If it's short it will be this tall.

Marc Lowenstein, one of the most influential figures behind the surging L.A. contemporary music scene, steps into the spotlight with a selection of soaring new works for voice, soloists and chamber orchestra. A composer, conductor and singer, Lowenstein is music director of The Industry—the groundbreaking experimental opera company (Hopscotch, Invisible Cities)—and collaborates with the city’s brightest up-and-coming ensembles and players. Vocalist Jodie Landau opens the concert with the American debut of this, a piece based on Buddhist, Sufi and Hebrew texts, followed by cellist Derek Stein and the world premiere of T’filat haDerech (Prayer for a Journey)—a cello concerto augmented with dance. The program concludes with vocalists Justine Aronson, David Castillo and Grace Bernard in several scenes from Little Bear, a new opera dramatizing the power of children’s stories. 

Admission: $20 Genera, $16 Members/Students, $10 CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff

For tickets or more information, visit www.redcat.org

Fernando Rincón Estrada presents his graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The evening will feature a premiere cello solo performed by Jennifer Bewerse

Admission: Free

For more information, visit www.music.ucsb.edu

Ever since its earliest days in the 1930s, Monday Evening Concerts has striven to find kindred musical spirits from diverse historical epochs.  In the third concert of our season, we pair the works of two composers: Michael Pisaro and Guillaume de Machaut. Pisaro, who lives in Los Angeles, is one of the foremost representatives of the Wandelweiser Group. Writing pieces that feature microtonal electric guitar, bowed percussion, field recordings, rustling pine cones and choir, Pisaro has garnered wide critical acclaim. His counterpart on this concert, Guillaume de Machaut, was one of the great poets and musicians of 14th Century France. While the surfaces of these respective composers' works differ greatly, by placing them side by side, we examine the deeper connections that exist between these sublime artists separated by seven centuries.

​Michael PISARO: When I Hear Light (2016)  World Premiere  

Guillaume de MACHAUT: La Messe de Nostre Dame

Guillaume de MACHAUT: Quant j'ay l'espart 

Michael PISARO: Asleep, Desert, Choir, Agnes (2016)  West Coast Premiere 

Michael Pisaro, electric guitar

Greg Stuart, percussion

Dogstar Orchestra

Tickets $27 / $12 student

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For more information, visit www.mondayeveningconcerts.org

Jennifer joins the Gluck Outreach Concert Series in February to present a concert for solo cello. The concerts will include In manus tuas by Caroline Shaw, Unlocked by Judith Weir, Prelude from Suite I by Bach, Barcarole from Suite III by Britten, Sarabande from Suite III by Bach, The New Right of Spring by Pauline Oliveros, Raimondas Rumsas by Laurence Crane, and Sept Papillons by Kaija Saariaho. Please be advised that seating and attendance may be limited or restricted. Contact the Gary and Mary West Wellness Center to ensure your attendance.

Admission: Free

ADMISSION MAY BE LIMITED 

For more information, contact the Gary and Mary West Wellness Center

Jennifer Bewerse is joined by Southland Ensemble to present her final recital at UC San Diego featuring the chance poetry of Jackson Mac Low. Mac Low’s dedication to systems of composition – which included chance, indeterminacy, and simultaneous performance – allowed him to create works of extreme openness. His poems represent a moment in poetry where truths of authorship were called into question and the very boundaries of music and poetry were pulled taut.

“I myself think that if it is a connection and it does something, it’s some kind of cause but it’s different from the time-linear cause going from past to future. It’s across any present, between any two things coexisting. ... And I think that one thing that systematic chance does allow... is for something to happen on that synchronous plane.” - Jackson Mac Low

Featuring:

Tree Movie

54th Light Poem: For Ian Tyson

The Five Young Turtle Asymmetries

Is That Wool Hat My Hat

Numbered Asymmetries

Admission is Free

Jennifer joins the Gluck Outreach Concert Series in February to present a concert for solo cello. The concerts will include In manus tuas by Caroline Shaw, Unlocked by Judith Weir, Prelude from Suite I by Bach, Barcarole from Suite III by Britten, Sarabande from Suite III by Bach, The New Right of Spring by Pauline Oliveros, Raimondas Rumsas by Laurence Crane, and Sept Papillons by Kaija Saariaho. Please be advised that seating and attendance may be limited or restricted. Contact the Bayside Community Center to ensure your attendance.

Admission: Free

ADMISSION MAY BE LIMITED 

For more information, contact the Bayside Community Center

Jennifer joins the Gluck Outreach Concert Series in February to present a concert for solo cello. The concerts will include In manus tuas by Caroline Shaw, Unlocked by Judith Weir, Prelude from Suite I by Bach, Barcarole from Suite III by Britten, Sarabande from Suite III by Bach, The New Right of Spring by Pauline Oliveros, Raimondas Rumsas by Laurence Crane, and Sept Papillons by Kaija Saariaho. Please be advised that seating and attendance may be limited or restricted. Contact the Potiker Family Senior Residence to ensure your attendance.

Admission: Free

ADMISSION MAY BE LIMITED 

For more information, contact the Potiker Family Senior Residence

Violinist Erik Carlson, an assistant professor at UC San Diego, will present SlowSD, a festival of slow music. The festival will begin at midnight on February 9, 2017 and last through February 12.

Jennifer's performance will feature John Cage's One8 and Laurence Crane's Raimondas Rumsas, both of which are performed with a BACH.bogen curved bow that can play all four strings of the cello simultaneously. Other composers featured include Oliveros, Satie, Feldman, Frey, Epstein, Lamb, and more.

Admission: Free

For more information and other performances on this festival, visit slowsd.org

Southland Ensemble presents the chance poetry of Jackson Mac Low. Mac Low’s dedication to systems of composition - which included chance, indeterminacy, and simultaneous performance - allowed him to create works of extreme openness. His poems represent a moment in poetry where truths of authorship were called into question and the very boundaries of music and poetry were pulled taut.

“I myself think that if it is a connection and it does something, it’s some kind of cause but it’s different from the time-linear cause going from past to future. It’s across any present, between any two things coexisting. ... And I think that one thing that systematic chance does allow... is for something to happen on that synchronous plane.” - Jackson Mac Low

Featuring:

54th Light Poem: For Ian Tyson

Is That Wool Hat My Hat

Young Turtle Asymmetries

Tree Movie

Numbered Asymmetries

Tickets $18 general / $15 student

Purchase Tickets HERE

For more information, visit www.southlandensemble.com