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Performing Arts Monterey Bay TARGETS live performing arts in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. We present the entire Monterey Bay performing arts community, weekly and ongoing, with a unique resource offered by no other Monterey Bay regional print or electronic media.

03/10/2020

CABRILLO FESTIVAL of Contemporary Music Announces its 58th Season

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 58th season July 26 – August 9, 2020, with a remarkable season of timely, topical, and thought-provoking new works.

Season highlights include three world premiere commissions;

CABRILLO FESTIVAL of Contemporary Music Announces its 58th Season The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America's longest running festival of new

03/10/2020

THIS WEEK

BRAD HOGARTH guest conducts the Monterey Symphony in Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich. APTOS KEYBOARD SERIES hosts Tyler Hayford. JAZZ PIANIST HIROMI (above) plays Kuumbwa. UCSC CONCERT CHOIR & CHAMBER SINGERS. PACIFIC GROVE POPS ORCHESTRA. THE THREE Rs at the Western Stage.FOR LINKS to these and other live performance events click

THIS WEEK BRAD HOGARTH guest conducts the Monterey Symphony in Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich. APTOS KEYBOARD SERIES hosts Tyler Hayford. JAZZ PIANIST HIROMI

03/10/2020

By Roger Emanuels

THE STORY OF MATTHEW SHEPARD, the gay young man tortured and left to die in the Wyoming countryside has been told in books, film, poetry, song, stage play, television and documentaries. A musical production, Considering Matthew Shepard, is now playing at the Crocker Theater at Cabrillo College. It’s

By Roger Emanuels THE STORY OF MATTHEW SHEPARD, the gay young man tortured and left to die in the Wyoming countryside has been told in books, film, poetry, song

03/10/2020

By Scott MacClelland

AT A QUARTER TO THREE on Sunday afternoon, the Monterey County Composers’ Forum at Hidden Valley had attracted an audience of only about twenty—including the composers themselves. Those so-far gathered blamed fears of the coronavirus. But soon the audience swelled past thirty who came to enjoy a one-hour,

By Scott MacClelland AT A QUARTER TO THREE on Sunday afternoon, the Monterey County Composers' Forum at Hidden Valley had attracted an audience of only about

03/03/2020

THIS WEEK

AIZURI QUARTET (above) plays for Distinguished Artists at Peace United in Santa Cruz. CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD X 2: Cheryl Anderson (Cabrillo College) and John Koza (Camerata Singers) shoot it out with new productions at the same time of the same ‘passion play.' MONTEREY COUNTY COMPOSERS’ FORUM at Hidden Valley. NEW WORKS

THIS WEEK AIZURI QUARTET (above) plays for Distinguished Artists at Peace United in Santa Cruz. CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD X 2: Cheryl Anderson (Cabrillo

03/03/2020

YOU MAY NOT KNOW Teddy Eck, but you have seen his acting in film and television. In January 2019 Eck was hired as Theatre Department chair at Monterey Peninsula College. Starting this week and running for ten days, he will serve as facilitator of MPC’s New Works Festival, described in

YOU MAY NOT KNOW Teddy Eck, but you have seen his acting in film and television. In January 2019 Eck was hired as Theatre Department chair at Monterey Peninsula

03/02/2020

By Scott MacClelland

“MIGRATION” was the thematic name given to Sunday afternoon’s Youth Music Monterey concert at Sunset Center. Music director Danko Druško, mic in hand, explained it in terms of ‘past, present and future,’ though I’m not sure what that meant. And even though I had met him, and even

By Scott MacClelland "MIGRATION" was the thematic name given to Sunday afternoon's Youth Music Monterey concert at Sunset Center. Music director Danko Druško,

02/25/2020

THIS WEEK

YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY COUNTY presents “Migration” by the Junior Youth and Honors Orchestras (above) and special guests. SANTA CRUZ CHAMBER PLAYERS serve up three piano trios in Aptos. JAZZ BIG BAND celebrates Count Basie at UC Santa Cruz. GUITARIST LEO KOTTKE at the Rio. SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY Family Concert

THIS WEEK YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY COUNTY presents "Migration" by the Junior Youth and Honors Orchestras (above) and special guests. SANTA CRUZ CHAMBER PLAYERS

02/25/2020

By Dana Abbott

"SERENADE FOR AN EARLY SPRING," presented by Ensemble Monterey on February 22, performed string orchestra music at a Monterey church, in conductor John Anderson’s rich sojourn into developing style and sonority.

Josef Suk’s Serenade in E Flat (premiered 1895) opened the concert with late 19th century chamber pleasantry. A

By Dana Abbott "SERENADE FOR AN EARLY SPRING," presented by Ensemble Monterey on February 22, performed string orchestra music at a Monterey church, in

02/18/2020

THIS WEEK

PIANIST KEVIN LEE SUN plays Aptos Keyboard Series. INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC at UCSC. SANTA CRUZ BAROQUE at UCSC. SKELETON CREW opens at UCSC. CIRQUE ÉLOIZE in Carmel. LYLE LOVETT at Santa Cruz Civic. THE DRIFTERS (pictured above) emerge from the doo w*p distant past at CSU’s World Theater. SONGWRITER

THIS WEEK PIANIST KEVIN LEE SUN plays Aptos Keyboard Series. INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC at UCSC. SANTA CRUZ BAROQUE at UCSC. SKELETON CREW opens at UCSC. CIRQUE

02/18/2020

By Scott MacClelland

TWO WORKS OF EXCEPTIONAL TREASURE drew standing ovations Sunday at Sunset Center when Max Bragado-Darman conducted Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. While the two works are markedly different from one another, and with a gap of ten years between their compositions—1888 and 1898—they share common ground in

By Scott MacClelland TWO WORKS OF EXCEPTIONAL TREASURE drew standing ovations Sunday at Sunset Center when Max Bragado-Darman conducted Elgar's "Enigma"

02/12/2020

By Philip Pearce

MATILDA, the brainy middle-schooler who gives her name to the musical now playing at the Golden Bough in Carmel doesn’t need a trip to Oz to know there’s no place like home.

Home for Matilda Wormwood is a semi-detached in mid-1980s England and there’s no place like it for crass

By Philip Pearce MATILDA, the brainy middle-schooler who gives her name to the musical now playing at the Golden Bough in Carmel doesn't need a trip to Oz to

02/11/2020

THIS WEEK

MONTEREY SYMPHONY serves up Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. TRUMPET MASTER CHRIS BOTTI plays the Rio in Santa Cruz. TAELEN THOMAS & BILL SPARKMAN perform Waylon at The Lab in Carmel. THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Beautiful at Sunset Center. MASSENET OPERA CINDERELLA for families at UC Santa Cruz.

THIS WEEK MONTEREY SYMPHONY serves up Elgar's Enigma Variations and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. TRUMPET MASTER CHRIS BOTTI plays the Rio in Santa Cruz.

02/04/2020

THIS WEEK

DENSON-PILON-BLADE TRIO (pictured above) plays Kuumbwa. MATILDA THE MUSICAL opens in Carmel. “NIGHT OF THE LIVING COMPOSERS” at Cabrillo College. JEWEL THEATRE’S THE OTHER PLACE continues at the Colligan. FOR LINKS to these and other live performance events click on our CALENDAR or on the display ads, left.

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THIS WEEK DENSON-PILON-BLADE TRIO (pictured above) plays Kuumbwa. MATILDA THE MUSICAL opens in Carmel. "NIGHT OF THE LIVING COMPOSERS" at Cabrillo College.

02/04/2020

By Scott MacClelland

ON JANUARY 20, the day after the San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers in the NFL postseason playoffs, ticket sales for the Santa Cruz Symphony’s Sunday performance in Watsonville hit a wall. Symphony executive director Dorothy Wise knew instantly that the 54th Super Bowl would hammer

By Scott MacClelland ON JANUARY 20, the day after the San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers in the NFL postseason playoffs, ticket sales for the Santa

02/04/2020

By Philip Pearce

LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE LISTENING PLACE, Monterey Peninsula’s popular readers’ theater company. They provided local audiences with a fast, funny and entertaining version of Mary Chase’s Harvey at La Mirada Art gallery last weekend and managed it in the face of some daunting political skirmishes and financial challenges.

There’s been

By Philip Pearce LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE LISTENING PLACE, Monterey Peninsula's popular readers' theater company. They provided local audiences with a fast, funny

02/03/2020

Music Director Search

With the departure of Music Director and Conductor Max Bragado-Darman at the end of the 2019-2020 OVATION season, the Monterey Symphony's search for a replacement has yielded four strong candidates with impressive credentials.

The finalists include Donato Cabrera, the Music Director of the California Symphony and the Las Vegas

Music Director Search With the departure of Music Director and Conductor Max Bragado-Darman at the end of the 2019-2020 OVATION season, the Monterey Symphony's

01/28/2020

THIS WEEK

SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY (above) to perform Mahler’s spectacular Fifth Symphony. CHAMPIONS OF THE ARTS formal banquet hosted by Arts Council for Monterey County at Portola Hotel in Monterey. TANDY BEAL & CO welcome clown duo Coventry & Kaluza in Santa Cruz. SANTA CRUZ BAROQUE FESTIVAL opens 2020 season with

THIS WEEK SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY (above) to perform Mahler's spectacular Fifth Symphony. CHAMPIONS OF THE ARTS formal banquet hosted by Arts Council for Monterey

01/28/2020

By Philip Pearce

THE LEADING CHARACTER in Sharr White’s stage drama The Other Place spends the play telling us her own story.

When a playwright adopts that technique, an audience knows everything that happens will have the emotional immediacy of first hand testimony from the mouth of an eye witness. But it’s

By Philip Pearce THE LEADING CHARACTER in Sharr White's stage drama The Other Place spends the play telling us her own story. When a playwright adopts that

01/21/2020

THIS WEEK

THE OTHER PLACE opens in Jewel Theatre’s production at the Colligan. SPECTORDANCE presents its first-of-2020 Choreographers Showcase. PIANIST TIEN HSIEH (pictured above) plays Schubert, Scriabin and Beethoven ‘Postcards” at CSUMB’s World Theater. ESPRESSIVO chamber orchestra offers up “Masterful Fun” in Santa Cruz. OSCAR SPEACE’S JANKA, a Holocaust memoir, at

THIS WEEK THE OTHER PLACE opens in Jewel Theatre's production at the Colligan. SPECTORDANCE presents its first-of-2020 Choreographers Showcase. PIANIST TIEN

01/21/2020

By Scott MacClelland

OMG! Tandy Beal’s production of Scoville Units was like something you’d go to Las Vegas for. But at pennies on the dollar, you only had to go to Aptos. How good was the show? People streaming to their cars in the Cabrillo performing arts parking lot after the

By Scott MacClelland OMG! Tandy Beal's production of Scoville Units was like something you'd go to Las Vegas for. But at pennies on the dollar, you only had to

01/21/2020

By Jocelyn McMahon

PLAYS, especially new ones, are risky and can leave you scratching your head. “What did I just see?” “Did I just waste two-plus hours of my life?” “Am I the only one not getting this?” “I need a drink, where’s the nearest bar?” No one wants to waste

By Jocelyn McMahon PLAYS, especially new ones, are risky and can leave you scratching your head. "What did I just see?" "Did I just waste two-plus hours of my

01/14/2020

THIS WEEK

TANDY BEAL & CO brings Scoville Units to Cabrillo Crocker Theater in Aptos. GUITARIST ERIC JOHNSON in Carmel. SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK (pictured above) at the Rio. COMEDY VARIETY SHOWCASE at the Cherry in Carmel. FOR LINKS to these and other live performance events click on our CALENDAR or

THIS WEEK TANDY BEAL & CO brings Scoville Units to Cabrillo Crocker Theater in Aptos. GUITARIST ERIC JOHNSON in Carmel. SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK (pictured above)

01/14/2020

By Scott MacClelland

THE CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL in January? It certainly felt like it when Philharmonia Baroque arrived Sunday afternoon at Sunset Center. They, and retiring conductor Nicholas McGegan—as much scholar and properly-trained conductor as entertainer—spirited his instrumentalists from the harpsichord through 17th and 18th century music composed on a theme

By Scott MacClelland THE CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL in January? It certainly felt like it when Philharmonia Baroque arrived Sunday afternoon at Sunset Center. They,

01/13/2020

By Roger Emanuels

CONTINUING THE POPULAR 'Spotlight on the Symphony' series of chamber music concerts by members of the Santa Cruz Symphony, "Woodwinds of Winter" allowed the principal wind players to express their talent away from the hustle and bustle of the full symphony orchestra. The quartet of Laurie Seibold, flute;

By Roger Emanuels CONTINUING THE POPULAR 'Spotlight on the Symphony' series of chamber music concerts by members of the Santa Cruz Symphony, "Woodwinds of

01/07/2020

THIS WEEK

SANTA CRUZ CHAMBER PLAYERS presents “From the Old World to the New.” PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE in Carmel to launch Music Director Nic McGegan’s farewell season. SPOTLIGHT ON THE SYMPHONY presents Santa Cruz Symphony wind players at Cabrillo College. 8 TENS @ 8 short play series begins at Center Stage in

THIS WEEK SANTA CRUZ CHAMBER PLAYERS presents "From the Old World to the New." PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE in Carmel to launch Music Director Nic McGegan's farewell

12/31/2019

THIS WEEK

TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT! First Night, that is, with 30 performance events, indoors and outdoors, throughout downtown Monterey. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (abridged to 90 minutes) to play in New Monterey for one weekend only. “GLORIA” Madregalia (pictured above) sings Renaissance Christmas music. BENNY GREEN TRIO at Kuumbwa. FOR

THIS WEEK TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! First Night, that is, with 30 performance events, indoors and outdoors, throughout downtown Monterey. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

12/24/2019

THIS WEEK

SMUIN CHRISTMAS BALLET in two performances at Sunset Center (above photo by Keith Sutter). WHITE ALBUM ENSEMBLE celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Abbey Road, at the Rio in Santa Cruz. FIRST NIGHT MONTEREY embraces the New Year with performance events all over Downtown Monterey. THE CHERRY TRIO

THIS WEEK SMUIN CHRISTMAS BALLET in two performances at Sunset Center (above photo by Keith Sutter). WHITE ALBUM ENSEMBLE celebrates the 50th anniversary of the

12/17/2019

THIS WEEK

CHANTICLEER (above) sings two performances at Carmel Mission. SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA at Kuumbwa. SANTA CRUZ CHORALE at Holy Cross. FUERZA REGIDA at the Fox in Salinas. MORE NUTCRACKERS (so far at least nine this season in Monterey Bay communities) in SC County. FOR LINKS to these and dozens of other

THIS WEEK CHANTICLEER (above) sings two performances at Carmel Mission. SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA at Kuumbwa. SANTA CRUZ CHORALE at Holy Cross. FUERZA REGIDA at

12/16/2019

By Scott MacClelland

IN HER REGIONAL PREMIERE in Aptos, pianist Keiko Shichijo boldly went where few of her fellow keyboard artists would dare to go. For all her personal charm, the Japan-born artist, now living in Amsterdam, played music few in the audience had heard before, by composers many had never

By Scott MacClelland IN HER REGIONAL PREMIERE in Aptos, pianist Keiko Shichijo boldly went where few of her fellow keyboard artists would dare to go. For all

12/10/2019

BEETHOVEN ANNIVERSARY

THE GERMAN-BORN COMPOSER enters his 250th anniversary year on Monday, Dec 16. Computer generated video by Stephen Malinowski, with music by the Alexander String Quartet.

THIS WEEK

CSUMB GOSPEL CHOIR sings music of the season at Pacific Grove’s Wellspring Church. PIANIST KEIKO SHICHIJO plays rare music by Komitas, Mompou, others at

BEETHOVEN ANNIVERSARY THE GERMAN-BORN COMPOSER enters his 250th anniversary year on Monday, Dec 16. Computer generated video by Stephen Malinowski, with music

12/09/2019

By Scott MacClelland

I DON’T REMEMBER the last time I heard a solo piano recital so dominated by artistic authority as Oxana Yablonskaya’s performance for Distinguished Artists in Santa Cruz on Sunday afternoon. To be clear, I’m referring to artistry over and above technique, personality atop a program that itself came

By Scott MacClelland I DON'T REMEMBER the last time I heard a solo piano recital so dominated by artistic authority as Oxana Yablonskaya's performance for

12/09/2019

By Scott MacClelland

I CANTORI DI CARMEL and conductor Cyril Deaconoff (pictured) threw a Christmas party at Carmel Mission that included a lot of unfamiliar guests, music mostly new to the Monterey Peninsula choral community, including some area premieres. Yamaha keyboardist Cindy Shen provided organ (convincing) and piano (not so much)

By Scott MacClelland I CANTORI DI CARMEL and conductor Cyril Deaconoff (pictured) threw a Christmas party at Carmel Mission that included a lot of unfamiliar

12/03/2019

THIS WEEK

PIANO ICON OXANA YABLONSKAYA to perform in Santa Cruz. KITKA’S “WINTERSONGS” (above photo by Vincent Louis Carrella) returns to Santa Cruz to launch the last concert tour of their 40th season. LA PASTORELA opens at El Teatro Campesino in San Juan Bautista. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE radio drama opens

THIS WEEK PIANO ICON OXANA YABLONSKAYA to perform in Santa Cruz. KITKA'S "WINTERSONGS" (above photo by Vincent Louis Carrella) returns to Santa Cruz to launch

12/01/2019

BALOW, my babe, lie still and sleep!
It grieves me sore to see thee weep.
Wouldst thou be quiet I'se be glad,
Thy mourning makes my sorrow sad:
Balow my boy, thy mother's joy,
Thy father breeds me great annoy--
Balow, la-low!

When he began to court my love,
And with his sugred words me move,
His faynings false

BALOW, my babe, lie still and sleep! It grieves me sore to see thee weep. Wouldst thou be quiet I'se be glad, Thy mourning makes my sorrow sad: Balow my boy,

11/26/2019

THIS WEEK

“YULETIDE JEWELS” seasonal stories at Monterey Museum of Art. AKIKO-HAMILTON-DECHTER ORGAN TRIO at Kuumbwa Jazz. SECOND CITY comedy at Sunset Center. KIRTAN WITH KRISHNA DASat the Rio Theatre. “THROWING CAUTION TO THE WIND” with Taelen Thomas, Melinda Coffey & guests at Hidden Valley. AN IRISH CHRISTMAS in Monterey. FOR

THIS WEEK "YULETIDE JEWELS" seasonal stories at Monterey Museum of Art. AKIKO-HAMILTON-DECHTER ORGAN TRIO at Kuumbwa Jazz. SECOND CITY comedy at Sunset Center.

11/26/2019

By Philip Pearce

WHAT A GREAT PIECE OF THEATER is Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard! Written at a time of profound social change in pre-revolutionary Russia, it views that troubled period through the shifts and shocks of a family of privileged Russian landowners and the household retainers who keep them precariously alive and

By Philip Pearce WHAT A GREAT PIECE OF THEATER is Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard! Written at a time of profound social change in pre-revolutionary Russia,

11/25/2019

By Roger Emanuels

THERE ARE ENDLESS WAYS to program a chamber music concert. Symmetry and balance often prevail. Yet the approach of the Black Cedar Trio has neither, mixing classics with avant-garde and a dash of folk music into an oddly coherent and entertaining evening. Presented by Santa Cruz Chamber Players

By Roger Emanuels THERE ARE ENDLESS WAYS to program a chamber music concert. Symmetry and balance often prevail. Yet the approach of the Black Cedar Trio has

11/24/2019

By Philip Pearce

WITH A BUSY WEEKEND upon me, I only bought a ticket to the opening night of Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts at MPC at the last minute but I’m glad I did.

I think I went expecting something at least tinged with the searing realism of Letts’ Pulitzer Prize winning

By Philip Pearce WITH A BUSY WEEKEND upon me, I only bought a ticket to the opening night of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts at MPC at the last minute but I'm glad

11/19/2019

THIS WEEK

SANTA CRUZ CHAMBER PLAYERS host Black Cedar Trio (above) in Aptos. MESSIAH SING-ALONG by I Cantori at Carmel Mission with guest conductor Sal Ferrantelli. CHEKHOV’S CHERRY ORCHARD opens at Mountain Community Theater. ELF, THE MUSICAL opens at King City High. MPC STRING ENSEMBLE in Monterey. MPC CHORUS’ “Ceremony of

THIS WEEK SANTA CRUZ CHAMBER PLAYERS host Black Cedar Trio (above) in Aptos. MESSIAH SING-ALONG by I Cantori at Carmel Mission with guest conductor Sal

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