Bing Concert Hall Ticket Office NONPROFIT Stanford University ORGANIZATION 327 Lasuen Street, MC 2550 U.S. POSTAGE Stanford, CA 94305 PAID PALO ALTO, CA PERMIT NO. 28 BING CONCERT HALL Photo: Jeff Goldberg Photo: Jeff 2014–15 SEASON Complete Schedule, Subscription & Donation Information Inside STANFORD LIVE OUR CAMPUS PARTNERS Stanford Live is Stanford University’s performing Stanford Arts Institute many campus ensembles, Stanford Dance Season Subscriptions The Stanford Arts Institute including the Stanford A division of TAPS, Stanford on Sale in June arts presenter and producer. We are committed to Donate Now for Early Access focuses on promoting cross- Symphony Orchestra, Dance presents free and 2014–15 sharing, celebrating, and advancing the art of live disciplinary approaches to the Stanford Philharmonia low-cost performances, music, dance, theater, and opera. We unite celebrated arts—in teaching, research, Orchestra, Stanford Wind workshops, and more— and art making. The Institute Ensemble, and Stanford including events just for and emerging artists with the Stanford campus and gives grants to faculty, Jazz Orchestra. Stanford students and events greater Bay Area communities in a broad range of staff, and students; presents music.stanford.edu open to the public. arts events; incubates new dance.stanford.edu experiences that engage the senses and emotions, projects; and promotes Stanford Theater and artists and cultural groups Performance Studies Stanford Events SEASON stimulate minds, and enrich lives. We value artistic (TAPS) The master calendar of all vitality, learning, and an inclusive community. across our campus. artsinstitute.stanford.edu TAPS produces more than public events at Stanford can a dozen productions each be found at Stanford Live’s home is Bing Concert Hall. But Music at Stanford academic year, including events.stanford.edu. Media Sponsors: we present performances at venues all over campus, One of the major campus canonical plays, commissioned partners with Stanford Live, dance works, experimental including at Memorial Auditorium, Memorial Church, the Department of Music projects, and the presents its own series of work of visiting artists. and Frost Amphitheater. Foundations and In-Kind Sponsors: performances throughout taps.stanford.edu Bing Concert Hall was made possible by the vision and generous the academic year. The founding gift of Helen and Peter Bing and opened in January 2013. Department of Music hosts The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation On the following pages you will find a description of our exciting third season. Stanford Live brings the greatest performing artists in the world and the most 2014–15 SEASON WELCOME TO talented young performers to our community. While classical music in glorious Bing Concert Hall is the core of our program, we are equally committed to presenting the HIGHLIGHTS STANFORD LIVE full range of music—jazz, global, roots, electronic, and the American songbook—as CLASSICAL well as opera, dance, and theater in venues around the Stanford campus. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Our program is eclectic, broad, and balanced. We embrace the art of the past as well as AND BING St. Lawrence String Quartet the art of our time. Increasingly, there is a visual component to our performances. We commission and premiere new work in all artistic disciplines and seek out, support, and Moscow State Symphony LIVE CONTEXT: CONCERT HALL celebrate imagination and daring. Our goal is to shape a program that is more than the Susan Graham ARTS + IDEAS sum of its parts. Throughout is the sincere desire to bring to our community the most Haydn—Patronage and Enlightenment powerful expression of the depth and breadth of the performing arts. Apollo’s Fire Emerson String Quartet The Nile Project Stanford Live is also much more than great performances. We design complete, rich, and unusual experiences. Often, there is a lively social component. (This summer, we will Jordi Savall The Demo *World Premiere* introduce social dancing with live music in the Bing lobby.) Stanford’s intellectual life infuses San Francisco Symphony our program and enriches it. We’ve created a new series of talks, panels, and seminars Lang Lang *Bing Fling* called “Live Context” to more fully explore the ideas that inform some of our performances. CONTENTS Australian Chamber Orchestra Join Our Family 2 We collaborate with Stanford students and faculty in deep and meaningful ways through Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Season Performances 3–29 substantive interactions with important artists. Through this activity, we encourage our students, faculty, and community members to express themselves artistically. Our students Season Subscriptions & Ticketing 30–31 curate selected performances and we present musical compositions by Stanford faculty. Support Stanford Live 32–33 Patron Information 34–35 Technology plays a significant role in the arts at Stanford Live—not for its own sake, but Engage with Stanford Live 36 for the way it deepens and extends artistry. Technology sometimes blurs the boundaries CONTEMPORARY At the Bing Inside Back Cover between the traditional artistic disciplines. It also expands access. Kronos Quartet Full Season Calendar Fold-out Back Cover Our audience is informed, critical, adventurous, and active. Occasionally, we feature JAZZ, WORLD Blind Summit Theatre audience members onstage. We aspire to be simultaneously a lab, a sanctuary, a public Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company square, and a creator of contexts for exchange. Our vision is nothing less than to ensure & ROOTS Stanford Live’s 2014–15 Season includes 60+ performances. the future of the performing arts by reinventing them for this place and time. Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer Compagnie Käfig Subscribe now for advance priority seating, ticket discounts, and other benefits. For higher-priority seating and additional benefits, Come join with us to create Stanford’s unique embodiment of the performing arts! Toumani Diabaté Cirque Mechanics *For Families* please consider becoming a Member or Donor. See pages Emmylou Harris Compagnia T.P.O. *For Families* 32–33 for details. Brad Mehldau Trio Sondheim Songbook Dianne Reeves All performances take place at Bing Concert Hall, Wiley Hausam unless otherwise noted. Executive Director, Stanford Live & Bing Concert Hall DakhaBrakha Enjoy a sampling of Stanford Live’s 2014–15 SFJAZZ Collective season by viewing our online video collection at P.S. To be sure you can secure excellent seats to popular performances on short notice, Cover Photo: The Demo/Workshop production, Krannert Center, University of Illinois live.stanford.edu/media. Above Photo: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service please become a Bing Member! 1 650.724.BING (2464) 650.724.BING (2464) | LIVE.STANFORD.EDU 1 “Stanford’s Bing ***************** Concert Hall SPECIAL EVENT FOR BING MEMBERS is a total delight.” & PERFORMANCE — San Francisco SPONSORS JOIN OUR Classical Voice ***************** FAMILY You are cordially invited to join our family of Subscribers and Donors this season. Subscribers are the heart and soul of Stanford Live. Each season, Subscribers select three or more performances, some that are familiar and others that are entirely new. In return for your commitment, we offer excellent seating at a great BING FLING price and many more benefits (see pp. 30–31 for details). MAR 20 Donors are essential to the success of Stanford Live. With 842 seats in the intimate Bing Concert Hall, ticket sales cover only 20 percent of our operating LANG LANG costs. Donations are critical for Stanford Live to continue to bring engaging and FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 8:00 PM BING CONCERT HALL innovative artists to our stage and community. Become a Bing Member or Performance Sponsor and you will receive tickets to the Bing Fling, As a way to acknowledge our generous supporters, we offer preferred access to which includes prime seats to Lang Lang’s performance and a special pre-concert reception and dinner! For details on how to become a Bing Member or Performance Sponsor, please contact exceptional seating, VIP treatment, invitations to special events, insider access, the Stanford Live Development Office at 650.497.4809. A limited number of tickets for the concert reserved parking, and more (see pp. 32–33 for details). only will be available for purchase in the spring—details to be announced. We encourage you not only to join us in the concert hall this season but also A prodigy who made his Beijing concert debut playing Chopin at 13—and who became a sensation at 17 when he stepped in on short notice to play Tchaikovsky with the to join our family of Donors when making your subscription selections. Chicago Symphony—Lang Lang has dazzled audiences worldwide with his emotional Together, our family of Subscribers and Donors makes possible the fire and virtuosity. Come hear the flamboyant performer and passionate educator the presentation and enjoyment of live performance at Bing Concert Hall New Yorker called “the world’s ambassador of the keyboard” play solo in the intimacy and on the Stanford campus. of Bing Concert Hall. Lang Lang’s performance is generously supported by Marcia and John Goldman. 2 650.724.BING (2464) LIVE.STANFORD.EDU 3 Photo: Joel Simon Photo: Joel Stanford Live and CHRIS THILE & Save the Date Bing Concert Hall: TOUMANI DIABATÉ STANFORD LIVE CELEBRATES Ensuring the future of SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:00 PM THE NEW ANDERSON COLLECTION! BING CONCERT HALL JOINT OPEN HOUSE SEASON EDGAR MEYER the performing arts! Reserved Seating $30 / 40 / 50 / Premium $60 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 One of Africa’s greatest musicians, Diabaté is the Malian master of the kora, the 21-string West African harp whose SEPT 21 The Anderson Collection at Stanford University— shimmering tones have been plucked by generations of griots, or cultural storytellers. The innovative Diabaté one of the most outstanding private collections of simultaneously plays bass, rhythm, and melody, making mesmerizing Malian music flavored with American soul. 20th-century American art in the world—will open His collaborators have included Taj Mahal, Björk, and the late Ali Farka Touré, with whom he won the 2005 Grammy 2014–15 to the public in September 2014.