I own two of the sensational, one-of-a-kind necklaces made by Dale Levy. From unique glass beads made on the Murano, near Venice, this designer crafts wearable art so luscious you will probably do as I did last time she was in town. Want some. Buy some.
Stop by Levy’s showcase at 838 Walnut Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 17 between 2 and 4:30pm. You’ll love seeing the work. Bring money!
Tai Moses brings the backstories from her new book Zooburbia to Bookshop Santa Cruz, Tuesday May 13 @ 7pm.
Come listen, get your copy (a mere $14.95), and welcome the longtime Santa Cruz editor back to town!
The book offers lyrical and sassy tales of urban wildlife, and abounds with Moses’ uncanny eye for detail and sensitivity to the curious and powerful lives we share with other creatures. You know…deer, squirrels, raccoons, blue jays, feral felines, field mice, possums, hawks, bobcats, etc. etc.. Be there!
Led by choir director Nathaniel Berman, UCSC’s Concert Choir and Percussion Ensemble will join forces in a rare performance of modernist master Lou Harrison’s La Koro Sutro. Considered Harrison’s choral masterwork, this unusual music involves an Esperanto interpretation of the Buddhist Heart Sutra set to gamelan.
Berman’s sensitivity and musical expertise should power the choral group to a memorable interpretation. Santa Cruz area residents who knew the composer will find inspiration in this hypnotic creation.
Also on the program is music by two renowned Harrison associates, John Cage and Virgil Thomson.
Tickets — act swiftly!— are available at the UCSC Ticket Office (831.459-2159). Saturday, March 8 – 7:30 – Music Center Recital Hall.
[photo: Eva Soltes]
Prolific plein air painter Tom Maderos is expanding his gaze to include the figure in great Diebenkornesque gestures evoking the introspective after-hours of 21st century life. Specifically coastal California after-hours.
Some of Maderos’ explorations of the figure have been seen recently on the walls of Gabriella Cafe.
Come see an even wider swath of broad-brush figural work, at Iveta this Friday, March 7 —reception starts at 7pm. See you there!
TOM MADEROS: FIGURE PAINTINGSÂ Â Â MARCH 7 – APRIL 1
IVETA , 2125 Delaware Ave, Suite F
Santa Cruz, (831) 713-0320
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 7-9Â PM
Don’t miss the show of atmospheric new oil paintings by Tom Bottoms, at Cafe Iveta through Nov.30.
Bohemian artistry at its best!
Cafe Ivéta is located on the westside of Santa Cruz, @ 125 Delaware Ave., between Swift and Natural Bridges.
Not the enigmatic companion of first century evangelist Jesus, but the woeful new opera by Mark Adamo, commissioned in a moment of cerebral lassitude by the usually stalwart San Francisco Opera. Adamo had six years to work on this so there is absolutely no excuse for the clueless visual and musical mishmash I endured last weekend.
Having waited all season for this operatic version of one of my favorite ancient sagas, I was dumbfounded to discover that Adamo had neither narrative insight nor compositional vision to apply to this opera. A few good singers had to endure the embarrassment of singing excruciatingly clunky lyrics (written by the hapless Adamo), and a set that can only be described as a construction site.
Standing on top of the site, or milling around (more…)
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