January 15, 2019—CAMA presents Itzhak Perlman, violin—International Series at The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2019, 7:00 PM (EARLY START) Itzhak Perlman, violin Rohan De Silva, piano Cultural icon, virtuoso, transcendent superstar – when the subject is violinist Itzhak Perlman the superlatives stack up quickly, yet somehow fail to give a full account of his status, talent, and near-universal appeal. His numerous accolades include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts, and a Medal of Liberty. Maestro Perlman (Co-Chair of the CAMA Centennial Honorary Artist Council) returns for his 6th CAMA concert appearance going back 50+ years to when he first performed for CAMA as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1967 at age 21. He’ll be joined by acclaimed pianist Rohan De Silva, a Best Accompanist honoree at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and a longtime Perlman collaborator. PROGRAM: Alfred Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style for Violin & Piano, Op.80 Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.7 in C minor, Op.30, No.2 Antonín Dvořák: Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100 Additional Works to Be Announced from the Stage PRE-CONCERT LECTURE BY KOSTIS PROTOPAPAS, ARTISTIC & GENERAL DIRECTOR OF OPERA SANTA BARBARA Lecture will begin at 6:00 PM; doors to The Granada Theatre will open for the lecture at 5:45 PM. Lecture seating is limited to the first 100 patrons. First come, first served. #CAMASB #CAMAat100 #CAMACentennial
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2019, 7:00 PM (EARLY START)
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Rohan De Silva, piano
Cultural icon, virtuoso, transcendent superstar – when the subject is violinist Itzhak Perlman the superlatives stack up quickly, yet somehow fail to give a full account of his status, talent, and near-universal appeal. His numerous accolades include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts, and a Medal of Liberty. Maestro Perlman (Co-Chair of the CAMA Centennial Honorary Artist Council) returns for his 6th CAMA concert appearance going back 50+ years to when he first performed for CAMA as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1967 at age 21. He’ll be joined by acclaimed pianist Rohan De Silva, a Best Accompanist honoree at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and a longtime Perlman collaborator.
PROGRAM:
Alfred Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style for Violin & Piano, Op.80
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.7 in C minor, Op.30, No.2
Antonín Dvořák: Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100
Additional Works to Be Announced from the Stage
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE BY KOSTIS PROTOPAPAS, ARTISTIC & GENERAL DIRECTOR OF OPERA SANTA BARBARA
Lecture will begin at 6:00 PM; doors to The Granada Theatre will open for the lecture at 5:45 PM.
Lecture seating is limited to the first 100 patrons. First come, first served.
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INTERNATIONAL SERIES
AT THE GRANADA THEATRE
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photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
ITZHAK PERLMAN violin
ROHAN DE SILVA piano
Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 7:00 PM
The Granada Theatre (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts)
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ITZHAK
Mikhail Pletnev
PERLMAN
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ALFRED SCHNITTKE Suite in the Old Style for Violin & Piano, Op.80
(1934-1998) Pastorale
Baletto
Minuetto
Fuga
Pantomima
LUDWIG
VAN BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op.30, No.2
(1770-1827) Allegro con brio
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ITZHAK PERLMAN VIOLIN
ROHAN DE SILVA PIANO
Tuesday, January 15, 7:00 PM
The Granada Theatre (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts)
Adagio cantabile
Scherzo
Finale
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Sonatina in G Major, Op.100
(1841-1904) Allegro risoluto
Larghetto
Scherzo – Molto vivace
Finale - Allegro
ADDITIONAL WORKS TO BE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE
Mr. Perlman’s recordings can be found on the Deutsche Grammophon,
Decca, Warner/EMI Classics, Sony Classical and Telarc labels
For more information on Itzhak Perlman, visit www.itzhakperlman.com
Management for Itzhak Perlman: Primo Artists, New York, NY www.primoartists.com
CAMA thanks our generous sponsors who have made this evening’s performance possible:
International Series Season Sponsor: SAGE Publishing
Primary Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune
Principal Sponsor: Herbert & Elaine Kendall
Sponsor: Marta Babson • Judith L. Hopkinson • The Shanbrom Family Foundation
Co-Sponsor: Chaucer's Bookstore, Mahri Kerley • Jocelyne & William Meeker
Stephen J.M. & Anne Morris
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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8 CENTENNIAL SEASON CELEBRATION
Photo by Lisa-Marie-Mazzucco
Undeniably the
reigning virtuoso
of the
violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys
superstar status rarely
afforded a classical musician.
Beloved for his charm and humanity
as well as his talent,
he is treasured by audiences
throughout the world who respond
not only to his remarkable artistry, but
also to his irrepressible joy for making music.
Having performed with every major orchestra
and at venerable concert halls around
the globe, Itzhak Perlman was awarded a Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest
civilian honor, in November 2015 by President
Obama for his meritorious contributions
to cultural endeavors of the United States and
for being a powerful advocate for people of
disabilities. In June 2016, he received the 2016
Genesis Prize in recognition for his exceptional
contributions as a musician, teacher, advocate
for individuals with special needs and
dedication to Jewish values. In 2003, he was
granted a Kennedy Center Honor by the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
celebration of his distinguished achievements
and contributions to the cultural and educational
life of the United States. President Clinton
awarded him the National Medal of Arts in
2000 and President Reagan honored him with
a Medal of Liberty in 1986.
An early recipient
of an American-Israel
Cultural Foundation
scholarship,
Itzhak Perlman
came to
New York and
soon was propelled
to national
recognition with an
appearance on the
Ed Sullivan Show
in 1958.
Mr. Perlman has performed
multiple times at the White
House, most recently in 2012
at the invitation of President
Barack Obama and Mrs.
Obama, for Israeli President
and Presidential Medal of
Freedom honoree Shimon
Peres; and at a State Dinner
in 2007, hosted by President
George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush, for Her Majesty
The Queen and His Royal Highness The
Duke of Edinburgh. In 2009, he was honored
to take part in the Inauguration of President
Obama, premiering a piece written for the
occasion by John Williams alongside cellist
Yo-Yo Ma, clarinetist Anthony McGill and
pianist Gabriela Montero, for an audience
of nearly 40 million television viewers in the
United States and millions more throughout
the world.
Born in Israel in 1945, Mr. Perlman completed
his initial training at the Academy of
Music in Tel Aviv. An early recipient of an
America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship,
he came to New York and soon was
propelled to national recognition with an appearance
on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958.
Following his studies at the Juilliard School
with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay, he
won the prestigious Leventritt Competition
in 1964, which led to a burgeoning worldwide
career. Since then, Itzhak Perlman has
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established himself as a cultural icon and
household name in classical music.
Mr. Perlman has further delighted audiences
through his frequent appearances on
the conductor’s podium. He has performed
as conductor with the New York Philharmonic,
Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra,
Boston Symphony, National Symphony, San
Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
and the symphony orchestras of Dallas,
Houston, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Montreal
and Toronto, as well as at the Ravinia and Tanglewood
festivals. He was Music Advisor of the
St. Louis Symphony from 2002 to 2004 where
he made regular conducting appearances,
and he was Principal Guest Conductor of the
Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005. Internationally,
Mr. Perlman has conducted the Berlin
Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
London Philharmonic, English Chamber
Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic.
The 2018/19 season marks the 60th
anniversary of Itzhak Perlman’s U.S. debut
and appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show,
which took place on November 2, 1958.
This milestone was celebrated with a return
to the Ed Sullivan Theater on November
2, 2018 in a special guest appearance on
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. This
season Perlman performs the Mendelssohn
Concerto with Gustavo Dudamel at the
Hollywood Bowl and makes season-opening
gala appearances with the San Francisco
Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas and
with the Indianapolis Symphony and Krzysztof
Urbański. Other orchestral appearances
include the Seattle, Vancouver and Colorado
symphony orchestras. As a conductor, he
leads the Houston Symphony and Juilliard
Orchestra in programs that include works by
Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Dvořák and Elgar.
In February 2019, he makes an appearance
at Carnegie Hall with longtime friend Zubin
Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
the orchestra with whom he has had the
closest association since he was a teenager.
Spring 2019 sees him performing duo
concerts for the first time with the celebrated
pianist Evgeny Kissin in Boston, Chicago,
Washington D.C. and New York. Throughout
the season, he makes appearances with
his longtime collaborator, Rohan De Silva, in
recitals across North America. In May 2019, he
debuts a new program entitled “Evening with
Itzhak Perlman” which captures highlights of
his career through narrative and multi-media
elements, intertwined with performance.
Further to his engagements as violinist
and conductor, Mr. Perlman is increasingly
making more appearances as a speaker.
Recent speaking engagements include
appearances in Texas at Lamar University,
South Dakota with the John Vucurevich
Foundation and in Washington D.C. for the
Marriott Foundation. In November 2018, he
joins Alan Alda for a conversation on the stage
of New York’s 92nd Street Y.
A recent award-winning documentary on
Mr. Perlman, titled “Itzhak”, premiered in October
2017 as the opening film of the 25th Annual
Hamptons International Film Festival. It
was released theatrically in over 100 cinemas
nationwide in March 2018, with international
releases that followed in Summer 2018. Directed
by filmmaker Alison Chernick, the enchanting
documentary details the virtuoso’s
own struggles as a polio survivor and Jewish
émigré and is a reminder why art is vital to life.
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For more information, visit www.itzhakthefilm.
com. In October 2018, the film will make its
debut on PBS’ American Masters in a broadcast
throughout the United States.
Itzhak Perlman’s recordings have garnered
16 GRAMMY® Awards and regularly
appear on the best-seller charts. In 2008, Mr.
Perlman was honored with a Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award for excellence in the recording
arts.
Mr. Perlman’s most recent album features
him in a special collaboration with Martha Argerich.
Released in 2016 by Warner Classics,
it marked a historic first studio album for
this legendary duo exploring masterpieces
by Bach, Schumann and Brahms. It had been
18 years since their first album, a live recital
from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
On that momentous occasion in 1998, in addition
to recording the material for their initial
disc, the pair recorded Schumann’s Violin Sonata
No. 1. The Schumann Sonata at long last
was released in 2016 alongside new material,
making the album a fascinating ‘then and
now’ portrait of how two living legends have
evolved musically.
Mr. Perlman recorded a bonus track for
the original cast recording of the critically acclaimed
Broadway revival of Fiddler on the
Roof, released on Broadway Records in March
2016. The cast recording features Perlman on
a track titled “Excerpts from Fiddler on the
Roof,” arranged by John Williams.
The year of 2015 brought three record
releases in celebration of Mr. Perlman’s 70th
birthday: A new Deutsche Grammophon album
with pianist Emanuel Ax performing
Fauré and Strauss Sonatas, a 25-disc box set
of his complete Deutsche Grammophon and
Decca discography, and a 77-disc box set of
his complete EMI/Teldec discography titled
Itzhak Perlman: The Complete Warner Recordings.
In 2012, Sony released Eternal Echoes:
Songs & Dances for the Soul, featuring a collaboration
with acclaimed cantor Yitzchak
Meir Helfgot in liturgical and traditional Jewish
arrangements for chamber orchestra and
klezmer musicians, and in 2010, Sony released
a recording of Mendelssohn Piano Trios with
cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax. Highlights
of albums over the last two decades
have included a Deutsche Grammophon album
with Mr. Perlman conducting the Israel
Philharmonic, a live recording with Martha
Argerich performing Beethoven and Franck
Sonatas (EMI); Cinema Serenade featuring
popular hits from movies with John Williams
conducting (Sony); A la Carte, a recording of
short violin pieces with orchestra (EMI) and In
the Fiddler’s House, a celebration of klezmer
music (EMI) that formed the basis of the PBS
television special. In 2004, EMI released The
Perlman Edition, a limited-edition 15-CD box
set featuring many of his finest EMI recordings
as well as newly compiled material, and
RCA Red Seal released a CD titled Perlman
rediscovered, which includes material recorded
in 1965 by a young Itzhak Perlman. Other
recordings reveal Mr. Perlman’s devotion to
education, including Concertos from my Childhood
with the Juilliard Orchestra under Lawrence
Foster (EMI) and Marita and her Heart’s
Desire, composed and conducted by Bruce
Adolphe (Telarc).
A major presence in the performing
arts on television, Itzhak Perlman has been
honored with four Emmy Awards, most
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11
ecently for the PBS documentary Fiddling for
the Future, a film about Mr. Perlman’s work
as a teacher and conductor for the Perlman
Music Program. In 2004, PBS aired a special
entitled Perlman in Shanghai that chronicled
a historic and unforgettable visit of the
Perlman Music Program to China, featuring
interaction between American and Chinese
students and culminating in a concert at the
Shanghai Grand Theater and a performance
with one thousand young violinists, led by Mr.
Perlman and broadcast throughout China. His
third Emmy Award recognized his dedication
to klezmer music, as profiled in the 1995
PBS television special In the Fiddler's House,
which was filmed in Poland and featured him
performing with four of the world’s finest
klezmer bands.
Mr. Perlman has entertained and
enlightened millions of TV viewers of all ages
on popular shows as diverse as The Late
Show with David Letterman, Sesame Street,
The Frugal Gourmet, The Tonight Show, and
various Grammy Awards telecasts. His PBS
appearances have included A Musical Toast
and Mozart by the Masters, as well as numerous
Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts such as
The Juilliard School: Celebrating 100 Years. In
2008, he joined renowned chef Jacques Pépin
on Artist’s Table to discuss the relationship
between the culinary and musical arts, and
lent his voice as the narrator of Visions of
Israel for PBS’s acclaimed Visions series. Mr.
Perlman hosted the 1994 U.S. broadcast of
the Three Tenors, Encore! live from Dodger
Stadium in Los Angeles. During the 78th Annual
Academy Awards in 2006, he performed a live
medley from the five film scores nominated
in the category of Best Original Score for
a worldwide audience in the hundreds of
millions. One of Mr. Perlman’s proudest
achievements is his collaboration with film
composer John Williams in Steven Spielberg’s
Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List,
in which he performed the violin solos. He
can also be heard as the violin soloist on the
soundtrack of Zhang Yimou’s film Hero (music
by Tan Dun) and Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a
Geisha (music by John Williams).
Mr. Perlman has a long association with
the Israel Philharmonic and has participated
in many groundbreaking tours with this
orchestra from his homeland. In 1987, he
joined the IPO for history-making concerts in
Warsaw and Budapest, representing the first
performances by this orchestra and soloist in
Eastern bloc countries. He again made history
as he joined the orchestra for its first visit to
the Soviet Union in 1990, and was cheered
by audiences in Moscow and Leningrad who
thronged to hear his recital and orchestral
performances. This visit was captured on a
PBS documentary entitled Perlman in Russia,
which won an Emmy. In 1994, Mr. Perlman
joined the Israel Philharmonic for their first
visits to China and India.
Over the past two decades, Mr. Perlman
has become actively involved in music
education, using this opportunity to encourage
gifted young string players. Alongside his wife
Toby, his close involvement in the Perlman
Music Program has been a particularly
rewarding experience, and he has taught fulltime
at the Program each summer since its
founding in 1993. Mr. Perlman currently holds
the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair
at the Juilliard School.
Numerous publications and institutions
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have paid tribute to Itzhak Perlman for the
unique place he occupies in the artistic and
humanitarian fabric of our times. Harvard,
Yale, Brandeis, Roosevelt, Yeshiva and Hebrew
universities are among the institutions
that have awarded him honorary degrees.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate
and a centennial medal on the occasion of
Juilliard’s 100th commencement ceremony
in 2005. Itzhak Perlman’s presence on stage,
on camera, and in personal appearances of
all kinds speaks eloquently on behalf of the
disabled, and his devotion to their cause is an
integral part of his life. n
Rohan
De Silva piano
Rohan De Silva’s partnerships with violin virtuosos
Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Cho-
Liang Lin, Midori, Joshua Bell, Benny Kim, Kyoko
Takezawa, Vadim Repin, Gil Shaham, Nadja
Salerno-Sonnenberg, Julian Rachlin, James
Ehnes and Rodney Friend have led to highly
acclaimed performances at recital venues all
over the world. With these and other artists
he has performed on the stages of Carnegie
Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and
Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Library
of Congress, Philadelphia Academy of Music,
Ambassador Theater in Los Angeles, Concertgebouw
in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in
London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Mozarteum
in Salzburg, La Scala in Milan and in Tel-Aviv,
Israel. Mr. De Silva’s festival appearances
include Aspen, Ravinia, Interlochen, Seattle
Chamber Music, Manchester, Schleswig-Holstein,
Pacific Music Festival and the Wellington
Arts Festival in New Zealand. He has
performed chamber music in Beijing with the
American String Quartet and has appeared in
recital worldwide with Itzhak Perlman.
Alongside Mr. Perlman, Mr. De Silva
has performed multiple times at the White
House, most recently in 2012 at the invitation
of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama
for Israeli President and Presidential Medal
of Freedom honoree Shimon Peres; and at
a State Dinner in 2007, hosted by President
George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush for Her Majesty
The Queen and His Royal Highness The
Duke of Edinburgh. A native of Sri Lanka,
Mr. De Silva was invited in 2015 by the Prime
Minister of his country to perform at a luncheon
for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
on his historic visit to Sri Lanka.
In the 2018-19 season, Mr. De Silva will
perform recitals with Mr. Perlman across
America including performances in New
Jersey, Virginia, Illinois, Florida, California,
Milwaukee and Washington. As an educator,
Mr. De Silva will be teaching at Heifetz
International Music Institiute in Virginia and
the Liberec International Violin Academy in
the Czech Republic. He will also be the official
pianist at the Indianapolis International Violin
Competition and the Hannover International
Violin Competition.
In recent seasons, Mr. De Silva toured
with Mr. Perlman in sold-out concerts
throughout Asia, visiting Japan, China, Taiwan,
South Korea, and to Europe in their first
appearances as a duo in London (Barbican
Centre), Paris (Philharmonie de Paris) and
Munich (Gasteig). In North America, he has
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Photo by John Beebe
performed with Mr. Perlman
at notable venues including
Los Angeles’ Disney Hall, San
Francisco’s Davies Symphony
Hall, Chicago’s Lyric Opera,
Mr. De Silva joined
the collaborative
arts and chamber
music faculty of the
Juilliard School in 1991,
and in 1992 was
lix Galimir, and working closely
with violin pedagogue Dorothy
DeLay. He was awarded a special
prize as Best Accompanist
at the 1990 Ninth International
West Palm Beach’s Kravis awarded honorary
Tchaikovsky Competition
Center. Nashville’s Schermerhorn
Symphony Center, D.C.
at the Kennedy Center and in
Associate of the
Royal Academy
of Music.In 2015,
in Moscow, and received the
Samuel Sanders Collaborative
Artist Award as presented to
he was awarded the
New York at Carnegie Hall, to
him by Itzhak Perlman at the
Fellowship of the
name a few. Over the summer,
at the invitation of Jusdation
Awards Ceremony at
2005 Classical Recording Foun-
Royal Academy.
tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mr.
De Silva performed for an exclusive
guest list at the Supreme Court with
Mr. Perlman in Washington D.C. Mr. De Silva
also performed at Center Stage for Strings
in Michigan, Innsbrook Institute in Missouri
and Maui Music Festival in Hawaii.
Mr. De Silva began his piano studies
with his mother, the late Primrose De Silva,
and with the late Mary Billimoria. He spent
six years at the Royal Academy of Music
in London as a student of Hamish Milne,
Sydney Griller and Wilfred Parry. While in
London, he received many awards including
the Grover Bennett Scholarship, the
Christian Carpenter Prize, the Martin Music
Scholarship, the Harold Craxton Award
for advanced study in England, and, upon
his graduation, the Chappell Gold Medal
for best overall performance at the Royal
Academy. Mr. De Silva was the first recipient
of a special Scholarship in the arts from
the President's Fund of Sri Lanka. This
enabled him to enter the Juilliard School,
where he received both his Bachelor and
Master of Music degrees, studying piano
with Martin Canin, chamber music with Fe-
Carnegie Hall.
Mr. De Silva joined the
collaborative arts and chamber music faculty
of the Juilliard School in 1991, and in 1992
was awarded honorary Associate of the Royal
Academy of Music. In 2015, he was awarded
the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of
Music. In 2001, he joined the faculty at the
Ishikawa Music Academy in Japan, where
he gives masterclasses in collaborative
piano. Mr. De Silva additionally has served
as a faculty member at the Great Wall
International Music Academy in Beijing, China,
and at the International String Academy in
Cambridge, U.K. since 2011. He was on the
faculty of the Perlman Music Program from
2000 to 2007. Radio and television credits
include PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center and
the Colbert Report with Itzhak Perlman, The
Tonight Show with Midori, CNN’s “Showbiz
Today”, NHK Television in Japan, National
Public Radio, WQXR and WNYC in New
York, Berlin Radio, and the 2000 Millennium
Grammy Awards. Mr. De Silva has recorded
for Deutsche Grammophon, Universal, CBS/
SONY Classical, Collins Classics in London
and RCA Victor. n
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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 Community
thanks the CAMA Board of Directors
for sponsoring the splendid free community concert by the
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA with Avi Avital on December 11, 2018
at the Granada Theatre.
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
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
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Photos by Nell Campbell
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CAMA’s CENTENNIAL
BOOK RELEASE & PUBLIC TALK
Celebrating CAMA’s Centennial
photo by Nell Campbell
Hattie
Beresford
Besides writing a local history column for
the Montecito Journal for over a decade,
Hattie Beresford has written two issues of
Noticias and co-edited My Santa Barbara
Scrap Book, the memoir of artist Elizabeth
Eaton Burton, for the Santa Barbara
Historical Museum. Her most recent book,
The Way It Was ~ Santa Barbara Comes of
Age, is a collection of a few of her nearly
300 articles written for the Journal. Her talk
on the vibrant and exciting early days of
CAMA will be illustrated with dozens of
historic photographs and images.
Celebrating CAMA’s Centennial
commemorates the CAMA story with
hundreds of images and engaging
tales of the spectacular musical
performances brought to the the stages
of Santa Barbara’s concert halls.
Beautiful music, exciting music, profound
music — Community Arts Music Association
has been bringing this gift to Santa Barbara
for 100 years. Born in the dark days following
World War I, flourishing during the Roaring
Twenties, and eluding demise during the Great
Depression, CAMA has endured through a story
of struggle, survival and triumph as compelling
as the world-renowned music and performers
it brought.
PUBLIC BOOK TALK
HATTIE BERESFORD, AUTHOR
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19
FAULKNER GALLERY, 2:00 PM
SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY
PRESENTED BY CAMA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC — LIMITED SEATING
CAMA
HISTORY
The Granada Theatre was constructed in 1922.
At the time, it was considered “Santa Barbara’s only skyscraper.”
Courtesy Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts
The Granada Theatre
Extract from Celebrating CAMA's Centennial by Hattie Beresford
In December 1922, Edward A. Johnson,
president of the California Theater Company
that owned most of the movie houses in town,
announced plans to build a theater and eightstory
office building on State Street. Despite
touches of Spanish design in rose and cream
terra cotta on the façade and cornice, plus
articulated swirling columns framing the tan
brick, many felt the tall rectangular structure
was anathema to Santa Barbara’s emerging
style. Nevertheless, “Santa Barbara’s only
skyscraper” opened its doors with great fanfare
on April 6, 1924, just a few months before the
Lobero Theatre was completed.
The new theater featured an enormous
four-manual 17-rank Wurlitzer organ that
would accompany the action and scenes
in silent movies with appropriate music
and sound effects. (As of 2015 this organ
is installed in the Masonic Auditorium in
Cleveland, Ohio, and has been expanded
to 28 ranks.) For the comfort of patrons,
luxurious retiring rooms were furnished with
overstuffed furniture, a small nursery, and
several smoking compartments. There were
five stories of dressing rooms and the latest
in theater lighting and stage systems. Spanish
features throughout included a 40-foot dome
from which hung an enormous chandelier
shaped like a Moorish disk, hand-wrought light
fixtures, and a curtain painted with a scene of
Granada, Spain. The theater owners boasted
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CAMA’s Board of Directors and Centennial Celebration Committee
thank the many who made this work possible—the first ever
book-length authoritative treatment of CAMA's history.
We thank Sara Miller McCune, Founder and Executive Chairman
of SAGE Publishing, for supporting the book from concept to
creation and for championing the project in every way.
We thank SAGE Publishing’s President and CEO Blaise R. Simqu for
generously donating many production expenses and generally ennobling
the project through the involvement of many publications professionals.
Our unending thanks to historical researcher and author Hattie
Beresford, whose eye, hand, and pen revealed and expressed
CAMA’s history with compelling story and voice.
We are grateful to publisher Cathy Feldman/Blue Point Books
for thorough attention to so many aspects of editing and
layout, with support from graphic artist Kristin Jackson.
Under the direction of California Theater Company president Edward A. Johnson, the Granada’s opening
program included a wide variety of performances. Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum
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The original lobby of the Granada Theatre included Spanish features and details. Courtesy Santa Barbara
Center for the Performing Arts
that it had nearly 2,000 seats, though the
number was actually a bit less than 1,700.
The appointments and décor of the interior
emulated the Spanish motif. The foyer, which
resembled a baronial entry hall, had a richly
decorated beam ceiling of Mudéjar design.
Above a large fireplace, a saint-like statue
stood in a niche, an intricate wrought-iron
fixture hung from somber walls highlighted
with gold and silver, and a fountain bubbled
with colored water. Richly carpeted grand
stairways and large Spanish mirrors completed
the castillo-like effect.
Johnson chose his opening program
to include the wide variety of acts that
could be shown at the Granada. The
“Great Sarli” (Antonio P. Sarli) conducted
the new Granada Grand Orchestra in a
mixed program of classical, popular, and
syncopated jazz music. One of the first threedimensional
movies, Plastigrams, had the
audience donning blue and red colored
lenses as giant turtles flew toward them from
the screen. Several cartoons and novelty
reels were followed by the world premiere
of Mae Murray (the Girl with the Bee-Kissed
Lips) in Mademoiselle Midnight, and the ballet
company of motion picture star and director
Theodore Kosloff danced “A Legend of Old
Spain,” which he had created especially for the
occasion.
In 1925, the Granada Theatre earned
another nickname when it survived the
June 29 Earthquake, that of “Santa Barbara’s
Gibraltar.” (Although the theater survived
structurally, decorative cast plaster décor
and organ chamber grilles were damaged.)
Johnson didn’t hold on to his theater for very
long, however, selling it to Warner Bros. in
1931 shortly after the opening of the Arlington
Theatre and the beginning of the Depression.
In 1955, the Granada was sold again, this time
to Metropolitan Theatres Corporation for
nearly one million dollars.
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Over the years, the Community Arts Music
Association vacillated between booking its
seasons at the Granada and the Arlington.
Finances, availability, lighting, acoustics,
comfort, and number of seats were the major
factors in those decisions. When the Granada
closed for remodeling in 1964, they lost 315
seats, making it less attractive to CAMA, though
the organization returned to it in 1967 for nine
seasons when audience attendance had fallen
off severely. In 1976, CAMA and other local
performing arts groups placed their hopes
on an enlarged and renovated Arlington.
Not completely satisfied with the acoustics
of the Arlington, CAMA discovered that the
possibility of returning to the Granada was not
an option once its balcony was converted into
two mini-theaters in 1981.
Although a large civic auditorium was
proposed as a WPA project in the late 1930s,
it was never approved. The effort to create a
true performing arts center in Santa Barbara
with an acoustically superior concert hall
dates back to 1952, when one group worked
out a plan to build such an auditorium on the
hill of Vegamar, the former Beale/Child’s Estate
(today’s Zoo), while another group pushed for
a concert hall on land off Las Positas Road. In
the intervening years, a score of plans to build
a concert hall surfaced, but none came to
fruition. Despite the renovation that created
the Arlington Performing Arts Center, some
remained skeptical as to its suitability. Though
lauding its opening night in 1976, News-Press
writer Kenneth A. Brown opined, “But it is a
mistake to call the Arlington a ‘center for the
performing arts.’ The phrase is grandiose and
misleading. It suggests a versatility that the
building, for all its virtues, simply does not
have.” So the search went on.
In 1997, former mayor and civic promoter
Hal Conklin, president of the Santa Barbara
Renaissance Fund, revealed plans to create a
performing arts cultural center on the 1300
block of State Street. Intended to serve the
various performing arts groups in town,
conceptual designs developed by architects
Roger Phillips, Fred Sweeney, and Henry
Lenny included major interior changes for the
Arlington Theatre, replacement of the Vons
grocery store with a multiplex theater, the
construction of a new smaller theater for more
intimate performances, an inn for visiting
performers, and apartments for live-in artists.
Renovation of the Granada Theatre, too, was
added to the plan. When it became clear
that the Arlington would not be available if
Metropolitan Theatres were not guaranteed
nine replacement screens in compensation
for losing the Arlington as a movie house
(and the seeming impossibility of meeting
this condition in the foreseeable future), the
renovation of the Granada jumped to the
forefront of the overall plan.
In 2003, the Santa Barbara Center for
the Performing Arts, Inc. launched a capital
campaign and announced that they had
obtained an option to purchase the Granada
at a below-market price. They planned
to renovate the theater so that local and
visiting musical groups would have a truly
great venue. The cost, they estimated, would
be about $15-18 million. The response was
initially lukewarm due to doubts about the
effectiveness of such a renovation and rivalry
from another group that still wanted a new
auditorium outside of town.
In the end, two local philanthropists,
Michael Towbes and Sara Miller McCune,
donated $3.5 million to allow the Center
to close escrow on the Granada Theatre.
“The project really struck home to me,”
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In 2003, the Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. announced plans to purchase and
renovate the Granada. Sara Miller McCune (far left) was one of two philanthropists who made the
purchase possible. Nell Campbell photo
said McCune in a February 20, 2003 Los
Angeles Times article, “the community
stands to benefit enormously.” The building’s
ownership was split and a group of investors
purchased the office tower portion and the
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts
purchased the theater. Initial plans were
modest. They included restoring the balcony,
which had been walled off and divided for
two cinemas, reconfiguring the lobby, and
generally renovating the run-down theater.
As time passed, the planners added
elements as they sought to accommodate local
performing arts groups, which they hoped
would make the Granada their venue of choice.
Due to the ever-increasing scope of work, by
July 2003 the estimated cost was $20.5 million;
by October 2004, it was $32 million; by August
2005, it was $40 million as continuing upgrades
over the original plan grew to include widening
the existing 40-foot proscenium to 50 feet, and
adding an acoustical shell and other acoustical
elements.
One of the most celebrated features of the theater
was its four-manual, 17-rank Wurlitzer organ.
Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum
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The exterior of the Granada Theatre as it stands today. CAMA Archives
Finally, near the end of 2005,
ground was broken and the Granada
went dark. Peter Frisch was executive
director of the project; Phillips Metsch
Sweeney Moore was the architectural firm;
Roger Morgan was the theater consultant; and
David Conant of McKay Conant Hoover, Inc.
was brought on as acoustician. In December,
the News-Press reported that Sara Miller
McCune, founding publisher and chairman of
SAGE Publications, had donated another $2.5
million to the cause. McCune said that she,
like many other art lovers, had been frustrated
by the inadequacy of local performing arts
facilities. “Both our local arts organizations
and touring artists deserve better,” she said. “I
decided this is a commitment I was willing to
make.”
With construction costs escalating,
complications of a required earthquake retrofit,
and specific requests from potential tenants,
who included the Santa Barbara Symphony,
Opera Santa Barbara, State Street Ballet,
Community Arts Music Association (CAMA),
and Music Academy of the West, the price
tag for the project soared as well. In the end,
that tag reported a whopping $60 million,
but Santa Barbara had a spacious, first-rate,
beautifully renovated, technologically updated
new performing arts center. And best of all for
CAMA, the enlarged stage and the intricate
architectural/acoustical system designed by
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After 32 years, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic returned to the
Granada stage for what would
be the highlight of the 2008
season and conductor Esa-Pekka
Salonen’s final Santa Barbara
performance.
Photo by David Bazemore
architect Roger Phillips and acoustician David
Conant would assure that no orchestra would
ever again complain that they were playing into
a pillow!
On March 6, 2008, the Granada threw open
its doors for a Spanish-themed patron’s gala.
Santa Barbara Independent reviewer Charles
Donelan reported that from the red carpet
outside to the grand staircases that flank the
lobby, the space was packed with well-heeled
supporters sipping wine and greeting one
another enthusiastically. The opening night
performances of the Santa Barbara Choral
Society and Santa Barbara Symphony, as well
as that of renowned pianist Warren Jones, who
arrived on stage together with the Granada’s
brand new Steinway via the giant open elevator
of the orchestra pit, left the audience enthralled.
After intermission, Opera Santa Barbara and
State Street Ballet’s collaboration on the opera
Carmen was dazzling. “With the opening of this
Granada, a star theater has been born,” wrote
Donelan.
In February, Donelan had reported that
Stephen Cloud, who programmed for both CAMA
and the Lobero Theatre, believed that May 3
would be the real acid test for the room’s acoustics.
“Dave Conant, the principal acoustician,” Donelan
had said, “feels confident that the acoustic bumps
added to the walls and the oversized orchestra
shell will offset any issues raised by the structure
of the theater as a whole.”
Conant’s confidence was not overblown.
After the Los Angeles Philharmonic returned
to the Granada Theatre for the first time in
32 years on May 3, Donelan opined, “[It] was
easily the most anticipated event of the 2008
season thus far, and it more than lived up to
some very high expectations.” Not only was
this the first time the Philharmonic performed
at the new Granada, it was Music Director Esa-
Pekka Salonen’s last performance in Santa
Barbara. Donelan lauded the program devoted
to two monumental works, the Piano Concerto
No. 2 of Johannes Brahms and three selections
from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner, and
ended by saying, “The piece, the orchestra, the
soloist, the conductor, and the room all came
together for an unforgettable experience….
The Granada is back, and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic has shown what majesty there is
to look forward to.” •
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The current and past Presidents of the CAMA Board of Directors
BOB MONTGOMERY
Bitsy Becton Bacon
President
with
PAST PRESIDENTS
James H. Hurley, Jr.
Andre Saltoun
Judith L. Hopkinson
Herbert J. Kendall
Judith F. Smith
will host the
CAMA Centennial Presidents’ Dinner
Honoring Arthur R. Gaudi
2019 Mozart Society Award
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2019
MOZART SOCIETY HONOREES
Since 2004
Robert M. Light Robert and Christine Emmons
Ed and Sue Birch Herbert J. Kendall
Judith L. Hopkinson Sara Miller McCune
Mary Lloyd Mills Russell S. Bock
James H. Hurley, Jr. Stephen Hahn
Thomas A. Kelly Dr. Robert M. Failing
Dr. Melville H. Haskell
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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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Centennial Events
RED CARPET
RECEPTION
October 28, 2018
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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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
Robert & Christine Emmons
SAGE Publishing
The Elaine F. Stepanek Foundation
George & Judy Writer
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
Suzanne & Russell Bock
Meg & Dan Burnham
Patricia Yzurdiaga
SONATA
$10,000–$49,999
Anonymous
Marta Babson
Alison & Jan Bowlus
City of Santa Barbara
Bridget B. Colleary
Ann Jackson Family
Foundation
Ellen & Peter Johnson
Herbert & Elaine Kendall
Hollis Norris Fund
Mary Lloyd & Kendall Mills
Montecito Bank & Trust
John & Ellen Pillsbury
Michele & Andre Saltoun
The Shanbrom Family
Foundation
The Towbes Fund for the
Performing Arts
Hubert Vos
VIVACE
$5,000–$9,999
Elizabeth & Andrew
Butcher
Chaucer's Bookstore,
Mahri Kerley
Edward S. DeLoreto
Louise & Michael
Caccese
Chris Lancashire &
Catherine Gee
Jill Doré Kent
Montecito Bank & Trust
Craig & Ellen Parton
Winona Fund
ADAGIO
$1,000–$2,499
Karen Bushnell
Shelley & Mark Bookspan
Diane Boss
Suzanne & Peyton Bucy
Annette & Richard Caleel
CAMA Women's Board
Susan & Claude Case
Patricia Clark
Gregory Dahlen III & Christi Walden
Department of Music University of
California Santa Barbara
Wendy & Rudy Eiser
Katina Etsell
Nancyann & Robert Failing
Jill Felber
Kum Su Kim
Bob & Margo Feinberg
Catherine H. Gainey
David Hamilton
Renee & Richard Hawley
ALLEGRO
$2,500–$4,999
Helene & Jerry Beaver
Robert Boghosian & Mary
E. Gates Warren
Roger & Sarah Chrisman
Foundation
Fredericka & Dennis Emory
Ronald & Rosalind A.
Fendon
Mary & Raymond
Freeman
Shirley Ann &
James H. Hurley Jr.
Joanne C. Holderman
Karin Jacobson & Hans Koellner
Diane Johnson
Jackie Inskeep
Gerd & Peter Jordano
Sally Kinney
Dora Anne Little
Maison K
Gloria & Keith Martin
Maureen Masson
Ruth & John Matuszeski
Dona & George McCauley
Frank McGinity
Karin Nelson & Eugene Hibbs/
Maren Henle
Russell Mueller
Northern Trust
Gail Osherenko & Oran Young
Anne & Daniel Ovadia
Diana & Roger Phillips
Ann M. Picker
Donald Rink
Anitra & Jack Sheen
Elizabeth Karlsberg &
Jeff Young
Connie & Richard Kennelly
Lynn P. Kirst
Lois Kroc
MaryAnn E. Lange
Raye Haskell Melville
Sally & George Messerlian
Performing Arts
Scholarship Foundation
Dorothy Roberts
Steven Trueblood
Carrie Towbes &
John Lewis
Halina W. Silverman
Barbara & Wayne Smith
Judith F. Smith
Marion Stewart
Santa Barbara Foundation
Linda Stafford Burrows
Beverly & Michael Steinfeld
Milan E. Timm
Barbara & Sam Toumayan
Anne Smith Towbes
Pam & Terry Valeski
Barbara & Gary Waer
Sheila Wald
Nick & Patty Weber
Dr. Robert Weinman
Westmont College
Victoria & Norman Williamson
Patricia Yzurdiaga
Cheryl & Peter Ziegler
CAMA’s Centennial
spans two concert
seasons, 2018/2019
and 2019/2020.
The CAMA Board gratefully
acknowledges and thanks
the generosity of the CAMA
community. Donor lists
will be fully updated
February 2019.
All cummulative donations
of $250 and above through
the 100th and 101st Seasons
will be listed.
ANDANTE
$250–$999
Eunice & J.Thomas Fly
Ghita Ginberg
Nancy & Frederic Golden
Robert L. Grant
Glenn Jordan & Michael Stubbs
Debbie & Frank Kendrick
Kathryn Lawhun & Mark Shinbrot
Christie & Morgan Lloyd
Barbara & Ernest Marx
Patriicia & William McKinnon
James P. and Shirley F. McFarland
Fund of the Minneapolis
Foundation
Christine & James V. McNamara
Donald & Karine McCall
Andrew Mester
Peter L. Morris
Mrs. Raymond King Myerson
Hensley & James Peterson
David & Dottie Pickering
Minie & Hjalmar Pompe van
Meerdervoort
Carol & Edward Portnoy
Patricia & Robert Reid
Tiffany & Justin Rizzo-Weaver
Ada B. Sandburg
Lynn & Mark Schiffmacher
Naomi Schmidt
Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin
Lorraine & Stephen Weatherford
Grace & Edward Yoon
Sylvia Abualy
Antoinette & Shawn Addison
Jyl & Allan Atmore
Howard A. Babus
Becky & William Banning
Phyllis Brady & Andy Masters
Edith M. Clark
Lavelda & Lynn Clock
Michael & Ruth Ann Collins
Joan & Steven Crossland
Michael K. Dunn
Ann & David Dwelley
Meg & Jim Easton
Julia Emerson
Thomas & Doris Everhart
Maureen O'Rourke
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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
Lynn P. Kirst
James P. and Shirley F. McFarland Fund
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
Tita Lanning
Keith Mautino
Jim Ryerson
Christine Ryerson
Sharon Felber Taylor
Bridget Colleary
Cornelia Chapman
Ellicott Million
Dr. Eric Boehm
Judy Pochini
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
Harold M. Williams
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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nting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919
CAMA would like to wish you
joy in celebrating 2019.
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, The Granada Theatre
EDUCATION AND
OUTREACH EVENT FOR
CHILDREN
— partnership with the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony
COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA, INC
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(805) 966-4324 • www.camasb.org
Presenting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919
The CAMA Women’s Board Presents
A PRE-CONCERT LECTURE SERIES
2018/2019—CENTENNIAL SEASON
Doors to The Granada Theatre will open
for the lecture 15 minutes before lecture.
Lecture seating is limited to the first 100
patrons. First come, first served.
CAMA's Women's Board gratefully
thanks the following supporters!
Symphony Level $5,000
Patricia Yzurdiaga
Sonata Level $1,000
Peter & Rebecca Adams
Mrs. Richard H Roberts
George & Judy Writer
Rondo Level $100 - $500
Anonymous (2)
Bridget B. Colleary
Edward DeLoreto
Karin Nelson & Eugene Hibbs, Jr.
and Maren N. Henle
Joanne C. Holderman
Lois Kroc
Elen & Craig Parton
Andre & Michele Saltoun
Barbara & Sam Toumayan
Nancy & Byron Kent Wood
February 5, 2019
Tuesday, Lecture begins at 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, Lecture begins at 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, Lecture begins at 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, Lecture begins at 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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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
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Foundation
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William Burke
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Shirley Ann &
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John & Kathleen Moseley/
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Val & Bob Montgomery
Nancy & William G. Myers
Montecito Bank & Trust
Michele & Andre Saltoun
The Santa Barbara Foundation
Jan & John G Severson
Judith F. Smith
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Union Bank
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The Wallis Foundation
Winona Fund
Nancy & Byron Kent Wood
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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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