View From Orchestra 5 at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
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First String: Violinist Robin Mayforth helps Symphony Silicon Valley with a selection from 'The Scarlet Violin' on Oct. thirty and 31 at the California Theatre.
Valley High-Brow
A season of debuts and onetime favorites for lovers of classical music, dance and opera
By Scott MacClelland
PREMIERES and prodigies will spark a 2004-05 classical season already smoldering in Silicon Valley. The long-awaited reopening of San Jose's historic Fox California Theatre and its bear upon on two producer/presenters—Symphony Silicon Valley and Opera San José—rightly makes the ear hungry with expectation, especially since extravagant claims have been made for its intimacy and acoustics.
All the same, the nearly-to-ignite season of more than 50 major orchestral, operatic and dance productions in Silicon Valley stretches far from downtown—to Stanford University, Cupertino's Flint Center, Saratoga's Villa Montalvo and numerous points in betwixt (and slightly beyond, of form).
And these attractions refract a sensationally colorful spectrum, from a 12-year-old pianoforte prodigy, Kit Armstrong, performing at Stanford to Opera San José's product of Wagner's Flying Dutchman, from legendary guitarist John Williams at Villa Montalvo to Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley's world premiere of Middle Kingdom—Ancient China, and from Chanticleer's performance of 17th-century music from the medieval cathedral at Toledo to the West Coast premiere of Spaghetti Western, the latest in Michael Daugherty's brilliantly outrageous (Dead Elvis, Le tombeau de Liberace, Jackie O) "American Icons" series, past the Redwood Symphony.
Despite the usual gloomy predictions nearly the health/death of classical music—especially in the wake of the notorious David and Lucile Packard Foundation meltdown—things are looking decidedly up in Silicon Valley. While it may have something to do with the upbeat picture show What the #$*! Exercise We Know!?, which links quantum mechanics to spiritual vision, nonprofit producers and presenters seem to have psychologically weaned themselves from high expectations of moribund or distracted foundations. Of course, some of the new optimism was fueled by the Packard Humanities Institute'southward commitment to renovating the California Theatre (and financing the scene store for Opera San José).
In moving to the California Theatre, Symphony Silicon Valley has scheduled two performances, Saturday evenings and Lord's day afternoons, to replace its single appearances at the Center for Performing Arts. October. nine-x, Sergiu Comissiona invitee-conducts music that has been widely heard in the films The Reddish Pony, Porgy and Bess and Robin Hood. Also before the holidays, Oct. thirty-31, Patrick Flynn returns to conduct Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and John Corigliano'south The Crimson Violin, featuring concertmaster Robin Mayforth. Thomas Conlin will take the podium Dec. xi-12 when choral works past Poulenc and Wagner are featured. At the same venue, and before the end of the yr, Opera San José will stage Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (Sept. 18-October. iii) and Puccini's Tosca (November. twenty-Dec. 5) with evening performances and Sun matinees.
At the venerable CPA, Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley swashbuckles into autumn with The Pirates of Penzance (November. 18-21), the vivacious Gilbert & Sullivan comedy choreographed by Daryl Gray, with sets by Kenneth Keith and costumes by Margaret Heaman and Emily Hoem. The ballet's traditional Nutcracker fills the holidays (Dec. 16-26) in artistic manager Dennis Nahat's popular choreography.
Intimate, with its own unique amuse, is San Jose's Le Petit Trianon, a replica of Marie-Antoinette'south minichateau at Versailles. Acoustically one of the liveliest and most flattering halls in the region, information technology is ideal for smaller ensembles, including Barbara Day Turner's San Jose Bedroom Orchestra, which showcases, on October. ii, the globe premiere of Henry Mollicone'southward In Time of War: Prayers and Meditations. "It was written in response to the nine/eleven attacks and the events post-obit," says the composer of the acclaimed opera Confront on the Barroom Floor. "The piece of work alternates betwixt orchestral meditations on wartime subjects and Latin prayers, juxtaposing thoughts having to do with the horrors of war with mystical Latin prayers such every bit the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria."
Other Petit Trianon presenters include Emily Ray'south Mission Chamber Orchestra with concerts on Sep. 25 (works by British composers and Beethoven) and Nov. six (featuring the globe premiere of Dong's Suite for Yang qin) and the Steinway Guild hosting piano recitals by Stephen Prutsman (Sep. 26) and Gwendolyn Mok and Mack McCray (Nov. 7)
The busy Stanford Lively Arts fall lineup includes pianist Louis Lortie (Oct. 6), the Emerson Cord Quartet with pianist Jeffrey Kahane (Oct. 20), English Concert with violinist Andrew Manze (November. 7) and pianist Emanuel Ax and cellist Yo-Yo Ma (December. 8). At Villa Montalvo, hear Emanuel Ax (Oct. 17), 17-twelvemonth-old Canadian violinist Caitlin Tully (Oct. 24), the Kronos Quartet (Nov. 4) and guitarist Sharon Isbin (Dec. 5.)
Mitchell Sardou Klein's Peninsula Symphony appears at Flint Eye, Oct. 16, with Russian pianist Maxim Philippov in Tchaikovsky's First Pianoforte Concerto. Nuvi Mehta's Nova Vista Symphony performs an all-French program at Foothill College Theater, November. xiii. For those willing to bulldoze, Eric Kujawsky's Redwood Symphony, playing at San Mateo's Bayside Performing Arts Heart, includes in its Nov. 21 programme Thomas Ades' Asyla and the West Coast premiere of Daugherty's Spaghetti Western.
Music
California Youth Symphony
Various locations; $6-$12; 650.325.6666.
Works by Shostakovich and Sibelius, with soloist Ashley Lau—Nov. fourteen at 2:30pm at Flint Center, too November. 21 at ii:30pm at San Mateo Performing Arts Center
Holiday Concert—Dec. 12, Foothill College Theatre, Los Altos
Cantabile Choral Order
A new incarnation for the Bizarre Choral Guild. Showtime United Methodist Church, Palo Alto; Saturdays at 8pm; $10-$25; 650.424.1418.
Chanticleer
The Bay Area'due south premier all-male person chorus; see www.chanticleer.org for details. Various venues.
'Women, Saintly and Otherwise'—October. 28 at Mission Santa Clara
'A Chanticleer Christmas'—Dec. 14-15 at Stanford Memorial Church
Mission Sleeping room Orchestra
Nether the direction of Emily Ray, the orchestra offers a series called "Flavour of International Music Adventures." Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; Saturdays at 8pm; $xv-$eighteen; 408.293.6060.
Roger Wright performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 5, Holst's St. Paul's Suite, Bax'south Summertime Music and Jacob's Divertimento for Wind Octet—Sept. 25
Yanqin Zhao plays the Wang Suite on Chinese hammered dulcimer—Nov. half-dozen
2005 Highlight: Ibert'south Concertino da Camera performed by saxophonist Ashu—Feb. 5
New Century Sleeping room Orchestra
Performs at four venues effectually the bay, including Palo Alto. First United Methodist Church; Fridays at 8pm; $xvi-$39; 415.357.1111.
Works by Borodin, Webern, Lutoslawski and Tchaikovsky—Sept. 17 at Outset United
Works past Bach, Vivaldi and Handel—Dec. 17 at St. Marks Episcopal Church, Palo Alto
Nova Vista Symphony
Directed by Nuvi Mehta. Smithwick Theatre, Foothill Higher, Los Altos; Saturdays at 8pm: $8-$fifteen; 408.530.0700.
An all-French roster, with works past Ravel, Gounod and Sarasate— November. 13
Palo Alto Philharmonic
With a series of orchestra and chamber music concerts, the company will be using this year's performances to audition a new permanent usher. Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto; Saturdays at 8pm; $v-$16; 650.857.0737.
Thomas Shoebotham, conductor; works by Hairdresser, Copland and Dvorák, plus Lee Histrion'south Redwood Fanfare—Oct. 23
Chamber music at 8pm at Palo Alto Art Heart Auditorium—Nov. half dozen
Ann Krinitsky leads the orchestra in Barber's Overture to The Schoolhouse for Scandal, Brahms' Symphony no. 4 and Max Bruch's Concerto no. 1, with guest violinist Michelle Maruyama—Dec. 4
Peninsula Symphony
San Mateo Performing Arts Center and Flint Center: $21-$27; 650.941.5291.
'From Russia With Music,' with Maxim Philppov on piano; San Mateo—Oct. 15 at 8pm in San Mateo, Oct. sixteen at 8pm at Flint
'In Remembrance,' collaboration with Stanford Symphonic Chorus—Nov. eighteen at 8pm and November. 21 at 1:30pm at Memorial Church, Stanford
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Offset United Methodist Church, Palo Alto; $46-$62; 415.252.1288.
Rameau'due south Les Paladins Suite d'Orchestre and Zéphyre Acte de Ballet—Sept. xviii at 8pm
Programme features works by Locke, Geminiani, Muffat and Bach, with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch—Oct. 8 at 8pm
Nicholas McGegan conducts Schubert, Mozart and Haydn, with guest flutist Janet See—Nov. 5 at 8pm
Works by Bach (J.S. and C.P.Eastward.) and Telemann—December. three at 8pm
2005 Highlight: Handel'due south Samson Oratorio—February. xviii at 8pm
Redwood Symphony
Bayside Performing Arts Eye, San Mateo; Sundays at 3pm; $x-$xx; 650.366.6872.
Works by Debussy, Copland and Mozart, plus Howard Shore'due south Suite from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Band —Oct. 3
Movie-based selections by Nino Rota, Rossini and Michael Daugherty (Spaghetti Western)—Nov. 21
San Francisco Gimmicky Music Players
Bleeding-edge modernistic classical; if you want to hear a piece of work most the Attica prison riots, this is the place; Yerba Buena Heart for the Arts; San Francisco; Mondays at 8pm; 415.978.ARTS.
'Whispering. Murmuring. Ranting,' works by mod Italian composers Ada Gentile and Ivan Fedele—Nov. 15
San Francisco Early Music Society
Period music on period instruments. Sackbut lovers, look no further. First Lutheran Church building, Palo Alto; Fridays at 8pm; $22-$25; 510.528.1725.
The Whole Noyse—October. 1
Musica Pacifica—Oct. 29
Liber Unusualis, music of 14th-century composer Johannes Ciconia—Nov. nineteen
Magnificat—Dec. 17
San Francisco Symphony
The orchestra brings a selection of concerts to the Due south Bay at Flint Center, Cupertino; series tickets $210-$416; 415.864.6000.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Debussy, Copland, Gershwin and Bernard Herrmann'southward Suite from Vertigo—Sept. xi at 8pm
Edwin Outwater conducts Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, with guest soloist Tamaki Kawakubo—Nov. 19 at 8pm
A choral Christmas concert with conductor Vance George—Dec. 19 at 2pm
San Jose Sleeping accommodation Music Society
Grouping hosts Sun concerts by visiting ensembles and guest artists. Concerts first at 7pm, with pre-show talks at half dozen:15pm; Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; $17-$xxx; 408.286.5111.
Eroica Trio—October. iii
The Schubert Ensemble of London performs selections by Martin Butler, Shostakovich and Elgar—October. 17
Cypress String Quartet, with pianist Ian Hobson, performing a program of Mendelssohn, Suk and Schumann—Nov. 21
Holiday concert with Brass Plus and the SJSU Choraliers, including a new work for brass and chorus past Craig Bohmler—Dec. 5
San Jose Chamber Orchestra
With music director Barbara Day Turner. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; $20-$xl; 408.295.4416.
Program features Henry Mollicone's In Time of War: Prayers and Meditations, plus a new work past Jeremy Cohen—Oct. two at Le Petit Trianon at 8pm
Holiday concert with the Choral Project—Dec. 10 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 13601 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga, at 8pm
San Jose Symphonic Choir
Choral group in 80th season; 408.897.9709.
Christmas Concert—November. 27 at 8pm at St. Joseph Cathedral, San Jose
You-Sing-Information technology Messiah—Dec. 13 at 7:30pm at the California Theatre
Santa Cruz Canton Symphony
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Saturdays at 8pm; Henry J. Mello Heart, Watsonville, Sundays at 2pm; $12-$45; 831.420.5260.
Guest pianist Stephen Prutsman. Program features Ives' Variations on America, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Bluish and Brahms' Symphony no. 1—Sept. 18-nineteen
Programme features Ravel, Burch and Tchaikovsky—Nov. 6 (no Sunday concert)
2005 Highlight: A memorial to composer Lou Harrison, in collaboration with New Music Works Ensemble of Santa Cruz—March half-dozen
Schola Cantorum
Big choral ensemble directed by Gregory Waite. Multiple venues; Saturday-Sunday 8pm; $xviii-$22; 650.254.1700.
'Echoes of England: The Music of Jon Rutter'—October. 23 at 8pm at First United Methodist Church building, Palo Alto
'Echoes of England'—Oct. 24 at 8pm at Presbyterian Church of Los Gatos
'Winter Imprints'—December. eleven at 8pm at Starting time Congregational Church, Redwood Urban center
'Wintertime Imprints'—Dec. 12 at 8pm at Sacred Heart Cosmic Church, Saratoga
Messiah Sing—Dec. 13 at 8pm at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Southward Bay Guitar Society
A volunteer organisation that scored big in its previous seasons with a production called Platero y Yo. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; Fridays at 8pm; 408.292.0704.
Cavatina Duo, with Denis Azabagic on guitar and Eugenia Moliner on flute—Sept. 24
Carlos Perez, Chilean guitarist—November. vi at Westward Valley College, Saratoga
2005 Highlight: Roland Dyens—Jan. fourteen
Steinway Gild of the Bay Area
A series devoted to pianists. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; Sundays at 7pm; $25-$35; 408.246.4200.
Stephen Prutsman—Sept. 26
Gwendolyn Mok and Mack McCray—November. 7 at 7pm
2005 Highlight: Jon Nakamatsu—Jan. 8-nine at 8pm/2pm
Symphony Silicon Valley
California Theatre, San Jose; Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm; $32/$52/$72; 408.286.2600.
Sergiu Comissiona conducts Copland, Gershwin and Korngold—October. 9-10
Patrick Flynn conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 5, Corigliano's Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra, Vaughn Williams and premiere of Jennifer Higdon's Fanfa Ritmo—October. xxx-31
Holiday concert conducted by Thomas Conlin—Dec. eleven-12
2005 Highlight: Paul Polivnick conducts Stravinsky'due south Song of the Nightingale—Jan. fifteen-16
Villa Montalvo
Classical concerts at the Carriage House, Saratoga; around $25-$fifty; 408.961.5858
Emanual Ax—Oct. 17 at 2pm
Caitlin Tully—October. 24 at 2pm
Kronos Quartet—Nov. four at 7:30pm
David Benoit with Asia America Youth Honor Orchestra and the San Jose Youth Symphony—Nov. xiii at 7pm
Leanne Rees—Nov. 14 at 4pm
Sharon Isbin—Dec. v at 2pm
Winchester Orchestra Of San Jose
Under the direction of Henry Mollicone.
Selections past Schubert, Smetana, Vaughan Williams and Rachmaninoff, with soloist Adler Ma—November. 5 at 8pm and November. 7 at 7pm at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 81 N. Second St., San Jose
Works past Chopin and Rachmaninoff—Dec. xix at 8pm at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Centre
Opera
Opera San José
California Theatre, San Jose; evenings at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm; $sixty-$88; 408.437.4450.
The Marriage of Figaro—Sept. xviii-Oct. 3
Tosca—Nov. 20-Dec. five
2005 Highlight: The Flight Dutchman—Apr 9-24
Bay Shore Lyric Opera
Various locations; $30-$45; 888.496.7372.
Rigoletto—Oct. vii-ix at the Capitola Theater for the Performing Arts and Oct. 16-17 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Centre
Westward Bay Opera
Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto; Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm; $36-$46; 650.424.9999.
La Clemenza di Tito—Oct. sixteen, 22 and 24
Dance
Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts; 408.288.2800.
Pirates of Penzance—Nov. 18-21
The Nutcracker—Dec. 16-26
2005 Highlight: Middle Kingdom Ancient Mainland china, a world premiere of work past Nahat and Yong Yao—February. 10-13
LINES Ballet
Choreographer Alonzo Male monarch's version of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was ane of the highlights of the 2004 trip the light fantastic toe season. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; world wide web.linesballet.org.
Before the Dejection, a collaboration with jazz master Pharoah Sanders—Nov. 5-xiv
San Francisco Ballet
The majority of the season for the top-flight compny takes place side by side year, but SFB will nowadays its starting time new Nutcracker in December. War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco; 415.865.2000.
Nutcracker, with new choreography by Helgi Tomasson, set in San Francisco in the early 20th century—Dec. 17-31
2005 Highlight: Repertory program features Balanchine's Theme and Variations—Feb. 1-12
Smuin Ballet
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mount View; $xviii-$60; 650.903.600.
The Christmas Ballet—December. one-five
2005 Highlight: Smuin's version of Stravinsky'south The Rite of Spring —June 1-5
Splitsville Grupo Corpo leaps in Stanford Lively Arts October. 15-xvi.
Academic Angles
Stanford Lively Arts
Memorial Auditorium, Memorial Church and Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford Academy; 650.725.ARTS.
Louis Lortie, classical piano—Oct. 6 at 8pm at Dinkelspiel
Grupo Corpo Brazilian Trip the light fantastic Theater—Oct. fifteen-xvi at 8pm at Memorial Auditorium
Masters of Mexican Music—Oct. 17 at 2:30pm at Memorial Auditorium
Emerson String Quartet, with pianist Jeffrey Kahane—Oct. 20 at Dinkelspiel at 8pm.
Tapestry, Sapphire Night, female classical vocal quartet—Oct. 29 at Memorial Church at 8pm.
English Concert with Andrew Manze, violin—November. 7 at 2:30pm at Memorial Auditorium
Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra—Nov. 10 at Memorial Auditorium at 8pm
Emanuel Ax, piano, and Yo-Yo Ma, cello—Dec. 8 at Memorial Auditorium at 8pm
A Chanticleer Christmas, all-male vocal ensemble presents annual seasonal concert—December. fourteen-xv at 8pm at Memorial Church
2005 Highlight: Itzhak Perlman—January. 8 at Memorial Auditorium
Cal Performances
At Zellerbach Hall, UC-Berkeley; 510.642.9988.
Shen Wei Dance Arts—Sept. 25 at 8pm, Sept. 26 at 7pm
Economist and articulate Bush-league basher Paul Krugman speaks—Oct. fourteen at 8pm
Branford Marsalis Quartet—Oct. 12 at 8pm
Mark Morris Trip the light fantastic toe Grouping—October. 22-24, 28-29 at 8pm; October. xxx at 7pm
Laurie Anderson—Nov. 11-12 at 8pm
Arlo Guthrie and the Klezmatics—Dec. 7 at 8pm
2005 Highlights: Alvin Ailey American Trip the light fantastic Theater—March eleven-20
UC-Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures
Various Santa Cruz locations; 831.459.2159.
Preservation Hall Jazz Ring with Beau Soleil—Oct. 8 at 8pm at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
A film tribute to monologuist Spalding Grey—October. 23 at Rio Theatre
Purna Das and the Bauls of Bengal—November. 5 at 8pm at Rio Theatre
Chuck D.—Nov. 18 at 8pm at Rio Theatre
SJSU Center for Literary Arts
Diverse locations; some events co-sponsored by Poetry Center San Jose; 408.924.4600.
Westward.Due south. Merwin—Nov. fifteen at seven:30pm, booksigning at Rex Library; Nov. sixteen at noon, conversation and Q&A on SJSU campus
Word for Give-and-take troupe performs Stories by Tobias Wolff—Dec. ane at 7:30pm on campus
Tobias Woolf—Dec. 2 at noon, booksigning at Male monarch Library; December. two at 7:30pm, lecture at Morris Dailey Hall
Santa Clara University
Various campus locations; 408.554.4015.
Hans Boepple, classical pianist—Oct. ix at 8pm at Recital Hall
Golden Gate Rhythm Motorcar—Oct. 13 at apex at the Concert Hall
Autumn Dance Festival—Oct. xvi at one and 8pm, Oct. 17 at 2pm
Scott Kirby, ragtime pianist—November. 10 at noon at the Concert Hall
Fall Orchestra Concert, conducted by Emily Ray—Nov. 12 at 8pm at the Mission Church
Holiday Opera, with students and guest artists from Bayshore Lyric Opera—Dec. ane at apex at the Concert Hall
Festival of Lights with SCU Choral Ensembles—Dec. 3-4 at 8pm at the Mission Church building
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