Programs curated by the CalArts School of Music and other music-related events.
October 29-November 2, 2008
Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton:
Songs of Ascension

Soaring to a grand scale of artistic gesture and ambition, this major new multimedia work reunites two of the most influential artists in the United States today. Monk’s signature form of incantatory music-theater finds an uncanny match in Hamilton’s sensuous visual artistry as the full-evening piece channels an exploration of the spiritual, vocal, and physical notions of ascension across geography and time | Click here

November 3, 2008
Of Volcanoes and Rocks, featuring Sardono W. Kusumo

Celebrated Javanese choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Sardono W. Kusumo joins with a circle of CalArts master musicians to forge new links across Hindustani, Indonesian and Western performance practices | Click here

November 9, 2008
Willem Breuker Kollektief:
Murnau's Faust

The famous Dutch collective plays an audacious live music score to accompany horror master F.W. Murnau’s Faust (1926) — the silent classic of German Expressionism that enacts Goethe’s chilling tale of an alchemist who bargains away his soul to the devil | Click here

November 14-16, 2008
Festival of Contemporary Dutch Music

One of the most vibrant and eclectic music hotspots in Europe, the Netherlands boast an exceptional wealth of up-and-coming innovators who are busy expanding not only the heterogeneity and freedom of contemporary musical content — but also the role of music and concert programming in society | Click here

December 10, 2008
Scream 08: Vic Ray Electric

Celebrated as one of the world's leading interpreters of contemporary piano music, virtuoso keyboardist Vicki Ray is the featured artist at the annual concert presented by the Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music(SCREAM) | Click here

January 28-February 1, 2009
Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes:
Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castrati

Delivered with off-the-wall humor and terrific musical aplomb, this raucous farce from the internationally renowned Mexico City company reaches back to a florid chapter of European cultural history: the era of the castrati-superstars of 18th-century opera whose heavenly prepubescent voices won swooning adoration across the continent's highest courts | Click here



September 19-20, 2008
Creative Music Festival

This season’s edition of the storied CalArts creative music revue brings one of the most formidable lineups in the festival’s history | Click here

September 24, 2008
Robert Een and the International Mystical All-Star Band: The Escape Artist

The concert version of the Robert Een’s opera tells the tale of a desperado who goes on the run to flee his wicked past, only to find that there is no locale so remote that it cannot be found | Click here

October 2-3, 2008
Unclassified: Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger

Show Added!
Thursday, October 2 at 10:30 pm


Rock music icon Lou Reed and sonic experimentalist Ulrich Krieger take the stage together for the first time to improvise music and make soundscapes | Click here

October 17-18, 2008
Ann Magnuson and Adam Dugas:
Dueling Harps

A darkly elegant evening of gorgeous melodies with a theatrical flourish. Ann Magnuson and Adam Dugas face off on vocals as Alexander Rannie and Mia Theodoratus strum their harps in this twisted match of musical one-upmanship | Click here

October 19-20, 2008
Studio

This quarterly series for new performance works is an opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary mix of unexpected experimentation and intriguing investigations from Los Angeles artists | Click here

October 22, 2008
James Carney Quartet

Hailed as one of the brightest lights in today’s jazz firmament, pianist and composer James Carney has crafted a fresh, alluring and intellectually vibrant mix of modern creative and avant-jazz | Click here

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