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ARTIST SERIES
For more than 70 years the Artist Series has brought the world’s finest jazz, classical, world music and dance performers to Boulder. We invite you to join the more than 16,000 Artist Series patrons who come every year to experience both world-renowned and emerging artists. Last season many Artist Series performances sold out. Order season tickets today to guarantee the best seats. All Artist Series performances are in the historic Macky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. To order, tickets visit www.cupresents.org, or call 303-492-8008.
Pink Martini
Tue., Sept. 25, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12 to $52
One part vintage glamour, one part dance band, and three parts fun… shaken not stirred! Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brazilian street band and Japanese film noir, Pink Martini is part language lesson and part old-fashioned Hollywood spectacle for audiences of all ages.
Kronos Quartet
Fri., Oct. 2, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12 to $52
For more than 35 years, the Kronos Quartet has combined a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. This special program will include George Crumb’s legendary Black Angels. The piece — a highly unique, Vietnam War-inspired work featuring bowed water glasses, spoken word passages, and electronic effects — was the inspiration for David Harrington to form Kronos in 1973.
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Song of America
Sun., Oct. 11, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12 to $52
Dubbed the “Ambassador of American Song,” Thomas Hampson joins the Library of Congress to celebrate American song through a special concert program and accompanying exhibit. The repertoire includes music from the 1700s to the present day, ranging from Psalm settings and hymns, folk songs and cowboy songs, to war songs and African American spirituals. Hampson brings to life the tales captured in the songs of beloved composers including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Charles Ives.
REBEL Baroque Ensemble
Kingdoms and Viceroys: The Music of Spain and its Dominions
Sun., Nov. 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12 to $52
In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain ruled a vast region from Europe to Central and South America and beyond. A lively musical scene developed among the indigenous populations of these territories. Kingdoms and Viceroys: The Music of Spain and its Dominions is presented by New York-based Baroque ensemble REBEL (pronounced “Re-BELL”), which has enchanted audiences with its virtuosic, highly expressive and provocative approach to the Baroque and Classical repertoire.
 MOMIX
Fri., Jan. 29, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15 to $60
MOMIX transports audiences from their everyday lives to a fantasy world through its trademark use of magical lighting and imagery. In an endless search for another gravity, Artistic Director Moses Pendleton combines athletic dance, riveting music, outrageous costumes, inventive props and pure talent to create an entertaining multimedia experience. The Best of MOMIX is a compilation of the company’s most famous and recognizable vignettes from more than 25 years of work.
Haochen Zhang, piano
2009 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist
Thu., Feb. 18, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12 to $52
Once every four years, the international classical music world focuses on a special event of high drama and fierce rivalry — the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. This year, two gold medalists tied for the top honor: Nobuyuki Tsujii of Japan and Haochen Zhang of China. The youngest participant in the 2009 Cliburn Competition, Haochen Zhang gave his debut recital at the Shanghai Music Hall at the age of 5, performing all of Bach’s two-part inventions, as well as sonatas by Haydn and Mozart. First-prize winner of the 2007 China International Piano Competition, Mr. Zhang has performed with the China National Symphony Orchestra, Krakow State Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and has concertized throughout Asia, Europe and the United States.
Luna Negra, Turtle Island Quartet and Paquito D’Rivera
in Danzón
Sun., Feb. 28, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12 to $52
After working with artists from all over the Latino world, Luna Negra Dance Theater Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro returns to his roots for the company’s 10th Anniversary season with a new work called Danzón. The influence of Danzón (the official dance of Cuba) can be heard in virtually all Cuban music genres. In Danzón, Luna Negra joins the bold and ingenious Turtle Island Quartet and legendary composer and performer Paquito D’Rivera.
Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour
Amparo
Thu., April 1, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12 to $52
Guitarist/composer Lee Ritenour and pianist/composer Dave Grusin reunite with their new Grammy-nominated album Amparo. Amparo combines jazz and classical music and also fuses the duo’s Latin and folk influences. The two put their unique stamp on music by composers including Ravel, Handel, Albinoni, Jobim and Fauré with the help of CU-Boulder’s University Orchestra and conductor Gary Lewis. The second half of the program features music from Grusin’s award-winning film scores.
CU-Boulder Department
of Theatre & Dance
www.cutheatre.org
The upcoming 2009-10 season produced by the CU Department of Theatre and Dance features plays that showcase the role of women in society (The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty), murder mysteries (The Real Inspector Hound) and a sharp-edged Russian drama (Philistines). Master and Bachelor of Fine Arts productions will display a variety of student talent and choreography. Danceworks and NeXus spotlight nationally recognized faculty, guest artists and student artists of CU’s Dance Division.
Theatre
The Blind
Written by Maurice Maeterlinck and directed by Jeanie Balch (grad student)
Sept. 17-20
University Loft Theatre
Stranded in the woods, a group of blind people await their leader to take them back to their safe home. The audience knows he will never arrive. Writing in the 19th century, playwright Maurice Maeterlinck speaks of power and powerlessness, abandonment and horror and the precariousness of existence, all of which resonate with us today.
The Visit
Written by Fredrick Durrenmatt and directed by Roe Green with visiting artist Jane Page
Oct. 1-3 & Oct. 7-11
University Theatre Mainstage
A tragic comedy first published in 1956 about a small, downtrodden German town faced with a billion-mark temptation. Clair, a hometown girl who becomes a billionaire, returns to Guellen offering millions in exchange for the execution of her former lover who betrayed her 50 years before. Filled with hatred and fueled by vengeance, Clair quietly says she’ll “wait” when the townspeople first refuse her offer. Then comes the slow yield to temptation — the disorder just beneath the civilization’s order and the ultimate realization of human weakness.
The Real Inspector Hound
Written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Candace Joice
Oct. 22-25
University Loft Theatre
A remote and isolated manor, a dark and stormy night, and a collection of ill-fated characters fill The Real Inspector Hound with comedy, intrigue and surprise. In this Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, playwright Tom Stoppard blurs the line between fantasy and reality, drawing the audience into a “whodunit” of unexpected proportions. As the night unfolds, everyone in the manor is called into question. Who committed the murder? Who is the real Inspector Hound? More surprises are lurking than may first meet the eye!
Philistines
Written by Maxim Gorky and directed by Paulo Berton
Nov. 5-7 & Nov. 11-15
University Theatre Mainstage
A pre-revolutionary classic Russian play that blends sharp-edged drama with black comedy and politics. A family of ordinary, provincial and small bourgeois Russians, headed by a reactionary and miserly father — a businessman with dreams of becoming mayor — includes his wife and his three adult children — a daughter, a son and an adopted son who are all subjected to his tyranny. The drama is rooted in the irreconcilable differences between the father and his children, who long to break free from the suffocating rigidity of their elders. Gorky crafts a sharp and ironic commentary through this family on a wide range of issues from class differences to love, sex and marriage. Paternal spitefulness reaches its zenith when the daughter tries to have an abortion and the father, thinking only of himself, says, “This will ruin my chances at City Hall.”
Blood Wedding
Written by Federico Garcia Lorca and directed by Janine Kehlenbach
Jan. 28-31
University Loft Theatre
“How can it be that something as small as a pistol or a knife can kill a man?”
A bridegroom’s mother’s grief for her dead son and husband and fear for the safety of her remaining son creates a powerful sense of foreboding. This tragic play explores the theme of inevitable fate whereby the disasters of the past are repeated in the present. Entwined with Lorca’s poetry as well as Spanish guitar — Lorca’s passion — Blood Wedding focuses on a bride forced to choose between duty and love on her wedding day.
The Country Wife
Written by William Wycherly and directed by Lynn Nichols
Feb. 11-13 & Feb. 17-21
University Theatre Mainstage
Banned for 170 years because of its promiscuous plot and language so bawdy it would have made Shakespeare blush, William Wycherly’s 1675 farce The Country Wife has returned to popularity. Set in 17th-century London, Harry Horner, a notorious womanizer, plans an outrageous deception to gain unrivaled pleasures with the ladies of fashionable society. The aptly named Horner hatches his scurrilous plan to bed the upper-crust ladies of London by feigning impotence. Convinced he is harmless, the city’s stuffed shirts allow him ready access to their wives while the “virtuous” wives are quite delighted to have an acceptable cover for their clandestine affairs.
The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty
Written by Brad Bailey and directed by Emily K. Harrison
Feb. 25-28
University Loft Theatre
A dark comedy about the role of women in society, as well as the brutality of their interpersonal relationships. The play is set backstage at the Queen of Hearts Beauty Pageant, where four high school girls reveal bits and pieces of who they are, grappling with issues such as bulimia, underage drinking, suppressed resentment, jealousy and the desperate desire to fit in. The popular girl, her less popular and adoring best friend, their goody-goody classmate and the new girl in school each struggle for power and search for understanding and connection in this often hilarious and ultimately poignant portrait of what it means to grow up as a girl in America.
Cabaret, The Musical
Written by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb. Directed by Greg Thorson
April 8-10 & April 14-18
University Theatre Mainstage
Cabaret opened on Broadway in 1966 and won eight Tony Awards. The play is set in the decadent Berlin of the early 1930s, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed roam the streets. Young American writer, Clifford Bradshaw, moves to Berlin and falls in love with 19-year-old performer Sally Bowles at the sleazy Kit Kat Klub. As his writing progresses, he discovers the dark side of human nature through Sally’s callousness, the debauchery of the seedy cabaret and glimpses of the impending horrors of Nazi Germany.
CU Boulder Fringe Festival
Produced by OnStage, a student organization for the performing arts.
April 23-25, 2010
Various locations
Dance
MFA Dance Concert
Choreographed by Rachael Harding & Stephanie Kobes.
Oct. 2-4
Irey Studio
Rachael Harding and Stephanie Kobes join together in a collaborative work analyzing the relationship of the racial divide, peering into America’s past and racism’s existence today. The choreographers work separately in the second portion of the concert showcasing pieces of their own individualistic athletic styles exploring the history of jazz in addition to the delicate existence of memory.
BFA Dance Concert
Choreographed by Esmeralda Kundanis-Grow, Hayley Muth, Heather Gray, Katherine Whalen, Raquel Ribich and Kelsey Chilton
Oct. 23-25
Irey Studio
MFA Dance Concert
Choreographed by Joy French, Cortney McGuire and Josselyn Levinson
Nov. 13-15
Irey Studio
Student Dance Concert
Feb. 5-7
Irey Theatre
Danceworks 2010
March 11-14
University Theatre Mainstage
Focuses the spotlight on the innovative dance making of our nationally recognized faculty and guest artists.
NeXus
A Linking of Choreographic Voices:
CU’s 2010 NeXus Dance Concert
Apr. 9-11
Irey Studio
The University of Colorado Department of Theatre and Dance is excited about the second season of NeXus, a concert weaving together and showcasing the choreographic talent of the professional dance community and student artists of CU’s Dance Division.
This year’s offerings, selected by an esteemed panel of local adjudicators, will be brought together in one performance hosted and produced by CU’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Solos, duets, group works and dance for the camera are all part of this unique concert.The NeXus mission is to provide an opportunity for the artistic interaction between the University and the surrounding community characterized by choreographic diversity and innovation. NeXus promises an unforgettable performance from a cross-section of selected community and university-based choreographers.
CU Opera
www.cupresents.org
CU Opera is one of the country’s most exciting university programs featuring outstanding student vocalists... and a great ticket value, as well. Fully staged productions with live orchestra directed by Nicholas Carthy complement these competition-winning performers, many of whom already have contracts to perform in opera houses around the world. CU Opera welcomes Leigh Holman as its new Director beginning in the 2009-2010 season. For tickets, visit , or call 303-492-8008.
La Traviata
by Giuseppe Verdi
Fri., Oct. 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Oct. 24, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 25, 2009, 2 p.m.
Macky Auditorium
Tickets: $12 to $36
In this passionate drama, boy meets girl and wins her heart, but his father’s disapproval threatens their happiness as desire and honor conflict. Will Violetta sacrifice all for love of Alfredo?
Holiday Festival 2009
Fri., Dec. 4, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 5, 2009, 4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 6, 2009, 4 p.m.
Macky Auditorium
It’s hard to pick just one reason that the CU-Boulder Holiday Festival sells out every year. Some longtime concertgoers mention the lively program of favorite seasonal music, while others love the festive holiday decorations in Macky Auditorium. Whatever your reason for loving the Holiday Festival, the College of Music’s choirs, orchestra, ensembles and faculty soloists invite you to share this joyous celebration with family and friends.
Don Giovanni
by W.A. Mozart
Fri., March 12, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., March 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., March 14, 2010, 2 p.m.
Macky Auditorium
Tickets: $12 to $36
Seduction. Vengeance. Hellfire. And, oh, yes: comedy. Don Giovanni’s genuine appreciation for the female sex keeps him from committing to any particular woman. As the ladies he seduces, then spurns, seek their revenge, Mozart’s masterpiece amuses and astonishes with its playful and dramatic turns.
Our Town
by Ned Rorem
Thu., April 22, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Fri., April 23, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Sat., April 24, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., April 25, 2010, 2 p.m.
Music Theatre
Tickets: $16 to $26
A mother’s voice, the smell of bacon, a choir rehearsal, a soda shared at Mr. Morgan’s drug store — with the passage of time, daily routines and commonplace moments become special memories. Pay attention to the beauty of the “everyday” in Our Town, Ned Rorem’s new adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s play.
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