NorCal Net Nuts, mark you calendar for 3/8/2015

[conroy]

http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/green- ... id=2583258

[sockii]

Wow, thanks for the heads up!

Not a NorCal person, but this just might be a good excuse to visit a friend in Redwood City for a few days I've been negligent in seeing for a few years...

[njperry]

This sounds awesome.

Stewart and Jon Kimura Parker will also be performing in Austin, Texas on March 6, 2015.

http://texasperformingarts.org/season/s ... ker-austin

Here is info from that page:
[quote]Texas Performing Arts presents an evening of chamber music for a new generation! Stewart Copeland, the artist who innovated the world of rock drumming with The Police, joins forces with internationally renowned pianist Jon Kimura Parker in a new cutting edge chamber music project that features Copeland’s compositions as well as standard classical repertoire including Parker’s brilliant suite based on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

Copeland and Parker explore the role of improvisation in classical music while providing room to move past the notes on the page. Instrumentation includes piano, violin, double-bass, and drums/percussion. Judd Miller, the extraordinary proponent of the EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument), adds a collage of brass, wind, and electronic sounds.

Stewart Copeland has spent three decades in the forefront of contemporary music as a rock star, acclaimed film composer and film maker, and a much sought-after collaborator in the disparate worlds of opera, ballet, world music, and chamber music composition. His career includes the sale of more than 60 million records worldwide, and numerous awards, including five Grammys.

A veteran of the international concert stage, Jon Kimura Parker has performed as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Wolfgang Sawallisch in Carnegie Hall, toured Europe with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and André Previn, and shared the stage with Jessye Norman at Berlin’s Philharmonie. Parker hosted the television series Whole Notes on Bravo! and CBC Radio’s Up and Coming. [/quote]

Here is more info about the performances:
http://www.opus3artists.com/utils/Downl ... r_1415.pdf

There is this possible set list on that page:
[quote]repertoire may include…
Birds of Prey
Copeland (from Oklahoma Ballet commission)

Celeste
Copeland (from La Jolla Music Summerfest)

Hit Me For Piano and Percussion
Parker (new work)

Piano Concerto in G (slow movement)
Ravel

Our Mother
Copeland (from the film Rumblefish)

Darkness
Copeland (from The Police – Ghost in the Machine)

Blue Rondo a la Turk
Dave Brubeck [/quote]

[njperry]

And they will also be appearing on March 25, 2015 in Lawrence Kansas at the University of Kansas

http://lied.ku.edu/events/copeland-parker.shtml

This is smelling like a tour. Yeah.

Hopefully there will be some East coast appearances also.

The three so far that are know are all at universities.

[njperry]

It now looks like I might be able to make the Northern California show. My wife really likes Sonoma and thinks a March trip there might be nice.

[giovanni]

This should be a great show! It WILL BE a great show!