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The 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Concert Choir in rehearsal. (Austin Wang/澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图)

This week, you will see concerts offered, both holiday and not, by everything from student choruses to Lincoln Center ... all available at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图. We also highlight our arts gifts.

Karen Nikos-Rose, Arts Blog Editor

Student Chamber Ensembles Thursday at Pitzer

Thursday, Dec. 7, 12:05鈥2 p.m., at the Ann E. Pitzer Center, 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图, free

Pete Nowlen, director and 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 lecturer in music

Works for Harp Ensemble, Double Bass Ensemble, Flute Ensemble and others, by Astor Piazzolla, Dimitri Shostakovich, Antonio Vivaldi, Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Bohuslav Martinu.

Students playing instruments on stage

Also this week

Square dancing on campus

Thursday, Dec. 7, 2 - 4 p.m. , Della Davidson Dance Studio

Della Davidson Dance Studio presents square dancing, with special guest caller Evie Ladin. The 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Bluegrass and Old Time String Band will provide an authentic opportunity for square dancing on campus.

Come one, come all 鈥 no experience is necessary. available.

Gifts for Art Lovers at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 and Region

The Gorman Museum of Native American Art offers shoppers cards, art, books and even home accessories all made or sourced from Native American purveyors. Read about more art-related gifts in this resource in the Arts Blog.

Elana K. Arnold and Mischa Kucyzynski read at Poetry Night

澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 alums

Thursday, Dec. 7, Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis

Elana K. Arnold is the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning young adult novels and children鈥檚 books.

She teaches in Hamline University鈥檚 MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program and lives in Southern California with her family and menagerie of pets. She is an alumna of the graduate creative writing program at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图. Her newest book, The Blood Years, is based on the true experiences of her grandmother's childhood in Holocaust-era Romania.

Mischa Kuczynski holds an MA in Creative Writing from 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 and a BFA in Photography from the University of Utah. A finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship, Kuczynski has published work in the American Poetry Review, Gigantic, Fence, Sinister Wisdom, and elsewhere. According to Dr. Andy Jones, 鈥淢ischa Kuczynski writes poignant, important, and unforgettable poems that stir the heart.鈥 She lives in Davis.

This event will take place on the first floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery.


Find out more about ongoing 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Museum exhibitions in this story.


At the Mondavi

澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 choral concert features holiday music from the Americas Friday

Friday, Dec. 8, Mondavi Center

The choral ensembles of 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 鈥 which include the Concert Choir and the Chamber Singers 鈥 celebrate the rich musical heritage of the Americas in a concert Dec. 8 at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. It鈥檚 also the debut of its new choral director, Nicol谩s Dosman, who joined the faculty earlier this year and feels honored to work with the student singers.

鈥淭he choirs will perform a wide range of music ranging from Andean-influenced music to Baroque music from Mexico, as well as composers from the United States of America,鈥 said Dosman. In addition to the Concert Choir, a large mixed ensemble, and the Chamber Singers, a more select ensemble, Dosman invited the award-winning ensemble Alturas Duo 鈥 guitarist Scott Hill and charango-violist Carlos Boltes, along with Andean flute and wind instrument specialist Gonzalo Cort茅s 鈥 to join the choirs. Alturas Duo is a leading proponent of South and Central American music.

The program includes 鈥淣avidad Nuestra鈥 by Ariel Ram铆rez, which is an Andean-influenced folk telling of the nativity story. Other works include 鈥淎l Shlosha D鈥檝arim,鈥 a traditional Hebrew text set by leading cantorial soloist and Arizona Musicfest director Allan Naplan, and 鈥淎breme la Puerta,鈥 a traditional holiday song from Puerto Rico. The concert will begin by honoring the late 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 music professor emeritus and choral director Albert McNeil by performing his arrangement of the spiritual 鈥淗old Out Your Light.鈥

Dosman, a Panamanian American choral conductor, has been leading choruses and teaching music in a number of roles for nearly two decades. He recently conducted the Maine premiere of Dr. Rollo Dilworth鈥檚 鈥淲eather,鈥 which the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 choral ensembles and the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Concert Band will perform later this season. Prior to his appointment at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图, Dosman taught choral conducting and the choruses as an associate professor of music at the University of Southern Maine.

The performance begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $24 for adults and $12 for students and youth. Tickets are available at the Mondavi Center Ticket Office in person or by calling 530-754-2787 between noon and 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Tickets are also available online at tickets.mondaviarts.org.For more information about music department concerts in the College of Letters and Science at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图, visit music.ucdavis.edu. More

Concert Choir 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 on stage
The Concert Choir, led by Nicola虂s Dosman, 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图. (Austin Wang/澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图)

Matthew Whitaker Quartet plays Saturday at Mondavi

Saturday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center

 

dark-complected man in red sweater with head on chin
Matthew Whitaker (Courtesy photo)

Matthew Whitaker鈥檚 love for鈥痬usic鈥痓egan at the age of three, after his grandfather gave him鈥痑 small Yamaha keyboard. At nine years old, Matthew鈥痓egan teaching himself how to play the Hammond B3 organ. Four years later, he鈥痓ecame the youngest artist to鈥痓e鈥痚ndorsed by Hammond in its 80+ year history. From performing at Stevie Wonder鈥檚 induction to the Apollo Theatre鈥檚 Hall of Fame ceremony to his stunning debut at the Mondavi Center in 2022, Whitaker has achieved so much, so quickly. But it鈥檚 his rich talent and effusive spirit, not his youth, that keep audiences coming back to experience鈥疻hitaker and his talented bandmates.鈥疕is most recent album, Connections, documents a further leap of this already prodigious talent.More information and tickets. .

  • Matthew Whitaker, piano and organ
  • Liany Mateo, bass
  • Ivan Llanes Montejo, percussion
  • Marcos Robinson, guitar
  • Johnny Steele, drums

There will be a post show Q&A with Matthew Whitaker immediately following this event.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs Sunday

Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., Mondavi Center, 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to the Mondavi Center to perform Bach鈥檚 Brandenburg Concertos, works that unfailingly provide spiritual fulfillment for music lovers of all faiths and鈥痓eliefs, inspiring strength at year鈥檚 end and a vision of the brightest future. The artistic core of CMS is a multigenerational, dynamic repertory company comprised of an evolving and unparalleled roster of performers. Demonstrating the鈥痓elief that the future of chamber music lies in engaging and expanding the audience, these expert chamber musicians draw more people to the genre than any other organization of its kind. More information and tickets here.

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