January 15, 2019—CAMA presents Itzhak Perlman, violin—International Series at The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara

INTERNATIONAL SERIES 

AT THE GRANADA THEATRE 

SEASON SPONSORSHIP: SAGE PUBLISHING 

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)

INTERNATIONAL SERIES 

AT THE GRANADA THEATRE 


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CAMA AT THE GRANADA THEATRE - ITZHAK PERLMAN 

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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 

Rosalind Amorteguy-Fendon 

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Bitsy Becton Bacon 

Edward Birch 

Jan Bowlus 

Daniel P. Burnham 

Stephen Cloud 

NancyBell Coe 

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As of January 7, 2019 

WILLIAM MEEKER Treasurer 

JOAN R. CROSSLAND Secretary 

James H. Hurley, Jr. 

Peter O. Johnson 

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Andre M. Saltoun 

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President, CAMA Women’s Board 

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6 CENTENNIAL SEASON CELEBRATION

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 

INTERMISSION 

INTERNATIONAL SERIES at the GRANADA THEATRE 


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 


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. 


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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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 


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 


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 


Edward Birch 

Jan Bowlus 

Daniel P. Burnham 

Stephen Cloud 

NancyBell Coe 


Jill Felber 




Peter O. Johnson 



Hank Mitchel 

Stephen J.M. (Mike) Morris 

Patti Ottoboni 

Andre M. Saltoun 


Judith H. Writer 

Catherine Leffler, 

President, CAMA Women’s Board 


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 


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,” 


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 


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 


President 

with 

PAST PRESIDENTS 


Andre Saltoun 


Herbert J. Kendall 


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 


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. 


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 


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 


Samuel B. and Margaret C. Mosher Foundation 

Ed & Sue Birch 


SAGE Publishing 

The Elaine F. Stepanek Foundation 

George & Judy Writer 

RONDO 

$50,000–$99,999 


NancyBell Coe & William Burke 




Anne & Stephen J.M. Morris 

Cumulative contributions of $50,000 and above during CAMA’s Centennial Seasons 

will include Centennial Circle membership. 


CONCERTO 

$25,000–$49,999 

Suzanne & Russell Bock 

Meg & Dan Burnham 

Patricia Yzurdiaga 

SONATA 

$10,000–$49,999 

Anonymous 

Marta Babson 


City of Santa Barbara 


Ann Jackson Family 





Mary Lloyd & Kendall Mills 

Montecito Bank & Trust 

John & Ellen Pillsbury 


The Shanbrom Family 



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 


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 


Fredericka & Dennis Emory 

Ronald & Rosalind A. 

Fendon 

Mary & Raymond 

Freeman 

Shirley Ann & 

James H. Hurley Jr. 


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 


Sally & George Messerlian 


Scholarship Foundation 

Dorothy Roberts 

Steven Trueblood 

Carrie Towbes & 

John Lewis 

Halina W. Silverman 

Barbara & Wayne 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 


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 


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 


Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Miller, Jr. / 

The Henry E. & Lola Monroe Foundation 

Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation 


$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 


Gerd & Peter Jordano 

Else (Leinie) Schilling Bard 


Frederica Vogle 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 



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 

36 CENTENNIAL SEASON CELEBRATION 

(805) 966-4324 • www.camasb.org


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 


Sonata Level $1,000 

Peter & Rebecca Adams 

Mrs. Richard H Roberts 


Rondo Level $100 - $500 

Anonymous (2) 


Edward DeLoreto 

Karin Nelson & Eugene Hibbs, Jr. 

and Maren N. Henle 


Lois Kroc 

Elen & Craig Parton 

Andre & Michele Saltoun 


Nancy & Byron Kent Wood 

February 5, 2019 

Tuesday, Lecture begins at 7:00 PM 

PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE 

ORCHESTRA 

NICHOLAS McGEGAN, Director 


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 



Derek Katz, Professor of Music History 

at UCSB 

March 20, 2019 

Wednesday, Lecture begins at 7:00 PM 

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA 

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, Conductor 



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 



Adrian Spence, Artistic Director of 

Camerata Pacifica 


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MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM 

LIFETIME GIVING 

diamond circle 

$500,000 and above 

Bitsy & Denny Bacon and 

The Becton Family 


Suzanne & Russell Bock 

Linda Brown* 

Andrew H. Burnett 


Esperia Foundation 

The Stephen & 

Carla Hahn Foundation 




Michael Towbes / 



sapphire circle 

$250,000–$499,999 

Anonymous 

The CAMA Women's Board 

Léni Fé Bland 


The Samuel B. & Margaret C. 

Mosher Foundation 

The Stepanek Foundation 

The Wood-Claeyssens 


ruby circle 

$100,000–$249,999 

The Adams Foundation 

Ann Jackson Family 



Dan & Meg Burnham 

Virginia Castagnola-Hunter 

NancyBell Coe & 

William Burke 


Mary & Raymond Freeman 

Dr. Dolores M. Hsu 


Shirley Ann & 

James H. Hurley Jr. 

Shirley & Seymour Lehrer 


Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Miller, Jr./ 

The Henry E. & 

Lola Monroe Foundation 

John & Kathleen Moseley/ 

The Nichols Foundation 


Nancy & William G. Myers 



The Santa Barbara Foundation 

Jan & John G Severson 


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 


Mr. Richard Hellman 


Michael & Natalia Howe 

Hutton Parker Foundation 


Judith Little 

John & Lucy Lundegard 


Mrs. Max E. Meyer 

Craig & Ellen Parton 

Performing Arts Scholarship 


Marjorie S. Petersen/ La 

Arcada Investment Corp. 

Diana & Roger Phillips 

Mr. Ted Plute & 

Mr. Larry Falxa 

Lady Ridley-Tree 




topaz circle 

$25,000–$49,999 

Anonymous 

Edward Bakewell 

Helene & Jerry Beaver 

Robert Boghosian & 

Mary E. Gates Warren 



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 


& 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 


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 


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 


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 



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 


Regent Seven Seas Cruises 

Renaud's Patisserie & Bistro 

Rose Story Farm 

Sabine Myers Design 


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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January 15, 2019—CAMA presents Itzhak Perlman, violin—International Series at The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara

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