Ferst Season Brochure 2013-2014

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THE 2013-2014 SEASON


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Night ater night o spectacular

perormances await you this year at the

Ferst Center. This intimate setting in

the heart o the Georgia Tech campus

provides the perect space to enjoy

music o all kinds, exquisite dance and

breathtaking artistry that inspires and

entertains you.

The 2013-2014 Season oers a number otop artists rarely seen in Atlanta, along

with audience avorites we know you

will enjoy. Say hello to hot new artists

like Push Dance Company and pianists

Alfredo Rodriguez and Steven Lin,

along with top-o-their-game musicians

Arturo Sandoval, Pat Metheny and

Peter White. The astounding dance

group Diavolo opens the season,

leading us into a all that includes the

return oBig Bad Voodoo Daddy

and the premiere oThe Hot Club of

San Francisco.

Push Dance Company

Peter White

WElcOmE!

DiAvOlO

Friday, September 20

ArTurO SANDOvAl

Friday, October 4

STEvEN liN

Friday, October 11

THE HOT club

Of SAN frANciScOFriday, October 18

big bAD vOODOO DADDy

Friday, November 1

SONic gENEr ATOr andlOrcHESTrE NATiONAl

DE lOrrAiNE

Sunday, November 3

A PETEr WHiTE cHriSTmASithrick brAuN and miNDi AbAir

Saturday, December 14

PuSH DANcE cOmPANy

Friday-Saturday, February 7 & 8

PAT mETHENy uNiTy grOuP

Saturday, February 15

cArOliNAcHOcOlATE DrOPS

Saturday, March 1

AlfrEDO rODriguEz TriO

Friday, March 7

SHufflE, SHAkE AND SHATTEr

bySANfOrD biggErS

Friday, March 28

PilObOluS

Saturday, April 5

EArl klugH

Saturday, April 12

JESSE cOOk

Saturday, April 26

THE 2013-2014 SEASON Order TickeTs TOday fOr The BesT Price and BesT seaTs!

fErST cENTErPresenTs

Diavolo Alredo Rodriguez

Earl Klugh kicks o an exciting three-

year exploration o several areas o jazz

music, and Georgia Techs own ensemble

in residence Sonic Generator will

perorm with LOrchestre National de

Lorraine. The season includes the return

oPilobolus, the Carolina Chocolate

Drops and last years sensational Jesse

Cook. Perormance artist Sanford

Biggers will oer a unique evening o

lm, music and visual art as part oArica

Atlanta 2014.

Your total experience is heightenedby galleries lled with surprising

visual arts exhibitions, discussions

held prior to most jazz concerts, and

oten opportunities to say hello to the

perormers ater the show.

Connecting to the perormers through

live experience is unlike anything else,

and once you have experienced it, you

cant wait or it to happen again.

Join us or the experience!

The new season at the Ferst Center is lled withgreat perormances! Season tickets are on salenow and subscribers get the best rewards!

THE bEST PricE!

Select any 5 shows and sav 15% o the price o

single tickets. Get the best seating or your avorite

shows, guaranteed.

flExibiliTy

Choose your avorite music and dance perormances

and design your own subscription at a great

discount price!

PriOriTy SEATiNg

Ticket buyers are seated in the ollowing order:

Ferst Friends who purchase ve or moreperormances (minimum $100 donation required)

Renewing Subscribers who select ve or moreperormances

New Subscribers who select ve or more

perormances

Single Ticket buyers

TickET ExcHANgE

Think your plans might change? No problem

or subscribers. The Ferst Center Box Oce will

exchange your tickets to another perormance.

(Exchanges based on ticket availability; handling ee

applied; upgrade charges may apply.)

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Friday, September 208 p.m.

Diavolo takes dance, daring and athletics

to the extreme. The dynamic company

returns with Fluid Infnities, the next

installment o the work they perormed atthe Ferst Center in 2010, and with Transit

Space, a kinetic new piece inspired by the

thrilling movement o skateboarding that

uses ramps and hal-pipes as set pieces.

Regular Price: $39, $49Subscription Price: $33.15, $41.65Special Childrens Price: $22

DIAVOLO

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appears to dey gravity, perormingwith astounding athleticism andinnite grace Stanord Lively Arts

ARTUROSANDOVAL

Friday, October 48 p.m.

Vivacious, talented and charismatic,

Arturo Sandoval has traveled the world

with his blend o inectious, mind-

blowing jazz, winning Grammy, Billboardand Emmy awards. Born in Cuba in 1949,

Sandoval is a protg o jazz master

Dizzy Gillespie and has evolved into

one o the worlds most acknowledged

guardians o jazz trumpet and fugelhorn.

Regular Price: $30, $40, $55Subscription Price: $25.50, $34, $46.75

Sandovals playing is unabashedlyspectacular, yet he uses histechnique with dramatic nesse.

The New York Times

Jazz Connect!Arrive at 7 p.m. or this ree pre-show talk withWCLK host Jay Edwards about Arturo Sandovaland his music.

Diavolo is unded in part by a grant rom SouthArts in partnership with the National Endowmentor the Arts and the Georgia Council or the Arts.

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STeVeN LINFriday, October 118 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere

Steven Lin, an immediately engaging

and imaginative young Taiwanese

American pianist, moves with ease

between concertos, recitals and chamber

music. The winner o several prestigious

piano competitions including the William

Kapell International Competition and the

Juilliard Schools Gina Bachauer Piano

Competition, he made his debut with the

New York Philharmonic at age 13.

Regular Price: $25Subscription Price: $21.25Seating on stage

His tone wasunailingly

beautiul, hisarticulation

extraordinary,as crystallineas could be in

bravura bits,elegantly rened

in legato lines.The Baltimore Sun

Friday, October 188 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere

The great gypsy jazz ensemble

presents Cinema Vivant, an evening

o vintage silent lms accompanied by

live gypsy swing music. The music o

Django Reinhardt and 1920s Paris will

highlight three classic short lms: The

Cameramans Revengeand The Mascot

by Ladislaw Starewicz, and There It Isby

Charley Bowers.

Regular Price: $30Subscription Price: $25.50Special Childrens Price $22

THe HOT CLUB

One o the most cohesiveand entertaining gypsy swing

bands in the United StatesThe San Francisco Chronicle

OF SAN FRANCISCO

Friday, November 18 p.m.

2013 marks the 20th Anniversary o this

bands remarkable arrival on the music

scene. In their rst years they reminded

the world that it was still cool to swing

Big Band style. Today the high-energy

ensemble is continuously perorming

and recording while expanding their

horizons with new musical inspiration

and infuence.

Regular Price: $35, $45, $60 (Club seating)Subscription Price: $29.75, $38.25, $51

BIG BADVOODOO DADDY

Makes you want to jump up, danceand smile til your ace hurts!

Pazz Magazine

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Sunday, November 37 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere

Sonic Generator, the high-tech

contemporary music ensemble inresidence at Georgia Tech, joins orces

with members o LOrchestre National

de Lorraine and their conductor Jacques

Mercier in a concert o innovative French

and American contemporary music. The

program eatures Steve Reichs City Lie,

a work incorporating digital samplers.

This concert is co-presented by the

Georgia Tech School o Music as part o

France-Atlanta 2013.

Regular Price: $25Subscription Price: $21.25

the most stimulating addition to Atlantas musical li eAtlanta Journal-Constitution

SONIC GeNeRATOR ANDLORCHeSTRe NATIONALDe LORRAINe

wITH RICk BRAUNAND MINDI ABAIR

Saturday, December 148 p.m.

The jazz guitar avorite returns to

deliver his brand o holiday jazz!

Peter White leads an all-star lineup

eaturing Rick Braun and Mindi Abair

perorming dazzling arrangements

o holiday avorites. White has kept

contemporary jazz ans worldwide

enthralled by his spirited melodies,

soulul grooves and instantly

recognizable acoustic guitar tone.

Regular Price: $42, $52, $67Subscription Price: $35.70, $44.20, $56.95

A night o Christmas cheer and jazzthe chemistry was o the hook.

Jazz Review

A PeTeR wHITeCHRISTMAS


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Friday, February 7Saturday, February 88 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere

Raissa Simpsons Push Dance Company

builds vibrant contemporary dances

to gain a deeper understanding o

the challenges attributed to mixed

heritage. Each moment generates resh

perspectives rom intermingling diverse

dancers in raw situations that showcase

rarely presented topics. Push Dance

provides audiences an opportunity

to examine issues o identity and

intersecting cultures.

Regular Price: $25Subscription Price: $21.25Seating on stage

wITH CHRIS POTTeR,

ANTONIO SANCHez,

BeN wILLIAMS AND

GIULIO CARMASSI

Saturday, February 158 p.m.

Guitarist Pat Methenys versatility is

almost without peer, netting him an

incredible 20 Grammy Awards, including

one or his latest jazz album in 2013.

He now pours his boundless creativity

into a new project, the ve-member Pat

Metheny Unity Group, eaturing some o

the worlds best jazz players.

Regular Price: $49, $59, $74Subscription Price: $41.65, $50.15, $62.90

Jazz Connect!Arrive at 7 p.m. or this ree pre-show talk withWCLK host Jay Edwards about Pat Metheny UnityGroup and their music.

the most inspired jazzguitarist living, a musiciancapable o structuringimprovised solos asnarratives, a composero estimable lyricism

and bountiul imagination

Bualo News

PUSHDANCe COMPANY

Sleek and sexy edge

San Francisco Guardian

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Saturday, March 18 p.m.

Proudly reclaiming the Arican-

American string band tradition, the

Chocolate Drops reveal the celebratory,

interconnected currents running

through blues, country and bluegrass,

bringing brash, youthul energy to old-

time music rooted in the red soil o the

southern Piedmont.

Regular Price: $30Subscription Price: $25.50Special Childrens Price $22

Friday, March 288 p.m. AtlAntA Premiere

With live music by the band Moon

Medicine, multimedia and perormance

artist Sanord Biggers presents a

montage o his three-part lm suite

Shufe, Shakeand Shatteras part o

the Arica Atlanta 2014celebration.

The lm ollows the Brazilian Ricardo

as he navigates German society, and

continues to Sao Paulo and West Arica

in an exploration o the ormation and

dissolution o identity.

Regular Price: $15Subscription Price: $12.75

an American roots-musicphenomenonThe Wall Street Journal

CAROLINACHOCOLATe DROPS

SHUFFLe, SHAke AND SHATTeRBYSANFORD BIGGeRS

Friday, March 78 p.m.

A young pianist o astonishing virtuosity,

Cuban-born Alredo Rodrguez calls up

images o legendary jazz pianists Keith

Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum

and his compatriot Chucho Valds.

Schooled in the classical conservatories

o Havana, Rodrguez was discovered

at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006

by Quincy Jones and his star has risen

rapidly under the tutelage o the amed

producer.

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A quiet orce in the art worldArt in America

Rodriguezs talent or ndingemotional truth in the split-secondall o a piano key has broughthim to the verge o an improbablesuccess story Los Angeles Times

ALFReDO RODRIGUez TRIO

Jazz Connect at 7 p.m.


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PILOBOLUS

Saturday, April 5

8 p.m.

Like its biological namesakea eisty

little ungus that thrives in armyards

Pilobolus continues to grow toward the

light, expanding and rening its unique

methods o collective creativity. Now

in its 42nd year, the popular dance

company delights audiences around the

globe with its inventive, athletic, witty

and collaborative perormance works.

Regular Price: $39, $49

Subscription Price: $33.15, $41.65

Special Childrens Price $22

The best Pilobolus works, withno loss o wonder or pleasureas popular entertainment, aresustained fights o poetry anddrama The New York Times

Saturday, April 128 p.m.

Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso

Earl Klugh and special guests ignite

the stage in this Night o Guitars

exploring Klughs various guitar

infuences and their styles and

techniques through solo, duet, trio and

ull band perormances. The concert

concludes the rst year o a new

collaboration between Klugh and Georgia

Tech aptly titled HandPicked in honor o

his newest album release.

Regular Price: $37, $47, $62

Subscription Price: $31.45, $39.95, $52.70

Jazz Connect!Arrive at 7 p.m. or this ree pre-show talk withWCLK host Jay Edwards about Earl Klugh andhis music.

eARL kLUGH

Support or Earl Klugh is generously provided byPatrick and Gloria Stansbury.

A guitarist with impeccabletechnique The New York Times


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Saturday, April 268 p.m.

Fiery and percussive guitar work, Latin

rhythms and smoldering onstage

charisma describe this virtuoso guitarist.

Jesse Cook returns to the Ferst stageollowing his stunning perormance here

in the 2012-13 season that let audiences

calling or more!

Regular Price: $36

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JeSSe COOk

Cooks relentless precision and perect

tonality will not be denied.

The Montreal Gazette

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Vibrant signs o a strategic initiative

to enhance creativity are visible acrosscampus this year, rom the new outdoor

exhibit Engineered Art: An International

Sculpture Exhibit at Georgia Techto the

2014 TechArts Festival showcasing the

creative spirit.

In addition to the Ferst Center Presents

proessional artist series, sharing the

imagination and talent o the students

and aculty at Georgia Tech is a major

part o the initiative, and the campus

welcomes the community to enjoy the

visual art, music, theatre, digital and

literary arts created here.

In 2014, Georgia Techs Ivan Allen

College o Liberal Arts will present Arica

Atlanta 2014, a citywide celebration

reinventing the cultural and economic

bonds between the Arican, European

and American cultures in Atlanta with a

rich array o arts activities.

For more inormation on all Georgia Tech

arts events, please see arts.gatech.edu.

THe ARTS AReTHRIVING ATGeORGIA TeCH!

arts.gatech.edu


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