Arts & Lectures

Fall Organ Benefit Concert

Featuring Bruce Sawhill (organ) with Guy Clark & Kathryn James Adduci (trumpets). Proceeds benefit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival’s upcoming 2010 season of early music concerts.

• November 14, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
• Holy Cross Church
• Ticket price: $20
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

Nicole Paiement conducts Mozart's "Requiem"

Nicole Paiement conducts the UCSC Orchestra and vocal ensembles in this timeless and masterful work by W.A. Mozart. The program also features Bay Area violinist and San Francisco Ballet concertmaster Roy Malan and alumni violist Darcy Rindt performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the UCSC Orchestra.

• Dates/Times:
  • November 20, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
  • November 21, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
  • November 22, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.
• Recital Hall, Music Center, UCSC
• $24 general, $20 senior, $10 student
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Mixed Nutz! (The Nutcracker Remixed)

Tandy Beal directs this innovative and magical take on the Nutcracker story -- featuring acrobats, juggling, dance, and other visual treats -- with live music by acclaimed Bay Area vocal group SoVoSó (Soul...Voice...Song) performing Tchaikovsky's music a cappella!

• November 20 - December 6, 2009
• Theater Arts Mainstage, UCSC
• Assorted times and pricing.
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Night of the Emerging Composers

Night of the Emerging Composers channels the creative drive of four locally based composers into a program of divergent expression and media performed by the New Music Works Ensemble.

• January 15, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
• Recital Hall, Music Center, UCSC
• $23.50 General, $17.50 Senior, $12.50 Student
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Beyond Fear and Greed: The Moral Roots of Financial Crises

The 44th Annual Faculty Research Lecture features UC Santa Cruz professor of economics Daniel Friedman, author of the 2008 book, Morals and Markets. He will explore financial markets all the way back to our human origins, explain how they became so powerful, and suggest some ways to mitigate future financial disasters.

• February 1, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
• Recital Hall, Music Center, UCSC
• This event is free and open to the public. No tickets required.
• More info: tblake@ucsc.edu
  or (831) 459-2086

Concert I: Holiday in Wales

Cheryl Ann Fulton (Welsh Triple Harp) and Ensemble

• February 6, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
• Recital Hall, Music Center, UCSC
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

Concert II: Shakespeare's London

Featuring Julianne Baird (soprano), with Richard Savino (lutes), Linda Burman-Hall (virginals) and Audrey Stanley (Shakespearean reader).

• February 20, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
• Recital Hall, Music Center, UCSC
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

Songs of the Universe

Songs of the Universe, at the beautiful, new Music Recital Hall at Cabrillo College. A spectral range of sensations; music, projected imagery and language - both spoken and sung - coalesce into an experience that is greater than the sum of its parts.

• March 6, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
• Music Recital Hall, Cabrillo College, Aptos
• $23.50 General, $17.50 Senior, $12.50 Student
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Concert III: Imaginary Intersections – Raga and Raj

Featuring the Lux Musica Ensemble: Lars Johannesson (flutes), David Wilson (violin), Amy Brodo (cello and viola da gamba), co-directed by Linda Burman-Hall (harpsichords) and Barry Phillips (composer).

• March 10, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
• First Congressional Church
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

Concert IV: Venetian Tapestry

Featuring Schola Cantorum of San Francisco (Paul Flight, director), Brian Staufenbiel (tenor) and the Santa Cruz Brass Quartet.

• April 10, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
• Holy Cross Church
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

Concert V: Jefferson's Jigge

Featuring Bill Coulter (guitar), Deby Benton Grosjean (fiddle), Barry Philips (cello), Boyd Jarrell (baritone), Linda Burman-Hall (early keyboards) and The Shape Note Singing Society

• May 1, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
• UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

11th Annual Music in the Gardens Tour

Featuring 5 music groups at different garden locations (TBA), along with food, drinks & wine.

• May 30, 2010, at 1:00-5:00 p.m.
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

28th Annual Avant Garden Party

28th Annual Avant Garden Party in the gorgeous gardens of Robert Eberle and Laura Bathricks. Enjoy a spectacular garden jam of variegated musical species from Brazilian Guinga style to enchanted-garden variety sambas, while tasting gourmet treats by local chefs David Jackman and India Jozseph Schultz plus silent auction.

• June 6, 2010, at 3-7 p.m.
• The Garden, 2701 Monterey Ave., Soquel
• $23.50 General, $17.50 Senior, $12.50 Student
• More information

Boomeria Extravaganza

Featuring a selection of organists performing in the chapel, along with food, drinks and wine.

• July 10, 2010, at 1-5 p.m.
• Boomeria is located in Bonny Doon. Map and directions will be provided to ticket holders.
• More info: visit the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival web site, email scbaroque@baymoon.com, or call 831-457-9693.

Bolts From The Blue: Startling Episodes from the Coevolution of Mathematics and Art

The 2009 Emeriti Fall Lecture features professor Ralph Abraham (Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz). Professor Abraham will explore the important contributions by artists to mathematics and significant innovations by mathematicians to art.

• November 4, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
• Recital Hall, Music Center, UCSC
• This event is free and open to the public. No tickets required.
• More info: rdalvar@ucsc.edu
  or (831) 459-5003

Exxon Valdez: Oil to Olive

What is happening to the California sea otter, and what does it mean to us? Terrie Williams, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC, and David Jessup, DVM, Senior Wildlife Veterinarian and Director, Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Game, Santa Cruz, will discuss the new obstacles facing sea otters today, what their population trend tells us about the health of the oceans, and what is being done to prevent further decline of this compelling and important "keystone" species.

• November 12, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
• Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab
• Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
• More info: call (831) 459-3800 or visit the Seymour Center web site.

The Thirty-Meter Telescope: Galileo’s Legacy 400 years later

In the four centuries since Galileo, telescopes have evolved from tiny 1-inch lenses to behemoths wider than football fields. How did this happen? What difference have these instruments made to our understanding of the Universe ...and ourselves? Hear what lies in store as the next generation of giant telescopes, like the Thirty-Meter, come on line.

Please join us in the International Year of Astronomy as citizens rediscover their place in the Universe. Halliday Lecture.

• November 12, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
• Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave.
• Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
• More information