The Camellia Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Christian
Baldini, will perform in Sacramento at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
24.
Returning by popular demand will be soprano Carrie Hennessey,
singing arias from “Don Giovanni” and “Le nozze di
Figaro” by Mozart and “Don Carlos” by Verdi. Opening
the program will be “Midsommarvaka” (Swedish Rhapsody No.
1) by Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960). Concluding
will be the moody Symphony No. 4 by Finnish composer Jean
Sibelius (1865-1957).
The Chamber Music Society of Sacramento will highlight the
double bass — an instrument that often plays a background role
in classical music — as the group hosts bassist Thomas
Derthick at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at Congregation Bet
Haverim, 1715 Anderson Road in Davis.
Derthick is principal bass of the Sacramento Philharmonic,
Sacramento Ballet and Sacramento Choral Society. He frequently
performs with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento and has
recorded and toured with the Empyrean Ensemble of UC Davis.
On Friday, UC Davis offered a tour of the
still-under-construction Ann E. Pitzer Center to donors and music
lovers Grace Noda, third from right, Grant Noda, center back,
Malcolm MacKenzie, far right, and Natalie MacKenzie, second from
right, who were early supporters of the project. The
17,500-square-foot building will include a 399-seat recital hall,
which will double as a lecture hall. There also will be a lobby
for receptions, book or CD signings, etc., several much-needed
practice rooms, storage space for instruments, office space
and more.
Michael Accinno, Ph.D. candidate in musicology at UC Davis, is
one of the contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Music
and Disability Studies, a newly released collection of peer
reviewed essays published by Oxford University Press. His essay
“Disabled Union Veterans and the Performance of Martial Begging”
documents the lives of disabled military veterans who performed
as organ grinders in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War.
The Design Museum at UC Davis is hosting “Rattled,” an
exhibition of more than 100 baby rattles (many of them
historic) from the collection of Lu and Maynard Lyndon, the
founders and owners of Placewares+LyndonDesign in Gualala, on
the coast in Mendocino County.
“That the overtures are as much of a pleasure to listen to as
the arias is thanks to the exceptional qualities of the
Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) under conductor Christian
Baldini—never rushing, usually finding the perfect tempo in
common with his and Robin Ticciati’s predecessor in perfect SCO
Mozart, Sir Charles Mackerras.”
From their annual summer festival to their subscription series
of concerts, American Bach Soloists has made an impact on the
early vocal music scene in the Bay Area. So it’s no surprise
the group won this category with 51.21% of the vote, followed
by Schola Cantorum (31.76%) and the International Orange
Chorale of San Francisco (17.03%) — also fantastic choral
performers.
Just because a group invokes Bach in its very name doesn’t mean
there isn’t room for it to explore the music of other
composers. The American Bach Soloists proved the point on
Thursday with a grand, and even grandiose, account of a
little-known operatic gem of the French Baroque, Marin Marais’
1709 opus Sémélé….
This sparkling recording features the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra under Christian Baldini
conducting a personal selection of arias from six
of Mozart’s well-loved operas, alongside their respective
overtures. The soprano Elizabeth Watts, winner
of the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier prize, is the featured soprano and
she brings character and depth of understanding to her
performance.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to the academic
environment at UC Davis through active engagement with faculty
and fellow students, along with excellent academic achievement
and demonstrated leadership in the music major.
Sarah Messbauer has earned an Outstanding Graduate Student
Teaching Award for 2015. The award is co-sponsored by the
Graduate Council and the Office of Graduate Studies.
Jessica M. Gutierrez
is the first music and Native American studies major to receive
a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Research since it was established in 1994.
Each year up to two graduating seniors who have completed
outstanding research, scholarship or creative activity tied to
any academic subject while at UC Davis are awarded the
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
One of the after-school tutoring program in Davis, known as the
Bridge Program, pairs select Davis High School and UC Davis
students with elementary school students in Davis. The mission
statement of the program is:
The Empyrean Ensemble will present the second concert in its
Young and Restless series on Monday, June 1,
at 7 pm in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center.
Richard Cionco and the UC Davis University Chorus will be
featured in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy — a work dating
from 1808. The 18-minute piece include some musical material
that would later appear (in different and grander form) in
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in 1824.
The American Musicological Society and the Music Division of the
Library of Congress are pleased to present a series of lectures
highlighting musicological research conducted in the division’s
collections. Open to the public, the series is held in the
Library’s famed Coolidge Auditorium in the Jefferson Building. It
is the same room that Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring
premiered in, with Martha Graham.
The concert is titled Saluting UC Davis Mondavi
Institute — Making Life Better Through Food and
Wine, a theme that will be reflected in several of the
musical selections.
