Review | Sonorous Bows and Girls
Danish String Quartet returns to town, with special spotlight on the Danish National Girls’ Choir, and the U.S. premiere of a David Lang piece.
Josef Woodard
Recent Stories
On the Far Side of Normal
‘Normal’ fits neatly in the post-‘Fargo’ niche of film genres, where things seriously go bump in the night of small-town America.
Mexican Jazz Songbirding
Lucía, young jazz vocalist sensation from Mexico, to make local debut as part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “Hear and Now” series.
Nothing Is Real: Art About Dreaming
Group show “Shapes of Surrealism” graces and mystifies Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery.
Young Art Making Its Way
“Re-Encounter,” this year’s senior art exhibition at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, features themes of young artists processing past and future lives.
ON the Beat | Grand Jazz, Meditative Harp, and Other Music Buzz
Grand on State making soft opening bang, mediation and music intersect, and Nerf Herder does the Lobero.
A Legacy Supreme, Remixed
Twin centennials of promethean jazz artists Miles Davis and John Coltrane, paid tributes by Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane at the Granada and Emmet Cohen at Campbell Hall, in a single week.
Review | Glorious Sound, Gentle Fare-Thee-Well
Dallas Symphony Orchestra CAMA concert at the Granada was absent planned pianist Helene Grimaud — calling in sick — but prevailed with style and might.
A Formerly Emerging Piano Master’s Return
Masterful pianist Yuja Wang pays another return visit to Santa Barbara, this time with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, at The Granada Theatre.
ON the Beat | Jazz Finds a Groove in the 805, RIP Scott Clayton
Pianist Emmet Cohen jazzes up Campbell Hall, hip impresario Scott Clayton passes, Mariposa series ends on Schubertian high.
