Special Events

Tandy Beal's "Mixed Nutz! The Nutcracker Re-Mixed"

Tandy Beal directs this innovative and magical take on the Nutcracker story -- featuring acrobats, juggling, dance, and other visual treats -- with live music by acclaimed Bay Area vocal group SoVoSó (Soul... Voice... Song) performing Tchaikovsky's music a cappella!  November 20 through December 6.
Presented by Tandy Beal & Company and the UCSC Theater Arts Department 
 
 
PERFORMANCE DATES:
Friday, Nov. 20–Sunday, Nov. 22
Friday, Nov. 27*–Sunday, Nov. 29 (Thanksgiving weekend)
Friday, Dec. 4–Sunday, Dec. 6

Theater Arts Mainstage
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Nicole Paiement conducts Mozart's "Requiem"

plus: Sinfonia Concertante
with Roy Malan, violin, and Darcy Rindt, viola

UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Charles Lloyd, jazz saxophonist

Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Geri Allen opens

Music Center Recital Hall
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21st-Century Musicism: Improvisation for Your Imagination

An evening of improvisation featuring music / improvisation with ESP, Ashwin Batish, Divine Particle's Vision #2
 
Part of the four-day festival and conference "Improvisation, Diversity, and Change: Uncovering New Social Paradigms Within Spontaneous Musical Creativity." 

Music Center Recital Hall
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Childrens' Prescott Circus Theatre

Prescott Circus Theatre is a youth troupe from West Oakland that performs physical circus skills such as juggling, acrobatics, improvisation, balancing, unicycling, stilting, hip hop dance, and hambone body percussion.
 
Part of the four-day festival and conference "Improvisation, Diversity, and Change: Uncovering New Social Paradigms Within Spontaneous Musical Creativity." 
 

Music Center Recital Hall
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