Week of Events
Valente Lecture: A Collaboration to Remember – Giacomo Meyerbeer, Pauline Viardot, and ‘Le Prophète’
Valente Lecture: A Collaboration to Remember – Giacomo Meyerbeer, Pauline Viardot, and ‘Le Prophète’
Presented by guest lecturer Hilary Poriss, an Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University. Hilary received her bachelor's from Bates College and her master's and doctorate in music history from the University of Chicago. Her primary research interests reside in the 19th-century Italian and French opera, performance practice, diva culture, and musical culture aesthetics. She is […]
UC Davis Music: Lecture Demo – Concordian Dawn and Sarah Kay
UC Davis Music: Lecture Demo – Concordian Dawn and Sarah Kay
Concordian Dawn, ensemble for medieval music. Sarah Kay, troubadour scholar and Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture at New York University. At the UC Davis campus, Professor Kay and Concordian Dawn will perform a lecture with 12th–14th-century French music and texts. Highlighting material from their forthcoming publication/recording collaboration, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera (Cornell […]
Davis Wine Bar Saturday Music Series: Paddy on the Binge!
Davis Wine Bar Saturday Music Series: Paddy on the Binge!
Join us downtown on Saturday, March 5th, for great wine and food, accompanied by great live music!
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Presents: “Pastoral Moods”
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Presents: “Pastoral Moods”
Pandemic Pieces by Joseph Peterson Evoking a multitude of feelings brought on by the Covid pandemic, UC Davis graduate student composer Joseph Peterson—winner of the 2022 UCDSO Composition Award—names the three “Pandemic” pieces: (1) Scrolling; (2) Hope in these uncertain times; (3) and We are the flood. As a whole, the work captures feelings we have each had during these pandemic […]
New Harmony Jazz Band: Live & Outside!
New Harmony Jazz Band: Live & Outside!
Live Jazz at the Davis Craft's Fair/Market Downtown Davis Central Park. Free (outside) ALL WELCOME!!
Mondavi Center: Garrick Ohlsson & Kirill Gerstein Piano Duo
Mondavi Center: Garrick Ohlsson & Kirill Gerstein Piano Duo
Adès: Powder her Face Suite Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica Ravel: La Valse Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Kirill Gerstein distinguished by clarity of expression, discerning intelligence and virtuosity, and an energetic, imaginative musical presence that places […]
Music Conversations – Celebrating International Women’s Day
Music Conversations – Celebrating International Women’s Day
Lauma Akmene invites you to join her for "Music Conversations" on Sunday, March 6 at 3 pm at Davis Lutheran Church, 317 E 8th St, Davis. Akmene will play music by female composers in celebration of International Women's Day. The program will include organ music composed by Florence Beatrice Price (1887 - 1953), Jeanne Demessieux […]