The music major curriculum recently changed, and the co-requisite
warnings are temporarily mostly inaccurate. You will need to fill
out a petition to register. However, your petition can simply
state:
“I am approved to take music 6A and 16B during winter quarter,
2024, per the instructor”
Your registration will be approved by the instructors of music 6A
and 16B if:
You have taken, or are currently enrolled in music
3A, or
if you have taken the music 6A placement test (if you
have not taken it yet, please contact Laurie San Martin via
lasanmartin@ucdavis.edu).
One of UC Davis’s highest priorities is the safety of its
students and all members of its community. UC Davis
prohibits all forms of sexual harassment and sexual violence,
including sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and
stalking. Such conduct violates University policy and may
violate California law.
Robert S. Bloch, UC Davis professor emeritus of music, died on
November 4 at age 89. He was a member of the faculty from 1974 to
2000, primarily teaching violin and music theory in addition to
giving concerts. The UC Davis Music Department remains
grateful for the musicianship Bloch shared on stage and in the
classroom. Theodore Karp, a prior faculty member (1963–73) who
went on to teach at Northwestern University, previously described
Bloch as “A quiet man with a ready, genial wit.” He was also
self-admittedly restless, which showed in the breadth of his
endeavors.
Miguel Petris (B.A. music, ’21) was recently selected for a
prestigious internship with Silkroad—the arts, education, and
social-impact nonprofit organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 1998.
Professor Carol A. Hess was named an honorary
member by the American
Musicological Society on Sept. 15. The society recognizes
recipients for their extraordinary contributions to the study and
teaching of music.
Tito Talamantes, who directs the UC Davis Mariachi Ensemble, was
featured by Fox 40 News. Talamantes now directs the Advanced
Mariachi Ensemble at Cesar Chavez High School in Stockton, where
he began as a student.
With special guest caller Evie Ladin, the UC Davis Bluegrass
and Old Time String Band will provide an authentic opportunity
for square dancing on campus.
Come one, come all — no experience is necessary!
Free
Della Davidson Performance Studio, Nelson Hall, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
featuring Alturas Duo
Scott Hill, guitar
Carlos Boltes, charango and viola
Gonzalo Cortés, Andean woodwinds
With the guest ensemble Alturas, the Choruses of UC Davis and
Nicolás Dosman bring the rhythms and holiday vocal traditions
of the Americas to Davis. Works include “Navidad Nuestra” by
Ariel Ramírez, which is an Andean-influenced folk telling of
the nativity story; “Al Shlosha D’varim,” a traditional Hebrew
text set by Allan Naplan for the Ithaca Children’s Choir; and
“Abreme la Puerta,” a traditional holiday song from Puerto
Rico, which is sung using syllables only (no words).
Program
Concert Choir
arr. Albert McNeil: Hold Out Your Light (with Chamber
Singers)
Jeffrey Ames: Gloria Fanfare
Manuel de Sumaya: Albricias Mortales
Nunes Garcia: Cum Sancto Spiritu
Chamber Singers
arr. Cristian Grases: Abreme La Puerta
Andrea Ramsey: In The Bleak Midwinter
B.E Boykin: Dormi Jesu
Kenneth Lampl: Adon Olam
arr. Moses Hogan: Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn
King
J.S. Bach: Duets from the Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996
Lindabeth Brinkley and Cindy Behmer, oboes
Sergei Prokofiev: Quintet in G Minor, op. 39 (1924)
Cindy Behmer, oboe
Ann Lavin, clarinet
Dagenais Smiley, violin
Ivo Bokulić, viola
Michael Schwagerus, double bass
Alyssa Morris: Brokenvention (2011)
Lindabeth Brinkley, oboe
Cindy Behmer, English horn
Shinae Kim, piano
Arne Running: Quodlibet (2007)
Cindy Behmer, oboe
Lindabeth Brinkley, English Horn
The highlight of this solo guitar program is a work by composer
Douglas Boyce, who dedicates his Partita No. 3 (“La Comète”) to
UC Davis Associate Professor Claire
Goldstein in the Department of French and
Italian. The musical work is done in conversation with
Goldstein’s forthcoming book, “In the Sun King’s Cosmos: Comets
in the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France”
(Northwestern University Press, 2024).
Comets in the Sun King’s Cosmos is a study of the
unusually bright comets of 1664–65 and 1680–81, which
appeared not only in the sky but also in ballets and theater,
letters and early journalism, architecture and institutions,
theology and literary style. Goldstein studies how these
comets—considered at the time to be chaotic and without
discernable form or pattern—organized curiosity, scrutiny,
resistance and doubt during the reign of King Louis
XIV in France.
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
and Singers from the San Francisco Opera
Center
Since its inception in 2010, Rising Stars of Opera has featured
vocal artistry, stirring arias and a glimpse at the opera stars
of tomorrow; and every ticket has been free to the public
thanks to Barbara K. Jackson. Today, Rising Stars of Opera
features several singers from the acclaimed San Francisco Opera
Center performing a wide range of great arias in one complete
opera act.
