Off-Campus Cultural Excursions
Academic Year 2008-09
Walt Disney Concert Hall
In the Autumn of 2003, a generous subvention by Board member and CMC Trustee Christopher V. Walker ´69 made it possible for the Gould Center to expand its off-campus cultural excursions program by purchasing tickets for concerts and recitals during the inaugural season of the spectacular Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Over the past five years the Center has provided round-trip transportation (leaving from, and returning to, the Gould Center at CMC) and tickets for hundreds of students attending concerts and recitals featuring such world-renowned ensembles and performers as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; violinists Margaret Batjer, Joshua Bell, and Leila Josefowicz; pianists Emanuel Ax, Alfred Brendel, Radu Lupu, and András Schiff; singers Barbara Bonney, Lisa Saffer, Eric Cutler, and Thomas Quasthoff; and conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Iván Fischer, Mariss Jansons, Sir Neville Marriner, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Following is the schedule of Gould Center-sponsored off-campus cultural excursions for Academic Year 2008-09:
|
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 8:00 p.m.
“András Schiff Plays Beethoven: VI”
Colburn Celebrity Series
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 -1827): Sonata No. 22 in F, op. 54; Sonata No. 23 in f minor, op. 57 (“Appassionata”); Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp, op. 78; Sonata No. 25 in G, op. 79; Sonata No. 26 in E-flat, op. 81a (“Les Adieux”)
András Schiff, piano
|
|
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 8:00 p.m.
“Thibaudet Plays Gershwin”
EDGARD VARESE (1883 – 1965): Octandre (1924)
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898 – 1937): Concerto in F (1925); Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873 -1943): Symphony No. 3 in a minor, op. 44 (1936)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor
|
|
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 8:00 p.m.
“The English Concert”
Baroque Variations
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 – 1750): Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066; “Vergnügte Ruh, from Cantata No. 170; “Qui sedes” from the B-minor Mass; Sinfonia from Cantata No. 42; “Schlummert dich” from Cantata No. 83; “Erbarme dich” from the St. Matthew Passion.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685 – 1759): Concerto Grosso in A, Op. 6, No. 11; “Ombra cara” from “Radamisto”; “A dispetto” from “Tamerlano”; Act II Passacaglia from “Radamisto”; Mad Scene from “Orlando”
The English Concert, Harry Bicket, conductor;
David Daniels, countertenor
|
|
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 8:00 p.m.
“The Australian Chamber Orchestra”
Baroque Variations
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678 – 1741): Concerto Grosso, Opus 3, No. 11
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791): Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732 – 1809): Symphony No. 44 (“Mourning”)
JEAN-PHILLIPPE RAMEAU (1683 – 1764): Suite from Dardanus
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti, conductor;
Paul Lewis, piano
|
Because we have only a limited number of tickets (available only for CMC students), we urge anyone wishing to take advantage of these extraordinary opportunity to ACT QUICKLY.
TO RESERVE YOUR TICKET AND A SEAT ON THE BUS, YOU MUST:
-
Contact Assistant Director Richard Drake at richard.drake@cmc.edu (NO telephone calls, please). PRIOR REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. We discourage the practice of requesting multiple reservations within a single email (e.g., "four tickets for my pals and me, please"), although Mr. Drake might make some small allowances in booking as many as two reservations at a time—provided the registrant gives him the name of the second person for whom she/he is requesting a ticket. To separate confirmed, on-the-bus concertgoers from waiting-listed hopefuls, Mr. Drake will adjudicate strictly according to the time-stamps that appear on students' email requests.
-
Once you have received confirmation by return email from Mr. Drake, submit a deposit of $20.00 (cash or check, payable to "Gould Center, CMC"), which reserves both your ticket and your seat on the bus. Bring your deposit to the Gould Center's offices at 208 Adams Hall. If we have not received your deposit by a specified time (which will be subsequently indicated in general email announcements sent to all CMC students), your reservation will go to the next person on the waiting list. WE SHALL REFUND YOUR DEPOSIT WHEN YOU BOARD THE BUS ON THE EVENING OF THE CONCERT. (Consequently, if you make your reservation in good faith—and keep it—there will be NO CHARGE for your ticket and transportation. We collect these "good faith" deposits in order to guard against the kind of "11th-hour" cancellations that leave us with unused tickets and that prevent genuinely interested students from attending the concert.)
We'll board the bus (Funseekers Chartered Tours) at 6:15 p.m. (don't be late!) for the 8:00 p.m. concert. NO LATECOMERS WILL BE SEATED. The bus will be parked on Columbia Avenue, between 8th and 9th Streets, at the far west end of the CMC campus (near the CMC Admissions Office). We plan to return to the same location by about 11:00-11:15 p.m.
BE ADVISED, TICKETS WILL NOT REMAIN AVAILABLE FOR LONG.
|
