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UCLA Live circles the globe for 2006-07
season
By Evan Henerson, Staff Writer
U-Entertainment
Merle Haggard is coming to town!
So are Savion Glover, David Sedaris and
the Kodo drummers. Also a Russian clown, a clarinet-toting Woody Allen,
Brian Wilson, Denyce Graves and Will Shortz.
More than 60 singers, musicians,
speakers, dancers and performers are scheduled to take the stage at
Royce Hall, the Macgowan Little Theatre, Schoenberg Hall and the Freud
Playhouse during the 2006-07 UCLA Live season.
It begins with British author Zadie
Smith's ("White Teeth") season-opening talk on Sept. 15, and concludes
next year on May 9 with a visit from New York Times crossword editor
Will Shortz. Although this season offers approximately six fewer total
events than last, the 31 performances of the Russian clown Slava
Polunin's "Slava's Snowshow" (Dec. 12 to Jan. 7, 2007) actually boosts
the total show count.
The annual balancing act of scheduling
performers both familiar and new has UCLA Live director David Sefton
traveling the world and seeing years of effort finally come to fruition.
Now in its fifth year, the
International Theatre Festival features the Suzhou Kun Opera Theater's
"The Peony Pavilion" (Sept. 29 through Oct. 1). Heather Woodbury
premieres her two-part, Brooklyn to L.A.-spanning "Tale of 2 Cities"
(Sept. 30 through Oct. 1), and both the Gare St. Lazare Players and the
Gate Theatre arrive to herald the Samuel Beckett Centenary Celebration.
Filmmaker Allen arrives with his New
Orleans Jazz Band Dec. 16 as part of the group's first North American
tour. Tapman Glover will hoof it to the music of masters Vivaldi,
Stravinsky and Bach in the new "Classical Savion" (Oct. 4). Erstwhile
Beach Boy Wilson celebrates the 40th anniversary of the album "Pet
Sounds" by performing the album, start to finish, Nov. 1.
In addition to the Kodo percussionists
(Feb. 9), UCLA's World Music series features the Fes Festival of World
Sacred Music (Oct. 26), the Gyuto Monks Tibetan Tantric Choir (March
10), Brazil's Marisa Monte (Nov. 8) and Gilberto Gil (March 24), and
blues/jazz artist Lila Downs (March 1). Rounding out the jazz lineup are
the Kenny Burrell Trio (celebrating Burrell's 75th birthday, Dec. 2),
John Scofield and Mavis Staples performing the music of Ray Charles
(Oct. 14), and vocalist Madeleine Peyroux (Oct. 6).
Haggard is joined by Ramblin' Jack
Elliott (Oct. 10). The Roots music series also features Lucinda Williams
and her father, Miller Williams, mixing lyrics and music in "Poetry
Said, Poetry Sung" (Nov. 30); a Leonard Cohen tribute (Feb. 24); and
Sweet Honey in the Rock (March 31).
On the dance front, the Lyon Opera
Ballet salutes "Great Women Choreographers of Europe" (Oct. 20-21).
Royce Hall will also host the Batsheva Dance Company (Nov. 4-5), Japan's
Sankai Juku (Nov. 17-18), Stephen Petronio Company (Feb. 2-3), and the
American premiere of Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan's "Sacred Monsters"
(May 2-3).
As part of the Artists Without Limits
(AWOL) series, pianist/vocalist Diamanda Galas performs "Guilty, Guilty,
Guilty" (Oct. 27), Pere Ubu underscores a Halloween screening of Roger
Corman's "X, The Man With the X-Ray Eyes" (Oct. 29), Kronos Quartet
teams up with Czech violinist Iva Bittova (Jan. 20), and Christopher
O'Riley heads a tribute to the late British folk singer Nick Drake (Feb.
16).
Classical events include visits from
Gidon Kremer (Nov. 19), the female quartet Anonymous 4 (Dec. 3), Leon
Fleischer and Jaime Laredo's "Schubert Project" (Feb. 25), and mezzo
soprano Denyce Graves (March 8).
For more information and a full season
lineup, call (310) 825-2101, or visit
www.uclalive.org.
Evan Henerson, (818) 713-3651
evan.henerson@dailynews.com
