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Announcement

In Memoriam: Robert S. Bloch
Professor Emeritus of Music

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.

Announcement

Alum Miguel Petris Receives Silkroad Internship

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.

Announcement

Carol Hess Honored by American Musicological Society

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.

Announcement

Talamantes and the Chavez Advanced Mariachi Band
Fox 40 News Feature

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.

Upcoming Events

Event

Student Chamber Ensembles
Fall Quarter

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Pete Nowlen, coordinator

Program

Works to be announced.

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Campus Square Dance
UC Davis Bluegrass and Old Time String Band

Della Davidson Dance Studio

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
Event

Choruses of UC Davis:
“An American Holiday”

Nicolás Dosman, director

Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center

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 

 

Combined Choruses

Aaron Copland: Zion’s Walls

Allan Naplan: Al Shlosha D’Varim

Ariel Ramirez: Navidad Nuestra

$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Open Seating)

Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, CA
Event

Stacey Pelinka, flute

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Stacey Pelinka, flute and UC Davis lecturer in music

Program

To be announced.

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Cindy Behmer, oboe,
and Friends

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Cindy Behmer, oboe and UC Davis lecturer in music

Program

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

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Dan Lippel, solo guitar:
”La Comète”

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

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.

Program

Douglas Boyce: Partita No. 3 (“La Comète”)

Other selections to be announced.

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

Lehmann Duo
Violin and Viola

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Lehmann Duo
Robert Lehmann, violin
Kimberly Lehmann, viola

Program

Manuel Ponce: Sonata for Violin and Viola

Other selections to be announced.

Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert​

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA
Event

“Barbara K. Jackson
Rising Stars of Opera”

Christian Baldini, director and conductor

Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center

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.

Program

To be announced.

Free, tickets are required. Limit: 2 per household.

Mondavi Center, Davis, CA

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