Welcome to the Mondavi Center’s podcast page. Here you will find a complete listing of all the podcasts we’ve produced, as well as instructions as to how to listen and what to do if you encounter problems. We plan to add new podcasts every few weeks as the season progresses, so we hope you’ll bookmark this page and return often!
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St. Louis Symphony - Mar 17, 2013
Speakers: David Robertson, music director and conductor, in conversation with Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center,
UC Davis
Pre-Performance Talk: Platoon - Janurary 9, 2012
Speaker: Jaimey Fisher, Associate Professor, German and Director of Cinema and Technocultural Studies, UC Davis
Pre-Performance Talk: Takács Quartet - April 2, 2011
Speaker: Edward Dusinberre, First violinist, in conversation with Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center, UC Davis
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Bill Frisell and John Scofield - February 11, 2011
Speakers: John Scofield and Bill Frisell in conversation with Jeremy Ganter, Associate Executive Director and Director of Programming, Mondavi Center, UC Davis
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Christopher O’Riley - November 14, 2010
Speaker: Christopher O’Riley in conversation with Lara Downes, Artist in Residence, Mondavi Center, UC Davis
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Cantus - December 06, 2009
Speaker: James Hernandez, Instructor, Natomas Charter School Performing and Fine Arts Academy (Ret.), Private Voice Instructor
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - November 11, 2009
Speakers: Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director, Globe Theatre and Peter Lichtenfels, Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, UC Davis
UC Davis Graduate School of Management:
Non-Profit Performing Arts Management Roundtable Discussion - June 2, 2009
Speakers:
Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Wayne Brown, Director, Music and Opera Education & Access, National Endowment for the Arts
Ken Foster, Executive Director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)
Paul Nicholson, Executive Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland)
The Forum@MC:
Fables, Fairy Tales and the Arts - January 29, 2009 What’s unique about the way fairy tales and fables have touched the arts, as compared to other forces (politics, literature, psychology, et al)? UC Davis faculty Della Davidson (who set Transformations, Anne Sexton’s poetic meditation on Grimm’s Fairy Tales to dance), Lucy Corin (whose fiction is touched by fable) and Brenda Schildgen (Co-editor, The World of Fables) discuss how the world of fairy tales and fables has touched the arts and their own work. Jeffrey Callison, of KXJZ’s Insight, will moderate.
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Civil Rights: The Music and the Movement
- January 14, 2009 Moderated by Jeffrey Callison, host of Insight on KXJZ.
Dr. Milmon Harrison, African American & African Studies, and singer Mavis Staples consider the role of music in the 1960s Civil Rights movement.
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History in Blue: The Life and Times of Blue Note Records
- January 13, 2009 Ravi Coltrane, the saxophonist from the Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary tour, joins Peter Williams, Artistic Director of Yoshi’s and Gary Vercelli, Jazz Music Director at KXJZ, in a panel discussion about the impact Blue Note Records has had on jazz. Moderated by Jeffrey Callison, host of Insight on KXJZ.
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Inbal Pinto - October 14, 2008
Speaker: Shelly Gilbride, PhD Candidate in Performance Studies,
Department of Theatre and Dance, UC Davis
How to Listen to a Podcast on Your Computer
Mondavi Center podcasts are MP3 files, which can be opened using a variety of programs. For most users, it will be possible to listen on your computer simply by double-clicking the “play” icon, which should open the file and allow it to play as it “streams” from our website through whatever program is set up on your computer as the “default” media player. Some common media player programs are Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, and iTunes, and most likely one of those is already installed on your computer. If you do not have a media player, you will need to download and install one. All the previously listed players are available as free downloads, as are many others. The Mondavi Center can not endorse or recommend a particular program.
How to Listen to a Podcast on Your MP3 Player
If you own a portable MP3 player and would like to listen to our podcasts on that system, you will need to first download the podcast file. To do this, “right click” on the “Download” link, and select “Save Target As…” This should open a “dialogue box” that will ask you where you wish to save the podcast file. (Be sure to remember where you save it!) Once you’ve selected a destination for your file, click “Save” and the file should begin downloading to your selected location.
Once the file has been downloaded to your computer, you may transfer a copy to your MP3 player. In most cases, this can be done by simply “dragging” the file to your player using your mouse. For example, to transfer the file to an iPod, you would need first open iTunes. Then, click on the podcast file and drag it to the “Library” folder. Alternatively, you may wish to import the file using the “Import” function iniTunes: From the toolbar, click on “File” and scroll down to select “Import.” This should open a dialogue box that should enable you to select the location where you saved the podcast file. Select the file, and click “Open.”
How to Report a Problem If you encounter technical problems with one of our podcasts or if you have comments or questions about the content, please email mcwebchanges@ucdavis.edu.
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Pre-Performance Talk: Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Pre-Performance Talk: Alexi Kenney, violin and Hilda Huang, piano
Pre-Performance Talk: Platoon
Pre-Performance Talk: Lara Downes
Pre-Performance Talk: Trey McIntyre Project
Pre-Performance Talk: Sō Percussion
Pre-Performance Talk: 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
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Pre-Performance Talk: Roby Lakataos Ensemble
Pre-Performance Talk: China Philharmonic Orchestra
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San Francisco Symphony and Chorus
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Bill Frisell and John Scofield 
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Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt
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Ornette Coleman
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Christopher O’Riley
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San Francisco Symphony
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Bayanihan 
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Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
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Cantus
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Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
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Paul Dresher Ensemble
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
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Emerson String Quartet
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Merle Haggard
UC Davis Graduate School of Management:
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San Francisco Symphony
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Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar
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Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project
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Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
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The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
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Academy of Ancient Music
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Angela Hewitt
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Philip Glass
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Punch Brothers
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Munich Symphony Orchestra
The Forum@MC:
Fables, Fairy Tales and the Arts 
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Civil Rights: The Music and the Movement
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History in Blue: The Life and Times of Blue Note Records 
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ABT II
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Inbal Pinto
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Delfeayo Marsalis
Distinguished Speakers Series
Jazz Events
Young Artists Competition (Lara Downes)
Merce Cunningham interviewed by Don Roth
Shen Wei Dance Arts
Liz Phillips and Nelson Gallery Director Renny Pritikin
Handel's Messiah: 
Nati Cano of Day of the Dead Fiesta
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE One Shot
Della Davidson - COLLAPSE (suddenly falling down)
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Forum@MC: Legacy in the World of Dance
