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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Welcome to Newman Center Presents! Our 11th season includes the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the University of Denver. The University strives to be a great private institution serving the public good. We at the Newman Center believe that our programs rise to the challenge of the University’s mission.

The Newman Center hosts nearly 500 performances each year, serving both campus and community. Those performances include, in addition to the Newman Center Presents performance you are here to experience, hundreds of performances by students and faculty of the Lamont School of Music and Department of Theatre, as well as scores of performances by Denver’s best performing arts organizations.

The world-renowned artists who perform in the Newman Center Presents series often give educational programs for both University students and K-12 students in the greater community as part of their visit. Over half of those artists have never before performed in Denver. The University’s dedication to serving the public good is what makes that possible, that and your generous support. Thank you for making Newman Center Presents part of your life and for helping the University fulfill its mission.

Welcome to your performing arts center at the University of Denver. Thank you for coming. Have a great time!

Stephen W. SeifertExecutive Director

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NEWMAN CENTER’S VISION STATEMENT

At the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts, our responsibility, our purpose and our vision are to:

• Celebrate, entertain, inspire and feed the imagination

• Give voice to the innate human need for expression through performance

• Educate and prepare better citizens of our community

• Begin conversations of ideas

• Foster an eagerness for and habits of curiosity and learning

• Make the major sources of our own and other cultures accessible to our community

• Embrace our differences; celebrate diversity of forms, attitudes, traditions and populations

• Challenge assumptions and encourage creativity and new work, even at the risk of failure

• Help teach our cultural heritage through the performance of great works from the past and support creativity by contemporary artists whose new voices will be remembered in the future

• Demand excellence and integrity without avoiding controversy

• Remind our community that the performing arts have value to our society because they:

• Create self-esteem which is earned by striving to achieve high standards

• Integrate with other disciplines such as language, history, math and science

• Foster communication and interpersonal skills

FROM THE CHANCELLOR

This academic year will mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the University of Denver. Through all of those years (very nearly as long as the city itself has existed) the University has been a major focal point for Denver’s cultural life. This is simply a part of who we are as an institution and of our mission to serve the public good. We seek to develop the extraordinary talent resident in our students and faculty members, but also to be a magnet that attracts the greatest musicians, dancers, actors and artists of all kinds from all over the world to our city, and to present their work to its citizens. All of this is done in an effort to enrich our lives and our culture.

The Newman Center for the Performing Arts at DU is surely one of the finest such venues in America. Through the many performances presented here each year we seek to entertain, stimulate, and inspire members of the DU community and the public at large. The Newman Center Presents series lies at the heart of that effort. Each year it presents a vibrant and eclectic variety of performances, introducing new aspects of music, theater and dance that our community may not otherwise have the opportunity to experience.

I hope that you will help the University Community celebrate its 150th birthday this season! Most particularly, I hope that you are entertained, stimulated, or inspired (or perhaps all three) by this evening’s performance. Thank you so much for visiting the Newman Center and DU.

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We applaud the following partners for their support of the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver. Because of their generosity, Newman Center Presents can introduce dancers, musicians, actors, singers, composers and story tellers to the University community and our fellow citizens throughout Denver and Colorado.

If you are interested in becoming a Newman Center Presents sponsor, please contact Natalie Raborn at [email protected] or 303.871.4154.

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First Night! A Space Odyssey October 12A Brass Affair with the Romantic Masters November 15 &16The Brass of Christmas Past December 21 & 22Ancient Threads: A Celtic Tapestry March 14-16If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It! April 5 & 6Road Trippin’ with the Brass May 9


MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUPSATURDAY / SEPTEMBER 21 / 2013SUNDAY / SEPTEMBER 22 / 2013 – 2:00PM

Mark Morris is a legendary American choreographer and director whose contemporary dance work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship,

ingenuity, humor, and live musical accompaniments, which have been a feature of every international tour of the company since 1996. Morris is popular among dance aficionados, the music world, and mainstream audiences.

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CHRIS THILE, SOLO MANDOLINSATURDAY / OCTOBER 5 / 2013

Chris Thile, of Punch Brothers, is a mandolin virtuoso, composer, and vocalist. With his broad outlook that encompasses progressive bluegrass, classical, rock, and jazz, Thile transcends

the borders of conventionally circumscribed genres, creating a distinctly American canon and a new musical aesthetic for performers and audiences alike. On this program, he performs transcribed solo violin works by J.S. Bach, as well as his own compositions and contemporary music.

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THE COLORADO SYMPHONY – “On Location”Featuring NATASHA PAREMSKI, piano soloistWEDNESDAY / OCTOBER 16 / 2013

Born in Moscow, 24-year-old Natasha Paremski began her piano studies at the age of 4. Her growing list of awards includes the Prix Montblanc 2007, the 2006 Gilmore Young Artist Award,

top prize in the 2002 Bronislaw Kaper Awards sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and top prize in the Young Artists in Carnegie Hall 2000 International Piano Festival. In September 2010, Natasha was named the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year. Program will include Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54.


CAMERON CARPENTER, ORGANPlaying a Rodgers digital organ in Gates Concert HallSATURDAY / NOVEMBER 9 / 2013

A force of nature, this dazzling, maverick 32-year-old artist has been called, “the most controversial organist alive.” (Dallas Morning News) Cameron’s flamboyant appearance,

dazzling technique, and profound musical intelligence will transform all preconceptions you may have about organ concerts.


MOMIX - “BOTANICA”Moses Pendleton, Artistic DirectorFRIDAY / NOVEMBER 22 / 2013SATURDAY / NOVEMBER 23 / 2013

The renowned dancer-illusionists of MOMIX make their debut at the Newman Center with the spectacular “Botanica,” revealing nature’s ever-

changing imagery, set to a score ranging from birdsong to Vivaldi, Peter Gabriel to Delerium. This brilliant production, which has been touring the world to packed houses and ecstatic reviews, is enhanced by otherworldly costumes, mesmerizing projections, world-renowned puppetry and larger than life props created by Michael Curry, designer for Disney’s Broadway musical The Lion King. “Botanica” is dance at its most organic and inventive, a world of boundless imagination for audiences of all ages.

Presenting Sponsor – Creative Instinct – Nov 22

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“MUSIC OF THE SUN”ETHEL, String Quartet, and ROBERT MIRABAL, Native American flutist with Members of the OPERA COLORADO CHORUSTHURSDAY / DECEMBER 12 / 2013

For thousands of years humankind has turned toward the sun for inspiration, be it spiritual, philosophical, or poetic. Ancient sun myths from around the world continue to fascinate scholars

and laypeople alike. In many Native American cultures each day begins with “running to the sun” - a fusion of spiritual and physical discipline -- a daily search for the sacred.

2013-2014 SeasonAll performances take place in June Swaner Gates Concert Hall at 7:30pm, unless otherwise noted, and include a free Behind the Curtain discussion one hour before curtain with guest lecturers. Check the website at www.newmancenterpresents.com for additional details. As always, artists and programs are subject to change.

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“Music of the Sun” (continued)ETHEL, the pioneering string quartet, and GRAMMY® winning Native American flutist Robert Mirabal, present a program inspired by the sun mythology of Native America. Using the instruments of the string quartet, Native American flutes and drums, as well as the spirited voices of chorus members, ETHEL and Mirabal unite to create a cross-cultural contemporary music event.


This project received support from Colorado Creative Industries; WESTAF, the Western State Arts Federation; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

CHICK COREA AND BÉLA FLECK, “DUETS”THURSDAY / JANUARY 16 / 2014Whenever Chick Corea and Béla Fleck take to the stage, genres always fly fast and furious. Performing together, these two master musicians weave duets out of staggering virtuosity, creating mind-blowing and magical performances.

Béla Fleck, considered the premiere banjo player in the world, lives to improvise and loves to work with unexpected musical fusions. Fleck has won 8 Grammys and is the only musician to

be nominated for Grammys in jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, gospel, composition and world music categories.

Chick Corea’s restless creativity knows no bounds. Corea’s whole career is the stuff of jazz lore, and amalgamation of influential, limit-stretching, genre-bending musical experiences

that have garnered him 12 Grammy awards and legions of fans worldwide.

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TREY MCINTYRE PROJECTFRIDAY / JANUARY 31 / 2014

Choreographer Trey McIntyre creates innovative, fun, and technically daring contemporary ballet that speaks uniquely

of the American experience. His style is athletic, clever and soulful. Over 18 years as a freelance choreographer, Trey created more than 90 works for companies including Houston Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Moscow Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet, and Miami City Ballet. In 2008, Trey chose to base his new company in Boise, Idaho, where it has become the City’s Economic Development Cultural Ambassador. Trey believes in the power of art and dance to transform, heal and enlighten.


This project received support from Colorado Creative Industries; WESTAF, the Western State Arts Federation; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

“THE MINERS’ HYMNS,” A Film by BILL MORRISONMusic by JÓHANN JÓHANNSSONProduced by FORMAFeaturing AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE (ACME) and THE DENVER BRASSConducted by RYAN McADAMSTUESDAY / FEBRUARY 11 / 2014

“The Miners’ Hymns” is a wordless film by American multi-media artist Bill Morrison with a musical score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. The

music will be performed live by Jóhannsson on electronics, a string quartet formed of

members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), and an 18-member brass ensemble formed by The Denver Brass.

“The Miners’ Hymns” was commissioned by BRASS: Durham International Festival 2010 and Supported by Durham County Council, Arts Council England, British Film Institute, One North East, Northern Film + Media and the UK Film Council’s Digital Film Archive Fund supported by the National Lottery.


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THE WHIFFENPOOFS OF YALEFRIDAY / FEBRUARY 14 / 2014SATURDAY / FEBRUARY 15 / 2014 / 2:00PM

Join us for the 4th consecutive season The Whiffenpoofs have peformed as part of Newman Center Presents!

Every year, 14 senior Yale men are selected to be in the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest and best-known collegiate a cappella group. Founded in 1909, the “Whiffs” began as a senior quartet that met for weekly concerts at Mory’s Temple Bar, the famous Yale tavern. Today, the group has become one of Yale’s most celebrated and hallowed traditions. The Whiffenpoofs repertoire features a diverse selection of songs, ranging from traditional Yale songs to original compositions to hits from every decade.

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THE COLORADO SYMPHONY – “On Location”HILARY KOLE Pays Tribute to the Music of JUDY GARLANDSUNDAY / FEBRUARY 23 / 2014

Hilary Kole, known for her warm, subtle and intense voice, sings such Garland classics as “Meet Me in St. Louis,” “A Star is Born,” “Broadway Melody,” and “Over the Rainbow.” Join us

on the afternoon of Academy Awards Sunday for this special tribute to Music of one of the greatest starts ever to grace the Silver Screen.


GABRIEL KAHANE AND yMUSICTHURSDAY / MARCH 6 / 2014

Writing and performing music that moves effortlessly from modernism to vernacular song, pianist, composer, and singer Gabriel Kahane returns to Newman Center Presents after appearing in 2011 with his father, noted pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane. Of that concert The Denver Post said: “Wondering what Denver’s classical scene needs more of? Unconventional, imaginative and crowd-pleasing programs like this one.”

Gabe has established himself as a leading voice among a generation of young indie composers redefining music for the 21st century through his diverse vernacular songs and musical theater compositions. The exciting ensemble of six players who call themselves yMusic features guitarist/violinist Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Antony and the Johnsons) and trumpet player CJ Camerieri (Sufjan Stevens, American Composers Orchestra). yMusic and Gabe will each perform sets of their own in the first half of

the show. Then after intermission Gabe will join yMusic for an energetic and great time.


LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLOTHURSDAY / MARCH 20 / 2014

Founded in 1974 by a group of ballet enthusiasts for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form (and en travesty), The Trocks, as they

have come to be known, first performed in the late-late shows in Off-Off Broadway lofts. They quickly garnered a major critical essay in The New Yorker, and combined with reviews in The New York Times and The Village Voice, established the Company as an artistic and popular success. Very soon their inspired blend of a loving knowledge of dance, a comic approach, and the astounding fact that men can, indeed, dance en pointe without falling flat on their faces, earned them a permanent slot in the dance world.

The Newman Center presented them to a sold-out house in 2008, and now they’re back! Ballet is rarely funny, but The Trocks are — very.


PACO PEÑA AND ELIOT FISK, GUITAR MASTERSSATURDAY / APRIL 26 / 2014Eliot Fisk and Paco Peña, two of the world’s virtuoso guitarists, unite to find common ground, as Fisk, a classical virtuoso, and Peña, a peerless flamenco guitarist, demonstrate their technical mastery, innovative improvisation and emotional bravura in solos and duets.

Fisk, a star pupil of the legendary Andrés Segovia, is a leading force in the world of classical guitar, commissioning

numerous works from contemporary composers while continuing to explore the great composers of the past, from Bach to Albéniz.

Peña, quite simply, is one of the best flamenco guitarists in the world. He has also found time to direct the Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company, write a flamenco drama, mass

and requiem, and continue to compose original works for guitar.

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“A TRIBUTE TO ELLA FITZGERALD”SMITHSONIAN JAZZ MASTERWORKS CONCERT with VOCALIST KIM NAZARIANSATURDAY / MAY 10 / 2014SUNDAY / MAY 11 / 2014 / 2:00PM

Dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. She won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million

albums. This special “Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald” program will present many of Ella’s original big band arrangements made available through the assistance of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. Many of these arrangements, by the likes of Count Basie, Billy Strayhorn, and Benny Carter, have not been heard in concert in over 40 years. The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SJMO) comes together with regional musicians and features New York Voices co-founder Kim Nazarian, paying tribute to Ella.

Presenting Sponsor – Richter Scale Productions – May 10

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THE COLORADO SYMPHONY – “On Location”Andrew Litton, conductor and pianoYumi Hwang-Williams, violinSilver Ainomäe, celloJanice Chandler-Eteme, sopranoHoward Haskin, tenorGordon Hawkins, baritoneWEDNESDAY / MAY 14 / 2014

The first half of the evening’s performance features three opera stars performing arias from Verdi’s Il trovatore. The second half of the concert features Beethoven’s magnificent Triple Concerto,

with Maestro Andrew Litton playing the piano solo part, joined by Concertmaster Yumi Hwang-Williams playing violin, and Principal Cellist Silver Ainomäe playing cello.


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Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am to 4pm Saturday, 12pm to 4pm (Sep-May)Phone: 303.871.7720Email: [email protected]: www.newmancenterpresents.com

Tickets can be purchased in person at the Newman Center Box Office or by phone at 303.871.7720 during the hours listed above or online anytime at www.NewmanTix.com. Service charges may apply for tickets purchased by phone or online.

Discounts are available for students, seniors, and DU faculty and staff. For more information or to request accommodations for a disability, call 303.871.7720.

Group discount tickets are available for groups of eight (8) or more to most events. For information contact Molly Epstein at [email protected] or 303.619.6196

To view a listing of our previous ten seasons, please visit our website www.newmancenterpresents.com and select Archive.

COMMISSIONED WORKSThe Newman Center is committed to bringing new works of music and dance to life. We are excited to have commissioned or co-commissioned the following works:

Co-commissioner, “Kites Over Havana,” by Paquito D’Rivera, performed by the composer with Imani Winds

Commissioner, “WE MARCH,” Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra, by Daniel Bernard Roumain, performed by Eliot Fisk, guitar, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Co-commissioner, “Foreign Bodies,” by Diavolo Dance Theater, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa Pekka Salonen, Music Director, and co-commissioned by the Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach

Co-commissioner, “Reign Forest,” by Robert Moses, co-commissioned by EcoArts Connections and Lincoln Center Fort Collins, performed by Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company

Co-commissioner, “Provenance,” by Maya Beiser with composers from Israel, Palestine, Algeria, Morocco, Iran and the US, co-commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation, The International Festival of Arts and Ideas, The Jerome Foundation, The Kathy Abelson Foundation, Ronald P. Stanton, NYFA, and NYSCA. Performed by Maya Beiser, cello, Jamey Haddad, percussion, Shane Shanahan, percussion, Bassam Saba, oud, and Shahrokh Yadegari, live electronics

Co-commissioner, “Bolero Colorado,” by Larry Keigwin, co-commissioned by EcoArts Connections and the Denver School of the Arts, performed by Keigwin + Company and Denver community performers

Co-commissioner, “Imaginary City,” by S-o Percussion, co-commissioned by Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, The Cleveland Museum of Art, DiverseWorks, and National Performance Network

Commissioner, “NO one To kNOW one,” by Andy Akiho, performed by the composer and The Playground (Denver’s premiere new music ensemble) during the Newman Center Presents’ Mile High Voltage Festival

Co-commissioner, “the wood & the vine,” by David Lang, co-commissioned by University of California, Riverside and Santa Fe Concert Association

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COMMISSIONED WORKS (continued) Commissioner, “Lifeboat No. 6,” by Payton MacDonald, performed by the composer, JACK Quartet and Young Voices of Colorado during Newman Center Presents’ Voltage 2012

Commissioner, solo, acoustical guitar version of Derek Bermel original work “Ritornello” performed by guitarist Mak Grgic

BEHIND THE CURTAIN The Newman Center hand-selects each and every Presents performance, bringing to Denver entertaining, intriguing and thought-provoking dancers, actors and musicians. At most concerts, we invite you to join us for free Behind the Curtain discussions where you will hear from artists, directors, critics and experts who will share their knowledge, anecdotes and appreciation of and for the performers presented on stage.

Lectures are generally held in June Swaner Gates Concert Hall and are open to the public. Behind the Curtain starts one hour before curtain or immediately following the performance in limited instances. Tickets are not required for the pre-performance talks and no RSVP is necessary.

Please check the Newman Center event calendar for updates to Behind the Curtain. (Speakers are subject to change.)

THE LAMONT SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE

The University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music presents more than 300 concerts a year, many of them free. Complimentary performances include concerts by the symphony orchestra, choirs, wind ensemble, soloists, jazz ensembles, and steel drum ensemble. Some of these concerts require free tickets. FREE, but Tickets are Required: Complimentary tickets are available in person only at the Newman Center Box Office. Tickets may be reserved online for a small service charge at newmantix.com. New this season, $5 reserved seats in the Parterre section may be purchased for Lamont Symphony Orchestra concerts.

In addition to free concerts, faculty recitals and guest artist performances are presented with a $10 ticket price. DU students, Pioneer Card holders and other students with valid ID are complimentary.

Fall and Spring Lamont Operas and Musicals, OKLAHOMA! and Don Giovanni, are reserved seating ranging from $11 to $30.

Summer and holiday carillon concerts are presented on the Ritchie Center lawn by artists from around the nation.

For information visit www.du.edu/lamont or call the Concert Line at 303.871.6412. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

DU’s Department of Theatre offers students the ability to take part in numerous productions throughout the academic year, including a full slate of student-created productions, all of which are open to the public.

For the 2013-14 season, The Department of Theatre will present:• Fall Quarter’s mainstage productions of

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION by Annie Baker (October 2013, Black Box Theatre at J-MAC) and ARABIAN NIGHTS by Mary Zimmerman (Nov 2013, Byron Theatre)

• A staged reading of 4,000 MILES (Jan 2014, Byron Theatre)

• Winter Quarter’s mainstage productions of A NEW WORK by Allison Watrous (February 2014, Black Box Theatre at J-MAC) and DOG ACT by Liz Duffy Adams (Feb & March 2014, Byron Theatre)

• A staged reading of David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (Apr 2014, Byron Theatre)

• SPRING FESTIVAL: CYCLES 1, 2 and 3 - Senior Capstone Productions (Apr & May 2014, Byron Theatre)

• Independent Student Productions throughout the year

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Tickets for Lamont and Theatre productions can be purchased at the Newman Center Box Office, Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm and Saturday, 12pm-4pm (Sep-May), by phone at 303.871.7720, or online at www.newmantix.com. (Phone and online orders are subject to service fees.)

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CULTURALLY CURIOUS 2013-14 marks the 10th year for the Enrichment Program! In the fall of 2003 University College, the college of professional and continuing studies at the University of Denver, opened its doors with the belief that the University of Denver had much to offer those who love to learn simply for the joy of it. Short courses offered by hand-picked scholars, classes that often include a special experience or event, discerning participants engaged in serious discussions, no grades, exams or admission requirements — these are the ingredients that make the Enrichment Program so popular. The Newman Center proudly partners with University College’s Enrichment Program to bring you innovative courses like you’ve never experienced before. Meet with DU’s expert faculty and gather with other intellectually curious adults to embark on a unique and meaningful journey and connect with Denver’s rich cultural community. Check program inserts for upcoming Newman Center related classes. Fall 2013 registration is available now for classes held September through early-December, and Winter/Spring 2014 enrichment courses, held mid-January through mid-May, will be announced in early December. To view and register for courses across a wide range of subjects, please call 303.871.2291 or visit www.universitycollege.du.edu/enrichment.


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MEET ROBERT AND JUDI NEWMAN With the Newman Center just having celebrated its tenth season, these avid philanthropists smile when they remember becoming involved in the campaign to create an outstanding center for the performing arts

at the University of Denver. Daniel L. Ritchie, then chancellor, invited Judi to head the effort when the Center was only a dream. Later the Center was named in the couple’s honor.

The couple’s passion for performing arts and education harmoniously intersected with the Newman Center, which is home to exceptional performance venues and DU’s Lamont School of Music and Department of Theatre. “Dan Ritchie has often said that love is the principal ingredient in any successful building,” says Judi. “The Newman Center, as well as the University’s many other new buildings, show just how true that is.” The Newmans appreciate the masterful collaboration between Ritchie and DU Architect Emeritus Cabell Childress, and the expertise of Joseph Docksey, director of the Lamont School, and William Temple Davis, chairman of DU’s Department of Theatre, both with the University at the time of construction. They delight in the superb array of Newman Center Presents’ programs presented by Executive Director Stephen Seifert.

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Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage.

There is not an intermission in this evening’s program.

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Chris Thilesolo mandolinOctober 5, 2013

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Chris ThileBach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1Mandolin virtuoso and composer Chris Thile, a multiple–Grammy Award winner and a MacArthur Fellow, has long been known as an audacious improviser and a tireless collaborator whose work hasincorporated bluegrass, folk, rock, jazz, and classical elements. Besides his brilliant bandmates in Punch Brothers, his fellow travelers have also included pianist Brad Mehldau, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, guitarist Michael Daves, and double bassist/composer Edgar Meyer, among others. But this time Thile has taken on perhaps his greatest musical challenge all by himself with Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1, which comprises three works written for solo violin: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001; Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002; and Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003. While Thile has often included pieces by Bach in his live repertoire, alongside his own work and his interpretations of work by artists ranging from Bill Monroe to Radiohead, this disc, produced by his friend and mentor Meyer, fulfills a long-held dream to create studio recordings of these pieces rendered on mandolin. Thile says the recording sessions were an opportunity “to interact with the greatest musician who ever lived.”

“Bach was my first meaningful experience with—for lack of a better word—classical music,” Thile explains. “It was the second recording of Glenn Gould playing the Goldberg Variations. Gould plays with the kind of rhythmic integrity that I had previously only associated with non-classical music: music with a groove, with a pocket, that made you move. Gould was playing that music like my heroes play fiddle tunes. It humanized the whole thing for me and the heavens opened up and Bach came down. He continues, “This record to me is not about this iconic violin music played on the mandolin—like, ‘Oh boy, what fun, he’s playing a weird instrument!’ It’s about Bach being one of the greatest musicians of all time, the solo violin music being some of his best work, and the mandolin having the potential to cast it in a new and hopefully interesting light.”

The prodigious Thile was a member of groundbreaking trio Nickel Creek at the age of eight; by the time he was 12, he already had a solo recording contract with Sugar Hill. It was four years later when he serendipitously discovered Bach, thanks to birthday gifts from his maternal grandmother and stepgrandmother, each of whom independently gave him Bach recordings: an album of the Brandenburg Concertos and Gould’s Goldberg Variations. (“I guess that means my grandfather had a type,” quips Thile.) The records set his adventurous young mind reeling: “I just started devouring all the Bach I could get my hands on—the Brandenburgs, the violin music.” He didn’t have any bold scheme to transpose these violin pieces to mandolin at first; he was simply using the instrument he

knew best. “I played the mandolin and I wanted to play Bach. I set about learning it by ear because that’s how I did things. It was slow going. I would be learning the Brandenburg Concertos by ear, playing whatever part was the loudest.”

That approach, of course, did not last for long, and Thile began to teach himself to read music; “I was a 16-year-old, back there in my room, going ‘Every Good Boy Does Fine, All Cows Eat Grass’, like most musical kids do at 4 or 5. The first thing I got all the way through was the E Major Prelude, which lends itself remarkably well to the mandolin, and I’ve been like a kid in a candy store ever since. I actually don’t think I’ve traveled without an edition of the Sonatas and Partitas since then. It’s one of the true joys of my life that they exist.”

Regarding how the composer might feel about his music being played on mandolin, Thile says, “Bach was pretty casual about shuffling his music from instrument to instrument. He made organ and lute transcriptions of the violin’s G-minor fugue, turned one of the violin concertos into a keyboard concerto, etc. Even though this music is, to a certain extent, an exploration of violin technique, it’s also perhaps the most complete and satisfying realization of polyphony on a largely monophonic instrument ever, which almost has to have been Bach’s primary objective for it, as well as for the solo cello and flute music. One of the reasons that playing the violin music on the mandolin makes sense is that it’s a slightly more polyphonic instrument than the violin, more chordal. Playing three- or four-part chords is less of a gladiator-like endeavor, which allows you to approach things a lot differently in terms of phrasing and dynamics.”

Thile admits, “I envy people who’ve had this music their whole lives the way I’ve had fiddle tunes my whole life, which is probably one of the reasons I’ve waited so long to do this. I doubt I’ll ever feel totally confident about my perspective on the music and my approach to achieving my goals for it, but I think it was just time to go for it. Being able to lean on Edgar as a mentor since I was 18 or 19 has been incredibly valuable and getting to talk Bach with other musicians who’ve lived with his music for far longer than I have, like Yo-Yo and Jeffrey Kahane [who conducted Thile’s mandolin concerto Ad astra per alas porci with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Colorado Symphony] has been amazing. Being involved in the young classical music community in New York has been really valuable, too. With so many brains to pick, I finally came to the conclusion that there’s really never a perfect time to record Bach. It can mean so many different things to you at different points in your life. Gould recorded the Goldberg Variations twice. Henryk Szeryng recorded the six sonatas and partitas for solo violin twice. I wonder if no one is ever completely prepared—and if maybe realizing that is part of being prepared enough.

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Last January Meyer and Thile convened in Western Massachusetts, at the Berkshires studio where they had worked with violinist Stuart Duncan and Yo-Yo Ma on the Grammy Award-winning The Goat RodeoSessions. They had considered using a concert hall setting for the recording but ultimately preferred the ambience of a smaller studio: “I like the way the room sounded and the way the mandolin sounded there. The mandolin is an imperfect instrument—there are things about it that will frustrate me for the rest of my life—but one of its strengths is that it’s a really intimate instrument, very delicate, very vulnerable, very honest. And it’s very precise, painfully precise, with that plastic pick hitting the metal string. It’s not a big lush emotional sound like the violin; it’s a heart to heart with a close friend in your living room. And I think that’s where the mandolin shines; it’s truly a chamber instrument. When I listen to the recording now, I feel like I’m in that kind of space with the instrument; we’re in the living room together, maybe with some brandy. Bach was a brandy man.”

Thile and Meyer worked for six days, apportioning two days for each piece. (Thile intends to record the remaining three Bach compositions of this six-work set with Meyer in the near future.) They encountered a few technical surprises along the way—“The low string is often excited by what’s happening above it and it starts

ringing at the damnedest times,” confesses Thile—but, for the most part, “it was a heavenly experience to get to play music like that all day long for six days. I can’t express how much fun it was. I don’t think I’ve ever played so much in my life. Hell of a lot of mandolin playing, even for me! You just dive down deep into these pieces and live there for a while and never, ever get tired of it. We recorded way more than we needed, I think in part because it was so hard to leave each piece; getting to the point where it was time to move on and was always kind of bittersweet.”

Quick-witted performer that he is, Thile’s skill has long been about creating something in—and for—the here and now. In a sense that is what he has also accomplished with this recording of works Johann Sebastian Bach composed nearly 300 years ago. As Thile says finally, “The real story is that this music is crackling with life, with relevant information. It’s no museum piece. Perhaps hearing it on the ‘wrong’ instrument can help take it out of its historical context and put it in a contemporary place.”

— Michael Hill

You can follow Chris on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ChrisThileor on Twitter at www.twitter.com/christhile.

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The Newman Center would like to thank Chris Thile, for leading the Behind the Curtain lecture before today’s performance.

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During the 2013-2014 season, these funds will help make the following programming a reality:• Master Classes with Mark Morris Dance Group, MOMIX, Trey McIntyre Project, and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at Denver School of the Arts; Education Sessions with ETHEL and Robert Mirabal at El Sistema Colorado; and Master Classes with Béla Fleck, Gabriel Kahane, yMusic, Eliot Fisk, Paco Peña, and the Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra at the Lamont School of Music are sponsored in part by The Newman Center Endowed Fund for Experiential and Cultural Learning.

• Mark Morris Dance Group, MOMIX “Botanica”, Trey McIntyre Project, and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo are supported in part by The Grynberg Family Endowment for Dance Programming.

• Chris Thile, solo mandolin; Cameron Carpenter, organ; “Music of the Sun”; Chick Corea and Béla Fleck; “The Miners’ Hymns”; Gabriel Kahane and yMusic; and Paco Peña and Eliot Fisk are supported in part by The Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado Endowment for Diverse and Innovative Music.

• All Newman Center Presents programming is supported in part by The Porter Adventist Hospital Endowment for the Performing Arts.

If you are interested in contributing to any of these endeavors, please contact Isabel Werner, Director of Development - Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, [email protected] or call 303.871.4472.

If you work with a local organization or Denver-area K-12 school and would like to learn more about how Newman Center Presents artists provide educational outreach activities for your school or group, please contact Deirdre Shaw, Event and Community Outreach Manager, at [email protected] or call 303.871.6543. Please include the following information: your name and position, name of organization or school, types of outreach you may be interested in (dance, theatre, world music, jazz, vocal), and email address and phone number.

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THE LASTING DIFFERENCE MADE BY ENDOWMENT GIFTS

The construction of the Newman Center and all its public and backstage spaces was only made possible by generous donors whose gifts have been recognized through the naming of these spaces. Moreover, the annual income from the Newman Center Building Endowment helps ensure constant care and upkeep of our world-class venues and state-of-the-art systems that make possible the highest quality of Newman Center Presents productions.

To maintain this excellence the Newman Center Building Endowment needs to grow, and many naming opportunities remain for your gift to the Endowment.

Your gift to name a space in the Newman Center offers lasting recognition of your support of the Newman Center’s programming, operations and facilities. Both current and testamentary gifts to the Newman Center Building Endowment are welcome. If you have already included the Newman Center in your estate, please let us know so that we may appropriately thank you.

If you would like more information about how to make a lasting difference to the Newman Center Building Endowment, to Newman Center Presents, or to help the Newman Center continue to make a lasting contribution to the performing arts in our community, please contact Isabel Werner, Director of Development, at 303.871.4472 ([email protected]) or Aaron Ciszek, Director of Development, at 303.871.2315 ([email protected]).

DONOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe Newman Center for the Performing Arts would like to express its gratitude to the following individuals and organizations who have given generously in 2012-2013 (July 2012 to June 2013) to support the Newman Center’s Scholarship, Maintenance, Operations and Programming, and Marketing Funds, the newly created Newman Center Endowments discussed earlier, and Newman Center Memberships initiated during this time period:

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2012-2013 DONORSAnonymousAnonymousMartha A. and David L. AshmoreLeslie BeltramiHelen BernsteinRoberta BlancKarin C. BondThomas ButlerCommunity First FoundationMarian M. and John W. ErnstCeleste GrynbergRobert B. Hahn and Sharon H. MushkinCaifei HeSarah JohnsonWilliam Raymond KyiazisMichael E. LeightonSarah LincolnBrian A. LloydYolanda McAllisterIsabelle MarquesSusan H. MartinNelson Family FoundationPamela Ann NewmanRobert and Judi NewmanJean OnderkoGene E. and Nancy M. RichardsKathy RosenkransSage Family Fund at the Omaha Community Foundation

Wilma ShepherdElizabeth H. and Myron J. SnellKathleen M. SpringAdrian TinsleyMarcus TurnerWestern Union FoundationWaldo L. and Emily J. WilleckeJanalynn Wong

In Honor of Robert and Judi Newman Allan and Margot Frank Etta Marie and Michael Daniel West

In Memory of Bob Mesko Carla M. Joy

Newman Endowed Fund for Experiential and Cultural LearningAllan and Margot Frank In memory of Bob

Mesko and In honor of Beverlee Henry and the Honorable Robert Fullerton

Beverlee Henry and Hon. Robert FullertonTracy J. Reinhard

2012-2013 MEMBERSBENEFACTORRobert and Judi Newman

PARTNERAllan and Margot FrankDiana and Mike KinseyDennis A. OliverStephen W. Seifert In memory of Robert MeskoDavol Tedder

SPONSORDr. Gregg Kvistad and Dr. Amy OaksBarbara NealSean and Natalie RabornSpeaking of Dance

SUPPORTERLara BlancaJean Frances NorrisChristine and Thomas ObermeierDon and Brenda RaffertyAnn Richardson and Bill Stolfus

CONTRIBUTORAaron L. Ciszek and Sarah Egan BenjesCatherine P. ColePhyllis GoodmanSue and Roger KinneyMarian LauterbachJoan MarkleRichard Replin and Elissa SteinDonovan C. and Phyllis A. RiegerPaula N. and David A. RoneyFrances E. Seifert

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• Food and beverages are prohibited in the seating areas of all theatres.

• No audio, photographic or video equipment of any kind is allowed in the performance venues.

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