October 16, 2001
Contact: Moon Rinaldo, UCSC Arts & Lectures, Publicity and Production Coordinator 831.459.4058

Announcing the UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures 2001-02 season of events!

CONTACT
Moon Rinaldo, UCSC Arts & Lectures, Publicity and Production Coordinator 831.459.4058
or
Michelle Witt
UCSC Arts & Lectures Director
831.459.3861

UCSC Arts & Lectures office:
Fax: 831.459.4521
E-mail: artslecs@cats.ucsc.edu
Web: events.ucsc.edu/artslecs

UCSC TICKET OFFICE:
(For all subscriptions and for single tickets to non-Civic Auditorium events)
Phone: 831-459-2159
Open: Tuesday — Friday, 12—6;
Saturday 10—4 (closed Sun & Mon)
E-mail: tickets@cats.ucsc.edu
Ticket subscriptions may be purchased throughout the season – save 15%!

CIVIC AUDITORIUM BOX OFFICE:
(For non-subscription Molly Ivins & Laurie Anderson and all Buena Vista Social Club tickets) Phone: 831-420-5260
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SEASON DETAILS

»Dance, theater, spoken word, and jazz, classical, and world music!
»Season runs October 20, 2001–May 10, 2002 (see list at bottom for dates, times and venues).
»Tickets: All subscription tickets and tickets for non-Civic Auditorium events may be purchased through the UCSC Ticket Office, 831-459-2159, or on the web at events.ucsc.edu/artslecs. Single tickets for the Molly Ivins and Laurie Anderson shows and all tickets for the Buena Vista Social Club must be purchased through the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Box Office, 831.420-5260, or on the web at www.TicketMaster.com.

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures announces a fabulous new season of dance, music, theater and spoken word. We are particularly pleased to announce the late addition of the Buena Vista Social Club with Orquesta Ibrahim Ferrer and special guest Rubén González as a co-sponsorship with Kuumbwa Jazz Center in January 2002. Other not-to-miss events include Laurie Anderson in a new solo work; an insightful look at politics from Pulitzer Prize nominee, best-selling author and humorist Molly Ivins; sacred chanting of the Gyuto Monks of Tibet; an exploration of the roots of jazz in the Global African Music Festival; as well as world class dance, theater, and classical music to stretch your mind and cheer your spirit.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Opening the season on October 20, 2001 with music by Beethoven, Britten and Brahms is a string ensemble recognized as one of the world’s finest, the Takács Quartet. Hungarian but now Colorado-based, the Chicago Tribune has called Takács "four of the best string alchemists on the planet." >>>>Join Arts & Lectures for our season-opening reception with the Takács Quartet on Saturday, October 20, 2001, 8 p.m., UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. After a post-performance question and answer period, the quartet will join the audience for a CD signing and dessert reception at the Recital Hall <<<< Other classical music on the series comes from award winning solo pianist Awadagin Pratt; the brilliant Arden Trio; one of America’s most recorded women, soprano Julianne Baird; and the season’s final event, the Grammy winning San Francisco based men’s a capella choir, Chanticleer.

WORLD MUSIC, JAZZ, AND LAURIE

World music thrives as always in our series, beginning with the masterful world beat percussion of Glen Velez + Handance. Returning after last year’s smash hit performance with Omara Portuondo are the reigning greats of afro-cuban music, the Buena Vista Social Club, in Santa Cruz this time with the master vocalist of cuban son, Ibrahim Ferrer, and special guest, pianist Rubén González (co-presented with Kuumbwa Jazz Center). Next up is the wailing klezmer–jazz–rock–funk of David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!, followed later in the season by the etherial chanting of Tibet’s Gyuto Monks. The Global African Music Festival presents traditional and contemporary African and African-American music ranging from solo performances on traditional African instruments to electronically enhanced experimental and modern jazz. GAM Festival musicians include The Eddie Gale Quartet, The Sam Rivers Trio, Nelson Harrison, Karlton Hester, Samite Mulondo, Mamadou Diabate and Obo Addy. Four of Korea’s most celebrated performers come together with four outstanding Western musicians, including the avant-garde percussionist William Winant, for the Korean Musical Ceremony. Drawing from the ritual ceremonies of Shamanism Buddhism, and Christianity this special performance rounds out the exceptional range of musics from around the globe.

Laurie Anderson brings to her faithful Monterey Bay fans and initiates a new solo work which explores, with Anderson’s trademark eclecticism, contemporary culture through the filters of synthetic language, love songs, animal communication, and techno burnout.

The spirit of jazz–past, present and future–comes alive with the Marcus Roberts Trio. Since he made his name as a key member of Wynton Marsalis' groups in the late eighties and early nineties, Roberts has established himself as one of the ultimate musical traditionalists for his remarkable keyboard style. Performing with him are drummer Jason Marsalis (brother of Wynton and Branford) and master bassist Roland Guerin.

THEATER AND SPOKEN WORD

"Politics is great entertainment" says Molly Ivins, a three time Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of the nation's wittiest and best-known political pundits. Author of the best selling Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, a collection of essays on politics and journalism, her most recent book, Shrub, details George W’s road to the White House. From the psychology of the entertainment industry to her experience as a young woman in the days when journalism was dominated by "good old boys," Ivins' point of view is fearless, humorous and informative.

The theater pieces scheduled for this Arts & Lectures season are, of course, exceptional, but they are also remarkably unusual. In light of the still recent terrorist attacks in the Eastern U.S., Arts & Lectures recognizes the need to give sensitive attention to two of these productions. The first of these is a production of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, presented by The SITI Company. On a foggy evening in 1938, tens of thousands of radio listeners became convinced that America had entered into a war with Mars. For many listeners tuning in late to a broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, normal programming appeared to have been interrupted with the startling news that "a huge flaming object" had fallen to earth. Sixty-four years after its original broadcast, the awesome force of radio's most famous fictitious broadcast is still burned into the collective mind of America. This classic radio play, performed as though on-air, is part of the SITI Company’s investigation into the life and work of the multi-talented genius Orson Wells.

The second production is Charlie, Victor, Romeo, presented by Collective: Unconscious. Charlie, Victor, Romeo is an award-winning dramatic work for the stage derived entirely from the "black box" cockpit voice recorder transcripts of six major airline emergencies. As audience members witness the tension filled cockpit of in-flight emergencies, the performance offers an eye-opening glimpse into decision making and human interaction under the most intense pressure. Called "a remarkable performance" by Flying Magazine and presented by request to groups ranging from healthcare and flying professionals to West Point students and the U.S. Air Force, Charlie, Victor, Romeo reveals remarkable portraits of courage, human frailty and grace under fire.

Also timely and moving is A Traveling Jewish Theatre’s God's Donkey: A Play on Moses, which re-visions the three-thousand year old story of Moses and turns it inside-out. Explosively physical, the production is full of humor, blues, jazz, Middle Eastern music and original Hebrew texts. Finding connections where others see division, the play digs into a variety of biblical translations and commentaries and presents for the audience a wealth of surprising and revelatory images.

A must see for adults and children alike, Teatro Hugo and Ines is a wildly popular international duo from Peru who transform the ordinary into the extraordinary with amazing dexterity and absolutely delightful creativity. Combining mime, dance, and puppetry to create a host of characters composed of knees, feet, hands, elbows, and minimal props, Hugo and Ines are wizards of hand trickery. "Not since Marcel Marceau in his heyday have I been so entranced by an evening of wordless wonderment."–Chicago Reader

DANCE

Arts & Lectures presents dance at it’s most dynamic, diverse and dazzling! In the newly created Hair Stories, the Brooklyn-based Urban Bush Women explores the significance of hair in the lives of African American women and its relationship to images of beauty, social position, heritage and self esteem. Smuin Ballets/SF, directed by Michael Smuin, is known for a sexy, modern style and innovative common-man approach to the revered art of ballet. Before starting his own company, Smuin, the winner of seven Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, directed the San Francisco Ballet and danced in and directed the American Ballet Theater. Doug Varone and Dancers, called "a company of daredevils" by the New York Times, exhibits some of the most well defined technical and physical developments that have emerged from the modern dance scene. Varone’s engrossing choreography for George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique stretches the limits of the imagination in a dramatic rush of cinematic intensity.

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR DATE, TIME AND VENUE DETAILS.

UC SANTA CRUZ ARTS & LECTURES 2001–02 SEASON OF EVENTS:

FALL 2001

Takács Quartet *
Saturday, October 20, 2001, 8pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $25/$21; Senior or Student $20/$17;
UCSC Student $14/12

Awadagin Pratt *
Saturday, November 3, 2001, 8pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $25/$21; Senior or Student $20/$17;
UCSC Student $14/12

Molly Ivins
Friday, November 9, 2001, 8pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St.
Non-subscription Tickets: General $25; Senior/Student $20; UCSC Student $14
Subscription Tickets: General $21; Senior/Student $17; UCSC Student $12
NOTE: NON-SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS FOR MOLLY IVINS will ONLY be available through the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium (831-420-5260) and TicketMaster.

Glen Velez + Handance *
Sunday, November 11, 2001, 8pm
Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave.
(General Seating)
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription): General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16; UCSC Student $13/$11

The SITI Company *
"War of the Worlds"
Monday, December 3, 2001, 8pm
Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 8pm
Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave.
(General Seating)
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription): General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16; UCSC Student $13/$11

WINTER 2002

Arden Trio *
Friday, January 11, 2002, 8pm
Holy Cross Church
(General Seating)
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription): General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16; UCSC Student $13/$12

Buena Vista Social Club presents
Orquesta Ibrahim Ferrer
with special guest Rubén González
Monday, January 14, 2002, 8pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St.
TICKETS TO THIS EVENT are available ONLY through the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium (831-420-5260) and Ticketmaster.
Gold Circle: $65; General: $42;
Student or Senior with ID: $35 (limited supply);
UCSC Students with ID: $25 (limited supply)
Sorry, no group or subscription discounts.

Urban Bush Women *
"Hair Stories"
Saturday, January 26, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $25/$21; Senior or Student $20/$17;
UCSC Student $14/12

David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness *
Tuesday, February 5, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $25/$21; Senior or Student $20/$17;
UCSC Student $14/12

Julianne Baird *
Friday, February 8, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16; UCSC Student $13/$11

Smuin Ballets/SF *
Saturday, February 9, 2002, 8pm
Sunday, February 10, 2002, 2pm
Cabrillo College Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr.
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $25/$21; Senior or Student $20/$17
UCSC Student $14/12

Marcus Roberts Trio **
Saturday, February 16, 2002, 8pm
(Pre-performance discussion, 7:30pm)
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16; UCSC Student $13/$11

Laurie Anderson
Sunday, March 10, 2002, 8pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St.
Non-subscription Tickets: General $30; Senior/Student $25; UCSC Student $20
Subscription Tickets: General $25; Senior/Student $21; UCSC Student $17
NOTE: NON-SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS FOR LAURIE ANDERSON will ONLY be available through the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Box Office (831-420-5260) and Ticketmaster.

Collective: Unconscious *
"Charlie, Victor, Romeo"
Tuesday, March 26, 2002, 8pm
Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16; UCSC Student $13/$11

Gyuto Monks
Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 8pm
Thursday, March 28, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16; UCSC Student $13/$11

SPRING 2002

A Traveling Jewish Theatre *
"God's Donkey: A Play on Moses"
Saturday, April 6, 2002, 8pm
Sunday, April 7, 2002, 3pm
UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16;
UCSC Student $13/$11

Teatro Hugo & Ines *
Short Stories
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 8pm
Thursday, April 11, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16;
UCSC Student $13/$11

Global African Music Festival
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2002
9:30pm: The Eddie Gale Quartet
(trumpet, piano, bass, drums)
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $18/$15; Senior or Student $15/$13;
UCSC Student $11/$9
SATURDAY, APRIL, 13, 2002 **
7pm: Pre-concert lecture by
Samite Mulondo: Music of Uganda
8pm: Samite Mulondo solo performance
9:30pm: Sam Rivers Trio
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16;
UCSC Student $13/$11
SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2002 **
7pm: Pre-concert lecture by
Mamadou Diabate: Music of Mali
8pm: Mamadou Diabate solo performance
9:30pm: Nelson Harrison with
Hesterian Musicism & guest Obo Addy
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $23/$19; Senior or Student $19/$16;
UCSC Student $13/$11

Doug Varone and Dancers *
"Ballet Mécanique"
Sunday, April 14, 2002, 8pm
Monday, April 15, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $25/$21; Senior or Student $20/$17;
UCSC Student $14/12

Korean Musical Ceremony *
Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 8pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $18/$15; Senior or Student $15/$13;
UCSC Student $11/$9

Chanticleer *
Thursday, May 9, 2002, 8pm
Friday, May 10, 2002, 8pm
Holy Cross Church, 126 High St.
(General Seating)
Tickets (non-subscription/subscription):
General $25/$21; Senior or Student $20/$17;
UCSC Student $14/12

*Post-performance discussion with the artist(s).
**Pre-performance discussion with the artist(s).

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures is committed to presenting artists of national and
international reputation to Santa Cruz County and beyond.

2001-2002 Arts & Lectures Season presented in partnership with
the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KUSP 88.9FM, New Leaf Community Markets and Continental/Seaway Inns

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