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One Touch of Venus
The Department of Music presents a fully staged production of One Touch of Venus by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Ogden Nash and book by S.J. Perelman and Nash. Based on the novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Weill’s 1941 musical fantasy tells of an ancient statue of Venus that comes to life. When modern humans fall in love with her, complications ensue. | These performances are funded in part by the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Fund…
Find out more »Safia Elhillo’s Poetry Performance
Safia Elhillo is a Sudanese-American poet known for her written and spoken poetry. She is the author of The January Children, recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award. She is a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow and holds an MFA from The New School. Safia Elhillo will be hosting a writing workshop at the Harmony House earlier in the day followed by a poetry performance later…
Find out more »Sonja Johnson-Yu, soprano: Senior Recital
Soprano Sonja Johnson-Yu presents her senior recital of works by Schumann, Handel, and Duke with accompanist Su Mi Park, piano. | Program TBA Admission Info Free
Find out more »New Dimensionality: An Audiovisual Student Showcase
A collaboration between ArtX, CCRMA, and Vibes & Vino, this experimental audiovisual student showcase features live music performance combined with visual works, pushing the boundaries of medium and performance: live synthesized beatboxing, sensory engagement with the SF Bay tidal record, and an entombed and distorted Alexa… all this and even more! Schedule Saturday: exhibits 7:00-11:00 PMperformances 8:00-10:00 PM Sunday: exhibits 2:00-5:00 PMworkshops 3:00-5:00 PM Admission Info Free
Find out more »Selma
Film with Live Score: Jason Moran & Marvin Sewell The 2014 Oscar-winning movie—starring Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, and Tessa Thompson—tells the story of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Protesting segregationist repression and led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and now-U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA.), it helped lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year. Jazz pianist Jason Moran joins the Wordless Music Orchestra to provide the film with a live score.
Find out more »Laurie Anderson
The Art of Falling Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most reknowned—and daring—creative pioneers. Known for her multimedia presentations and recognized worldwide for her ground-breaking use of technology in the arts, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. At the Bing, Anderson will present her work, The Art of Falling.
Find out more »Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, with special guest the Stanford Chamber Chorale
The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, presents an exciting and diverse program of choral artistry featuring Frank Ferko’s American Folksongs plus works by Tallis, Byrd, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Whitacre, McDonald, and others. The Stanford Chamber Chorale will join them to present two works collaboratively. Choir of Trinity College, MelbourneChristopher Watson, Director Stanford Chamber ChoraleStephen M. Sano, Director Admission Info Free
Find out more »Production | Graduate Repertory 2020
WEEKEND 1THU – SAT, JAN 30 – FEB 1 at 8PM | Nitery Theater in Old UnionEach production runs just under 1 hour with a 5 minute transition between projects. “Women in Waiting”Adapted and Directed by Emma Humphris Women in Waiting is a short performance about women’s experience in immigration detention centers in the United Kingdom. The main character, Samia, is a young and pregnant Syrian woman who struggles to get support and medical attention. She finds little relief in…
Find out more »The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing
Please join us for two different evening programs of multichannel immersive music and soundscapes at Bing Concert Hall Studio. We will deploy our GRAIL sound system for a selection of pieces from CCRMA and around Middle-earth. Programs TBA. Admission Info Free | Tickets available at the door beginning one hour before curtain.
Find out more »NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic
with Bomsori Kim, violin Acclaimed violin virtuoso Bomsori Kim joins Poland’s NFM (National Forum of Music) Wroclaw Philharmonic under the baton of Giancarlo Guerrero. The Wroclaw Philharmonic has a long history with storied composers, having hosted Brahms, Mahler, and Wagner in years past. In addition to the classical repertoire, the orchestra performs Polish music, jazz, and music of the avant-garde.
Find out more »Kevin Lee Sun, piano: To the Touch
Kevin Lee Sun (B.A.S., ’15) presents his solo piano recital, “To the Touch”. Sun holds a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he served as Piano Department Assistant. He is now a third-year medical student at Stanford, studying piano with Thomas Schultz. | Pre-recital lecture by Lawrence Chiou at 7 PM Program J.S. Bach: Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910 Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D. 845 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 Busoni: Toccata, BV…
Find out more »Concert: Secret Tale of the Tanbour
Concert by acclaimed musician Ali Akbar Moradi, joined by Arash Moradi, Kourosh Moradi, and Mehdi Bagheri *Please note: This concert is free and open to the public, no ticket or RSVP are required. Seating is limited and first come first serve. Doors will open at 7:30 PM. Ali Akbar Moradi began playing the tanbour at the age of seven and learned not only the music but the Kurdish maqam repertoire. He has won awards, recorded several albums, and performed in…
Find out more »La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Orlando Consort Carl Dreyer’s 1928 silent movie masterpiece has had many musical accompaniments, from its original score by Victor Alix and Leo Pouget to Nick Cave and Johann Sebastian Bach. Now comes the superb Orlando Consort, the early-music British quartet, singing Guillaume Dufay’s chanson with lyrics by Christine de Pizan, whose poem about Joan of Arc (1412-1431) dates to 1429. Like the voices counseling the French saint, it is a cappella—without musical accompaniment.
Find out more »NOON CONCERT: Flute Students of Melody Holmes
Flute students from Melody Holmes’s studio are featured in this noontime concert. Admission Info Free
Find out more »Vladimir Feltsman
The Russian Experiment: From Mystical to Avant-Garde Russian pianist Vladimir Feltsman, born in 1952, made his professional debut with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra at 11. Beginning in 1979, as he fought for eight years for an exit visa from the Soviet Union, he was banned from public performance. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1987. In The Russian Experiment, Feltsman plays works by dissident composers of his homeland, from Alexander Scriabin to the forgotten composers that Scriabin influenced.
Find out more »The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
Back to Back Theatre Five activists with intellectual disabilities hold a public meeting to start a frank and open conversation about a history we would prefer not to know, and a future that is ambivalent. With the rapid development of AI and continuing advances in automation, where does human intelligence fit in? Shadow’s cast consists of five activists with intellectual disabilities, hidden histories, and ambivalent futures. As in all communities, nobody is self-sufficient and everyone is responsible.
Find out more »NOON CONCERT: Seunghee Lee, haegeum
Seunghee Lee, haegeum (a traditional Korean string instrument), plays new Korean music by Hyo-shin Na, old Korean music (traditional works), and Haegeum Sanjo. Admission Info Free
Find out more »Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
A chance encounter brought them together: the brilliant fiddler and blue-grass virtuoso Rhiannon Giddens, and Italian jazz piano and percussion master Francesco Turrisi. After meeting in Italy, they found they shared folk traditions reaching back to American minstrelsy and the Sicilian tarantella—and even farther, to Africa and the Middle East. Now, Giddens and Turrisi explore their cultural crossovers in this vivacious concert at the Bing.
Find out more »Aleksander Gabrys: New Works by Graduate Composers
Aleksander Gabryś performs new works by Stanford graduate composers. | Program TBA Admission Info Free
Find out more »Wooden Fish Ensemble
Wooden Fish Ensemble performs the music of Frederic Rzewski and Hyo-shin Na, as well as Korean folk songs. Wooden Fish Ensemble Thomas Schultz, piano Hyo-shin Na, composer Ilana Blumberg, violin Shoko Hikage, koto Seunghee Lee, haegeum Narae Kwon, kayageum
Find out more »Themes and Variations: Selected Chamber Music Works of Lenny Carlson
Since 2007, Lenny Carlson has been presenting concerts of his music at Stanford performed by various musicians and ensembles. In fact, Frederick Harris played Carlson’s six-movement composition for solo piano, Earth Tones, in 2010 at Campbell Recital Hall. Frederick Harris and Andrew “Endika” Currier are true virtuosi. They have made music together in the past, and their wonderful rapport is evident in the brilliant notes they charm and coax out of their respective instruments. This program will premiere two compositions: Thumb…
Find out more »Harlem Quartet
Harlem Quartet has moved rapidly forward since its 2006 Carnegie Hall debut, touring worldwide. Departing from the classical string quartet, it embraces jazz, Latin, and contemporary works, particularly by minority com-posers. The quartet has collaborated with a wide range of musicians including Chick Corea, Misha Dichter, and Carter Brey. Its members are violinist Ilmar Gavilan of Havana, American violinist Melissa White, violist Jaime Amador of Puerto Rico, and American cellist Felix Umansky. At the Bing, the quartet will perform works…
Find out more »Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
The Well-Caffeinated Clavier with Music Director Designate Richard Egarr Imagine being in Leipzig, in Zimmermann’s Coffeehouse, and watching Bach himself perform the “Coffee Cantata” while enjoying your favorite latte. Richard Egarr pairs this lighthearted vocal work with some of Bach’s grandest instrumental music. Joined by the extraordinary talents of Nola Richardson, James Reese, and Cody Quattlebaum—all rising stars out of Yale or Juilliard voice programs—Eggar concocts another powerful brew of Bach’s brilliant music from the bench of the harpsichord. Richard Egarr,…
Find out more »Catherine Cohen
Catherine Cohen is a comedian and actress living in Brooklyn, NY. She hosts a weekly show at Alan Cumming’s new East Village cabaret, CLUB CUMMING as well as the monthly variety show “It’s A Guy Thing,” which was listed as one of Paste Magazine’s “10 Best Alt Comedy Shows in New York City.” Catherine will next be seen in Michael Showalter’s THE LOVEBIRDS for Paramount. She recently wrapped shooting HIGH MAINTENANCE Season 3 for HBO, as well as the final…
Find out more »Tender Buttons: Tania Chen, Tom Djll, Gino Robair, and Bill Thibault
Tender Buttons taps sound worlds of complexity and lush emptiness, using grand piano framed by modular electronics. At times evoking sound worlds reminiscent of early Stockhausen, Cage/Tudor, and new wave bands of the 1980s, the trio interplays compatibly with an intensity wrought from focused concentration – sometimes evoking a meditative “composed” sound world, at other moments setting up impossible musics in side-by-side coexistence, shimmering and translucent. Tender Buttons came together out of a shared passion for the practice of free…
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