Michael Goldberg, solo guitar, for noon concert

May 11, 12:05 – 1 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free, a Shinkoskey noon concert

The program includes John Dowland: A Fancy, Farewell Fancy, and The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard (c. 1610), Leo Brouwer: Tres Apuntes (1959), Fernando Sor: Fantasie Elegaic, Dušan Bogdanović: Two Polymetric Studies (1990) and Napoléon Coste: Les soirees D’Auteuil.

(Ethno)Musicology Forum focuses on indie music

May 11, 4 – 5:30 p.m., Room 266, Everson Hall

Shannon Garland is lecturer in Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies at the University of California, Merced. Her research investigates the production of popular music from an ethnographic, transnational perspective, focusing on indie music in South America. It is concerned with types of labor emerging in the music industries, and ties these to affective musical response, social relations, and economic value. Dr. Garland’s monograph-in-preparation, For the Love: Indie Music, Labor and Value in Brazil and Beyond, narrates the rise and transformation of the Brazilian indie music industry from 1990 to 2020, exploring the tension between social and aesthetic values created through musical labor and exchange and the need for this labor to be valorized as economic value within the capitalist social order. She is also co-editing Independence in 21st-Century Music Making: Cases from Beyond Anglo-America, with Pedro Roxo and Pedro Nunes. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University. 

Ode to Joy: Mother's Day Season Finale by The Auburn Symphony

Sunday, May 14, 3 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center 

The Auburn Symphony program includes Markowski: Joyride…a three-minute wild ride based on Beethoven’s famous theme, Higdon: blue cathedral…a touching and ethereal homage to family and the power of music and Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125…no piece captures the joy and grandeur of classical music better than this incredible masterpiece for orchestra, chorus and soloists.

Find more information and purchase tickets here. 

Weekend (and next week) at Pitzer, all free

Student Recital: Maya True-Fogel, viola

May 12, 5 – 5:45 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free

The program includes Rebecca Clarke: Lullaby for Viola and Piano, Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, op. 120, no. 1 and Reena Esmail: Nadiya (नदिया) for Flute and Viola.

Undergraduate Composers of UC Davis

May 13, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free

Student Recital: Jorge Hernandez, clarinet

May 13, 3 – 3:45 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free

Student Recital: Christian Stan, flute

May 16, 2 – 2:45 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free

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Art 113 students participate in Davis ArtAbout Friday with artist Shimon Attie

The work of undergraduate students in ART 113: Interdisciplinary Art taught by internationally acclaimed artist Shimon Attie, teaching artist in residence for the Manetti Shrem California Studio, will be featured in the 2nd Friday ArtAbout in downtown Davis on May 12. The students’ work is a series of video projections that can be viewed in the Pence Gallery courtyard from approximately 7:45 to 9 p.m. 

This public exhibition of the work is the first installment of a project that includes the video installation being displayed on the electronic screens of Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center May 22-28. Both installations were coordinated through the UC Davis Department of Art and Art History.

Friday ArtAbout

The work of undergraduate students in ART 113: Interdisciplinary Art taught by internationally acclaimed artist Shimon Attie, teaching artist in residence for the Manetti Shrem California Studio, will be featured in the 2nd Friday ArtAbout in downtown Davis on May 12.

Shimon Attie is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific installations in public spaces using video, photography and collaborative processes with local communities. Attie’s art reflects on the relationship between place, memory and identity and explores how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place and identity. His work has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has received fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

2nd Friday ArtAbout takes place on the second Friday of each month, with a handful of businesses taking part. Discover local and regional talent, new artistic styles, and unique creations while experiencing the vibrancy of downtown. Come out with your families and friends to savor art in the Davis community.

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Immersive Scheherazade: Curtis Institute of Music Performance Innovation Lab; Free

May 16 – 18, 1 – 2 p.m., 2:30 – 3:30 p.m., 4 – 5 p.m., May 17 & 18, 7 – 8 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center, free, no advance registration required

Immersive Scheherazade, created and produced by the Curtis Institute of Music Performance Innovation Lab, is an experience unlike any other, born of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s enchanting Scheherazade. Through interactive content and exquisite surround sound and 4k video, audiences will uncover new depths in Rimksy-Korsakov’s Arabian Nights-inspired work and understand the truly magnificent power of orchestral music.

See and hear the video below.

Featuring 360-degree video to create a transformative atmosphere, Immersive Scheherazade is a fun, new way to enjoy classical music. Whether you prefer to sit, stand, or move about, the installation provides ample space to explore and experience. Audiences are encouraged from the moment they enter the space to feel inspired by what they see and hear, including direct quotes from the composer. 

Most impressively, no matter how you choose to experience the performance, you’ll be able to feel yourself inside the orchestra, surrounded by 360-degree views of pre-recorded orchestral videos and live Curtis Symphony Orchestra musicians, following along via program notes and scores placed throughout the exhibit.

This event is free to the community and doesn't require advance tickets. Find more information here. 

A Gathering: Works from Contemporary Black American Artists at the Crocker

Through Aug. 20, 2023

This exhibition, curated by co-authors, Chotsani Elaine Dean and Donald A Clark, presents sculptural and functional ceramics from 35 Black American emerging and established artists living and working in the United States. The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, celebrates their contribution to Studio Pottery and outlines the history, challenges and triumphs met every day.

Find more information and purchase museum tickets here.

Home: Mixed Media Paintings by Susan W. Brady at the Pence

May 12 – June 11, reception: May 12, 6 – 9 p.m., Pence Gallery

Susan W. Brady’s landscapes are a hybrid of painting, collage, and photography. Originating with a digital image, her work builds upon the photograph by collaging layers of handmade papers, dye, and oil paint. The world she shares is full of the bounty of nature captured in our local area. You are also invited to attend her Artist Talk at the Pence on Saturday, May 20, 2 – 3 p.m.

Coming Up

Get tickets for UC Davis dance concert with student-created works

A diverse program of new choreography will be showcased when the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance presents Outside the Lines on May 18-20 in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall, at 7 p.m.

The program includes performances of works developed by doctoral student Diego Martínez-Campos, graduate student Edward G. Jackson, and undergraduate students Eva Anderson, Navali Garg, Eliza Gilligan, Kathy Le, Harshita Rao and Julia Silvera. The choreography has been developed under the guidance of Professor David Grenke.

Alumnus Martínez-Campos (M.F.A., dramatic arts, ’21) shared the inspiration for his new work.

“My piece is inspired by the question: ‘What are you/we running away from?’” he said. “It combines movement, spoken language and rhythmic patterns of audible breath as means to explore individual and collective escape.”

Adult tickets are $10, faculty/staff tickets are $8 and student/senior tickets are $5. Tickets may be purchased at the UC Davis Ticket Office, located on the north side of Aggie Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, by phone 530-752-2471 during the same hours, or online at theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

The Department of Theatre and Dance is part of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. For information about other department productions, visit theatredance.ucdavis.edu

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Shimon Attie, The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies public lecture next week

May 18, 4:30 – 6 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Shimon Attie is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific installations in public spaces using video, photography and collaborative processes with local communities. Attie’s art reflects on the relationship between place, memory and identity and explores how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place and identity. His work has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has received fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Flute and Violin Duets

Thursday, May 18, 12:05–1:00 pm, Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

Performers include Stacey Pelinka, flute and UC Davis lecturer in music and Joe Edelberg, violin.

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