Musical Prodigy Charlie Albright, piano. Wednesday Oct 15, Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West

Music Academy of the West

Hahn Hall

October 15th, 7 pm

Santa Barbara Debut

Charlie Albright, piano

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TICKETS

WED, OCT 15
7:00 PM

HAHN HALL

(seating chart)

$32 : General Public
$10 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
Available on the Up Close & Musical series

Up Close & Musical series in Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West sponsored by Dr. Bob Weinman

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“Jaw-dropping technique… Virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality.” The New York Times

Recipient of a 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the prestigious 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award, Charlie Albright is “among the most gifted musicians of his generation” (The Washington Post). As he continues to garner accolades and prizes, this captivating, multi-talented young pianist/composer is blazing his way to fame with his nuanced and coloristic readings. Albright has collaborated five times with revered cellist Yo-Yo Ma. As if his pre-med and economics studies at Harvard and master’s DEGREE FROM the New England Conservatory weren’t impressive enough, he is now pursuing an Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School.

A private reception for Producers Circle members and series subscribers will follow the concert

PROGRAM
Schubert: Two Impromptus from op. 90
Janácek: Piano Sonata (1. X. 1905)
Strauss/Schulz-Evler: Concert Arabesques on themes from “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Albright: Improvisation
Chopin: Etudes, op. 25

View program notes

http://www.charliealbright.com/

Family Fun at UCSB - Campbell Hall, Sunday, September 12th

School House Rock

LIVE!

Childsplay Theater Company

Take a trip down memory land and introduce your young 'uns to the School House Rock Experience, now with multimedia effects.  Approximately 60 minutes long.

A pop culture phenomenon returns to the musical stage! School subjects are never boring when cleverly taught through catchy megahits like “Conjunction Junction,” “Just a Bill,” “Interplanet Janet” or “Three is a Magic Number.” The iconic cartoon series Schoolhouse Rock explodes onto the Campbell Hall stage with beloved songs updated for a whole new generation. 

Single Tickets $16, children $12

At UCSB Campbell Hall

come early for balloons, face painting and crafts

for more information a a list of the Family Fun series, click here

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Solvang Danish Days September 19-21

Ride the horse drawn trolley for a tour of Solvang

Enjoy Ableskiver, a Danish pancake

watch the parade

Many local Artists will have their art on display

There will be dancing and music!

for a schedule of events and tickets, click here

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum - September 18th

Events

The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing Lecture

by Peter Westwick

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, California

When: Thursday, Sept 18, 2014 at 7 pm

Members only Reception at 6:15 pm

Cost: Free (members), $10 (non-members)

To Register: Go to www.sbmm.org or call (805) 962-8404 x115

Lecture Series Sponsored by Santa Barbara County Arts Commission and Silvio Di Loreto

Surfing today is pursued by an estimated 20 million people worldwide and it supports a $10 billion global industry.  The sport has acquired an inescapable cultural presence, and there are thriving surf communities from Iceland and Ireland to Israel and Indonesia—and, of course, Santa Barbara, which has been a surfing hotbed for over half a century.  How did an ancient Polynesian pastime become a global commercial and cultural phenomenon?

Surfing is often portrayed as a refuge from modern society, but the sport’s expansion rode deep social currents: from colonialism, the military-industrial complex, and globalization to environmental engineering and race and gender roles.  Surfing combines romantic counterculture ideals and middle-class values; it reconciles an individualistic communion with nature and a growing commitment to commerce and technology.  This split personality, which pairs subversive social rebellion and the middle-class mainstream, dates to the earliest encounters between European explorers and Polynesian surfers and has characterized modern surfing for the last century. This talk will examine the history of surfing’s constant struggle to save its soul, with particular attention to Santa Barbara’s thriving surf community.    

Peter Westwick was born and raised in Santa Barbara and has been an avid surfer for over thirty years.  He received his BA in physics and PhD in history from Berkeley and is now on the history faculty at USC, where he directs the Aerospace History Project at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.  He was previously the Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in the History of Science at Caltech and an Olin Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale.

He is the author of Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 (Yale, 2006), which won book prizes from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronautical Society; and The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 (Harvard, 2003), which won the book prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America.  He is also editor of Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (UC Press, 2012), which was selected to the Best Non-Fiction of 2012 by the Los Angeles Public Library.  Most recently he co-authored, with fellow Santa Barbaran Peter Neushul, The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing (Random House, 2013), an LA Times bestseller and the subject of his talk at the SB Maritime Museum.

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