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Tickets for Bing Concert Hall inaugural season performances are selling out
Early reviews of Bing Concert Hall are in, and they are glowing. The best of the bon mots include: “The sound popped like champagne,” “The hall exudes a serenely majestic air,” “The acoustics in the room and the intimacy of the space made performing an incredibly personal musical experience,” and “In a word, it’s magnificent.”…
Stanford students’ variations on a theme by Kotche
A Glenn Kotche performance is a physically impressive feat. Kotche is a percussionist – best known as the drummer for the rock band Wilco – renowned for his solo percussion shows. Without melodies and harmonies to hide behind, these concerts leave him with the task of making a seamless, full composition out of what seems…
The Stanford Arts Timeline unearths a vital legacy of tradition and transformation
On Friday, January 11, 2013 – nearly 121 years after Stanford convened its first class – Bing Concert Hall opened its doors. A culminating event for years of curricular and extracurricular arts activity on campus, this exciting moment has deep roots in over a century of Stanford arts – from one department focused on applied…
Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall opens to rave reviews
Early reviews of Bing Concert Hall from the press, performers and patrons are in, and they are glowing. The best of the bon mots include: “The sound popped like champagne,” “The hall exudes a serenely majestic air,” “The acoustics in the room and the intimacy of the space made performing an incredibly personal musical experience,”…
Finely Tuned
With the right lighting, the sturdy, fez-shaped building appears like something from another world, an outlier amid the sandstone-and-tiled architecture that dominates the Stanford landscape. And it would not be hyperbole to say there has never been anything like it on the Farm. After decades of yearning for a world-class performing arts venue, years of planning…
Chocolate Heads go UNderground
Who: Chocolate Heads Movement Band + Guests from MIT and CSU Hayward; Directed by Aleta Hayes What: Movement and band performance Where: Cantor Arts Center Lobby When: Jan. 24, 7:45pm—no late seating What’s a Chocolate Head? Chocolate Heads is a movement-driven band composed of mostly Stanford student dancers, musicians, and visual and spoken-word artists, under…
City Beneath the City @ Stanford Archaeology Center
City Beneath the City opens on January 11, 2013, at the Stanford Archaeology Center. The exhibition consists of artistic displays of artifacts from San Jose’s first Chinese community, the Market Street Chinatown, which was destroyed in an arson fire on May 4, 1887. Through artist Rene Yung’s sensitive design, City Beneath the City explores the…
Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall opens this Friday with soundscape fanfare
A three-minute fanfare packed with sounds shaped and inspired by Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall – including harbor horns, a Canadian icebreaker, music student assignments and even the hall’s steel beams – will be the first music heard at the hall on opening night this Friday, Jan. 11. Faculty at the Department of Music’s Center for…
A WALTZ THROUGH THE LIFE OF RICHARD POWERS
We wandered into the welcoming room on a gorgeous, quiet Thursday afternoon to discover the attentive, kindhearted Richard Powers smiling and ready to share his life with us. The dancer’s passion is fantastically evident in every corner of his office. His walls are covered with vintage posters of dance events and oil paintings with broad,…
Students from across campus bring Beethoven to Bing
Alessandra Aquilanti is a fourth year PhD student in Italian whose thesis explores the humorist authors and magazines of fascist Italy. This is her fourth year as principal of the viola section of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and she also plays in the Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra. Student musicians representing nearly every academic major will perform…
Checking in with the Chocolate Heads, Stanford’s student “movement band”
Jazz visionary and Stanford visiting artist William Parker made a point of reminding the musicians in the Chocolate Heads movement band to “think about the dancers.” That insightful instruction is uniting the sound and movement of the Heads as never before, and on the evening of March 8 the genre-mashing collective will share the Bing…
The Jameel Prize: Art Inspired by Islamic Tradition
On view for the first time in the United States, “The Jameel Prize: Art Inspired by Islamic Tradition” opens December 12 at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center. This special exhibition presents the work of 10 artists selected as finalists for the prestigious Jameel Prize, an international award bestowed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in…
Last events of 2012
Dec. 12 6:45 pm | LASER (Leonardo Arts/Science Evening Rendezvous) The LASER series provides a snapshot of the region’s cultural environment and fosters interdisciplinary networking. Each evening presents four artists, scientists, philosophers, historians, inventors, scholars who are working on paradigm shifts. Dec. 12 speakers include: Jennifer Parker (UC Santa Cruz) presenting works created by artists and…
Holly Herndon: Stanford’s Newest Ingenue Muses on “Movement”
If you’re tired of the electronic music scene at Stanford, try stepping up from the romaine that is brostep and progressive house to the kale that is Holly Herndon’s new album “Movement.” Herndon, a Ph.D student in electronic music here at Stanford, has spent the last five years in the Berlin music scene. Originally from…
STANFORD LIVE’S INAUGURAL SEASON AT BING CONCERT HALL BEGINS JANUARY 11, 2013
Stanford Live will begin its inaugural season at the long-awaited Bing Concert Hall on Friday, January 11 at 8:00 p.m. with a celebratory Opening Night Concert featuring master of ceremonies Anna Deavere Smith, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony with special guest mezzo-soprano Frederica Von Stade, the St. Lawrence String Quartet(SLSQ), Stanford Chamber…
Asian American Theater Project taps into the need to prove oneself
In spring 2012, Ken Savage and Asia Chiao decided to reboot the Asian American Theater Project (AATP) by scheduling a full academic year of productions for 2012-13, something that hasn’t been done in years, starting with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in fall quarter. Following Spelling Bee is Trying to Find Chinatown in…
