Chamber Music Matters, in Dialogue and Practice
Echoes of the now-defunct Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra filter into the Lobero Theatre with a special evening of “Dessert with Mozart,” featuring longtime SBCO maestro Heiichiro Ohyama.
Author: Josef Woodard
ON the Beat | Notes from the Road, Rotterdam Ahoy
Music Academy of the West keeps the beat; columnist heads to the North Sea Jazz Festival — @ 50 — on a jazz-seeking, brain-cleansing pilgrimage.
Operatic Powerhouse on the Town and on Campus
Noted composer Kevin Puts heads to town via the Music Academy of the West, featuring his one-act opera “Elizabeth Cree.”
ON the Beat | Alive and Kicking and Thinking at the Music Academy
As the Music Academy of the West season moves forward, the first in the “living Composer” component, the famed Missy Mazzoli, swings through town.
Photo Unfinish
Jacqueline Woods’s “How Forever Works” exhibition at Architectural Foundation alters and imbues new meaning on archival “found” photographs, to artful ends.
American Grain Meets German Grandeur
Music Academy of the West’s annual orchestra concert series kicks off grandly at the Granada, with a well-timed American/German, Gershwin/Brahms program.
Everywhere All at Once, at One Time
Illuminating and hip new documentary ‘Peter Asher: Everywhere Man’ paints a portrait of pop’s ubiquitous scene-maker, from the Beatles to James Taylor and beyond.
Man with a Horn with a Seven-Player Itch
Famed jazz trumpeter-bandleader-scenemaker Wynton Marsalis finally plays the Lobero Theatre, in septet mode.
Vive le French Cinema, New and Vintage
Launched 10 years ago, the SBIFF French Wave Festival presents a bigger and deeper program of French cinema, new and old.
As Years Go By
Tour manager’s inside vantage brings fresh views of the Beatles and Stones in “Before They Were Legends: Photographs of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones 1964-66,” at the Tamsen Gallery.
