0910 Season : Past Events

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October 2009

artist code:PEAR


Harmony for Humanity: Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert

Oct 8, Thursday  | 8:00 pm | Memorial Church

Stanford faculty and students perform in memory of slain Wall Street Journal reporter and Stanford alumnus.

artist code:OTHE-X1

Kimball Chamber Series:
Uri Caine, solo piano

Oct 8, Thursday  | 10:00 pm | Kimball Hall Lounge

**Please note: The Kimball Chamber Series is open to Stanford students and faculty only.

artist code:OTHE

Informance at the Community School for Music and Arts, Mountain View
Uri Caine

Oct 8, Thursday  | 6:00 pm | Community School for Music and Arts, Mountain View

artist code:OTHE

The Othello Syndrome
Uri Caine Ensemble

Oct 10, Saturday  | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Maverick pianist/composer Caine and an “A”-list group meld Verdi and Shakespeare with jazz, funk, electronica, and more.

artist code:FRAN-X1

Play it Loud!
CoHo Jazz Jam Session

with special guest Adam Benjamin

Oct 12, Monday  | 8:00 pm | Stanford Coffee House (CoHo)

Pianist Adam Benjamin (Kneebody, Dave Douglas’ Keystone) is special guest artist at the weekly CoHo jazz jam session.

artist code:JMIH-X1

Jazz/Tech Talks at the Cantor
Loren Schoenberg, National Jazz Museum in Harlem
with Adam Benjamin, keyboards

Oct 14, Wednesday  | 12:00 pm | Cantor Arts Center

The first in a series of free lecture/demonstrations on electric and electronic jazz, in the recording studio and on stage.

artist code:FRAN-X2

CCRMA Cabaret 2.0:
DJ Olive

Oct 15, Thursday  | 8pm & 10pm  | CCRMA Stage

Turntablist, sound artist and musical experimenter launches a new solo performance series at CCRMA.

artist code:ANON-X1

With members of Anonymous 4
and Stanford music faculty William Mahrt and Jesse Rodin

Chant Camp

Oct 19, Monday  | 5:00 pm | Memorial Church

An interactive workshop in plainchant for singers. *Please enroll by Friday, October 16.

artist code:COH1

Play it Loud!:
CoHo Jazz Jam Session

Oct 19, Monday  | 8:00 pm | Stanford Coffee House (CoHo)

artist code:ANON

Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas
Anonymous 4

Oct 21, Wednesday  | 8:00 pm | Memorial Church

Peerless a cappella quartet revisits its favorite century—the 13th—in rare works discovered in a Spanish convent.

artist code:COH2

Play it Loud!:
CoHo Jazz Jam Session

Oct 26, Monday  | 8:00 pm | Stanford Coffee House (CoHo)

artist code:EMER


Emerson String Quartet

Oct 28, Wednesday  | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Lively Arts favorites return in a twin bicentenary tribute to Haydn (d. 1809) and Mendelssohn (b. 1809).

artist code:BAPT

Play it Loud!:
Found Percussion Jam with Cyro Baptista

Oct 29, Thursday  | 8:00 pm | Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden

Brazilian percussion alchemist leads a percussion workshop for all.

artist code:BAPT


Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits

Oct 30, Friday  | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Brazilian percussion maestro Baptista and his high-energy quartet stir up a culture-crossing whirlwind of sound.

November 2009

artist code:STL1

Sundays with the St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence String Quartet

Nov 1, Sunday  | 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Stanford’s own SLSQ launches its annual Sunday series with an engrossing all-Haydn program.

artist code:COH3

Play it Loud!:
CoHo Jazz Jam Session

Nov 2, Monday  | 8:00 pm | Stanford Coffee House (CoHo)

artist code:BERN

A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein:
Jamie Bernstein with Michael Barrett, piano, and William Sharp and Judy Kaye, singers

Nov 7, Saturday  | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Bernstein’s daughter Jamie shares the world of her father in story and song, joined by ace Bernstein interpreters.

artist code:PINR

The Prokofiev Project: Interpreting Prokofiev:

Nov 12, Thursday  | 7:30 pm | Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center

Multi-day Prokofiev exploration begins with a free conversation and demonstration led by esteemed scholars and artists.

artist code:PINI

The Prokofiev Project: Pianistic Prokofiev:
Vakho Kodanashvili, Kumaran Arul, George Barth, piano; Joseph Horowitz, speaker

Nov 13, Friday  | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

A unique recital with commentary, surveying the radical, patriotic, and Romantic sides of the great Russian composer.

artist code:PFAM-X1

Romeo & Juliet with Robin Walsh, Puppet Artist, & The Gunn High School Orchestra
Student Matinee

Nov 13, Friday  | 9:00 am | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

As part of Lively Arts’ “Prokofiev Project” in the 2009–10 season, this student matinee features large-scale puppetry by Robin Walsh.

artist code:PORC

The Prokofiev Project: Orchestral Prokofiev:
Nikita Abrosimov, piano, with The Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Jindong Cai, conductor, and Robin Walsh, puppetry

Nov 14, Saturday  | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Pianist Nikita Abrosimov joins Stanford’s orchestra—plus Romeo and Juliet with all new, life-sized puppetry.

artist code:PFAM

The Prokofiev Project: Family Prokofiev—Romeo & Juliet:
THE STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, JINDONG CAI, CONDUCTOR, ROBIN WALSH, PUPPET ARTIST, AND Erinn Knyt, narrator.

Nov 15, Sunday  | 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Shorter, discount program perfect for young people: Prokofiev’s enchanting Romeo and Juliet with all new puppetry.

artist code:CONT-X1

Kimball Chamber Series:
Contrasts Quartet

Nov 17, Tuesday  | 8:00 pm | Kimball Hall Lounge

**Please note: The Kimball Chamber Series is open to Stanford students and faculty only.

artist code:CONT-X2

Informance at the Community School for Music and Arts,
Mountain View

Contrasts Quartet

Nov 17, Tuesday  | 6:00 pm | Community School for Music and Arts, Mountain View

artist code:CONT


Contrasts Quartet

Nov 18, Wednesday  | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Celebrated ensemble of clarinet, violin, cello, and piano performs 20th-century works inspired by folk music.