CAMA's Centennial Season—December 11, 2018—Free Community Concert—Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra—Avi Avital, mandolin—The Granada Theatre, 8:00 PM
FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT: CELEBRATING CAMA AT 100! at The Granada Theatre In celebration of a century of great music in Santa Barbara and with continuing appreciation for the generations of concertgoers and patrons who have made this legacy possible, CAMA’s Board of Directors sponsors this Free Community Concert by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with star mandolinist Avi Avital. Thank you to “The CAMA Family” of engaged music lovers who have made Santa Barbara a classical music capital for 100 concert seasons! Enjoy! AVI AVITAL, mandolin LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA “America’s finest chamber orchestra…” – Public Radio International TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018, 8:00 PM Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Avi Avital, mandolin Founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the recording industry’s most gifted musicians, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has spent the ensuing five decades methodically burnishing its reputation as one of the world’s top ensembles. A musical force in his own right, “Explosively charismatic” (The New York Times) virtuoso mandolin soloist Avi Avital has emerged as one of the foremost ambassadors for his instrument. This concert will see them team up for an all-Vivaldi program, including two of the Venetian Baroque master’s concertos for two violins; of course, no Vivaldi program would be complete without The Four Seasons, his beloved collection of violin concertos, to be performed with Avital on mandolin. ALL-VIVALDI PROGRAM: Concerto for Two Violins in G minor, RV 517 Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV 523 The Four Seasons (complete), F.I:22-25 PRE-CONCERT LECTURE BY DAVID MALVINNI, PH.D. While there is no ticket fee, tickets are required, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. CAMA season subscribers have priority and first option for reserving seats. The public will have the opportunity to reserve no-cost tickets starting Friday, September 28, 2018. •
FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT: CELEBRATING CAMA AT 100!
at The Granada Theatre
In celebration of a century of great music in Santa Barbara and with continuing appreciation for the generations of concertgoers and patrons who have made this legacy possible, CAMA’s Board of Directors sponsors this Free Community Concert by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with star mandolinist Avi Avital. Thank you to “The CAMA Family” of engaged music lovers who have made Santa Barbara a classical music capital for 100 concert seasons! Enjoy!
AVI AVITAL, mandolin
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
“America’s finest chamber orchestra…”
– Public Radio International
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018, 8:00 PM
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Avi Avital, mandolin
Founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the recording industry’s most gifted musicians, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has spent the ensuing five decades methodically burnishing its reputation as one of the world’s top ensembles. A musical force in his own right, “Explosively charismatic” (The New York Times) virtuoso mandolin soloist Avi Avital has emerged as one of the foremost ambassadors for his instrument. This concert will see them team up for an all-Vivaldi program, including two of the Venetian Baroque master’s concertos for two violins; of course, no Vivaldi program would be complete without The Four Seasons, his beloved collection of violin concertos, to be performed with Avital on mandolin.
ALL-VIVALDI PROGRAM:
Concerto for Two Violins in G minor, RV 517
Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV 523
The Four Seasons (complete), F.I:22-25
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE BY DAVID MALVINNI, PH.D.
While there is no ticket fee, tickets are required, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. CAMA season subscribers have priority and first option for reserving seats. The public will have the opportunity to reserve no-cost tickets starting Friday, September 28, 2018. •
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AS A GIFT TO THE COMMUNITY,
CAMA'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESENTS
LOS ANGELES
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Avi Avital & The Four Seasons
Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 8:00 PM
The Granada Theatre (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts)
INTERNATIONAL SERIES
AT THE GRANADA THEATRE
SEASON SPONSORSHIP: SAGE PUBLISHING
LOS ANGELES
Esa-Pekka Salonen
PHILHARMONIC
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Primary Sponsor
The Elaine F. Stepanek
Concert Fund
Principal Sponsor
The Samuel B and Margaret
C. Mosher Foundation
Sponsors
Bitsy & Denny Bacon and
The Becton Family Foundation
Val & Bob Montgomery
The Towbes Fund for the
Performing Arts, a field interest
fund of the Santa Barbara
Foundation
Co-Sponsor
Robert & Christine Emmons
LOS ANGELES
CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA
with Avi Avital
DECEMBER 11, 2018
A gift to the community
from the CAMA Board
of Directors
ITZHAK
Mikhail Pletnev
PERLMAN
JANUARY 15, 2019
Primary Sponsor
Sara Miller McCune
Principal Sponsor
Herbert & Elaine Kendall
Sponsor
Judith L. Hopkinson
Co-Sponsor
Jocelyne & William Meeker
Stephen J.M. & Anne Morris
PHILHARMONIA
BAROQUE
ORCHESTRA
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Sponsors
Hollis Norris Fund
Michele & Andre Saltoun
Co-Sponsor
Edward DeLoreto
RUSSIAN
NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Sponsor
Bitsy & Denny Bacon
Co-Sponsor
Peggy & Kurt Anderson
Louise & Michael Caccese
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
MARCH 20, 2019
Sponsors
Anonymous
Alison & Jan Bowlus
Ellen & Peter Johnson
Co-Sponsors
Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher
Chris Lancashire
& Catherine Gee
Jocelyne & William Meeker
ROYAL SCOTTISH
NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA
APRIL 5, 2019
Sponsor
Meg & Dan Burnham
Co-Sponsor
George & Judy Writer
MASTERSERIES
AT THE LOBERO THEATRE
SEASON SPONSORSHIP: ESPERIA FOUNDATION
RICHARD
GOODE
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Primary Sponsor
The Stephen & Carla
Hahn Foundation
Co-Sponsors
Bitsy & Denny Bacon
Alison & Jan Bowlus
TAFELMUSIK
BAROQUE
ORCHESTRA
MARCH 9, 2019
Concert Partners
Bridget Colleary
Lynn P. Kirst
GARRICK
OHLSSON
MARCH 30, 2019
Co-Sponsor
Anonymous
Stephen J.M. &
Anne Morris
AUGUSTIN
HADELICH
APRIL 17, 2019
Co-Sponsor
Jocelyn & William Meeker
Stephen J.M. & Anne Morris
MISCHA MAISKY
MAY 6, 2019
Co-Sponsor
Ellen & Craig Parton
Concert Partner
Raye Haskell Melville
Concert Sponsors as of November 15, 2018
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Presenting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ROBERT K. MONTGOMERY President
DEBORAH BERTLING First Vice-President
CRAIG A. PARTON Second Vice-President
WILLIAM MEEKER Treasurer
JOAN R. CROSSLAND Secretary
Rosalind Amorteguy-Fendon
Bitsy Becton Bacon
Edward Birch
Jan Bowlus
Daniel P. Burnham
Stephen Cloud
NancyBell Coe
Bridget B. Colleary
Jill Felber
Joanne C. Holderman
Judith L. Hopkinson
James H. Hurley, Jr.
Peter O. Johnson
Elizabeth Karlsberg
Raye Haskell Melville
Hank Mitchel
Stephen J.M. (Mike) Morris
Patti Ottoboni
Andre M. Saltoun
Judith F. Smith
Judith H. Writer
Catherine Leffler,
President, CAMA Women’s Board
As of November 29, 2018
Emeritus Directors
Russell S. Bock*
Dr. Robert M. Failing*
Mrs. Maurice E. Faulkner*
Léni Fé Bland*
Arthur R. Gaudi
Stephen Hahn*
Dr. Melville H. Haskell, Jr.*
Mrs. Richard Hellmann*
Dr. Dolores M. Hsu
Herbert J. Kendall
Robert M. Light*
Mrs. Frank R. Miller, Jr.*
Sara Miller McCune
Mary Lloyd Mills
Mrs. Ernest J. Panosian*
Kenneth W. Riley*
Mrs. John G. Severson*
Nancy L. Wood
* Deceased
Administration
Mark E. Trueblood
Executive Director
Elizabeth Alvarez
Director of Development
Michael Below
Office Manager/
Subscriber Services
Justin Rizzo-Weaver
Director of Operations
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INTERNATIONAL SERIES at the GRANADA THEATRE
SEASON SPONSORSHIP: SAGE PUBLISHING
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
AVI AVITAL LEADER & MANDOLIN
Margaret Batjer violin, Tereza Stanislav violin, Josefina Vergara violin, Sarah Thornblade violin
Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 8:00 PM
The Granada Theatre (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts)
ANTONIO VILVALDI
Concerto in G minor for Two Violins, RV517
Allegro
Andante
Allegro
Program subject to change.
Concerto in A minor for Two Violins, RV523
Allegro
Larghetto e spiritoso
Allegro
INTERMISSION
The Four Seasons
Concerto in E major, Op.8, No.1, La primavera (Spring)
Allegro
Largo
Danza pastorale
Concerto in G minor, Op.8, No.2, L’estate (Summer)
Allegro non molto
Adagio e piano - Presto e forte
Presto
Concerto in F major, Op.8, No.3, L’autunno (Autumn)
Allegro
Adagio molto
Allegro
Concerto in F minor, Op.8, No.4, L’inverno (Winter)
Allegro con molto
Largo
Allegro
Mr. Avital, Ms. Batjer, Ms. Stanislav, Ms. Vergara, Ms. Thornblade
CAMA thanks our generous sponsors who have made this evening’s performance possible:
A gift to the community from the CAMA Board of Directors
We request that you switch off cellular phones, watch alarms and pager signals during the performance. The photographing
or sound recording of this concert or possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording is prohibited.
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ABOUT
LOS ANGELES
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
2018/2019 Season
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
(LACO), ranked among the
world’s top musical ensembles,
marks the 2018-19 season with more artistic
energy and creative impulse coursing
through its musical veins than at any time in
its history. Enhancing the intimacy and precision
that is the Orchestra’s hallmark, LACO
has named Jaime Martín as Music Director
Designate. Praised as "a visionary conductor,
discerning and meticulous" (Platea Magazine),
Martín takes the podium as Music Director
in the 2019-20 season. The Orchestra,
beloved by audiences and praised by critics,
is known as a champion of contemporary
composers, with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous
Programming, as well as a preeminent
interpreter of historical masterworks.
Headquartered in the heart of the country's
cultural capital, LACO has been proclaimed
“America’s finest chamber orchestra” (Public
Radio International), “LA’s most unintimidating
chamber music experience” (Los Angeles
magazine), “resplendent” (Los Angeles
Times) and “one of the world's great chamber
orchestras"(KUSC Classical FM).
In 2018-19, LACO spotlights its rich
legacy and highlights the ensemble's depth
and range with favorite works, including
the Mozart Requiem, Beethoven’s Fifth and
Sixth Symphonies and Mendelssohn’s “Italian”
Symphony. Explored, too, is the intimate
side of the last century, with works by Korngold,
Ligeti, Seeger and Arvo Pärt. As part
of MusicLAb, the Orchestra’s signature commitment
to new music and pushing the envelope,
the season also features world premieres
by esteemed film composer James
Newton Howard, Los Angeles-based composer
Sarah Gibson and highly regarded
Latin American composer Juan Pablo Contreras,
and a West Coast premiere by Bryce
Dessner, best known as a member of the
Grammy Award-nominated band The National.
American composer Andrew Norman
continues as LACO’s Creative Advisor and
Composer-in-Residence.
Performing throughout greater Los Angeles,
the Orchestra presents eight Orchestral
Series concerts at Glendale’s Alex Theatre
and UCLA’s Royce Hall; four Baroque Conversations
at downtown LA's Zipper Hall and
three at Santa Monica’s St. Monica Church or
the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica;
three In Focus chamber music concerts in
partnership with The Huntington and at Santa
Monica's New Roads School; and three SES-
SION experiences that explore classical music's
cutting-edge sounds and challenge traditional
concert-going expectations.
Long committed to the power of collaboration,
LACO has partnered with the
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Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles
and USC Thornton School of Music to create
The Los Angeles Orchestra Fellowship,
which, in September, welcomed its inaugural
cohort of four top-tier post-graduate string
musicians from underrepresented communities.
The comprehensive training program
addresses the lack of diversity within American
orchestras with a rigorous curriculum
that includes artistic mentoring, rehearsal,
performance and auditioning opportunities
over the course of two years. Further advancing
the Orchestra’s mission to nurture
future musicians and composers as well as
inspire in young people a love of classical
music, LACO presents an array of education
and community programs, such as Meet
the Music, Community Partners, Campus to
Concert Hall and the LACO/USC Thornton
Strings Mentorship Program.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra was
founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the
recording industry’s most gifted musicians.
Founder and cellist James Arkatov envisioned
an ensemble that would allow these
conservatory-trained players to balance
studio work and teaching with pure artistic
collaboration at the highest level. LACO
presented its first performances with the
financial backing of philanthropist Richard
Colburn and managerial expertise from attorney
Joseph Troy, who also became the
Orchestra’s first president. Sir Neville Marriner,
Gerard Schwarz, Iona Brown, Christof
Perick and Jeffrey Kahane, LACO's illustrious
Music Directors, each built upon a tradition
of joyous music-making performed by exceptional
artists as adept in the Baroque as
in the music of today. Jaime Martín continues
this tradition beginning in 2019-20. The
Orchestra has made 31 recordings, toured
Europe, South America and Japan, and performed
across North America. LACO's offices
are located in downtown Los Angeles. n
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AVI AVITAL
T
violin
he first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical Grammy, Avi
Avital is one of the foremost ambassadors for his instrument. Avital’s
inspired music-making has electrified audiences in performances
around the world. He has recently appeared with the Chicago Symphony, Los
Angeles Philharmonic, and St. Louis Symphony, and in 2018/19 makes his debut
with the San Diego, Seattle, and Detroit symphonies, as well as his debut on the
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at the Marlboro Music Festival, La Jolla
Sum¬merfest, Sarasota Music Festival and
the Salzburg Festival, and is the curator
of LACO’s chamber music series, In Focus.
She is on the violin faculty at USC, Thornton
School of Music and the Colburn School.
Margaret Batjer
main stage of Carnegie Hall with Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra. Born in southern
Israel, Avital began learning the mandolin
at the age of eight. He later graduated
from the the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini
in Padua, Italy, where he studied with Ugo
Orlandi.
MARGARET BATJER
violinMargaret Batjer,
Tereza Stanislav
who has served as
concertmaster of
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since
1998, made her first solo appearance at
the age of 15 with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. She has performed with a
succession of major orchestras, including
the Phila¬delphia Orchestra and the
St. Louis, Seattle and Dallas symphony
orchestras. Batjer has also performed with
such European ensembles as the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe, the Prague Chamber
Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony
Orchestra. As an esteemed chamber
musician, she has appeared regularly
TEREZA STANISLAV
violinHailed for the “expressive
beauty and wonderful
intensity” (Robert Mann)
of her playing, Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra’s assistant concertmaster
Tereza Stanislav is an active and versatile
performer. A highly sought after chamber
musician, she has appeared in venues
such as the Library of Congress, Wigmore
Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital
Hall, and waith artists such as Jean-Yves
Thibaudet, the Miró Quartet and Jon
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Kimura Parker. An advocate for new music,
Stanislav has worked with many composers
and performed several world premieres
including Gunther Schuller’s Horn Quintet
and Louis Andriessen’s The City of Dis.
Stanislav was awarded the highest grant
from the Canada Council for the Arts in
the category for Professional Musicians
(Individuals) in Classical Music.
and Carmel chamber music competitions
and has collaborated with Gilbert Kalish,
Jeffrey Kahane, Andres Cardenes,
Randall Hodgkinson and Warren Jones.
Sarah Thornblade
Josefina Vergara
JOSEFINA VERGARA
violinJosefina Vergara joined LACO
SARAH THORNBLADE
violinSarah Thornblade joined LACO in
1999 and is now the Orchestra’s
associate principal second
violin. She is a member of the Eclipse Quartet
and is a recent recipient of an Aaron Copland
Fund recording grant. She has recorded
music by composers such as Morton
Feldman, Frederic Rzewski, James Tenney
and Zeena Parkins for the Tzadik, New
World and Bridge labels. Thornblade has
performed with the Denali and Arianna string
quartets, Camerata Pacifica, Jacaranda
Music and the Auros Group for New Music.
A Pomona College faculty member, she is a
grand prize winner at the Fishoff, Coleman
in 1999 as principal second
violin. Ms. Vergara’s chamber
and recital appearances have included the
La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival, Ojai Music Festival,
Aspen, Camerata Pacifica, and the St. Bart’s
Music Festival. Josefina Vergara was a
founding member of the Pacifica Quartet.
She has taught at the Music Academy of
the West and the Brevard Music Festival.
Ms. Vergara earned her Bachelor of Music
degree at Indiana University, studying with
Miriam Fried. Ms. Vergara has appeared
as Principal Second with the National Arts
Centre Orchestra, and performed with the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony,
and New Century Chamber Orchestra. n
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the four seasons
by Donald Munro
For Patricia Mabee, who adores Vivaldi’s The
Four Seasons but isn’t quite so infatuated
with commuting through all of them, “winter”
in LA is thankfully a gentle term. It doesn’t
involve a thick parka rated to 10 below zero.
No slushy streets. Freezing her fingers because
of forgotten gloves? Not a chance. For
that, the longtime Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
principal keyboard has to get out of
town.
“I love traveling to cold places like Scandinavia,
Canada and New York in the winter,”
she says, “but no more than a few weeks at a
time, please!”
Then it’s back to Los Angeles, which has,
at the most -- two seasons? One? The matter
is up for debate.
Cover art from the Orchestra’s 1980 recording of The Four Seasons under the
baton of former music director Gerard Schwarz. Photos by Ken Veeder.
Antonio Vivaldi wrote his famed The Four Seasons
when he was living in Mantua, Italy, a place that
definitely has all four. After experiencing hot, humid
summers and freezing winters, it’s no wonder
he was always so glad to see spring and autumn
(especially without air conditioning or central
heating). Vivaldi probably would have loved the
weather in LA Everyone else does, right?
“I love traveling to cold
places like Scandinavia,
Canada and New York in
the winter but no more
than a few weeks at a
time, please!”
— Patricia Mabee
— principal keyboardist
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Patricia, who’s played The Four Seasons for
LACO seven times during her 42-year tenure
with the Orchestra, is “mainly a SoCal girl,”
but she did live in a small Colorado town for
three years, so she knows her traditional seasons.
She remembers sledding, ice skating
and making “snowpeople.” In the spring she
watched for bird nests.
“I felt a thrill when the eggs hatched, seeing
the birds learn to fly,” she says. “It was
bittersweet when they finally flew away. The
changes of seasons in rural Colorado created
an indelible impression of how the cycles of
life are always present.”
Many artists throughout history have felt
the same way. In the four violin concerti that
make up Vivaldi’s piece, the composer offers
narrative elements inspired by seasonal
changes around him: rushing streams, buzzing
insects, singing birds, drunken dancers,
thundering storms, a dog barking while his
goatherd master sleeps. Painters, composers,
choreographers, poets, filmmakers and
other artists have long been intrigued with
the theme of the four seasons, and not just
in the literal sense of green shoots breaking
through the soil or leaves turning a golden
brown.
From a biological and cultural standpoint,
the idea of the seasons is a powerful influence,
even for people who don’t live in climates that
offer the “traditional” lineup of fall colors and
white Christmases. In a more contemplative
sense, the seasons at their most fundamental
can symbolize the circular nature of life: from
birth to death. That’s often what draws artists
to the theme, from Nicolas Poussin to David
Hockney and Jasper Johns.
Johns’ set of four intaglio prints, The Seasons
(Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter), was part
of a recent retrospective of the artist’s work,
Something Resembling Truth, at The Broad
museum in downtown Los Angeles.
Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.
The engraving shows a bird’s-eye view of a city in the middle of a lake. It also the city
where Vivaldi composed the Four Seasons.
The four panels, painted in 1985-86, are
filled with seasonal symbols and art history
allusions. You can find the obvious (a snowman
in Winter) to the more subtle (in Summer,
look closely at the American flag, which
is a famous subject
for Johns, because
it only has 48 stars).
Sprinkled through the
works are seahorses,
recurring allusions to
Picasso, streaks of
rain, and, in each one, a
branch with blossoms,
leaves, or no growth at
all, depending on the
season. Johns puts his
own figure into each
of the four paintings,
an
touch.
autobiographical
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For Ed Schad, who curated The Broad
exhibition, Johns painted not with whimsy
but “spirit and grace,” he says. “It’s emotional,
rather than something that’s analytic.” When
the series was first displayed in New York, the
paintings were hung in “traditional” order:
spring, summer, fall and winter, or what you
could call the traditional birth-to-death progression.
But the Broad, in consultation with
the artist, hung them differently: summer, fall,
winter, spring.
This might seem a
subtle change, but it
was significant: “The
idea was that it would
feel more like a circle
than a linear expression
of the seasons,” Schad
says. “Seeing spring at
the end sees the whole
thing as a circle, more
than the literal march
from birth to death.”
Picking up on that
circle theme, another
recurring element in
each painting is a partial
circle with a human
arm pointing in various
positions, like the hand
of a clock. The confident,
outstretched
limb brings to mind
Leonardo Da Vinci’s
iconic Vitruvian Man.
Schad suggests it could
signify “the sort of arbitrary
ways by which
we measure our lives.
There are devices and
instruments that we use to organize ourselves:
rulers, clocks, agreed upon conventions. And
then there are things that are unique to us and
are hard to measure: personal memory, gesture,
expression.”
The seasons, then, stay the same. But each
individual journey through them is as one-of-akind
as the snowflakes you find in “Winter.”
When you talk to the experts, you’ll find
that our relationship to those seasons is both
biological and cultural.
The Vitruvian Man (Italian: Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, which
is translated to “The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius”), or
simply L’Uomo Vitruviano, is a drawing by the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci
around 1490.
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In some ways, we’re like birds that instinctively
know it’s time to fly south (or at
least to the nearest Macy’s gift-wrapping
department). Over the course of millennia,
humans have adapted both genetically and
environmentally to the regions to which our
gatherer-hunter ancestors migrated, says Dr.
Andrew Jones, a sociology professor at California
State University, Fresno.
One recent study indicates that human
DNA reacts to the seasons, changing
the body’s chemistry depending on the time
of year. (As many as one-fifth of all genes in
blood cells undergo seasonal changes, even
in terms of warding off inflammation. Take
that, cold and flu season.)
We also behave in certain ways depending
on the season, taking cues from our
surroundings.
“We wear different clothing to recognize
what season we are living in depending on
the region in which we live,” Jones says. “One
can get away with wearing shorts year round
in LA, but I would not recommend that during
winter time in Buffalo, New York! While humans
living on the East Coast may wear long
coats in winter, you would be hard pressed
to see anyone wearing such garments on the
West Coast. Think of how some mammals
shed fur to stay cool in the summertime – we
shed layers of clothing.”
Different calendars around the South Asian countries of India, Bangladesh, Nepal
and Sri Lanka, recognize six seasons or ritu: Vasanta (spring), Grishma (summer),
Varsha (rains/monsoon), Sharad (autumn), Hemanta (winter), Shishira (cool season).
Our acknowledgment of seasons in the
northern hemisphere is subject, then, to cultural
construction. Along with the obvious holidays
and seasonal transitions (Halloween just
seems more fun when there’s a chill in the air),
we also receive cues as to what season it is by
the availability of goods.
Fashion tends to
run one to two seasons
ahead, for example. “If the
clothing racks in stores
have summer fashions on
display, it must be winter,
and if coats are on display,
it must be summer,”
Jones says. This is marketing
strategy, yes, but
it’s based on human nature:
people like to plan
ahead, and they also get
antsy. In February, who
wants to think about buying
yet another sweater?
Then there’s the question
of why there are four seasons.
It’s not necessarily
a given.
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For instance, the Hindu calendar recognizes
six seasons. In India there is summer,
monsoon, autumn, late autumn, winter and
spring, Jones says. The Bengali and Tamil
calendars also recognize six seasons. Scandinavian
countries denote seasons by temperature
– winter begins when the temperature
does not rise above zero degrees Centigrade;
summer when the temperature rises above
10 degrees Centigrade. The Sami of northern
Scandinavia have seasons that correspond to
the life cycle of reindeer, and thus, acknowledge
eight different seasons. The eight seasons
of this cycle are directly related to the
annual behavioral patterns of the reindeer.
There isn’t any Arctic wildlife wandering
the freeways of Southern California, of course,
but Angelenos have other ways of demarcating
the seasons. At The Broad, Schad pondered
the subject during the run of the Jasper
Johns show.
“I definitely thought about it almost every
day that I saw them,” he says of the works
that make up The Four Seasons. “One of the
interesting things for me is that with Johns’
thoughts on these points of measurement –
whether it’s a clock or a ruler – the fact that
we don’t have readily identifiable seasons in
Los Angeles makes me think of all the micro
things that mark a year. It may be 50 degrees
in LA in the winter, but that’s an opportunity
for a person to wear a sweater or a coat, even
though it isn’t necessary.”
That’s because so many people in Southern
California are transplants, bringing their
own traditions along, he speculates. From
seasonal menu items to the way people dress,
the area is a melting pot of seasonal customs.
“A lot of the ways that people mark the seasons
are kind of grandfathered in for Los Angeles,”
he says.
Patricia, the LACO principal keyboard,
can’t think offhand of any quirky seasonal traditions
of her own. Temperate weather is just
fine by her.
“I wear my big fluffy slippers all year
round,” she says.
She continues to adore The Four Seasons,
even though she has to reach back to
her childhood to make a real seasonal connection.
Her favorite part as a keyboardist
comes in the second movement of Autumn,
aka “The drunkards have fallen asleep.”
“If we get the OK from the leader, it’s an
opportunity to improvise a bit of an interpretation
of the drunkard’s dreams under the
surface of the somnambulant strings,” she
says. “There really is no melodic material, so
we take our cues from the harmonies. They
begin placidly, meandering.
But before long they become quite dissonant
and disturbing until they again return to total
calm.”
That full cycle — placid to dissonant
to total calm — fits in rather nicely with the
theme of Johns and other artists who have
been drawn to the rhythm of the seasons. It’s
an idea that has traction wherever you live,
regardless of whether you ever need snow
tires. Schad lives in Culver City near a movie
studio, and one night he came home from
work to find his entire block covered in fake
snow. That’s Los Angeles for you.
“If it doesn’t have seasons,” he says, “it’s
happy to invent them.”
Writer Donald Munro has had a career in journalism
for the past three decades. A California native,
he went from being the student editor of Cal Poly’s
Mustang Daily to an arts journalism grad student at
Columbia University to a local arts critic in Fresno.
He can be reached for comment at donaldfresnoarts@gmail.com.
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program notes
ANTONIO
VIVALDI
Concerto in G minor for Two Violins,
RV517 (c.1725)
Orchestration: 2 solo violins; strings; continuo
Estimated Duration: 11 minutes
Concerto in A minor
for Two Violins, RV522 (1711)
Orchestration: 2 solo violins; strings; continuo
Estimated Duration: 12 minutes
Le quattro stagioni (The Four
Seasons), Op.8, Nos.1-4 (1715)
Orchestration: solo mandolin; strings; continuo
Estimated Duration: 37 minutes
Antonio Vivaldi wrote more
than 500 concertos in his lifetime.
Some featured a solo
instrument with an orchestra (the violin was
most often the solo instrument), while some
concertos, like the first two this evening were
“doubles,” with two solo instruments. Some
featured groups of soloists with an orchestra,
a genre known as the concerto grosso.
In 1711, Vivaldi published an incredibly influential
collection of concertos called L’estro
armonico, of which the A-minor Concerto for
Two Violins was part. It was more than a decade
later that Vivaldi began writing his most
famous works, a set of four concertos called
Le quattro stagioni, better known as The Four
Seasons. Vivaldi’s works were a great source
of inspiration for later composers like J.S.
Bach, who copied out many of Vivaldi’s works
for study or arrangement. For example, Bach
adapted the A-minor Concerto for Two Violins
as an organ work.
Through his extensive work in the genre,
Vivaldi standardized some of the characteristics
we associate with the concerto. For instance,
he regularly composed his concertos with
quick outer movements and a slower central
movement, a structure that was the norm for
the whole of the Baroque period. He used
ritornello form in the fast movements of his
concertos, a form that allowed for give and
take between soloist and orchestra. Vivaldi’s
RV517 and RV522 are fine examples of double
concertos. The two works have a few things
in common: they are both in minor keys and
both follow the traditional three-movement
structure. In each, the two solo violins spend
much of the time in the quick movements
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trading musical material or playing in harmony
with one another. These are two of
Vivaldi’s most recognizable concertos—their
melodies are beautifully crafted and evoke a
sense of both drive and drama. The central
movements of each provide contrast, with
slower tempos and more pensive moods.
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, known
in Italian as Le quattro stagioni, were published
in 1725 as part of a set of twelve
concertos. It was Vivaldi’s eighth opus,
and he called it Il cimento dell’armonica e
dell’inventione, or The Contest of Harmony
and Invention. The Concertos were inspired
not just by the seasons themselves, but by
a set of four sonnets written about spring,
summer, autumn and winter. The authorship
of these sonnets is questionable, but most
historians believe that it was Vivaldi himself.
This makes sense because each sonnet is
broken down into three sections, each section
corresponding to a movement in the
Concerto. The Four Seasons can therefore
be classified as “programmatic,” music that
intends to evoke something extra-musical.
Originally written for solo violin, tonight’s
performance features Avi Avital’s virtuosic
arrangement for solo mandolin.
All of the Concertos demonstrate virtuosic
musical displays by all players, but
especially by the soloist. “La primavera,” or
Spring, begins with the crispness and clarity
of a cloudless spring day, and features singing
birds and murmuring streams. A sudden
quick thunderstorm invades, but birdsong
soon regains control. The second movement
illustrates a peaceful day, the quiet
disturbed only by a barking dog. The final
movement is a lively dance for countryfolk
who seem to be celebrating the return of life
after a long winter.
The first movement of Summer,
“L’estate,” begins slowly, almost as if it’s too
hot to move. The birds sing lazily, and the
air is mostly still, until a breeze whips up,
a warning of a gathering storm. The most
striking moment of this Concerto is the hailstorm
that rains down in the third movement,
a perfect contrast to the tranquility of
the opening.
Autumn, “L’autunno,” seems to return to
the clarity we heard in Spring. The musical
themes in both first movements are similar.
Once again, the countryfolk are celebrating,
but this time they are rejoicing in their successful
harvest. Wine is part of this merriment,
and the slowing of the tempo and the
quieting of the dynamics seems to reflect
the peaceful sleep that overtakes some of
the party-goers. The last part of the Concerto
illustrates a hunt with horn calls. A chase
ensues, harkening back to the fourteenth
century tradition of the Italian genre called
the “Caccia,” songs that glorified the hunt
through vocal canons (literally one voice
chasing another).
Finally, there is winter, “L’inverno.”
The opening sounds like a shivering person
rhythmically stamping his feet to stay
warm. The soloist provides the icy winds,
and the ensemble responds with chattering
teeth. The middle movement describes the
peaceful pleasure of warming up inside by a
crackling fire. In the final movement, those
outdoors walk carefully on the icy paths,
while those inside feel winter’s chill relentlessly
finding its way into the house. But
still, Vivaldi reminds us, winter—like all the
other seasons—has its specific charms and
moments of contentment. n
By Christine Gengaro, PhD
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CAMA WISHES YOU JOY THIS SEASON
AND THROUGH THE YEAR.
FREE COMMUNITY
CONCERT
CELEBRATING CAMA AT 100
Presenting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
ALL-VIVALDI PROGRAM INCLUDING THE FOUR SEASONS
THE GRANADA THEATRE
The CAMA Board of Directors
are the sponsors of this concert offered free to the community as a gesture of thanks
to the "CAMA Family" of engaged music lovers who have supported bringing the
world’s finest classical music to Santa Barbara for 100 concert seasons.
The Board thanks and celebrates the generations of concertgoers and patrons
who have made this legacy possible, as well as those who are investing
in the next 100 years.
Thank you!
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ROBERT K. MONTGOMERY President
DEBORAH BERTLING First Vice-President
CRAIG A. PARTON Second Vice-President
WILLIAM MEEKER Treasurer
JOAN R. CROSSLAND Secretary
Rosalind Amorteguy-Fendon
Bitsy Becton Bacon
Edward Birch
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Stephen Cloud
NancyBell Coe
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Judith L. Hopkinson
James H. Hurley, Jr.
Peter O. Johnson
Elizabeth Karlsberg
Raye Haskell Melville
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Andre M. Saltoun
Judith F. Smith
Judith H. Writer
Catherine Leffler,
President, CAMA Women’s Board
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Centennial Events
OCTOBER 20, 2018
CENTENNIAL GALA
HONORING SARA MILLER McCUNE
Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore
Ray and Mary Freeman
Stephanie Slosser, Sara Miller McCune,
Chuck Slosser
Alexandra and Robert Nourse,
Bob and Val Montgomery
Robert and Christine Emmons Sue and
Ed Birch
Deborah and Peter Bertling
Val and Bob Montgomery Sara Miller
McCune
Jackie Inskeep and Isabel Bayrakdarian
Back row: Val Montgomery, Chancellor
Yang and Dilling Yang
front row: Bob Montgomery, Sara Miller
McCune, and Judith Hopkinson
Sara Miller McCune, Harry and
Judy Weisbart
Photos by Monie Photography
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Join me as a member of CAMA's International
Circle. Our next event is a post-concert
reception with Itzhak Perlman, famed and
beloved violinist and Co-Chair with Sara Miller
McCune of CAMA's Centennial Artist Council.
I look forward to welcoming you to this wonderful
event and other events throughout CAMA's
historic Centennial Celebration.
Chris Emmons
For more information about CAMA's International
Circle, call Elizabeth Alvarez at (805) 966-4324.
Centennial Events
OCTOBER 7, 2018
INTERNATIONAL CIRCLE || MUSIC ON THE RIVIERA
Photos by Nell Campbell
CAMA’s International Circle and special guests were invited to inaugurate
CAMA’s two-year Centennial Celebration at the spectacular and historic Riviera Park.
Guests were treated to an afternoon of sweets, savories and Champagne along
with a performance by the Music Department, UC Santa Barbara Flute Ensemble.
With special thanks to International Circle Chair Christine Emmons and to Elizabeth Karlsberg,
Sponsor and Chair of the event. For more information about CAMA’s International Circle,
contact Elizabeth Alvarez at (805) 966-4324.
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Centennial Events
RED CARPET
RECEPTION
OCTOBER 28, 20118
CAMA honored all subscribers and ticket holders of the
opening concert of the 100th Season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
with a Red Carpet Reception.
With appreciation to Sara Miller McCune and Bitsy Becton Bacon
for sponsoring the Red Carpet Reception, and to Deborah Bertling, Centennial
Celebration Chair for planning this warm welcome to the CAMA community.
Historic photos lined the lobby and a short video played in the McCune Founders Room
as guests enjoyed light tapas, wine and champagne.
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nting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919
Photos by Monie Photography
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Santa Barbara Band
Community Arts String Orchestra
CAMA’S CENTENNIAL
100 th and 101 st SEASONS
Honoring CAMA’s 100-year tradition of bringing the finest classical
music in the world to our special community, we invite you to
participate in CAMA’s historic Centennial Celebration.
We are celebrating CAMA's Centennial by gratefully acknowledging donors who
contribute during CAMA’s 100th and 101st Seasons. Contributions of $250 and
above during this time will be recognized in the Centennial acknowlegements in
our concert programs.
Please contact either Elizabeth Alvarez or Nancy Lynn
at (805) 966-4324 to learn more.
Renée Fleming
Michael Tilson Thomas
André Previn
London Philharmonic
Lisa-Marie MAzzucco photo
“It’s always been a
great pleasure for
me to perform on the
CAMA series, and
I’m looking forward to
many more visits.
I send you my heartiest
congratulations
on your centennial
season. Bravo!”
—ITZHAK PERLMAN, CO-CHAIR,
CAMA CENTENNIAL
HONORARY ARTISTS COUNCIL
centennial honorary artists council
Itzhak Perlman
honorary co-chair
Sara Miller McCune
honorary co-chair
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Joshua Bell
Alfred Brendel
Renée Fleming
Daniele Gatti
Richard Goode
Hilary Hahn
Stephen Hough
Olga Kern
Lang Lang
Jerome Lowenthal
Zubin Mehta
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Sir András Schiff
Peter Serkin
Leonard Slatkin
Christian Tetzlaff
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Chris Thile
Michael Tilson Thomas
Dawn Upshaw
André Watts
Pinchas Zukerman
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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION DONORS
MAESTRO
$1,000,000 and above
CONCERTMASTER
$500,000–$999,999
CRESCENDO
$250,000–$499,999
Bitsy & Denny Bacon and The Becton Family Foundation
CADENZA
$100,000–$249,999
Judith L. Hopkinson
Samuel B. and Margaret C. Mosher Foundation
Ed & Sue Birch
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RONDO
$50,000–$99,999
Deborah & Peter Bertling
NancyBell Coe & William Burke
Sara Miller McCune
Jocelyne & William Meeker
Val & Bob Montgomery
Anne & Stephen J.M. Morris
Cumulative contributions of $50,000 and above during CAMA’s Centennial Seasons
will include Centennial Circle membership.
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CONCERTO
$25,000–$49,999
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Meg & Burnham
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$10,000–$49,999
Anonymous
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Foundation
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CAMA’s Centennial
spans two concert
seasons, 2018/2019
and 2019/2020.
Please call Nancy Lynn
or Elizabeth Alvarez at
the CAMA office to
learn more about the
Centennial Circle.
Centennial Celebration
campaign began May 1, 2018
and spans two seasons:
2018/2019 and 2019/2020
ANDANTE
$250–$999
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MUSIC EDUCATION
MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
$25,000 and above
The Walter J. & Holly O. Thomson Foundation
$10,000–$24,999
Ms. Irene Stone/ Stone Family Foundation
Mary Lloyd & Kendall Mills
$1,000–$9,999
CAMA Women's Board
William H. Kearns Foundation
Sara Miller McCune
Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Miller, Jr. /
The Henry E. & Lola Monroe Foundation
Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation
Westmont College
$100–$999
Becky & William Banning
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of the Minneapolis Foundation
CAMA Education Endowment
Fund Income
$10,000 AND ABOVE
William & Nancy Myers
$1,000–$4,999
Linda Stafford Burrows –
This opportunity to experience great musicians excelling
is given in honor and loving memory of Frederika Voogd
Burrows to continue her lifelong passion for enlightening
young people through music and math.
Kathryn H. Phillips, in memory of Don R. Phillips
Walter J. Thomson/The Thomson Trust
$50–$999
Lynn P. Kirst
Keith J. Mautino
Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation
Marjorie S. Petersen
Volunteer docents are trained by CAMA’s Education Committee Chair, Joan Crossland, to deliver this program to
area schools monthly. Music enthusiasts are invited to learn more about the program and volunteer opportunities.
Call the CAMA office at (805) 966-4324 for more information about the docent program.
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Dr. Robert Failing
Mrs. Betty Meyer
Dr. Walter Picker
Ann M. Picker
Jim Ryerson
Christine Ryerson
Sharon Felber Taylor
Bridget Colleary
Cornelia Chapman
Ellicott Million
Dr. Eric Boehm
Eric Boehm
Michael Towbes
Bridget B. Colleary
Gerd & Peter Jordano
Else (Leinie) Schilling Bard
Joanne C. Holderman
Frederica Vogle Burrows
Linda Stafford Burrows
Professor Frederick F. Lange
MaryAnn Lange
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Nancy Englander
Sybil Mueller
Lynn P. Kirst
Dr. Robert Sinsheimer
& Karen Sinsheimer
Robert Boghosian &
Mary E. Gates Warren
Lynn R. Matteson
Lynn P. Kirst
Robert S. Grant
Robert L. Grant
Nan Burns, Dr. Greg Dahlen,
Robert S. Grant
William S. Hanrahan
Susie Vos
Bridget B. Colleary
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The CAMA Women’s Board Presents
A PRE-CONCERT LECTURE SERIES
2018/2019—CENTENNIAL SEASON
December 11, 2018
Tuesday, 7:00 PM
Community Celebration Concert
LOS ANGELES
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
AVI AVITAL, MANDOLIN
The Granada Theatre
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE
David Malvinni, PhD, musicologist,
classical
guitarist, author, and creator of CAMA’s
outreach program
January 15, 2019
Tuesday, 6:00 PM
ITZHAK
PERLMAN, VIOLIN
The Granada Theatre
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE
Kostis Protopapas, Artistic & General
Director
of Opera Santa Barbara
February 5, 2019
Tuesday, 7:00 PM
PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE
ORCHESTRA
NICHOLAS McGEGAN, Director
The Granada Theatre
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE
Andy Radford, Music Director,
Santa Barbara Youth Symphony and
Lecturer, Woodwind Brass & Percussion
Program, UCSB Department
of Music
February 27, 2019
Wednesday, 7:00 PM
RUSSIAN NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA
MIKHAIL PLETNEV, Director
The Granada Theatre
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE
Derek Katz, Professor of Music History
at UCSB
March 20, 2019
Wednesday, 7:00 PM
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, Conductor
The Granada Theatre
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE
Simon Williams, Professor Emeritus,
UCSB Department of Theater and Dance;
Opera
and Theater Critic
April 5, 2019
Friday, 7:00 PM
ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA
THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD,
CONDUCTOR
The Granada Theatre
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE
Adrian Spence, Artistic Director of
Camerata Pacifica
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In
Memoriam
Dr. Robert
Mayo Failing
(1928–2018)
CAMA fondly remembers our long-time Board
member and past President, Dr. Robert Failing, who
passed away last month.
Dr. Failing found time apart from his busy career
as a prominent member of Santa Barbara Cottage
Hospital’s pathology department to serve on the
CAMA Board for 29 years from 1969 to 1997.
He served as CAMA's Vice President for nine years
and for two years as President during the 1978/79
and 1979/80 seasons.
Everyone who knew him will remember him for his
keen intelligence, storytelling wit and astonishing
mountaineering accomplishments.
Over the span of 18 years beginning at age 49
he was the ninth person on record to have reached
the summits of all 50 states in the USA, and reached
the top of six continents, in the process scaling the
highest points of over 45 countries.
Dr. Failing's
Horn Concerto
During his active summer
trips to Europe during
the Cold War years, longtime
CAMA Board member
Dr. Robert M. Failing mixed
classical concert attending
with “peak bagging,”
including ascents of three
of Switzerland’s mightiest.
Failing wrote that his “Swiss
three-movement triplehorn
concerto premiered
in Zermatt. Breithorn, the
first movement, was light
and harmonic. The second
movement, Mettelhorn, was
strong but a little metallic
and dissonant. The concerto
reached the top, climbing to
a booming, melodic third and
final Matterhorn movement.”
He will be greatly missed by everyone in the
CAMA family.
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
IN CAMA'S CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION YEARS
g the world’s finest classical artists since 1919
2018/2019
November 8
MASTER CLASS
RICHARD GOODE, PIANO
— partnership with Department of
Music, UC Santa Barbara
December 11
FREE
COMMUNITY
CONCERT
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA
AVI AVITAL, MANDOLIN
January 19
PUBLIC BOOK
TALK
BY HATTIE BERESFORD
at the Faulkner Gallery,
Santa Barbara Central Library
— partnership with Santa Barbara
Public Library
February 28
RUSSIAN
TEA ROOM
— partnership with
Opera Santa Barbara
Kelly Newberry
1st prize winner in 2018
April 10
CONCERT
CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE
OXFORD
— co-sponsored by Westmont
College, Trinity Episcopal Church,
CAMA, and the American Guild
of Organists
April 28
COMPETITION
FINALS
PERFORMING ARTS
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
— partnership, CAMA and PASF
May 19
CAMA’S
100 th BIRTHDAY
BASH
with performances by Department
of Music (UC Santa Barbara),
Westmont Music Department,
Music Academy of the West, Santa
Barbara Symphony, and Opera
Santa Barbara; plus partnerships
with area restaurants and wineries
(Throughout the Season)
PRE-CONCERT
LECTURES
featuring speakers associated
with CAMA, Opera Santa Barbara,
SB Youth Symphony, UCSB
Department of Music, and UCSB
Department of Theater and Dance
2019/
2020
November 7, 2020
EDUCATION AND
OUTREACH EVENT FOR
CHILDREN
— partnership with the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony
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LIFETIME GIVING
diamond circle
$500,000 and above
Bitsy & Denny Bacon and
The Becton Family
Foundation
Suzanne & Russell Bock
Linda Brown*
Andrew H. Burnett
Foundation
Esperia Foundation
The Stephen &
Carla Hahn Foundation
Judith L. Hopkinson
Herbert & Elaine Kendall
SAGE Publishing
Michael Towbes /
The Towbes Fund for the
Performing Arts
sapphire circle
$250,000–$499,999
Anonymous
The CAMA Women's Board
Léni Fé Bland
Sara Miller McCune
The Samuel B. & Margaret C.
Mosher Foundation
The Stepanek Foundation
The Wood-Claeyssens
Foundation
ruby circle
$100,000–$249,999
The Adams Foundation
Ann Jackson Family
Foundation
Deborah & Peter Bertling
Dan & Meg Burnham
Virginia Castagnola-Hunter
NancyBell Coe &
William Burke
Robert & Christine Emmons
Mary & Raymond Freeman
Dr. Dolores M. Hsu
Hollis Norris Fund
Shirley Ann &
James H. Hurley Jr.
Shirley & Seymour Lehrer
Raye Haskell Melville
Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Miller, Jr./
The Henry E. &
Lola Monroe Foundation
John & Kathleen Moseley/
The Nichols Foundation
Val & Bob Montgomery
Nancy & William G. Myers
Montecito Bank & Trust
Michele & Andre Saltoun
The Santa Barbara Foundation
Jan & John G Severson
Judith F. Smith
Jeanne C. Thayer
Mrs. Walter Thomson
Union Bank
Dr. & Mrs. H. Wallace Vandever
The Wallis Foundation
Winona Fund
Nancy & Byron Kent Wood
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Yzurdiaga
emerald circle
$50,000–$99,999
Anonymous
Ms. Joan C. Benson
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Beuret
Dr. & Mrs. Edward E. Birch
Louise & Michael Caccese
Dr. & Mrs. Jane Catlett
Roger & Sarah Chrisman
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Colleary
Mrs. Maurice E. Faulkner
Arthur R. Gaudi
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Gilson
The George H. Griffiths &
Olive J. Griffiths Charitable
Foundation
Mr. Richard Hellman
Joanne C. Holderman
Michael & Natalia Howe
Hutton Parker Foundation
Ellen & Peter Johnson
Judith Little
John & Lucy Lundegard
Jocelyne & William Meeker
Mrs. Max E. Meyer
Craig & Ellen Parton
Performing Arts Scholarship
Foundation
Marjorie S. Petersen/ La
Arcada Investment Corp.
Diana & Roger Phillips
Mr. Ted Plute &
Mr. Larry Falxa
Lady Ridley-Tree
Barbara & Sam Toumayan
George & Judy Writer
Stephen J.M. & Anne Morris
topaz circle
$25,000–$49,999
Anonymous
Edward Bakewell
Helene & Jerry Beaver
Robert Boghosian &
Mary E. Gates Warren
Alison & Jan Bowlus
Linda Stafford Burrows
Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher
Ms. Huguette Clark
Mrs. Leonard Dalsemer
Edward S. Deloreto
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Durham
Lynn P. Kirst &
Lynn R. Matteson
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Failing
Priscilla & Jason Gaines
The George Frederick
Jewett Foundation
Patricia Kaplan
Elizabeth Karlsberg
& Jeff Young
William H. Kearns Foundation
Jill Dore Kent
Otto Korntheuer/ The Harold
L. Wyman Foundation in
memory of Otto Korntheuer
Chris Lancashire
& Catherine Gee
Mrs. Jon B. Lovelace
Leatrice Luria
Mrs. Frank Magid
Ruth McEwen
Frank McGinity
Sheila Bourke McGinity
James & Mary Morouse
Northern Trust
Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell
Efrem Ostrow Living Trust
Mr. Ernest J. Panosian
Kathryn H. Phillips
Mrs. Kenneth Riley
Anitra & Jack Sheen
Marion Stewart
Ina Tournallyay
Mrs. Edward Valentine
The Outhwaite Foundation
The Elizabeth Firth Wade
Endowment Fund
Mrs. Roderick Webster
Westmont College
amethyst circle
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Anonymous
Rebecca & Peter Adams
Mrs. David Allison
Dr. & Mrs. Mortimer Andron
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Arthur
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Bailey
Marta Babson
Mrs. Archie Bard
Leslie & Phillip Bernstein
Frank Blue & Lida Light Blue
Mrs. Erno Bonebakker
CAMA Fellows
Mrs. Margo Chapman
Chubb-Sovereign Life
Insurance Co.
Carnzu A Clark
Chaucer's Books/ Mahri Kerley
Lavelda & Lynn Clock
Dr. Gregory Dahlen & Nan Burns
Karen Davidson M.D.
Julia Dawson
Mr. & Mrs. William Esrey
Fredericka & Dennis Emory
Ronald & Rosalind A. Fendon
Dave Fritzen/DWF Magazines
Catherine H. Gainey
Kay & Richard Glenn
The Godric Foundation
Corinna & Larry Gordon
Mr. & Mrs. Freeman
Gosden, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Hanna
Robert Hanrahan
Lorraine C. Hansen
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Hatch
Renee & Richard Hawley
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Heeger
Karin Nelson & Eugene
Hibbs/Maren Henle
Mr. Preston Hotchkis
Glenn Jordan & Michael
Stubbs
Elizabeth & Gary Johnston
KDB Radio
Linda & Michael Keston
Mrs. Robert J. Kuhn
Katherine Lloyd/ Actief-cm, Inc
Lois Kroc
Dora Anne Little
Ruth & John Matuszeski
Keith Mautino
Dona & George McCauley
Jayne Menkemeller
Russell Mueller
Myra & Spencer Nadler
Joanne & Alden Orpet
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Patridge
Patricia & Carl Perry
John Perry
Mrs. Ray K. Person
Ellen & John Pillsbury
Anne & Wesley Poulson
Susannah Rake
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Reed
Jack Revoyr
Betty & Don Richardson
The Grace Jones Richardson
Trust
Dorothy Roberts
The Roberts Bros. Foundation
John Saladino
Jack & Anitra Sheen
Sally & Jan Smit
Betty Stephens &
Lindsay Fisher
Selby & Diane Sullivan
Joseph M. Thomas
Irene & Robert Stone/Stone
Family Foundation
Milan E. Timm
Mark E. Trueblood
Steven D. Trueblood
Kenneth W. &
Shirley C. Tucker
Mr. & Mrs. Hubert D. Vos
Barbara & Gary Waer
Mr. & Mrs. David Russell Wolf
Dick & Ann Zylstra
*promised
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BUSINESS SUPPORTERS
BUSINESS SUPPORTERS
We thank the many businesses that support
CAMA's programs and events!
Laurel Abbott, Berkshire Hathaway
Luxury Properties
American Riviera Bank
James P. Ballantine
Belmond El Encanto
Bertling Law Group
Blue Star Parking
Bon Fortune Style & Events
Wes Bredall
Heather Bryden
Ca' Dario
Camerata Pacifica
Casa Dorinda
C'est Cheese
Chaucer's Books
Chooket Patisserie
Cottage Health System
Custom Printing
Eye Glass Factory
First Republic Bank
Flag Factory of Santa Barbara
Frequency Wine
Gainey Vineyard
Grace Design Associates
Colin Hayward/The Hayward Group
Steven Handelman Studios
Hogue & Company
Holdren's Catering
Indigo Interiors
Islay A/V
Jardesca
Maravilla/Senior Resource Group
Microsoft® Corporation
Mission Security
Montecito Bank & Trust
Northern Trust
Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara
Oceania Cruises
Olio e Limone/Olio Crudo Bar/
Olio Pizzeria
Opera Santa Barbara
Pacific Coast Business Times
Peregrine Galleries
Performing Arts Scholarship
Foundation
Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Renaud's Patisserie & Bistro
Rose Story Farm
Sabine Myers Design
SAGE Publishing
Santa Barbara Choral Society
Santa Barbara Foundation
Santa Barbara Travel Bureau
Stewart Fine Art
The Tent Merchant
The Upham Hotel
UCSB Arts & Lectures
Westmont Orchestra
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