Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen John Cameron Mitchell (Sandman, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), one of alt-culture’s boldest creators, joins forces with international cabaret star Amber Martin for an evening of songs, stories and characters, all chosen by the hand of fate on the ‘cassette roulette.’ Backed up by Hedwig’s Broadway Music Director, Justin Craig and band, it’s never the same show twice!

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John Cameron Mitchell and Amber Martin

Stanford University

Hailed by The New Yorker ”not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection,” the acclaimed St. Lawrence continues its fabled partnership with Stanford.

Sundays with the St. Lawrence

Terri Lyne Carrington presents an evening of jazz tunes composed by women – now there’s an idea. For too long, jazz standards – the tunes that dominate jazz repertory and that young musicians are taught to master – have almost exclusively been composed by men. From “My Funny Valentine” to “Maiden Voyage,” they are beloved compositions. But where are the women? As founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice, Carrington has curated a newly published compilation of New Standards composed by women, including Carla Bley, Cassandra Wilson, Marilyn Crispell, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Eliane Elias, Jaime Branch, Luciana Souza, Hiromi, Emily Remler, Anat Cohen, and others.

Terri Lyne Carrington

For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Paul Wiancko (cello)—has blended sounds across lines of culture and era, moving beyond the typical terrain for a string quartet. Through brave sonic explorations into the pressing issues of our time, Kronos has established a worldwide influence. Kronos has collaborated with many of the world’s most celebrated composers, breathing new life into the musical landscape.

Kronos Quartet: Five Decades

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv6htilWtI

The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

In a new piece by Gavin Bryars, Viano String Quartet and Mahan Esfahani come together with sharp coherence. Viano String Quartet are First Prize winners of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and their crispness as an ensemble continues to enjoy international praise. The combined force of Viano and critically-acclaimed harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani is bound to inspire awe.

Viano String Quartet and Mahan Esfahani

Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke comes to Bing Concert Hall to fill the space with lush elegance. Accompanied by Laura Dahl of Stanford’s Department of Music on piano, Cooke will soar with her vocal finesse and agility. Members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, will perform Rückert Lieder alongside Cooke.

Sasha Cooke

Julius Eastman was an American maverick and radical who challenged the exclusionary foundations of European classical music and organized his compositions as tools for social change. Eastman was also an activist who deployed his life experiences as a gay African American as the impetus to question what it means to be American and an artist, and the ideals of United States and western classical music. Wild Up Artistic Director Christopher Rountree launched the ensemble in 2010 with a vision that rejected outdated traditions and threw classical repertoire into the context of pop culture, new music, and performance art.

Wild Up: The Music of Julius Eastman

Three masters and old friends join together in a new collaboration. Kayhan Kalhor (kamancheh), Wu Man (pipa), and Sandeep Das (tabla) are established soloists in their individual traditions. Their new trio highlights the ancient traditions of Iran, China, and India through a 21st-century lens.

DoosTrio

In this thrilling collaboration by the imaginative Calder Quartet and dancer, choreographer, and Deaf artist and advocate, Antoine Hunter, audiences are offered an immersive and joyful journey into chamber music and dance – and a special insight into Beethoven’s Op. 130 String Quartet and Grosse Fugue, written toward the end of his life, when his hearing loss had a profound impact on his life and work.

Calder Quartet + Antoine Hunter

Experience the songs from one of the most beloved American musical classics reimagined through an Afrofuturistic lens, led by a dynamic group of artists, including Brianna Thomas, Chareene Wade, Vuyo Sotashe, and more.

The Sound of (Black) Music

Mahan Esfahani has made it his life’s mission to rehabilitate the harpsichord, bringing it into the mainstream of concert instruments. Performances by the Iranian-born harpsichordist leave critics breathless and audiences rapt—his light touch and superhuman agility conjuring interpretations that are “exquisite beyond measure” (Los Angeles Times).

Mahan Esfahani In Recital

​​Embrace the elegant structure and exquisite sense of restraint of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, one of music’s most prominent “architects” during the Classical period. American cellist Sterling Elliott joins Daniel Hope and New Century for Haydn’s beloved first cello concerto, a virtuoso showpiece for the instrument. In the second half of the program, Igor Stravinsky’s playful ballet suite from Pulcinella offers a contrasting 20th-century response to Haydn, using the amorous hijinks of the famous Italian clown to tinker unpredictably (and to the delight of modern audiences) with the shapes and patterns of centuries-old Classical melodies.

New Century Chamber Orchestra

Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra and serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization – the leading social justice non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Comprised of eighteen accomplished Black and Latinx artists, a critical aim of the Sphinx Virtuosi is to evolve and transform the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and impassioned community engagement.

Sphinx Virtuosi

“Sparklingly present…and remarkably strong” (The New York Times), Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company joins us for two performances with its dazzling, classically trained dancers. The program will include Osnel Delgado’s 24 Hours and a Dog, Azure Barton’s Stillness in Bloom, and Mats Ek’s Woman with Water.

Malpaso Dance Company

The five-time Grammy-winning choral group from South Africa honors the legacy of late founder Joseph Shabalala as they continue to perform worldwide. From brilliantly harmonized a cappella songs sung in Zulu to traditional English gospel songs such as "This Little Light" and "Amazing Grace," Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s spirited work soothes the soul and brings a smile.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

In this seven-section work, Haydn is at his most reflective. Evoking the last hours of Christ’s life, the work’s individual sections carry tempo markings of Largo, Adagio, Lento, Grave. In this performance by the St. Lawrence and Friends, Haydn's music will be punctuated with readings from the Good Friday service by the Rev. Dr. Tiffany Steinwert, Dean for Religious & Spiritual Life.

St. Lawrence Good Friday Liturgical Performance

A daring new work by composer Huang Ruo and puppeteer/designer/director Basil Twist, Book of Mountains and Seas is a modern take on ancient Chinese creation myths, first transcribed in the 4th Century BC, yet strikingly relevant to our current struggle with climate change. An ensemble of massive puppets, as fanciful as they are terrifying, and the chorus of Ars Nova Copenhagen challenge us through music and stunning visual tableaux to consider the power of the natural world and our vital, yet tenuous, relationship to it.

Book of Mountains and Seas

Mendelssohn’s ever-popular violin concerto, full of drama and exquisite melody, here accompanies a real rarity—Schumann’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem. Written after he had committed himself to an asylum, it’s a fantastic showcase for the rich, resonant sound of the Philharmonia Chorale. A feast for lovers of the romantic era of music and a suitably dramatic way to finish our season.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

 A collaboration between UK-based Manchester Collective and South-African cellist Abel Selaocoe, Sirocco, is a celebration of folk traditions from around the world led by the inimitable Selaocoe, a musician described as “a star in the making” (The Arts Desk). Expect a bristling, high-energy performance with a program that weaves between original settings of African music, Danish folk songs, and classical music like you’ve never heard it before.

Manchester Collective with Abel Selaocoe

As a pianist, composer, and bandleader, Joey Alexander has been enjoying one of the most ascendant careers in jazz, thanks to his mind-blowing technique, innate musical smarts, and ability to communicate irresistible joy. Whether playing harmonic hide-and-seek with a Monk tune, negotiating the hairpin turns of a Coltrane classic, or gracefully swinging on his own song “Bali,” this three-time Grammy nominee leaves audiences breathless.

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