08- 09 Events

 



June 2008

Sat • Jun 21
Double Feature
Presented by the Northern California Dance Conservatory

July 2008

Tue • Jul 15
Tcheka
Mondavi Center Presenting Program SummerMusic '08
Fri • Jul 18
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008
Artist Spotlight: FAMILY CONCERT

Four ABS musicians take you on a musical journey exploring the world of Baroque music. (Suitable for all ages.)
American Bach Soloists
Fri • Jul 18
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008
Bach's Supper

American Bach Soloists
Fri • Jul 18
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008 Main Event:
BAROQUE GEMS

works by Albinoni. J.S. Bach, Corelli, Marcello, Telemann, and Vivaldi
American Bach Soloists
Sat • Jul 19
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008
Artist Spotlight: JEFFREY THOMAS

ABS Music Director, Maestro Thomas, will present a pre-publication reading of excerpts from his much-anticipated book about Handels Messiah, followed by an audience Q&A session.
American Bach Soloists
Sat • Jul 19
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008
Bach's Supper

American Bach Soloists
Sat • Jul 19
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008 Main Event:
CLASSICAL CLASSICS

works by C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, and Mozart
American Bach Soloists
Sun • Jul 20
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008
Artist Spotlight: STEVEN LEHNING

ABS's principal violone, contrabass, and viola da gamba player will present a curators tour of priceless string instruments and harpsichords, explaining how they are built, copied, and utilized in period performances.
American Bach Soloists
Sun • Jul 20
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008
Bach's Supper

American Bach Soloists
Sun • Jul 20
American Bach Soloists
Summerfest 2008 Main Event:
THE ROMANTICS

works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert
American Bach Soloists
Mon • Jul 28
Del Castillo
Mondavi Center Presenting Program SummerMusic '08

August 2008

Sat • Aug 23
Ho'ike 2008 Moea
An evening filled with hula and the spirit of aloha
Mon • Aug 25
Phoebe Snow
Mondavi Center Presenting Program SummerMusic '08

October 2008

Sat • Oct 4
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Oct 5
Alexander String Quartet (Oct. 5) Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Oct 8
Global Drum Project
Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Thu • Oct 9
Delfeayo Marsalis Has online audio clip
Duke Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder
Inspired by the work of William Shakespeare
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • Oct 10
Jeffrey Toobin
One Hundred Years: A Look Inside the Supreme Court
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Oct 12
Instituto Mazatlán Bellas Artes de Sacramento Has online video clip
Ballet Folklorico
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue • Oct 14
Inbal Pinto Has online video clip
Shaker
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Thu • Oct 16
Natalie MacMaster Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Thu • Oct 16
Natalie MacMaster School Matinee
Recommended for grades 3-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Fri • Oct 17
Shakespeare & Company School Matinee
Recommended for grades 6-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Sat-Sun • Oct 18-19
Shakespeare and Company, Hamlet Has online video clip
directed by Eleanor Holdridge
written by William Shakespeare
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Oct 22
Laurie Anderson Has online audio clip
Homeland
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Oct 26
MOMIX Has online video clip
The Best of MOMIX
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Mon • Oct 27
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Has online audio clip
Leon Botstein, music director, with Robert McDuffie, violin
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Mon • Oct 27
MOMIX School Matinee
Recommended for grades 4-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Thu • Oct 30
Linda Ronstadt & Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
Canciones de Mi Padre Viaje/Songs of My Father
Mondavi Center Presenting Program

November 2008

Sat • Nov 1
Cassandra Wilson
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Thu • Nov 6
ABT II School Matinee
Recommended for grades 6-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Fri-Sat • Nov 7-8
ABT II
Bright Young Stars of Ballet
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat-Sun • Nov 8-9
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • Nov 14
Song and Dance Ensemble of West Africa Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • Nov 14
Song and Dance Ensemble of West Africa School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Sat • Nov 15
Zina Schiff, violin &
Lois Brandwynne, piano

(2008–09 artists-in-residence)
UC Davis Department of Music
Sun • Nov 16
The Velveteen Rabbit Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Nov 16
Empyrean Ensemble: Fault Lines—New Works by California Composers
UC Davis Department of Music
Mon • Nov 17
ODC/San Francisco, The Velveteen Rabbit School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-5
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Wed • Nov 19
The Honorable George Mitchell
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Nov 19
UC Davis Jazz Band
Delbert Bump, director
UC Davis Department of Music
Sun • Nov 23
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee Gala
UC Davis Department of Music

December 2008

Mon • Dec 1
Tracy Kidder
The Problem With Goodness: The Story of Paul Farmer
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue • Dec 2
Dan Zanes
Holiday House Party
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Dec 3
University Concert Band:
Dreams and Visions

UC Davis Department of Music
Fri • Dec 5
University Chorus
Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
UC Davis Department of Music
Sat-Sun • Dec 6-7
Christopher Taylor Has online video clip
Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed-Sat • Dec 10-13
Anat Cohen
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Thu • Dec 11
MacHomer Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Dec 14
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Has online video clip
Navidad Flamenca
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Mon • Dec 15
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Navidad Flamenca School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Sat • Dec 20
American Bach Soloists, Messiah Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program

January 2009

Tue • Jan 13
Blue Note Records
70th Anniversary Tour with Bill Charlap, Nicholas Payton, Peter Bernstein, Ravi Coltrane, Steve Wilson, Peter Washington, Lewis Nash
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Jan 14
Mavis Staples Has online audio clip
We’ll Never Turn Back
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • Jan 16
Gloria Steinem
What’s Next: An Evening with Gloria Steinem
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Jan 18
Alexander String Quartet (Jan. 18) Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri-Sat • Jan 23-24
UC Davis Flute Festival
Tod Brody, director
UC Davis Department of Music
Sun • Jan 25
Scrap Arts Music Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Jan 25
Empyrean Ensemble:
Americana—Music and Film

UC Davis Department of Music
Mon • Jan 26
Scrap Arts Music School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program

February 2009

Sun • Feb 1
Ives Quartet
(2008–09 artist-in-residence)
UC Davis Department of Music
Wed • Feb 4
Kodo Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • Feb 6
Cinderella
State Ballet Theatre of Russia
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Feb 8
Causeway Band Festival Performance
UC Davis Department of Music
Fri • Feb 13
Munich Symphony Orchestra Has online audio clip
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Philippe Entremont, conductor and piano soloist
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat • Feb 14
Punch Brothers Has online video clip
featuring Chris Thile of Nickel Creek
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue • Feb 17
Tango Fire Has online video clip
Estampas Porteñas
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue • Feb 17
Estampas Porteñas, Tango Fire School Matinee
Recommended for grades 5-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Wed • Feb 18
Philip Glass Has online audio clip
An Evening of Chamber Music
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue • Feb 24
Itzhak Perlman Has online audio clip
Golden Anniversary Tour
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Feb 25
Ball in the House School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Wed • Feb 25
UC Davis Jazz Band
Delbert Bump, director
UC Davis Department of Music
Thu • Feb 26
Afro-Cuban All Stars Has online audio clip
Juan de Marcos
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat • Feb 28
Rita Sahai
(2008–09 artist-in-residence)
UC Davis Department of Music

March 2009

Sun • Mar 1
Angela Hewitt Has online audio clip
Goldberg Variations
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue-Sat • Mar 3-7
Nnenna Freelon Quartet
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Mar 4
Guitar Blues Has online audio clip
Jorma Kaukonen, founding member of Jefferson Airplane
Also Robben Ford and Ruthie Foster
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Mar 8
Lara Downes Family Concert
Babar and Other Elephants
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Mar 8
Mendelssohn's Elijah
D. Kern Holoman, conductor
UC Davis Department of Music
Tue • Mar 10
Danú and Dervish Has online video clip
To Ireland
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue • Mar 10
Danú School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Wed • Mar 11
University Concert Band:
Winds of Spring

Pete Nowlen, conductor
UC Davis Department of Music
Fri • Mar 13
Grupo Corpo
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat • Mar 14
Academy of Ancient Music Has online audio clip
Richard Egarr, music director, Brandenburg Concertos
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Mar 15
Vienna Boys Choir Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Mar 15
Empyrean Ensemble: Hot Off the Press
UC Davis Department of Music
Mon • Mar 16
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue • Mar 17
Ladysmith Black Mambazo School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Fri • Mar 20
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • Mar 20
Curtis On Tour School Matinee
Recommended for grades 4-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Fri • Mar 20
To The Century Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat-Sun • Mar 21-22
Curtis On Tour
Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat • Mar 28
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Has online audio clip
Eri Klas, conductor, with Joyce Yang, piano
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Mar 29
Young Artists Competition Winners
Mondavi Center Presenting Program

April 2009

Fri • Apr 3
Lila Downs
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat • Apr 4
Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: BILL FRISELL'S DISFARMER PROJECT Has online audio clip
featuring Viktor Krauss, Greg Leisz and Jenny Scheinman
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • Apr 5
Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Co. Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Mon • Apr 6
Fred Garbo’s Inflatable Theater Company School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-5
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Tue-Thu • Apr 7-9
Compagnia T.P.O.
BUTTERFLIES School Matinee

Recommended for grades K-4
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Wed • Apr 8
Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: A Story of Redemption and Hope
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Tue-Thu • Apr 14-16
Time for Three Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • Apr 17
Ballet Preljocaj
Les 4 Saisons
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat • Apr 18
Duo X
(2008–09 artist-in-residence)
UC Davis Department of Music
Tue-Thu • Apr 21-23
Cirque Éloize
Nebbia
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • Apr 22
Cirque Éloize, Nebbia School Matinee
Recommended for grades K-12
Mondavi Center School Matinee Program
Fri • Apr 24
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Has online audio clip
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat-Sun • Apr 25-26
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-sopranno
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sat-Sun • Apr 25-26
Opera A La Carte, The Gondoliers Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program

May 2009

Sat-Sun • May 2-10
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
UC Davis Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance
Mon • May 11
Paul Haggis
From “Crash” to the The Valley of Elah: The Art and Craft of Hollywood
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • May 13
Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar Has online video clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Thu • May 14
Yo-Yo Ma Has online audio clip
Solo Bach recital
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Fri • May 15
UC Davis Baroque Ensemble
Phebe Craig and Michael Sand, directors
UC Davis Department of Music
Sat-Sun • May 16-17
Frederic Rzewski Has online video clip
The People United Will Never Be Defeated
(and other Rzewski works)
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Wed • May 20
UC Davis Jazz Band
Delbert Bump, director
UC Davis Department of Music
Thu • May 21
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, with Yuja Wang, piano
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
Sun • May 31
University Chorus: Alexander's Feast
Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
UC Davis Department of Music

June 2009

Mon • Jun 1
Empyrean Ensemble: New Music from Davis—Graduate Student Composers
UC Davis Department of Music
Tue • Jun 2
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
D. Kern Holoman, conductor, with John Abdallah, violin
UC Davis Department of Music
Wed • Jun 3
University Concert Band:
Summer Serenade

Pete Nowlen, conductor
UC Davis Department of Music
Sun • Jun 7
Alexander String Quartet (June 7) Has online audio clip
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
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