Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach is a new musical featuring a wickedly tuneful score by the Tony Award-nominated team of Pasek and Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight and A Christmas Story the Musical) and a curiously quirky book by Timothy Allen McDonald is a treat for the whole family.

When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that results in a tremendous peach... and launches a journey of enormous proportions. Suddenly, James finds himself in the center of the gigantic peach, among human-sized insects with equally oversized personalities, but after it falls from the tree and rolls into the ocean; the group faces hunger, sharks and plenty of disagreements. Thanks to James' quick wit and creative thinking, the residents learn to live and work together as a family. The dangerous voyage is a success, but the adventure takes a whole new twist once they land on the Empire State Building.

Concert Dates:

August 17, 18 & 19 @ 7:30pm

August 20 @ 2:00pm

August 24, 25 & 26 @ 7:30pm

August 27 @ 2:00pm

Tickets: $40 Orchestra, $37 Parterre, $30 Balcony

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For more information, visit temeculatheater.org

Underwolf is opening the Outhaus, a new space for experimental composition, free improvisation, avant-rock, and sonic exploration, with three days of performances from adventurous artists. A former beauty salon in Mid-City, Los Angeles, the Outhaus is a new home for music that breaks through the glass of the past with what's to come.

Southland Ensemble will perform on Sunday at 4:15pm. We'll be presenting Asymmetries by Jackson Mac Low and Estonia by Laurence Crane.

Admission: $10 suggested donation

Full Schedule Below

Friday, August 4, 2017 at 7 PM

7:15 :: Gregory Uhlmann

8:00 :: Carolyn Chen

9:00 :: Christopher Douthitt

9:45 :: Andrew McIntosh

Saturday, August 5, 2017 at 7 PM

7:15 :: Logan Hone

8:00 :: Laura Steenberge

9:00 :: Matt Barbier

9:45 :: Dollshot

Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 2 PM

2:15 :: Hampton Fancher (fixed media)

3:00 :: Daniel Silliman 

4:00 :: Scott Worthington

4:45 :: Southland Ensemble

For the first time, Boston Court reimagines its summer music series as a weeklong festival, featuring collaborations from some of LA's most exciting contemporary performers. DuoFest celebrates collaboration in unexpected and adventurous ways, like only Boston Court can.

For the DuoFest finale, all festival artists return to the Main Stage to join together for Mauricio Kagel's Ludwig van, a rarely-performed homage to Beethoven. Never performed the same way twice, this musical extravaganza will reconvene DuoFest musicians, a myriad of other musical performers (including a DJ), and excerpts from the eponymous film. A once-in-a-lifetime event, not to be missed!

Program

Beethoven - Nine Variations on a March by Dressler

Beethoven - Für Elise

John Corigliano - Fantasia on an Ostinato

Erik Carlson - Beethoven's Eroica: opening chords

Clarence Barlow - Für Luise

Clarence Barlow - Yesterday’s Moonshine

Mauricio Kagel - Ludwig Van

For tickets and more information, visit www.bostoncourt.com

For the first time, Boston Court reimagines its summer music series as a weeklong festival, featuring collaborations from some of LA's most exciting contemporary performers. DuoFest celebrates collaboration in unexpected and adventurous ways, like only Boston Court can.

Potential Energy, featuring Autoduplicity (Rachel Beetz, flute & Jennifer Bewerse, cello) and Aperture Duo (Adrianne Pope, violin & Linnea Powell, viola), is an exploration of stimulating dualities with works by Christian Wolff, Kaija Saariaho, Kurt Isaacson, Catherine Lamb, Andrew Tholl, and Natacha Diels/Jessie Marino. The program also includes the world premiere of Jason Barabba’s micro-opera, Any Excuse Will Serve A Tyrant, pairing together soprano, Justine Aronson, and baritone, Scott Graff.

Program

On Structure (Natacha Diels and Jessie Marino) - On Silence

Anonymous - Rock About My Saro Jane (arr. Aperture Duo)

Christian Wolff - Three Pieces for Violin and Viola

Kaija Saariaho - Mirrors

Kurt Isaacson - with billowing sheets tucked in at the edges, puckering like a healing wound

Catherine Lamb - Frame/Frames

Andrew Tholl - New work (World Premiere)

Jason Barabba - Any Excuse Will Serve a Tyrant (World Premiere)

For tickets and more information, visit www.bostoncourt.com

For the first time, Boston Court reimagines its summer music series as a weeklong festival, featuring collaborations from some of LA's most exciting contemporary performers. DuoFest celebrates collaboration in unexpected and adventurous ways, like only Boston Court can.

On Night 3 of the fest, the serious lover of new music has a rare opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at the creation process. Synchromy, in collaboration with Boston Court, has selected undergraduate composition students who will be given the opportunity to hear and workshop their new works with professional musicians, as well as get feedback on their pieces from the musicians, professional coaches, and the audience!

Admission is free!

The Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings.

This concert will feature:

Jordan Dykstra: Pitch Gradient with Noise in D♮

John Eagle: tuning #3, I. Ascending

Jordan Dykstra and ensemble

Emily Call, violin

Admission: Free

For more information, visit dogstarorchestra.com

Southland Ensemble, joined by members of the Dog Star Orchestra, performs text scores by experimental composer Pauline Oliveros.

Featuring:

Ear Piece

Pebble Music

Papericity

Arctic Air

Rock Piece

This concert is part of the Soundwaves New Music series, which features artists whose work appears on the DRAM streaming service. It is also part of the 13th annual Dog Star Orchestra festival of experimental music, presented around Southern California by Michael Pisaro.

Admission: Free

For more information, visit soundwavesnewmusic.com

or southlandensemble.com

KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory brings together a constellation of contemporary Los Angeles artists whose work extends from the nexus of ideas embodied by the Observatory itself: astronomy, scientific discovery, space exploration, optics, recorded observation, philosophical questions of cosmology, the history, aesthetics and ecology of the site and its influence upon the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. The exhibition concept is to create a site-specific dialogue between artists and the working Observatory. Many Los Angeles artists create work that is informed by technological and scientific discoveries that take place right here in Southern California–from the use of new materials created for the aerospace industry to aesthetic sensibilities informed by popular space photography, but they have never investigated their source. KNOWLEDGES’ exhibitions contextualize aesthetics and inquiries developing in art, and how they participate in dialogue with innovations in science and astronomy.

Jennifer will play a new work by Scott Benzel for string quartet, dancers, anvil, and the rotation of the 100 foot telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. Performances will begin at 4:00pm, 5:00pm and 6:00pm.

Admission: Free

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit knowledges.org

KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory brings together a constellation of contemporary Los Angeles artists whose work extends from the nexus of ideas embodied by the Observatory itself: astronomy, scientific discovery, space exploration, optics, recorded observation, philosophical questions of cosmology, the history, aesthetics and ecology of the site and its influence upon the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. The exhibition concept is to create a site-specific dialogue between artists and the working Observatory. Many Los Angeles artists create work that is informed by technological and scientific discoveries that take place right here in Southern California–from the use of new materials created for the aerospace industry to aesthetic sensibilities informed by popular space photography, but they have never investigated their source. KNOWLEDGES’ exhibitions contextualize aesthetics and inquiries developing in art, and how they participate in dialogue with innovations in science and astronomy.

Jennifer will play a new work by Scott Benzel for string quartet, dancers, anvil, and the rotation of the 100 foot telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. Performances will begin at 4:00pm, 5:00pm and 6:00pm.

Admission: Free

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit knowledges.org

Cal State San Bernardino Opera Theatre director Stacey Fraser will produce and direct back-to-back performances of Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s compositions Monkey See Monkey Do and Tango on Friday, May 12, and Saturday, May 13.

Both performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the CSUSB Performing Arts Building Recital Hall. Tickets for the show are $15 for general admission; $12 for senior citizens, CSUSB faculty and staff; and $8 for students.

The first performance, Monkey See Monkey Do, is a children’s opera based on a Mexican folktale, and features music that integrates both the European aesthetic and the traditional folk music of Mexico. In the spotlight will be CSUSB opera theatre students and San Francisco-based guest soprano, Morgan Harrington.

Tango is a one-act comic concert opera for tenor solo and chamber ensemble and also integrates a confluence of musical cultures: that of the Argentinian tango tradition as well as the European operatic tradition. The piece will showcase professional dancers Faith Jensen-Ismay and Robby Johnson of the critically acclaimed San Diego-based dance company, Mojalet Dance Collective.

Performances will be held on May 12, 13, 14 @ 7:30pm

Tickets: $15 General / $12 Senior / $8 Student

For more information, call the CSUSB Department of Music at (909) 537- 5859, or visit the department website at 

music.csusb.edu