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PlacesA preview of Performing ArtsJohnson County Community Collegewww.jccc.edu/TheSeries

January/February 2014

Terri Lyne CarringtonMoney Jungle

Arturo Sandoval

Ballet MemphisThe Wizard of Oz

Rain – A Tribute to the Beatles

L.A. Theatre WorksThe Graduate

Venice Baroque Orchestrawith Philippe Jaroussky

David Finckel, celloAnd Wu Han, piano

The Unfolding of MusicThe Wizard of Oz

Two internationally known artists and 10 local bands will perform when the fifth annual Jazz Winterlude festival takes place in January at JohnsonCounty Community College.

Percussionist Terri Lyne Carrington will be the headliner on Friday, Jan. 24,and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval will fill that role on Saturday, Jan. 25. Bothare Grammy-award winners.

Carrington will share songs from her Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue,which pays homage to Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Her recording was released in February 2013 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of their iconic Money Jungle album released in 1963. Opening for Carrington will be the Doug Talley Quintet.

Sandoval was a protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie. He has evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazztrumpet and flugel horn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist andcomposer. Opening for him will be Book of Gaia.

The performances by Carrington and Sandoval in Yardley Hall are part ofthe college’s Performing Arts Series. Tickets for Carrington’s show will be$20; they will be $25 for Sandoval. Tickets can be purchased through thecollege box office at 913-469-4445 or online at jccc.edu/TheSeries.

The festival will get underway in the Carlsen Center on Friday morning withdaylong clinics for area school bands. Students will learn from accomplishedarea musicians. Carrington will participate in two workshops – one with thejazz students and one for professional musicians.

On Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m., local bands will begin playing in theCarlsen Center’s Polsky Theatre and Recital Hall. These performances will befree and open to the public.

New this year is a segment featuring world music. Listeners will be introducedto music from different parts of the globe by professional musicians whohave devoted time and energy and sometimes even traveled to distantparts of the world to master new works.

Also on Saturday afternoon, percussionist Brandon Draper and singer/pianistCarol Comer will conduct workshops for children ages 5 to 13.

For more information about the local bands, see the schedule. Information on the two-day festival also is available at jccc.edu/jazzwinterlude.

Jazz Winterlude features local bands, two headliners

Carrington is a Grammy Award-winning drummer, composer andbandleader. She gained recognition on late night TV as the housedrummer for The Arsenio Hall Show.

After a 20-year touring career with luminaries like Herbie Hancock,Wayne Shorter and Al Jarreau, she recently returned to her hometown where she was appointed professor at her alma mater,Berklee College of Music.

Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town on the outskirts ofHavana, on Nov. 6, 1949. That was just two years after Gillespiebecame the first musician to bring Latin influences into Americanjazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at age 12 but itdidn’t take long for him to catch the excitement of the jazz world.

Sandoval is a nine-time Grammy award-winner with 17 nominations.He also is an Emmy recipient and has won six Billboard awards.

ScheduleFriday Daytime

School band clinics and performances2 p.m. Terri Lyne Carrington – master class for professional musicians3 p.m. Terri Lyne Carrington – master class for student musicians

Friday Evening in Yardley Hall

7 p.m. Doug Talley QuintetTerri Lyne Carrington

Saturday in Polsky Theatre

1-1:50 p.m. Ron Gutierrez2-2:50 p.m. KC Sound 3-3:50 p.m. Chris Clarke Trio4-4:50 p.m. Beach Nuts

Saturday in Recital Hall: World Music

1-1:50 p.m. Marimba Sol de Chiapas2-2:50 p.m. Juha’s World Beat3-3:50 p.m. Guitarras Ibericas with guest Karim Memi4-4:50 p.m. Gamelan Genta Kasturi

Saturday Evening in Yardley Hall

7 p.m. Book of GaiaArturo Sandoval

Ballet Memphis was founded in 1986 by artistic director and chief executiveofficer Dorothy Gunther Pugh. She is one of only five female artistic directorsof similar-sized American dance companies and often speaks in the mediaand on national panels about American dance and the role of women indance leadership.

The company has performed in New York at both the Sylvia and DannyKaye Playhouse and the Joyce Theatre. Its performances as part of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Ballet Across America IIshowcase were heralded in The New York Times and The Washington Post,as well as in national dance media. The Ford Foundation has called BalletMemphis a “national treasure.”

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado’spath and somehow end up in the Land of Oz. There she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz, whoeveryone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friendsa brain, a heart and courage.

Like The Nutcracker, this production of the The Wizard of Oz is a great opportunity for the entire family, especially your favorite little ballerina, to enjoy a storybook ballet!

Tickets $40, $32; under 18 $20, $16913-469-4445www.jccc.edu/TheSeries

The beloved fairytale of Dorothy and all of her friends will come to lifethrough the lens of Ballet Memphis when it presents The Wizard of Ozat 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, and Saturday, Feb. 1, at Johnson County Community College.

This children’s classic, told through the eyes of company dancer and choreographic associate Steven McMahon, shines a new dimension on the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and everyone’s favorite, the Cowardly Lion. And 10local dancers from surrounding studios will portray the roles of Munchkinsand Emerald City residents.

McMahon will provide a preshow talk each evening at 7 p.m. in theCarlsen Center’s Polsky Theatre. The performances will take place in thecenter’s Yardley Hall.

Ballet Memphis shines new light on

The Wizard of Oz

Los Angeles theatre company presents The GraduateL.A. Theatre Works, the foremost radio theatrecompany in the country, will present two performances of The Graduate on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Johnson County Community College.

The Graduate, a novel written by Charles Webb,is probably best remembered for the film adaptation that came out in 1967. The satire/comedy centers on a college graduate who findshimself directionless in the shifting social andsexual values of the 1960s.

The first performance will take place at 2 p.m.and the second at 8 p.m. Both will be in PolskyTheatre. A member of the theatre company willlead a discussion after each performance. On Friday evening, Feb. 7, a company member willprovide a preview about the performances. Fordetails, call 913-469-4445 after Jan. 1.

The Los Angeles non-profit arts organizationbegan touring with The Graduate in 2013, 50years after the novel came out. Whether seen onfilm or stage or read, The Graduate has been atouchstone for generations – representing theuniversal feelings of rebellion, confusion, frustration, love and redemption – so honestlyand hilariously embodied by the characters of

Mrs. Robinson, Benjamin Braddock, Elaine andthe rest.

L.A. Theatre Works has been presenting, preservingand disseminating classic and contemporaryplays for more than 25 years. Its unique hybridform of audio theatre and the innovative use oftechnology in the production and disseminationof theatre keeps this venerable art form thriving,assuring wide and affordable access.

The company’s weekly public radio show is heardby 7 million listeners annually in more than 80 markets in the United States. In Kansas City, itcan be heard Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. onKKFI Community Radio, 90.1 FM. The show alsois available on demand, free of charge, throughL.A. Theatre Works’ streaming site athttp://www.latw.org.

Tickets $30913-469-4445www.jccc.edu/TheSeriesFriends Hospitality at 6:45 p.m. Bring your membership card.

The hits will keep happening when a tribute band to the Beatles takesthe stage at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, in the Carlsen Center’s Yardley Hall.

Rain – A Tribute to the Beatles is a Broadway smash that takes audienceson a musical journey through the life and times and entire career of theworld’s most celebrated band. In its repertoire are long-time classics suchas I Want to Hold your Hand, Hard Day’s Night and Let It Be.

Mark Lewis, the founder, manager and original keyboardist of the group,transformed Rain from a 1970s southern California bar band doing Beatlescovers into an ultra-professional group. He recruited the musicians whoeventually got into Rain's long-standing lineup.

Like millions of others, Lewis first saw the Beatles on their first performanceof the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. He was 12 at the time, he says, but he wasvery much into music and remembers “being totally blown away” by theBeatles’ performance.

Rain has evolved over the years. Originally called Reign, the band gainednational fame, changed its name to Rain and cut the soundtrack to themade-for-TV movie Birth of the Beatles (thanks to Dick Clark). Lewisworked out all of the musical parts and sounds that enabled Rain to perform many songs that The Beatles themselves never performed live.

Tickets $60, $45913-469-4445www.jccc.edu/TheSeries

Tribute band Rain brings back sounds of the Beatles

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The Venice Baroque Orchestra will set just the right mood for Valentine’sDay when it performs selections from romantic, Neapolitan operas on Friday, Feb. 14, at Johnson County Community College.

The orchestra, with guest vocalist counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky, will appear at 8 p.m. in the Carlsen Center's Yardley Hall. Dr. Paul Laird, a professor of musicology at the University of Kansas, will provide a preconcert talk at 7 p.m. in Polsky Theatre, located adjacent to Yardley Hall.Laird’s talk is free and open to the public.

Jaroussky, born in France in 1978, has already established himself as one of the major singers in the international musical world. He has worked withsome of the best Baroque orchestras and has been praised in all of the mostprestigious concert halls and theaters in France.

Under the baton of Andrea Marcon, the selections will come to life, providing a perfect way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with the one you love.The program includes works by Porpora, Leo and Cimarosa, leading composers of the 18th century Neapolitan and Baroque periods.

The orchestra was founded in 1997 by Marcon, a Baroque scholar andharpsichordist. It is recognized as one of the premier ensembles devoted to period instrument performance. The orchestra has received wide criticalacclaim for its concert and opera performances throughout North America,Europe, South America, Japan and Korea.

This concert is co-presented with the Friends of Chamber Music-Kansas City.

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Jazz WinterludeTerri Lyne Carrington

Money Jungle7 p.m.

Yardley Hall$20

Polsky SeriesTim Carlin, Financial

Outlook and Opportunity 2014

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Ballet MemphisThe Wizard of Oz

8 p.m.Yardley Hall$40, $32

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Arturo Sandoval7 p.m.

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L.A. TheatreworksThe Graduate2 and 8 p.m.Polsky Theatre

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Rain–A Tribute to the Beatles

8 p.m.Yardley Hall$60, $45

David Finckel, celloand Wu Han, pianoThe Unfolding of Music

8 p.m.Yardley Hall$38, $28

Academic TheatreFour X Tenn Tennessee Williams One-Acts7 and 9 p.m.

Bodker Black Box TheatreFree

Ruel Joyce Recital Series

Avguste Antonov,PianoNoon

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Heartland Harp Ensemble

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Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, who are in high demand yearafter year among chamber music audiences worldwide, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, in the Carlsen Center’s Yardley Hall at JohnsonCounty Community College.

Dr. Paul Laird, a professor of musicology at the University of Kansas, willprovide a preshow talk at 7 p.m. in Polsky Theatre, located adjacent to Yardley Hall.

The duo’s repertoire spans virtually the entire literature for cello and piano,with an equal emphasis on the classics and contemporary music. The two,who are husband and wife, appear each season at the most prestigiousvenues and in concert series across the United States, Mexico, Canada, the Far East and Europe. They also are artistic directors of the Chamber MusicSociety of Lincoln Center.

Through cello and piano duos spanning nearly a quarter of a millennium,Finckel and Han will take listeners through the extraordinary evolution ofclassical music in a program titled, The Unfolding of Music.

Beginning with Bach’s vibrant sonata for the viola da gamba and harpsichord– the ancestors of the cello and piano – the program transitions seamlesslyto Beethoven’s experimental sonata; then to Mendelssohn, who paved theway for full-blown romanticism; to Debussy, universally regarded as the inspiration for musical modernism, and to Englishman Benjamin Britten, acomposer who ranks with the greatest of the 20th Century. Britten’s sonataemploys innovative ideas in each of its five short movements.

Here’s the program:

Bach Sonata in G Major for viola da gamba and harpsichord, BWV 1027Beethoven Sonata for piano and cello No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1Mendelssohn Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58Debussy Sonata in D minorBritten Sonata in C

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David Finckel/Wu Han

Duo share history of chamber music