events
Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company
Sunday, September 21, 2008
2:00 p.m.
LeFevre Theatre
Since bursting on the Bay Area scene in 1995, Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company has been a ground-breaking presence in the contemporary dance world. Described by The New York Times as “electrifying,” this diverse company has distinguished itself through powerful athleticism, socially-relevant themes and provocative, stylistically varied choreography. Hailed by The San Francisco Chronicle as a “local treasure,” Robert Moses is a perennial audience favorite. A rich repertoire steeped in Moses’ African-American heritage promises an exhilarating afternoon of dance.
“Building complex group movements as well as lyrical solo riffs into his works, Moses produces a conversational richness few in the Bay Area dance scene can match” - Ann Murphy, Dance Magazine
Author Richard Reeves
The Making of the President 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
Co-Sponsored by the Disney Forum
Join us for an evening of commentary on politics and the historic 2008 presidential election with author, longtime political correspondent and syndicated columnist Richard Reeves. Best known for his acclaimed trilogy on the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, this prolific writer is currently Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. A former chief political correspondent of The New York Times, he has been an editor and columnist for New York Magazine and Esquire and currently writes a weekly column on Yahoo!
"… [His] presentation was a tour de force! Speaking on the topic of presidential leadership in an election year, [he] conveyed a sense of the enormity and complexity of the job...” - Dartmouth College
“Everyone was knocked out by [the] presentation. Simply put, it couldn’t have been better.” – University of California, Los Angeles
Annual Musical Celebration for Christmas featuring the San Francisco Choral Artists and Sonos Handbell Quartet
Saturday, December 6, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Saint Mary’s College Chapel
The resonant tones of the Sonos Handbell Quartet team up with the dynamic voices of the San Francisco Choral Artists to welcome the holiday season. The beauty of tone and clarity of articulation of the Choral Artists makes this one of the finest professional vocal ensemble around. Add to this the talented members of the handbell quartet who have transformed bell ringing into a fluid art and you have an evening to remember!
“…awash in gorgeous harmonies …the choir’s sound was exquisite, rich, and sensuous, with clear diction, beautiful phrasing, and a perfect blend …deeply beautiful and moving” – Jonathan Russell, San Francisco Classical Voice;professor, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
“[Sonos Ensemble]…amazing dexterity, mesmerizing, a delightful discovery, the audience was totally enthralled.” – Joshua Kosman, SF
Chronicle
The Steve Turre Quartet
Featuring Jazz Great & Trombonist Steve Turre
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
8:00 p.m.
Soda Activity Center
CLAM presents one of the world’s preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist Steve Turre. A consistent winner of readers and critics polls in Downbeat, Jazz Times and Jazziz for Best Trombone and Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist (shells), Turre’s diverse musical style developed while playing with such jazz masters as Ray Charles, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. A member of the Saturday Night Live Band since 1984, Turre teaches at the Juilliard School and maintains a full schedule of international touring. Don’t miss this unique experience as we welcome the man widely considered the world's finest jazz trombonist.
“The jazz world needs more Steve Turres. A powerful technician with a soulful tone and quick wit, Turre is perhaps the leading trombonist of this generation.” – Rolling Stone
“He’s a consummate trombonist; from vocalic mute work to crisp bop articulation and warm balladry. Turre’s perfect phrasing, unrelenting ideas, and burnished tone can singe the hairs on your neck” – Amazon.com
The House on Mango Street
American Place Theatre
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
8:00 p.m.
LeFevre Theatre
A series of vignettes are woven into this tale of a young Chicana as she faces the harsh reality of her neighborhood while holding on to the dream of what she will someday become. This professionally-staged production from New York’s American Place Theatre, features a verbatim theatrical adaptation of Sandra Cisneros’ critically-acclaimed book, The House on Mango Street. The production explores important social themes such as racism, sexism, estrangement, loss and the concept of home. In the author’s words, the book conveys “the shame of being poor, of being female, of being not quite good enough.”
Join the artist for a post-show discussion.
“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage…and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” – Bebe Moore Campbell, The New York Times Book Review
“A deeply moving novel…delightful and poignant…Like the best of poetry, it opens the windows of the heart without a wasted word.” – Miami Herald
The Tilden Trio
Sunday, March 15, 2009
2:00 p.m.
Saint Mary’s College Chapel
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra members Sarn Oliver (first violin) and Peter Wyrick (Associate Principal Cello) join June Oh (faculty, Dominican University and San Francisco Conservatory of Music) in the Saint Mary’s College chapel. Critical acclaim for these Julliard graduates promises an afternoon of superb music by three virtuoso musicians.
CLAM is especially pleased to welcome these emerging stars of the classical world.
