Osuna, with the companies of Jose Greco, Manolo Soler, and Adrian Spain, and began dancing at an early age in the Flamenco Galia and participated in Festival de Nîmes – the first guitar festivals, fairs, and peñas of Andalucía, Spain. His dance festival in Nîmes, France. This is his eighth season with training was not obtained in school, but alongside the Noche Flamenca. professional singers and dancers that served as his guide. EUGENIO IGLESIAS (Guitarist) began playing He debuted professionally in El Cordobés de Barcelona, professionally at a very young age and worked in all the which is considered one of the finest Flamenco tablaos of important tablaos in Sevilla, Spain. Iglesias began touring Spain. Rodríguez has performed with the National Ballet with various companies and has accompanied many dancers of Spain and has shared the stage with Carmen Ledesma in such as Antonio Canales, Farruco, Farruquito, El Guito, La the National Opera of Tokyo. He has also choreographed Tona, Javier Baron, Sara Varas, Manuela Carrasco, Israel for Yoko Komatsubara. Rodríguez has toured extensively as Galvan, Mario Maya, Angelita Vargas, and Alejandro a featured soloist in , , Holland, Brazil, Japan, Granados. He also accompanied many great Flamenco Mexico, and New York. He continues to dance in tablaos in singers in Spain, including Lole Montoya, La Negra, Sevilla and Granada, Spain. This is his fourth season with Chiquetete, La Susi, Carmen Montoya, Juan Villar, and El Noche Flamenca. Potito. Iglesias is currently working on his Flamenco show MANUEL GAGO (Singer) was born in Cádiz, Spain, as composer and songwriter. This is his third season with to a family of Flamenco singers. Gago began singing at the Noche Flamenca. g age of 5 and by 14, he was singing in Flamenco festivals with well-known singers such as Juan Villar, Charo Lobato, and Rancapino. Later, he began singing for dancers Joaquín Patina Catering Cortez, Sara Varas, Rafaela Carrasco, Guito, Manolete, & Javier Barón, Isabel Bayon, and Cristobal Reyes. Gago has Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts traveled the world, singing in Europe, Asia, South America, and North America. This is his eighth season with Noche invite you to attend a Flamenca. EMILIO FLORIDO (Singer) was born in Cádiz, Bridal Showcase Spain. He began singing and working professionally as a Saturday, April 19, 2008 child in Jerez, Cádiz, and Sevilla, Spain. As a soloist, he has accompanied dancers such as Adrián Galia, Luis Ortega, 11am–3pm Belén Maya, Yolanda Heredia, Rocio Molina, Manuela Featuring a tasting by Patina Catering, Carroasco, and Miguel Ángel Espino. Florido has performed a couture fashion show, with the companies of Cristina Hoyos, El ballet de Madrid, and booths by expert wedding vendors. and La Raza. He has toured extensively in Japan, South America, and Europe. This is Florido’s sixth season with $5 per person Noche Flamenca. Cerritos Performing Arts Center MIGUEL PÉREZ (Guitarist) began his professional 12700 Center Court Drive., Cerritos career at 9 by his father’s side in Sevilla, Spain, playing in Sevillian tabloas such as Los Gallos, El Patio Sevillano, and RSVP to Rosemay Vera El Flamenco de Tokio. He has accompanied renowned [email protected] figures such as Farucco, Manuela Carrasco, Arcangel, 714 540 0500, ext 113 Alejando Granados, El Guito, Rafaela Carrasco, Antonio Canales, La Tona, Isabel Bayon, Trini Espana, Loli Flores,

15 presents AN EVENING WITH

Saturday, March 22, 2008, 8:00 PM

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

BIOGRAPHY In AN EVENING WITH ROBERT CRAY, the releases, including , , Shame + five-time Grammy-winning Bluesman Cray performs the hits a Sin, and . In 1996 Cray picked up that have made him a household name. Few Blues acts have another Grammy for his contribution on SRV Shuffle, a track managed to accomplish as much crossover success as Cray, on the A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan album, which featured but his enticing blend of R&B, Blues, and Soul has delighted various performers, including Clapton, King, Art Neville, Dr. an ever-expanding loyal fan base. Since transitioning into John, Bonnie Raitt, and Buddy Guy. the Pop mainstream with the Smoking Gun single from Strong By the late ’90s, it was time to hit the road again. The Persuader, Cray’s soulful sound has become a bridge between band packed its bags and toured the United States with King Traditional and Contemporary Blues. and Europe with Clapton. It also toured New Zealand and An ardent music lover and guitarist since his early Australia. In 1999 Cray took home his fifth Grammy with teens, Cray formed his own band in 1974. The group began the “Best Contemporary Blues Album” . by performing in West Coast college towns. After a few years The ensuing years brought a string of well-received releases, of regional success, the band scored a contract with Mercury including Time Will Tell and , garnering Records in 1982, and soon followed. The more applause for the group and further securing its role in record’s success boosted Cray’s status and name recognition, music history. leading to career-making gigs with A-list musicians such as Cray’s longevity in the fickle Pop and Blues arenas is Grammy winners Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, the Eurythmics, largely attributed to his guitar prowess and bold Southern and B.B. King. Soul. The singer-songwriter’s talent and appeal have By the late ’80s, Cray and his band’s stature was on the also attracted Hollywood’s attention, leading to several rise, with yet another Grammy triumph for Don’t Be Afraid appearances on Saturday Night Live, Late Night With David of the Dark, the “Best Contemporary Blues Recording” that Letterman, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and rocked the music charts. The next decade kept the group 1978’s Animal House, in which Cray plays a bassist in the busy, with a celebrated tour in Russia and a slew of smash movie’s fictional band Otis Day and the Knights. g

16 presents SOPHIE B. HAWKINS and JANIS IAN

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 8:00 PM

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

BIOGRAPHIES SOPHIE B. HAWKINS emerged on the music Born in 1951, Janis Eddy Fink, later known as JANIS scene in 1992 with her debut album Tongues and Tails. The IAN, wrote her first song,Hair of Spun Gold, at the age of Columbia Records release quickly reached Gold-selling status 12. She recorded it on her first album,Janis Ian, which and earned Hawkins a Grammy nomination for “Best New was released in 1967. The album also featured her first hit, Artist.” The single from the album Damn I Wish I Was Your Society’s Child, which ignited controversy from coast to coast, Lover became a Top Five hit. She followed with a second with its then taboo theme of interracial romance. The song Gold-selling album, Whaler, which featured the single As I sparked the burning of a radio station and the firing of disc Lay Me Down. The song became a blockbuster hit, charting jockeys who played it. In 2001, Society’s Child was inducted on Billboard for a record-breaking 67 weeks. into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Hawkins released Timbre in 1999, then negotiated After recording three more albums during the next two with Columbia Records to leave the label while retaining years for Verve Folkways, Ian took a break from recording. ownership of the masters to the album. In 2001, she re- She returned with Stars in 1974, featuring the song Jesse, released Timbre on her own Trumpet Swan imprint, with two which later became a Top 10 hit for Roberta Flack. new tracks added. In 1975, Ian’s first Platinum-selling release,Between the Her 2004 release, Wilderness, became her most Lines, was released. The album featured At Seventeen, which ambitious project yet. Working out of her home studio near earned Ian her first two Grammy Awards for “Album of the Los Angeles, she wrote and laid down the album’s tracks on Year” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.” During a variety of instruments. In addition to guitar, cello, drums, the next six years, she released an eclectic mix of six more and keyboards, Wilderness featured an exotic collection of albums for CBS Records, including Aftertones, which was a percussion instrumentation that has fascinated Hawkins Top 20 Gold record in the United States and the highest- since her studies with African drum legend Babatunde selling album by a solo female performer in Japan’s history. Olatuni and her time at the Manhattan School of Music. Ian released the Grammy-nominated Breaking Silence In 2006, Hawkins released her debut live album, in 1993, followed by Revenge, Hunger, God & the FBI, and Bad Kitty Board Mix. Recorded in Seattle, the two-disc Billie’s Bones. In 2003, she released Janis Ian Live, Working set captured the true energy and essence of Hawkins as a Without a Net, followed by a DVD in 2005, Live at Club Cafe. performer. Her most recent release is Folk Is the New Black. g

17 presents SHIDARA Heart of the Immortal Mountain

Welcome to our home, where forest cliffs touch heaven’s floor, gathering life from the human, natural, and spirit worlds. We are glad you have come.

PERFORMERS Chabo Satoshi Owaki • Ryuichi Hasegawa • Yuka Hasegawa Mitsumasa Miyazaki • Aya Sato • Nobuko Hayazaki Megan Chao Smith • Akihiko Yoshida • Daisuke Inadome • Takayuki Kito

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Chabo

SOUND MANAGER LIGHTING DIRECTOR Satoshi Owaki Fumiyo Inokuchi

TOUR MANAGER Megan Chao Smith

ROAD MANAGER ASSISTANT ROAD MANAGER Karen Falkenstrom Kristy Oshiro

TOUR ASSISTANT/INTERN Sarah Anderson

TRANSLATORS Megan Chao Smith • Fumiyo Inokuchi • Sarah Anderson

Shidara is exclusively represented in North America by California Artists Management www.CalArtists.com

Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:00 PM

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

18 PROGRAM

MURASAMENONE Composed by Chabo

The sounds of heavy rain in the forest.

KAZENOMICHI Composed by Chabo

Wind touches down among the grass and trees, rushing and darting through rice fields. All at once, the doorway to another world appears in its path. If we continue down this road, what will we find along the way?

OTODAMA Improvisation by Ryuichi Hasegawa

There is a spirit and soul in sound. Our senses, emotions, passion, and life exist in all sounds. Random sounds have little meaning, but if gathered and arranged they become music.

NIEBUCHI Composed by Chabo

Thousands of drops of water build to make a stream, and eventually a raging river. The surging torrent of water wears away large boulders and carves out the mountains. In the same way that small raindrops combine to form a giant river, when the strengths of each person come together, an unbelievable power is formed.

INTERMISSION

TONBI Composed by Chabo

A small, hawk-like bird cuts through wind, aiming at prey, circling the big sky, coasting, and riding. In Japan, many tonbi circle the skies of Toei village. From their soaring perspective, the eyes of the tonbi reflect to us about human life.

KOGANENOKAZE Composed by Chabo

During the harvest season, the countryside is blanketed with fields of rice, ears, and stalks that turn a golden brown, swaying in the gentle breeze. The ears of ripening rice dance in the wind, which itself seems to turn golden brown.

HONO KUNI Composed by Chabo

Our region was once called Hono Kuni, the land of grain. In this song, god-like massive boulders sit over a tiny human shrine lit with lanterns. Hono Kuni is about our home from ages past, pure swaying fields, and majestic natural landscape.

HANA MATSURI Traditional Arrangement with Choreography by Chabo

Hana Matsuri, a local harvest festival designated as an important National Folk Cultural Property of Japan, is a religious ceremony where performances are actual prayers for good health, an abundant harvest, and harmonious communion of the divine and human worlds. Please join us in the festival at the very heart of our art, philosophy, and life.

19 BIOGRAPHY Deep from within the mountains of Japan comes Since sweeping the Tokyo Taiko Championships in SHIDARA. Blending top-notch skill, blinding energy, 2002 and enjoying the stage with Grammy and Golden and breakneck speed, its performances carry a deeper award winner Kitaro in 2003, Shidara now tours regularly spiritual purpose rooted in ancient times. Defying time throughout Japan and Korea. The group has also given and place, the music captures earthy tones of long ago, acclaimed performances in Norway, Sweden, Martinique, and thunders with new images of Japanese mountain and Taipei. Thunderous standing ovations and popular life. Members live and train at their mountain facility in audience demand during the company’s U.S. debut has led strictest traditional discipline. Deeply entwined in the to regular North American tours since 2006. In Shidara’s life of its village, Shidara has committed to preserving own words, “Through our performance we hope to bring the ancient dance festivals in its region. Performances people together, joining hands in reciprocal support while include a rendition of The Hana Matsuri Festival, a 730- walking an essential path of mutual encouragement. This year-old harvest ritual deemed a Japanese National Folk was done at ancient festivals, where circles of human Cultural Property. harmony were created, born of a spirit of gratitude to the Earth and natural world.” g

On Stage Earn a Starring Role as an Advertising Opportunity ARTS Ambassador

THE ARTS AMBASSADORS is a group of 500 volunteer ushers comprised of working The Cerritos Center for the Performing professionals, students, and active seniors from Arts is now taking advertising space reservations for the On Stage program. Cerritos and its neighboring communities, many Each issue of On Stage is distributed of whom have volunteered with the Cerritos to some 15,000 patrons. Placing an Center for the Performing Arts since the advertisement in the program for the inaugural season in 1993. entire season provides an opportunity to reach more than 150,000 theater patrons. EACH YEAR the Ambassadors donate more than 20,000 hours in support of events at the For more information please call On Stage Account Executive Anna Jones at CCPA and enjoy the opportunity to see many (562) 916-8510, extension 2520. of the theater’s programs on a regular basis.

To learn more please call House Manager Alan Strickland at (562) 916-8510.

20 presents TAP KIDS

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM Sunday, March 30, 2008, 3:00 PM

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

BIOGRAPHies MICHAELA BASILIO is 19 years old and hails from studies dance at Broadway Dance Center and Steps, teaches Wilmington, North Carolina. She started dancing at the age Tap, and has choreographed award-winning Tap dances at of 6 and has won many prestigious awards, including fourth various studios. place in the American Dance Idol competition in Orlando, Brittany Parks is 18 years old and is from Florida. Basilio attends Parsons School of Design in New Austin, Texas. She put on her first pair of Tap shoes when York City where she studies fashion design and business. She she was 3. Parks was awarded the Encore Dance Continued on page 22

21 Competition For the Stars (DCS) “Performer of the Year” KILEIGH WILLIAMS is from Marion, Indiana. She honor and received special recognition from Capezio when is 16 years old and has been with the company since age she attended Encore DCS Las Vegas Nationals. Parks has 11. Williams began dancing at the age of 3 and has studied received numerous scholarships and is pursuing a career on with many notable Tap teachers, including Jamie Douglas Broadway. Bragg. She plays volleyball, soccer, and track and loves to LIZ PLOTT is originally from Ohio. She studied with snowboard. In 2004, Williams and three members of Tap many Tap masters, including the late Buster Brown, Jimmy Kids performed in Prodigy at Tropicana Casino and Resorts Tate, Lynn Schwab, Shea Sullivan, and Lady Dianne Walker. Atlantic City. She was featured in Young Dancer Magazine Plott’s competitive career has spanned a period of 13 years. in 2005. Recently she performed with the WNBA Indiana She has won more than 75 top overall junior and senior Fever Inferno Dance Team, Hip-Hop squad. She is an honor soloists awards and numerous titles, including the 1996 roll student at Marion High School and thanks her family “Junior Miss Dance of Ohio,” and has ranked in the top 10 in and community for their sacrifices and support so she can do the country. She is currently living in New York City where what she loves. she is pursuing her lifelong dream of dancing on Broadway. MICHAEL WILSON, 19 years old from Aurora, Plott was featured in Prodigy at the Tropicana Casino and Colorado, has been dancing for 11 years. Since he began Resort Atlantic City and danced in the national tours of competing seven years ago, he has won many regional Scrooge: The Musical and Dream. She thanks her family and titles and special awards. Wilson was an original member friends for all of their support of the Funky Beats Youth Tap Ensemble, which performed SHANE RUTKOWSKI is a New Jersey native throughout Colorado. He studies Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Hip-Hop, who grew up competing around the country. In 2003 he and Lyrical dance in Los Angeles and has received awards for was awarded “Top Soloist” at the New Jersey State Dance his choreography. Championships and danced at the Elan Awards honoring MATT Gershen is 18 years old and has been director Rob Marshall. While touring the world with Tap dancing since age 4. Currently he dances at Fancy Feet Kids, Rutkowski appeared as the Ghost of Christmas Future Dance Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina. Recently, in Scrooge: The Musical and was a featured dancer and he won his fourth National Dance Competition and model for M•A•C cosmetics’ dance line. He is a member placed seventh in the American Dance Idol competition of the Modern dance company Veracity and can be seen in Orlando, Florida. In 2004, he was in the cast of Road in Rachel Neville’s photographic exhibition, The Source. to Victory in Washington, D.C. Gershen has started Currently a resident of New York City, Rutkowski continues choreographing his own routines and hopes to continue to train in all genres of dance while teaching and judging while he improves his Tap technique. for National Dance Showcase. He is working on a degree in BIANCA REVELS has performed since the age of 3 communications and media at Fordham University. and studies voice, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, and CJ Salvador is 16 years old and resides in Spring African dance. She has earned more than 80 competitive Grove, Illinois. He has been dancing Hip-Hop and Tap awards and scholarships, among them the Interlochen since age 9. In 2005, Salvador was a featured Tap dancer in Center for the Arts and American Ballet Theatre summer Dance Spirit Magazine’s “20 Hot Tappers Under 20.” He has intensive programs. Her stage credits include Reason for the received many awards and scholarships; is a member of the Season, When God Comes Down From Heaven, Cinderella, student-directed Footprints Tap Ensemble at Talent Forum in The Wiz, Hold My Mule, the Broadway production of The Libertyville, Illinois; and was chosen as an assistant rehearsal Harlem Nutcracker, and the lead vocal role in the Henry Ford director for the company this year. Salvador is a member of Community Center production of Grease. Her television Talent Forum’s Forum Jazz Dance Company, directed by Eddy performances include The Jenny Jones Show for talented kids Ocampo and Richard Smith. and Showtime at the Apollo. g

22 presents ARTURO SANDOVAL Friday, April 4, 2008, 8:00 PM

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

BIOGRAPHY ARTURO SANDOVAL is fluent in at least four awarded a Latin Grammy Award, “Best Latin Jazz Album” for musical languages. He can burn through an Afro-Cuban Rumba Palace. groove, tear up a Bebop tune, soar over a Wolfgang Amadeus A tenured professor at Florida International University, Mozart concerto, and soothe listeners with a luscious ballad, Sandoval works nationally and abroad with several with equal power and grace. Granted political asylum in July institutions, offering scholarships, exercise books, clinics, and 1990 and United States citizenship in 1999, Sandoval and seminars. In addition, he works with the National Academy his family now call , Florida, home. of Recording Arts and Sciences’ (NARAS) educational A protégé of the legendary Jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, program. The Hal Leonard Corporation has released Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town educational books with recorded CDs that on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November include original exercises by Sandoval. The 6, 1949. Sandoval began studying Classical company also has published various big band, trumpet at the age of 12, but it didn’t take him combo, and marching band charts from his long to catch the excitement of the Jazz world. award-winning albums. He has since evolved into one of the world’s Sandoval is also a renowned Classical most acknowledged guardians of Jazz trumpet musician, performing with leading symphony and flügelhorn, as well as a renowned Classical orchestras from around the world. He has musician, pianist, and composer. composed his own Concerto for Trumpet & Sandoval was a founding member of Orchestra, which can be heard on Arturo the Grammy award-winning group Irakere, Sandoval: The Classical Album. Also, he was whose explosive mixture of Jazz, Classical, Rock, and asked by composer-conductor John Williams to record traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the Williams’ original Trumpet Concerto with the London entertainment world. In 1981 he left Irakere to form his own Symphony Orchestra. band, which garnered praise from critics and audiences all Sandoval’s versatility is showcased on recordings with over the world. everyone from Gillespie, Woody Herman, Woody Shaw, Sandoval has won four Grammy Awards, six Billboard Michel Legrand, Bill Conti, and Stan Getz to Johnny Mathis, Awards, and an Emmy Award, the latter for composing , Rod Stewart, and Keys. Sandoval’s playing also the entire underscore on HBO’s For Love or Country: The can be heard on Dave Grusin’s soundtrack for Havana, on Arturo Sandoval Story. He was seen by millions on the 2004 the Mambo Kings soundtrack with his Grammy-nominated Grammy Awards, performing with Pop-phenomenon Justin composition Mambo Caliente, and on the soundtrack of The Timberlake, as well as on the 2004 Billboard Latin Music Perez Family. Sandoval was commissioned by the Kennedy Awards with Alicia Keys, where he was awarded his sixth Center to compose music for the ballet Pepito’s Story, Billboard Award for “Best Latin Jazz Album.” In 2007, he was choreographed by Debbie Allen. g

23 THE TICKET OFFICE is open 10 AM to 6 PM Monday Out of courtesy to the performers and fellow patrons, through Friday and 12 Noon to 4 PM on Saturday and CELLULAR PHONES, PAGERS, AND ALARM Sunday. Hours are extended through the first intermission on WATCHES should be disconnected before the start of the performance days. performance.

TICKETS can be charged to Visa, MasterCard, Discover or DOCTORS AND PARENTS should leave their seating American Express by phoning (800) 300-4345 or (562) 916-8500, locations with exchanges or sitters and have them call or online at www.cerritoscenter.com. Mail orders are processed (562) 916-8508 in case of an emergency. as they are received. Tickets cannot be reserved without payment. THE COAT ROOM is located behind the Grand Staircase.

LOST TICKET AND TICKET EXCHANGE policies CAMERAS AND RECORDING EQUIPMENT ARE NOT vary; however, there are no refunds. Call (800) 300-4345 for PERMITTED in the Auditorium and must be checked at the information. Coat Room.

GROUPS of 20 or more may purchase tickets at a 10% discount. LOST ARTICLES can be claimed by calling (562) 916-8510. Call (800) 300-4345. ELEVATORS are located near the Grand Staircase and access CHILDREN’S PRICES apply to children twelve (12) years of each level of the Lobby. age and under. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket, sit in a seat, and be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. PAY PHONES are located on the Orchestra level behind the We do not recommend children under the age of six (6) attend Grand Staircase and near the restrooms on the Gold Circle level. unless an event is specifically described as suited to that age. PHONIC EAR WIRELESS HEADSETS FREE PUBLIC TOURS are conducted by appointment only. for the hearing impaired are available in the Coat Room at no Special tours can be arranged by calling (562) 916-8530. cost. To obtain a headset, a driver’s license or major credit card is required and is returned upon receipt of the equipment at the PARKING is always free in the spacious lots adjacent to the close of the performance. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. WHEELCHAIR locations are available in various areas of the FULL-SERVICE BARS are located in the Grand Lobby on the Auditorium. Please contact the Ticket Office at (800) 300-4345. Orchestra level and at the Gold Circle level. Refreshments are not allowed in the Auditorium. LATECOMERS will be seated at the discretion of the house staff at an appropriate pause in the program. SMOKING IS NOT PERMITTED in any City facility. CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION VIEWING is available in EMERGENCY MEDICAL technicians are on duty at all the Lobby of each seating level and at the Lobby bar. performances. If you need first aid, contact an usher for assistance. THE CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’ Auditorium and Sierra Room are available for special RESTROOMS are located behind the Grand Staircase on the events on a rental basis. For more information, please call Special Orchestra level and at the Grand Staircase Landing on the Gold Event Services at (562) 916-8510, ext. 2827. Circle level.

BE THE FIRST LEARN about upcoming events and other important information about the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA). Don’t spend time looking for CCPA news; let it come right to you as it happens! To be in-the-know, just fill out this form and hand it to any of our ushers at intermission or following the performance.

NAME E-MAIL

ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP

24 THE CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (CCPA) thanks the following CCPA Associates who have contributed to the CCPA’s Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund was established in 1994 under the visionary leadership of the Cerritos City Council to ensure that the CCPA would remain a welcoming, accessible, and affordable venue in which patrons can experience the joy of entertainment and cultural enrichment. For more information about the Endowment Fund or to make a contribution, please contact the CCPA Administrative Offices at (562) 916-8510.

4-Speed Delivery Service, Inc. Patricia Cozzini Pam and Judge Philip Hickok Diana Merryman Dennis Salts Judy Akin-Palmer and Dr. Pamela and John Crawley Ping Ho Todd Meyer Monica Sanchez Jacques Palmer Eugenia Creason Deborah and Samuel Hooper Luzviminda Miguel Wendy and Tom Schiff Deidri and Barry Alderson Virginia Czarnecki Roberta and Dr. Gary Gary Miller Mildred Scholnick Barbara and Benjamin Melody and Ray Dapp Hopkins Kathleen Miller Lorraine and William Sedlak Alhadeff Joy Darling and Don Mackin Bonnie Hudson Ellie and Jim Monroe Mary Serles Jami and Carlos Angulo Angel De Sevilla Melvin Hughes Patricia Moore Olivette Shannon Dr. Dixie and Ed Arnold Robert Dean Marianne and Robert Becky Morales Kristi Shaw Cynthia and Bill Arthur Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Deckard Hughlett Thomas A. Morgan Cindy Shilkret Larry Baggs Susanne and John DeHart Paul Irby Cortland Myers Karen and James Shultz Nancy and Nick Baker LesLee and Karl Delaney Mark Itzkowitz Caroline and Alan Nakken Kathleen Sidaris Debby and Norman Balders Louise and John Dellasante Sharon Jacoby National Endowment Neil Siegel Terry Bales Erin Delliquadri José Iturbi Foundation for the Arts Ina Silverman and Larry Starr Sharon and Gill Barnett Bruce Dickinson James Juliani Alan Negosian Dorothy Simmons Sallie Barnett Jane and Larry Dicus Luanne Kamiya A.J. Neiman Loren Slafer Alan Barry Amy and George Dominguez Gloria and Sherman Kappe New England Foundation Sylvia Sligar In Loving Memory of Linda Dowell Fay and Lawrence Kerneen for the Arts Fred Smith Carol M. Behan Gloria Dumais Joseph Kienle Ronald Nichols So Cal Medical, Inc. Yvette Belcher Stanley Dzieminski Norm Kirschenbaum Toby Nishida Kerry Spears Peggy Bell Lee Eakin Jack and Jacky Kleyh Linda Nomura Craig M. Springer, Ph.D. Barbara Berhns Shoreen and Don Eakin Gillian and Philip Klinkert Cathryn O’Brien-Smith Eleanor St. Clair John Beringer Dee Eaton Julie and Hon. Don Knabe Ann and Clarence Ohara Kris and Robert Steedman Morris Bernstein Heidi Eddy-Dorn and Karen Knecht Karen Ohta Gale Stein Norman Blanco Larry Dorn Lee M. Kochems and Victoria and Raymond Donna Stevens Kathleen Blomo Gary Edward Vincent J. Patti Orlando Bryan Stirrat Judy and Don Bogart Connie and Jim Edwards Jerry Kohl Pam Ormiston Kay and Harvey Stover Marilyn Bogenschutz Eric Eltinge Dawn Marie Kotsonis Dr. Paul Orr Richard Strayer Linda and Sergio Bonetti Teri Esposito Dr. Philip Kress P. P. Mfg. Co. Inc. - Ronald Burr William Stringer Paula Briggs Richard Falb Linda and Harry Kusuda George Palomino Richard Surbeck Melanie and Michael Broad Renee Fallaha Patrice and Kevin Kyle Mary Ellen Pascucci Lawrence Takahashi Darrell Brooke Dr. Stuart Farber Carl Laconico Angela and Devy Paul LaVerne Tancill Shelley and Danny Brose Don Felder Nelson Lane Waynn Pearson Dr. Silas Thomas Mary Brough Heather M. Ferber David Latter Barbara and Paul Penrose Ken Thompson Cheryl and Kerry Bryan Dr. Susan Fox Earnestine Lavergne Jackie and Joe Ploen Joann Tommy Mary and Bob Buell Teresa Freeborn Pat and Maynard Law Merrill Plou Sharon Touchstone Ina Burton June and Takeshi Fujisaki Mr. and Mrs. Harold Leach Forrest Poorman Karen Trace-Verzani Linda and Larry Burton Arthur Gapasin Paolo Ledesma Preserved TreeScapes Int’l- Lilliane K. Triggs Dr. Marjorie Cain Mitchell Lori and Bob Gay Laura and Charles Lee Dennis E. Gabrick Jean Tuohino Robert Campbell Franz Gerich Donna and Todd Lempert Susan Ragone Maria Tupaz Michael Canup Roberta and Dr. Lawrence Jenny and Jim Levy Bijan Ramineh United Parcel Service Michelle Casey Gershon Vanessa Lewis Karen Randall Alex Urbach Yvonne Cattell The Goldsmith Family Marcia Lewis Bev and George Ray Tim VanEck Sylvia and Tuncer Cebeci William Goodwin Teresa and Robert Lidman Bev and George Ray Raman Venkat Chamber Music Society Graham Gosling Los Cerritos Center Charitable Foundation Maria Von Sadovszky of Detroit Debe and Larry Graham Johnny Magsby Robin Raymond Diane and Fred Vunak Joann and George Chambers Suzanne and Bob Grayson Denise Manoogian Sharon Reece and Laurence Charles Wadman Rodolfo Chavez Dr. Jon Grazer Stephen Mao Harma Robert Walters Dr. Philip Chinn Susan and Dr. Robert Green Donna K. Martin Rosalie Relleve Angela S.Wang Genevieve and Ralph Choy Norma and Gary Greene Pamela and John Martin Diane and Richard Renaker Wave Broadband Patricia Christie Kenneth Greenleaf Janice Kay Matthews Nikki and Dennis Repp Anita and Dr. David Weinstein Carlota and Daniel Ciauri Tamra and Kirby Greenlee Pansy and Robert Mattox Betty and Nash Rivera Margie and David Williams Neal Clyde Allen Grogan Cecilia and Ronald Maus Lynne Rose Pamela Wilson Mark Cochrane Roger Hale Carol and William McCune Patricia Rose Charlotte and Howard Winer Michael Cohn Carol and Harry Hanaki Marilyn and Dennis Jean Rothaermel Pornwit Wipanurat Barbara and Jim Conklin Lois and Thomas Harris McGorman Thomas Rothwell Charles Wong Patricia Cookus Hedy Harrison Ursula and Lawrence Melvin Martin Ruby Jeanne Yanez Virginia Correa Howard Herdman Barbara and Edwin Shirley Rundell Jeanette Yee Ron Cowan Saul Hernandez Mendenhall Sharon and Larry Sagert Asuman and Deniz Yilmaz Xavier Zavatsky

To request a change to your listing on this page, please call (562) 467-8806, or send an e-mail to [email protected].

25 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.

For more information contact Amanda Harris For more information contact Hélène Trudeau at (562) 916-1293 at (562) 916-1300

To find out more about the Friends, make a donation, or get involved, please contact the Friends office at (562) 467-8844 or visit us online at www.friendsofaecc.com

Friends of Arts Education at the Cerritos Center 12700 Center Court Drive Cerritos, California 90703

26 PLATINUM CIRCLE [$12,500 - above] Mrs. Bryan A. Stirrat • Bob & Ann Stoffel • A.J. Taen • Target Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo • B & B Stables/Bob & Verizon • Ms. Karen Trace-Verzani • Waffles of California • Walter Mary Buell • Nick & Nancy Baker • The Boeing Company • bp & Phyllis White • Daniel J. & Linda M. Williams • Dr. Winer/Woods The City of Cerritos • Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation • Don & Electric • Richard & Elena Zumel Shoreen Eakin • Dr. Gary & Robert Hopkins • Los Angeles County Arts Commission • Los Angeles County Supervisor Don & Julie BRONZE CIRCLE [$1,250 - $2,499] Knabe • Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Lomeli • Dan Neyenhuis • Bev & George John & Jo Bakulich • Brian & Pat Beck • Ken & Lynn Boshart Ray/Lefiell • UPS • Weingart Foundation • Jane & Sonny Yada Michael & Melanie Broad • Mel & Row Briggs • Larry & Linda Burton/The Hada Family • Frank Cardone • John Daley GOLD CIRCLE [$6,250 - $12,499] John & Louise Dellasanta • Larry & Jane Dicus • Shirley Dohrman Abelstik/Alan Syzdek • John H. & Betty A. Adams Trust • Ralph & Connie & Jim Edwards • Dean & Karen Fisher • Sheila A. Fulmis Genevieve Choy • Mr. & Mrs. Dan Ciauri • Joy Darling • Fred & Vicki Gutman/Notes by Vicki • Van & Linda Hartley • Edward & Carmen Davidson • Roland, Anna & Michael Dennis • Gary & Esther Ho • Bob & Marianne Hughlett • James Jenkins • Robert & Jeanette Frank • Jim & Nancy Gaines • Bonnie & Mary Hudson Barbara Jerome • Jim & Karen King • Keith & Sharon Kuroyama Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lienau, Jr. • Mainly Seconds Pottery, Plants & Mary & Robert LaFrance • Ray & Kathleen Lovell • David & Jeany Thing • John F. Martin, CPA & Assoc., Inc. • Ruth McClure McFarland • Sidney & Sondra Melnick • Frank & Sandy Micheletti William & Lorraine McCune Family Foundation • Dennis & Marilyn Don & Delores Munro • Danny N. Ogawa • Mavis E. Petersen & McGorman • Nancy Nicola & Warren Lampkin • Pacific Life Family • Roya & Bob Phillips • Jane & Paul Pratt • Rick & Diane Foundation • James & Karen Schultz Art & Marilynn Segal Renaker • In Memory of G.A. & Morene Rogers/Gerald L. Faris Marjorie Rosenberg & Carol Smith • Sharyne Snyder • Kay & Joseph D. Sears • William Sedlak • Cindy Shilkret • Edwin & Joyce Harvey Stover • George & Ruri Sugimoto Ronald Weber • Scott & Smith • Susan Sung • Roy & Marge Tanaka • Michi & Ron Tanimoto Donna White • Woman’s Club of Artesia-Cerritos • Yamaha Michele Vice-Maslin • James & Jill Webb • Gary Whitener/Trim-Lok, Corporation of America Inc. • Janice Wilbur

SILVER CIRCLE [$2,500 - $6,249] CERRITOS CIRCLE [$600 - $1,249] Dr. Gary A. Afferino & Dr. Betty C. Tai • Astor Broadcast Group Joseph Aldama • Dale Becker • Isaac Kawamoto • Dr. & Mrs. Beringer & Associates, Inc. • Mary & Roy Blackburn • Dr. & Mrs. Han-Pin Kim • Dennis & Vonnie Kinoshita • Los Cerritos Center Patrick Bushman • Martin D. Chavez • Robert Chavez • In Loving Brian & Terri Mayeda • John Molina • Stephen Morris • Noontime Memory of Patrice Ann Clifton/Felix & Jozell Gallion-Robertson Optimist Club of Cerritos • Joshua Rosman • Edward J. & Tracy Gary & Patsy Connors • Steve & Karen Davenport • John Decker Simmons • Stephen Skinner & Deborah Orth • Nancy Sur Smith Lloyd & Caroline de Llamas • Bill & Suzan DeYo • George & Amy Walmart/Tammy Cannon • Jeanne Yanez Dominguez • Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Ronald & Delores Eveland • Manny & Cecilia Gallardo • Michael PATRON CIRCLE [$300 - $599] & Gayle Garrity • Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Garvey • The Gettys Family Absolute Health Care • Dale Becker • Lindy & Basia Bressickello Ronald & Susan Gillaspie • Larry & Debe Graham • Dr. & Mrs. Don & Sharron Brundige • Eileen Castle • Dr. J. Mansfield Dean Robert & Susan Green • Richard C. & Dian Herr • Hon. & Mrs. Stuart L. Farber • Joan & Marty Flax • Kay & Mary Jane Fujimura Philip H. Hickok • Sam & Deborah Hooper • Dr. & Mrs. David V. Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Gershon • Rosemary Escalera Gutierrez Hubbell • Hing & Doris Hung • Indymac Bank • Jan Janura Gilbert & Marsha Honeycutt • Herb Hundt • Ernest & Kay Ikuta Kaczor/Irby Families • Sherman & Gloria Kappe • John H. Kendall Matthew & Roberta Jenkins • Karl Jefferson • Darryl Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Philip I. Kress • Lakewood Regional Medical Center Jerry & Sharyn Kelly • Ms. Nancy H. Kennedy • Sue & Stephen Klein Dr. Soledad Lee • Dr. Allan Lifson & James Neuman, California Terry L. Koepke • Alain Gravel & Larry Kraft • Barry & Sandy Lakin Educational Consultant Group, Inc. • Robert & Karla Maez • Frank Charles & Laura Lee • Dr. & Mrs. Max B. Martinez • Clarence & & Janet McCord • Michael & Marilyn McCullough • Alvin Mundo Celia Masuo • Robert & Shirley Murphy • Diana & Rick Needham, Stephen & Brenda Olson • Paul D. Orr, M.D. • A.J. Padelford & Son, Prudential California Realty • Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nishida • Mr. & Inc. • Salome Pichardo • Steven E. Potts • Gary Prince • Nikki & Mrs. John Richmond • Joyce Righetti • Gary T & Laura Rose • The Dennis Repp • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern David Samson Family • Ron, Judy & Lola Shiraishi • Sue & Richard California • Larry & Sharon Sagert • Dr. & Mrs. Mark S. Schnitzer Solomon • Howard & Celia Spitzer • Harold & Edna Yamaguchi Steve & Linda Shaffer • Helen L. Sheffield • Wanda M. Slade • Mr. & Carol & Sab Yamashita

27 Present a ticket stub for any show starting at 7:00 PM or later to receive a 10% discount (food only, excludes alcohol). Must be used same evening of the show.

Come in before the show and receive a 10% discount (food only, excludes alcohol) when you present a ticket for the show that day.