cutting-edge improvisation, distinguished recitalists, and world music in dynamic performances--all in the superb new Conrad Prebys Concert Hall (except for To Be Sung, which will be performed in the Experimental Theatre in Conrad Prebys Music Center). The new concert hall was designed by LMN Architects and renowned acoustician Cyril Harris and opened last May to rave reviews. In the words of Department Chairman Miller Puckette, "The Conrad Prebys Concert Hall comes as close to acoustical perfection as any space in the world today." Wednesdays@7 is the place to hear masterworks of modern music, cutting-edge improvisation, distinguished recitalists, opera, and world music in dynamic performances. Be sure to check out the 2009-2010 season.
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Lilith
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: World premiere of a new opera by Guggenheim Award-winning composer Anthony Davis, with an original libretto by Thurgood Marshall Provost and Theatre Faculty Allan Havis. With an additional performance December 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. Davis is a critically acclaimed composer of operas including Tania and X: The Life and times of Malcolm X.
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Lilith
Friday, December 4th, 2009
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students, alumni, and Friends of Music (discount code FOM). Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: World premiere of a new opera by Guggenheim Award-winning composer Anthony Davis, with an original libretto by Thurgood Marshall Provost and Theatre Faculty Allan Havis. Davis is a critically acclaimed composer of operas including Tania and X: The Life and times of Malcolm X.
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International Contemporary Ensemble
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: The dazzling American new music ensemble ICE collaborates
with conductor and master percussionist Steven Schick in an all-Xenakis
program featuring O-mega, Psappha, Palimpsest, and other pieces.
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Takae Ohnishi
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music:Award-winning harpsichordist and UCSD faculty Takae Ohnishi shows her magnificent artistry in a concert of early music.
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Art of Improvisation 1
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: MacArthur Fellow, composer, and trombonist George Lewis performs with graduate students from UCSD in the first of two concerts curated by Anthony Davis and featuring world-class improvisers.
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Palimpsest 1: Duplicates
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: Rand Steiger conducts the inaugural concert of UCSD's new music ensemble, with Elliott Carter's Double Concerto, Philippe Manoury's new
Instants Pluriel, György Ligeti's classic Chamber Concerto, and others.
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Art of Improvisation 2
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: Virtuoso jazz flutist and Downbeat Critics Poll winner James Newton, also a prolific composer, performs original music in the second of the Department of Music's Art of Improvisation series.
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Kartik Seshadri
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: Sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri, the foremost disciple of Ravi Shankar, is sure to astound listeners in this concert featuring traditional and original Indian music. Seshadri recently toured with Philip Glass.
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Palimpsest 2: Déserts
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: Steven Schick leads the Department of Music's new music ensemble Palimpsest in its second concert of the season, with Edgar Varèse' Déserts and other masterworks of 20th and 21st Century Music.
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Telematic Music
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Concert Hall
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: Bassist Mark Dresser, pianist Myra Melford, and trombonist Michael Dessen present original music composed and improvised for telematic
performance between multiple locations.
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Chamber Opera
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
7:00 pm
CPMC Theatre
$25 general, 20% discount for UCSD faculty, staff, students. Subscription tickets also available at a greater discount. Tickets available at UCSD Box Office (858.534.TIXS) or at the door.
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Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: The staged production of Pascal Dusapin's chamber opera To Be Sung, in its West Coast Premiere. This haunting work, with text by Gertrude Stein, is a kaleidoscope of colors and textures for both voices and instruments; by turns whimsical, dramatic and poignant. Since its 1993 premiere, To Be Sung has been presented more than fifty times throughout Europe. The cast features singers from from UCSD's graduate program, along with UCSD faculty member Philip Larson. Directed by Susan Narucki (one of the works' original cast members), To Be Sung takes place in the Department's new experimental theatre in the Conrad Prebys Music Center. Guest conductor Julian Pellicano leads members of of the Department's new music group Palimpsest. Additional performances on May 27, 2010 and May 28, 2010, both at 8 p.m.
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