Author: Charles Donelan

SBMA’s The Dwight and Winifred Vedder Collection
Visual Arts By | Thu Apr 26, 2007 | 12:00pm

SBMA’s The Dwight and Winifred Vedder Collection

On April 28, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will open one of its most exciting and personal exhibitions of the year when it unveils the 13 works recently donated by Winifred Vedder and her late husband, Dwight Vedder. The Vedders are ranchers who have grown avocados here in Santa Barbara County for several decades. They began collecting art in the late 1970s when they met Los Angeles art dealer Louis Stern, who took them to the great art auctions and helped them get started.

Da Brahms
Dance By | Thu Apr 26, 2007 | 12:00pm

Da Brahms

At the opening of Camerata Pacifica’s April concert, Adrian Spence assured the audience that there would be no difficult music on the program, just lots of “vacuous virtuosity.” The musicians then played Cafe Concertino by the Australian composer Carl Vine, a work for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano that is based on a formidably intricate scheme for creating tonal ambiguity-just the kind of academic exercise Spence claimed to have foresworn.

Roll Over Beethoven
Arts & Entertainment By | Thu Apr 26, 2007 | 12:00pm

Roll Over Beethoven

Richard Kaufman led the Santa Barbara Symphony for this pops tribute to the music of the Beatles, joined by Classical Mystery Tour, a successful Beatles cover band with a unique angle: They perform the Beatles’ music exactly as it was written, but with the assistance of various symphony orchestras around the world. The concept originated with Jim Owen, who has sung and played the part of John Lennon in the Broadway musical Beatlemania! and in other Beatle bands since the early ’80s.

A Place for Us
Theater By | Fri Apr 20, 2007 | 11:00pm

A Place for Us

On Tuesday, April 24 the audience at the Arlington Theatre will time-travel through a full century of Broadway’s greatest hits, courtesy of New York composer and arranger Neil Berg and his 100 Years of Broadway concert. I spoke with Berg last week about the show.

Arts & Entertainment By | Thu Apr 19, 2007 | 12:00pm

What Heaven Is For

There were so many singers onstage with the Santa Barbara Symphony for this performance of Brahms’s A German Requiem that it took a while for all of them to reach their places. It was beautiful to watch the rows of eager faces gradually fill five deep to the top, and a thrill to then see their 148 music books open in unison at a signal from the podium.

Theater By | Thu Mar 22, 2007 | 12:00pm

Spring Arts Preview- Theater

Santa Barbara takes on a slew of the greatest living American playwrights this spring, with major productions of works by Sam Shepard, Edward Albee, Tony Kushner, Lee Blessing, and Richard Greenberg. There’s also something by an Englishman named Shakespeare, and two important American premieres of contemporary plays from Finland.

Bacchus Incarnate
Arts & Entertainment By | Thu Mar 22, 2007 | 12:00pm

Bacchus Incarnate

With this concert falling on a St. Patrick’s Saturday night, the mood was festive and the theme was green, with young soloist Natasha Paremski appearing in an elegant emerald gown. First up was the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 of Frederic Chopin.

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