Winter Arts Theater Preview
Perhaps the greatest living theater artist, composer, and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim will be in town this March for a public conversation at UCSB with former New York Times critic Frank Rich.
Charles Donelan
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Camerata Pacifica
With the beginning of a new year Camerata Pacifica stepped even further into the vanguard of contemporary chamber music performance by presenting a concert blending the old (two pieces by Mozart), the new (a piano quintet by John Harbison), and the now, with Adrian Spence and Warren Jones giving the world premiere of Ian Wilson’s Heft.
Bill Frisell and Joey Baron
There were birdcalls on the sound system as the audience filed in for Bill Frisell and Joey Baron’s outstanding Jazz at the Lobero show on Saturday night, and the birds filled the hall with just the right ambience of natural beauty to prepare everyone for what was to come.
An Interview with Terence Blanchard of the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra
The Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour comes to town on Monday, January 14.
The Savages
Caring for an elderly parent with dementia reveals a lot about a family, and not all of it is nice. Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) Savage have not received much love or support from their parents, and as the story begins, they face their forties with diminishing expectations.
A Magical Musical Tour: 103 Years of Songs from Peter Pan
A loose hybrid of revue and staged recital, this production had just enough exposition-and flying-to qualify as a real Peter Pan.
Eugene Chadbourne, with Bill Barrett and the Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace Duo.
Colter Frazier’s Experimental Music Nights continued this month with a visit from free improvisational guitarist, avant-garde comedian, and all-around musical archivist/political activist Eugene Chadbourne.
Jonathan Richman
Although he pushed back the start time of this set until 9:30 p.m. because he plays so softly that he didn’t want to compete with even the minimal distraction of diners eating, Jonathan Richman nevertheless came through with one of the year’s most memorable performances on Wednesday night.
Camerata Pacifica
The holidays are a great time to revisit the music of Mozart, and Camerata Pacifica took a distinctly adventurous path in this all-Mozart program, yet never strayed far from the sound of the viola. First up was the Duo No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Viola, K. 423, played by Catherine Leonard and Richard O’Neill.
An Enviable Position
Larry Feinberg is named the the new director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
