Earlier this week Stanford Lively Arts announced the full details of its 2009-10 performing arts series, running October 10th through May 5th at Stanford University. Lively Arts’ 40th season is inspired throughout by “Art + Invention,” an over-arching theme anchored by a yearlong campus project involving the jazz trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas and the innovative filmmaker Bill Morrison.
Other highlights include new works from Laurie Anderson (in a co-commission with Cal Performances), Steve Reich (performed by So Percussion), the Kronos Quartet, and L.A. Theatre Works; a multiday tribute to the composer Sergei Prokofiev; the Bay Area debut of Christopher Wheeldon’s Morphoses dance company (in a co-presentation with San Francisco Performances and UC Davis’s Mondavi Center); and a collaboration between the trumpeter Terence Blanchard and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra.
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OCTOBER
Harmony for Humanity: Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert Artists TBA
October 8, 2009 | Thursday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Church
The Othello Syndrome: Uri Caine Ensemble
October 10, 2009 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas - Music of Thirteenth-Century Spain: Anonymous 4
October 21, 2009 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Church
Emerson String Quartet
October 28, 2009 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits
October 30, 2009 | Friday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
NOVEMBER
Sundays with the St. Lawrence - Hadyn Celebration: St. Lawrence String Quartet
November 1, 2009 | Sunday | 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Bernstein Cabaret: Jamie Bernstein with Michael Barrett, Piano, and Others
November 7, 2009 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Prokofiev Project: Interpreting Prokofiev: Joseph Horowitz and Alexander Toradze in Conversation
November 12, 2009 | Thursday | 7:30 pm | Tresidder Union Oak Room
The Prokofiev Project: Intimate Prokofiev: Alexander Toradze, George Barth, Kumaran Arul, Piano, Joseph Horowitz, Speaker
November 13, 2009 | Friday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Prokofiev Project: Orchestral Prokofiev: Alexander Toradze, Piano, with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Jindong Cai, Conductor, and Robin Walsh, Puppetry
November 14, 2009 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Prokofiev Project: Family Prokofiev-Romeo & Juliet: The Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Robin Walsh, Puppetry
November 15, 2009 | Sunday | 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Contrasts Quartet
November 18, 2009 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
DECEMBER
From the Top with Christopher O'Riley
December 5, 2009 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
A Chanticleer Christmas
December 10, 2009 | Thursday | 8:00 | Memorial Church
JANUARY
The Music of Steve Reich: So Percussion
January 9, 2010 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Audituorium
A Chinese Home: Kronos Quartet
January 16, 2010 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
Choreography of Christopher Wheeldon: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company
January 22, 2010 | Friday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
The RFK Project L.A. Theater Works
January 27, 2010 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Sundays with the St. Lawrence String Quartet with Michael Tree, Viola
January 31, 2010 | Sunday | 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
FEBRUARY
Pianist Misha Dichter, in Recital
February 17, 2010 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Vusi Mahlasela
February 19, 2010 | Friday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
MARCH
Peter Serkin, Piano, and the Orion String Quartet
March 3, 2010 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina): Terence Blanchard, Trumpet, and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Jindong Cai, Conductor
March 6, 2010 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
National Jazz Museum in Harlem Concert: Curated by Loren Schoenberg, NJMH Executive Director; Artists TBA
March 31, 2010 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
APRIL
Sundays with the St. Lawrence: St. Lawrence String Quartet with Pedja Muzijevic, piano, and Tony Manzo, Bass
April 18, 2010 | Sunday | 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
April 21, 2010 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
Frankenstein: The First Hundred Years: Dave Douglas, Composer & Bill Morrison, Filmmaker, with Dave Douglas' Keystone.
April 24, 2010 | Saturday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook
April 27, 2010 | Tuesday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
MAY
Two-Sided Plays: Laurie Anderson
May 5, 2010 | Wednesday | 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
For more info: Stanford Lively Arts website