UR Modlin Center 2014-15

The esteemed French pianist Hélène Grimaud, the duo of pianist Jonathan Biss and violinist Miriam Fried, the Shanghai Quartet with longtime Guarneri Quartet violist Michael Tree and a program, of early and modern vocal works by New York Polyphony highlight classical-music programs in the 2014-15 season of the University of Richmond’s Modlin Arts Center.

UR’s resident new-music sextet, eighth blackbird, will present two programs, a fall contemporary sampler called “Pattycake” (after Sean Griffin’s 2007 work of that name) and a spring program with Sleeping Giants, the New York-based composers’ collective, introducing the six composers’ “HandEye.” The ’birds also will perform with UR’s Schola Cantorum in the springtime premiere of Dominick DiOrio’s “An Equal Humanity.”

Other classical programs presented by the UR Music Department includes recitals by pianist Paul Hanson and organist Bruce Stevens and a program of French music featuring UR-based pianist Joanne Kong with two Richmond Symphony members, violinist Daisuke Yamamoto and cellist Neal Cary, as well as performances by the UR Symphony Orchestra, UR Wind Ensemble and chamber and choral groups.

Other musical attractions in the Modlin Center’s coming season include the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with veteran New Orleans singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint, the acoustic duo of mandolinist Chris Thile and double-bassist Edgar Meyer, singer-songwriter Marc Broussard, country musicians Kathy Metea and the Gibson Brothers with Liz Longley, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, hip-hop artists Zap Mama and Antibalas, and the Turtle Island String Quartet with singer-songwriter Nellie McKay.

Theatrical offerings include “BASETRACK, a Multimedia Performance Experience” on contemporary life in the U.S. Marine Corps, the thriller “Pumpkin Pie Show,” comedian Paula Poundstone and the Chicago comedy troupe The Second City, The Robot Planet’s radio-drama style “The Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth,” Michael Milligan in “Mercy Killers” and, in live simulcasts from London’s National Theatre, “Medea,” starring Helen McCroury; “Skylight,” starring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy; “Frankenstein,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johny Lee Miller.

Dance presentations include Momix’s “Alchemia,” Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.in.Motion troupe in “The Watershed” and “When the Wolves Came In,” Compagnie Käfig and CCN Créteil et Val-de-Marne in “Correria” and “Agwa,” the Russian National Ballet Theatre in “Cinderella,” and Pathé Live theatrical telecasts of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet in “Legend of Love,” ”The Pharaoh‘s Daughter,” “La Bayadère,” “Swan Lake,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Ivan the Terrible.”

Author Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss her recent book “The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History,” and public radio’s Ira Glass will speak on “Reinventing Radio.”

On-campus performances will be at the Modlin Center’s venues as well as Westhampton Green, Cannon Memorial Chapel and Perkinson Recital Hall in North Court. Other performances will be staged in downtown Richmond at the Richmond CenterStage’s Carpenter Theatre and Gottwald Playhouse and the Theatre Gym of Virginia Rep Center.

To obtain a season brochure, call the Modlin Center box office at (804) 289-8980. Details and subscription forms also are available on the center’s website, www.modlin.richmond.edu

The 2014-15 season of the Modlin Center and UR’s departments of music and theatre and dance (prices listed are for single adult tickets):

Sept. 4 (4 p.m.)
Sept. 14 (2 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
NT Live:
“Medea”
starring Helen McCrory
$14

Sept. 7 (noon)
Westhampton Green
No BS! Brass Band (12:30 p.m.)
Slavic Soul Party (1:45 p.m.)
Red Baraat (3 p.m.)
Rebirth Brass Band (5 p.m.)
$34

Sept. 10 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Albert Guinovart, piano
program TBA
$20

Sept. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
David Esleck Trio
free

Sept. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
The Robot Planet
“The Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth”
$34

Sept. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Wind Ensemble
UR Jazz Ensemble
UR Symphony Orchestra
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
“Family Weekend Concert”
program TBA
free

Sept. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
eighth blackbird
“Pattycake”
György Ligeti: Études (2014 arr.)
Tom Johnson: “Counting Duets” (2014)
Lee Hyla: “Wave” (2014)
Sean Griffin: “Pattycake” (2007)
Gabriella Smith: “Number Nine” (2013)
David Little: “and the sky was still there” (2010)
$20

Sept. 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Marc Broussard
$36

Sept. 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Turtle Island String Quartet
with Nellie McKay
$36

Oct. 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
progam TBA
$38

Oct. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Oct. 3 (7:30 p.m.)
Oct. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Oct. 5 (2 p.m.)
Cousins Studio Theatre
Department of Theatre and Dance:
“Clybourne Park”
Chuck Mike, director
$15

Oct. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Chris Thile, mandolin
Edgar Meyer, double-bass
$45

Oct. 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
National Acrobats of The People’s Republic of China
$30-$38

Oct. 19 (3 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
“The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon”
$18, $9 (child 12 and younger)

Oct. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Mike Davison & The Latin Jazz Messengers
free

Oct. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Oct. 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
“BASETRACK, a Multimedia Performance Experience”
$22

Oct. 23 (2 p.m.)
Nov. 16 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
NT Live:
“Skylight”
starring Carey Mulligan & Bill Nighy
$14

Oct. 26 (3 p.m.)
venue TBA
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing
program TBA
free

Oct. 29 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
with Allen Toussaint
$45

Oct. 31 (7  and 10 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
NT Live:
“Frankenstein”
starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Johny Lee Miller
$14

Nov. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Jonathan Biss, piano
Miriam Fried, violin
Brahms: Sonata in A major, Op. 100
Bartók: Sonata No. 2
Beethoven: Sonata in G major, Op. 96
$36

Nov. 7 (times TBA)
Nov. 8 (times TBA)
Camp Concert Hall
Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival
Benjamin Broening, artistic director
artists TBA
programs TBA
free

Nov. 10 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Jazz & Contemporary Combos
free

Nov. 13 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Wind Ensemble
David Niethamer directing
program TBA
free

Nov. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Gibson Brothers
with Liz Longley
$45

Nov. 14 (8 p.m.)
Nov. 15 (8 p.m.)
Theatre Gym at Virginia Rep Center, 114 W. Broad St.
“The Pumpkin Pie Show”
$22

Nov. 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Gottwald Playhouse, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
DakhaBrakha
$22

Nov. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Pathé Live:
Bolshoi Ballet
“Legend of Love”
$14

Nov. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 23 (2 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Department of Theatre and Dance:
“Remnants”
José Joaquín Garcia & J.A. Myerson, music & lyrics
Pop Master Fabel & Alicia Diaz, choreography
$15

Nov. 23 (3 p.m.)
Westhampton Green
(rain location: Camp Concert Hall)
“Global Sounds”
Andrew McGraw directing
free

Nov. 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Pathé Live:
Bolshoi Ballet
“The Pharaoh’s Daughter”
$14

Dec. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Chamber Ensembles
program TBA
free

Dec. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
“Cuban Spectacular: Where in the World Is Carmen Santiago?”
Carmen & Harvey, narrators
UR Jazz Ensemble & Combo
Mike Davison directing
dancers TBA
guest artists from Penn State University
free; tickets required

Dec. 3 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Kordzaia conducting
Rimsky-Kosakov: “Scheherazade” (excerpts)
Elgar: “Enigma Variations”
Nick Yeutter: new work TBA
other works TBA
Erin Vidlak, soprano
Marie Fernandez, flute
Leslie Kinnas, violin
Kevin Westergaard, cello
free

Dec. 5 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Paula Poundstone
$40

Dec. 7 (5 and 8 p.m.)
Cannon Memorial Chapel
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
Jeffrey Riehl & David Pederson directing
The Virginia Girls Choir
“Festival of Lessons and Carols”
free

Dec. 7 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Pathé Live:
Bolshoi Ballet
“La Bayadère”
$14

Jan. 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
The Second City
“Second City Hits Home”
$36

Jan. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
$32

Jan. 25 (3 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
“Schoolhouse Rock Live!”
$18, $9 (children 12 and younger)

Jan. 25 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Shanghai Quartet
Michael Tree, viola
Turina: “The Matador’s Prayer”
Brahms: Quintet in F major, Op. 88
other works TBA
$36

Jan. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Zap Mama
Antibalas
$30-$38

Feb. 1 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Richard Becker, piano
program TBA
free

Feb. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Neumann Lecture on Music:
Jessie Ann Owens
“Cipriano de Rore and the Search for Music”
free

Feb. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Elizabeth Kolbert, speaker
“The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History”
$32

Feb. 8 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Pathé Live:
Bolshoi Ballet
“Swan Lake”
$14

Feb. 11 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
New York Polyphony
“A Lily Among Thorns”
Guerrero: “Regina caeli,” “Quae est ista/Surge propera”
Byterring: “Nesciens mater”
Power: “Beata progenies/Psalm 117”
Dunstable: “Speciosa facta es”
Pyamour: “Quam pulchra es”
Plummer: “Tota pulchra es”
Brumel: “Sicut lilium”
Clemens: “Ego flos campi/Sub umbra illius”
Roll: “There Is No Rose”
new works TBA
$36

Feb. 12 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 13 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 15 (2 p.m.)
Cousins Studio Theatre
Department of Theatre and Dance:
“Production Studies III Showcase”
$15

Feb. 12 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 13 (6 and 8:30 p.m.)
Feb. 14 (3 and 7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 15 (3 p.m.)
Gottwald Playhouse, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
“The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer”
$20, $10.50 (children 12 and younger)

Feb. 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Cannon Memorial Chapel
Bruce Stevens, organ
works TBA by Böhm, Bach, Brahms, Rheinberger, Charles Ives
free

Feb. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Mike Davison, trumpet
and friends
“A Tribute to the Brecker Brothers”
free

Feb. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 21 (3 and 7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 22 (3 p.m.)
Cousins Studio Theatre
Michael Milligan
“Mercy Killers”
$22

Feb. 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Paul Hanson, piano
Bach: “The Well-Tempered Clavier” (excerpts)
Liszt: “Variations on Bach’s ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’ ”
works TBA by Stockhausen, Takemitsu
free

Feb. 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
March 1 (2 p.m.)
University Dancers
Annual Spring Concert
“@ 30”
Larry Keigwen, Norbert de la Cruz & Kim Urba, choreographers
$15

March 2 (1 p.m.)
Perkinson Recital Hall, North Court
Barry Hannigan, piano
masterclass
free

March 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Barry Hannigan, piano
program TBA
free

March 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Compagnie Käfig & CCN Créteil et Val-de-Marne
“Correria”
“Agwa”
$38

March 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Parallel Exit
“Exit Stage Left”
$18

March 13 (7:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Russian National Ballet Theatre
“Cinderella”
$37-$47

March 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
eighth blackbird
Sleeping Giant
Ted Hearne, Andrew Norman, Chris Cerrone, Timo Andres, Robert Honstein & Jacob Cooper: “HandEye” (2014)
$20

March 19 (7:30 p.m.)
March 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion
“The Watershed”
“When the Wolves Came In”
$38

March 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Ira Glass
“Reinventing Radio”
$37-$47

March 22 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Pathé Live:
Bolshoi Ballet
“Romeo and Juliet”
$14

March 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Daisuke Yamamoto, violin
Neal Cary, cello
Joanne Kong, piano
“Vive la France”
Ravel: “Tzigane”
Chausson: Piano Trio in G minor
works TBA by Offenbach, Fauré
free

March 25 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Matt Wilson Quartet
with John Medeski
$20

March 26 (7 p.m.)
Perkinson Recital Hall, North Court
Kathy Metea
“My Coal Journey”
$20

March 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Kathy Metea
“Calling Me Home”
$40

March 29 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Richard Becker & Doris Wylee-Becker, pianos
program TBA
free

April 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Wind Ensemble
David Niethamer directing
program TBA
free

April 6 (7:30 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
UR Jazz Ensemble
Mike Davison & Danny Guzman directing
free

April 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Kordzaia & Daniel Guzman conducting
Guzman: works TBA
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Daniel Leibovic, piano
free

April 11 (7:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
$52-$62

April 12 (3 p.m.)
North Court Courtyard
(rain location TBA)
“Global Family Concert”
free

April 13 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Jazz & Contemporary Combos
free

April 16 (7:30 p.m.)
April 17 (7:30 p.m.)
April 18 (7:30 p.m.)
April 19 (2 p.m.)
Department of Theatre and Dance:
“Funny Girl”
Jule Styne & Bob Merrill, music & lyrics
Walter Schoen, director
$15

April 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Schola Cantorum Jeffrey Riehl directing
eighth blackbird
Dominick DiOrio: “An Equal Humanity” (premiere)
free

April 20 (noon)
Camp Concert Hall
UR Chamber Ensembles
program TBA
free

April 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Hélène Grimaud, piano
works TBA by Liszt, Schubert, Ravel, Debussy, Berio, Fauré, Janáček, Takemitsu, Albeníz
$40

April 24 (7:30 p.m.)
April 25 (7:30 p.m.)
April 26 (3 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
Momix
“Alchemia”
$40

May 3 (1 and 3 p.m.)
Jepson Theatre
“ ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and Other Eric Carle Favorites”
$18, $9 (children 12 and younger)

May 3 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall
Pathé Live:
Bolshoi Ballet
“Ivan the Terrible”
$14