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Spring Music Events at REDCAT

April 27-June 20

Valencia, April 20-The following music events take place at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) this spring. All events take place at 8:30 p.m. except where noted. Admission prices are as follows, except where noted: General, $24; CalArts employees, alumni, and non-CalArts students, $18; CalArts students, $12. REDCAT is located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex at 631 W. Second and Hope Sts., Los Angeles. For box office information, call (213) 237-2800, or click on an event.

April 27 and 30
Steve Coleman and Five Elements
Alpert Award-winner Steve Coleman, one of the most restless and intrepid explorers of the outer limits of jazz, with Five Elements, "as they range from the swaggering to the subtle. mapping some of the main lines for this generation's musical growth." -The Nation. Funded by The Herb Alpert Foundation.

April 29
Balinese Gamelan Burat Wangi
Collaboration with I Nyoman Windha, I Dewa Putu Berata and I Nyoman Cerita to create new works for gamelan and dancers: fusion gamelan emphasizing melodic and formal beauty. General, $20; CalArts employees, alumni and non-CalArts students, $16; CalArts students, $10.

May 1
Indian-American Creative Crossover
A triple bill of traditional Indian music, interactive ensemble works, and a combined intercultural group performance. New cultural insights and perspectives from double violinists and vocalists L. Shankar and Gingger; master tabla player Swapan Chaudhuri; composer, pianist and electronic music innovator David Rosenboom; and virtuoso guitarist Miroslav Tadic.

May 2
RED-shift Chamber Music Showcase
Provocative virtuosic performances and music from the younger generation. Works will include Prokofiev's Sarcasms, Ligeti's Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet, and Cage's Theater Piece. 3 p.m

May 11
CalArts Jazz Studies Program 20^th Anniversary
A performance bringing together alumni, current students, and faculty members past and present. A range of collaborations and configurations featuring an ensemble of CalArts faculty members Paul Novros, Alex Iles, Larry Koonse, David Roitstein, Darek Oles, and Joe LaBarbera, plus special guests and a performance by program founder Charlie Haden's CalArts Liberation Music Orchestra. The evening will also honor the support the EMI-Capitol Music Group has given to the CalArts Jazz Studies Program.

May 12
Gayle Young: New Tunings for New Instruments
In the tradition of West Coast pioneer Harry Partch, a performance featuring new instruments in a range of unusual tunings, along with conventional instruments used in new ways. Unusual, beautiful, ear-expanding sounds. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts

June 11
Harry Partch's Bitter Music
John Schneider and Just Strings
Often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Harry Partch's long-lost 1935 hobo journal performed for the first time as a special multi-media presentation including the work's original pen and ink illustrations, photographs from the composer's scrapbooks, and his legendary instruments.

June 19-20
earJam IV
In its fourth season, the earJam new music festival is an all-star two-night new music festival featuring 18 Los Angeles-based solo artists and groups; earbending innovation each evening, in two sets and two improvised jams. Eclectic aural resonances from Eric Sbar's brass ensemble; Don and Tina Preston; Brad Dutz's quintet; Jessica Catron and Jeremy Drake; Andrew Durkin's Industrial Jazz; The Los Angeles Flute Orchestra with Vinny Golia; Weba Garretson; Steuart Liebig's Lane Ends, Merge Left; David Rosenboom and Jacqueline Humbert; Becky Allen's vocal chorus and brass; Kraig Grady's vibraphones; SVARA's world/new music mix; John Coker & Ed Nunnery; James Carney; Daniel Lentz's quintet; violist Karen Elaine Bakunin; You Are Not Mailmen (Art Jarvinen & Eric Barber) and more.

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