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December 13, 2008 |
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Gordon Getty Concert: Ciaramella
Saturday December 13, 2008
8 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
As a lover of art and music, the Duke of Berry claimed as protegé the greatest poet and composer of the 14th century, Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377). Early music ensemble Ciaramella will explore Machaut's impressive collection of narrative and lyric poetry, songs, and sacred music, which influenced writers and musicians for more than a century after his death.
 Learn more about Gordon Getty Concerts
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January 17, 2009 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Andy Statman
Saturday January 17, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
For more than thirty years, clarinet and mandolin master, Andy Statman, has broken new ground by skillfully integrating klezmer, bluegrass, and jazz. Statman continues to delight and inspire with work that the New York Times calls "the music of Jewish mystics, but interpreted not as a tradition to be preserved but as a spiritual path to be followed in as personal a manner as possible."
Reservations available beginning December 23.
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January 18, 2009 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Andy Statman
Sunday January 18, 2009
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
For more than thirty years, clarinet and mandolin master, Andy Statman, has broken new ground by skillfully integrating klezmer, bluegrass, and jazz. Statman continues to delight and inspire with work that the New York Times calls "the music of Jewish mystics, but interpreted not as a tradition to be preserved but as a spiritual path to be followed in as personal a manner as possible."
Reservations available beginning December 23.
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January 23, 2009 |
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How the West Was Shot: Six Westerns, Six Decades
Friday January 23, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The western landscape has long provided a raw and encouraging palette seemingly created for the artist. This six-part film series complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Free, reservations required.
The Iron Horse (1924). Directed by John Ford.
In his first epic western, Ford tells the story of the creation of the first transcontinental railroad completed in 1869. The film lays the groundwork for the tropes that would always be considered "Fordian": landscape as character, sensitivity to the worker over the businessman, and, above all, a deep sensitivity of how history is turned into myth. Silent with live piano accompaniment.
This film has been preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
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January 24, 2009 |
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How the West Was Shot: Six Westerns, Six Decades
Saturday January 24, 2009
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The western landscape has long provided a raw and encouraging palette seemingly created for the artist. This six-part film series complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Free, reservations required.
The Big Trail (1930). Directed by Raoul Walsh. Walsh and cinematographer Arthur Edeson create a riveting tale of pioneers crossing the Oregon Trail with the help of trapper John Wayne whose incredible visage, physique, and presence announce him in his debut as a major star.
This film has been preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
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How the West Was Shot: Six Westerns, Six Decades
Saturday January 24, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The western landscape has long provided a raw and encouraging palette seemingly created for the artist. This six-part film series complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Free, reservations required.
Red River (1948). Directed by Howard Hawks.
Historically based on the opening of the Chisholm Trail in 1867, Hawks' film invokes a typical Western theme—the Tough Journey through Tough Land—but with his penchant for drawing character, the interior story of conflict between the gritty, headstrong father John Wayne, and the softer, compassionate son Montgomery Clift, rivals the stunningly shot external story.
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January 30, 2009 |
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How the West Was Shot: Six Westerns, Six Decades
Friday January 30, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The western landscape has long provided a raw and encouraging palette seemingly created for the artist. This six-part film series complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Free, reservations required.
Once upon a Time in the West (1968). Directed by Sergio Leone.
Like its fairy tale title, Leone's operatic ode to the west captures a period of time both current—the "civilization" of the wilderness through the railroad and commerce—and mournful, as it simultaneously parables the death of the western. Gathering up influences of westerns past, Leone here etches his own vision of the myth, as the grizzled human face stands equal with the fading brushwood of the land, both destined to fade into the sunset.
This film is not appropriate for children.
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January 31, 2009 |
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How the West Was Shot: Six Westerns, Six Decades
Saturday January 31, 2009
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The western landscape has long provided a raw and encouraging palette seemingly created for the artist. This six-part film series complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Free, reservations required.
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). Directed by John Sturges.
The western genre can be a beautiful thing: at once it can be the setting for the hero, the bad guy, and the horse, or it can be a film which uses western signifiers and settings as allegory for the social circumstances of the day. Here Sturges brilliantly utilized western tropes—the one-armed stranger vs. the town of hostile ruffians—as an allegory for the blacklist blazing through 1950s Hollywood.
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How the West Was Shot: Six Westerns, Six Decades
Saturday January 31, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The western landscape has long provided a raw and encouraging palette seemingly created for the artist. This six-part film series complements the exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Free, reservations required.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). Directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Fifty years after John Ford initially celebrated the birth of the west, Sam Peckinpah, a true lover of the west and the western, elegizes it here. Progress in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid equals the dehumanizing take over of wilderness and the end of the way of life inherent to the western. As James Coburn as Pat Garrett claims, "This country's getting old and I'm getting old with it." Not, however, without a fight.
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February 4, 2009 |
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Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry
Wednesday February 4, 2009
5 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917 is an evening of Russian Futurist zaum'("beyonsense") poetry and contemporary sound poetry performed by Christian Bök, Steve McCaffery, and Oleg Minin, with an introduction by Gerald Janecek.
Reception and Exhibition Viewing
5:00–6:45 p.m.
Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery
Performance: Russian Sound and Zaum' Poetry
7:00–8:45 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall
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February 7, 2009 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Rahim AlHaj and Souhail Kaspar
Saturday February 7, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In 1991, renowned oud virtuoso and composer Rahim AlHaj escaped Iraq with nothing more with an unassailable passion for music. For this rare L.A. concert, the Grammy-nominated AlHaj joins forces with respected Lebanese percussionist Souhail Kaspar to present music from his latest release Home Again.
Reservations available beginning January 22.
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February 8, 2009 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Rahim AlHaj and Souhail Kaspar
Sunday February 8, 2009
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In 1991, renowned oud virtuoso and composer Rahim AlHaj escaped Iraq with nothing more with an unassailable passion for music. For this rare L.A. concert, the Grammy-nominated AlHaj joins forces with respected Lebanese percussionist Souhail Kaspar to present music from his latest release Home Again.
Reservations available beginning January 22.
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February 21, 2009 |
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Gordon Getty Concert: Musica Pacifica
Saturday February 21, 2009
8 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Award-winning Baroque ensemble, Musica Pacifica explores the stylistic influences between Dresden and Bologna in this program featuring works by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Cazzati, Veracini, Albinoni, and Corelli. Tickets $20; $15 students/seniors.
Tickets on sale beginning December 2.
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February 28, 2009 |
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Saturday Nights at the Getty: Martha Wainwright
Saturday February 28, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
After her eponymous first album, Martha Wainwright is back with I Know YouÕre Married But IÕve Got Feelings Too, that is both tender and tough, beautiful and brutal, and simmering with invention and confidence. A sharp-tongued performer who doesnÕt hold anything back in concert, Wainwright has emerged as the latest star from a legendary family of performers.
Reservations available beginning January 22.
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April 4, 2009 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Chango Spasiuk
Saturday April 4, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Chango Spasiuk is the unquestioned master of chamamé, music that comes from the heart of northeastern Argentina. Spasiuk's energetic virtuosity unleashes wild howls of creative fervor coupled with an almost terrifying mastery of the accordion. The resulting sound is at once hauntingly familiar and movingly distinct.
Reservations available beginning March 24.
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April 5, 2009 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Chango Spasiuk
Sunday April 5, 2009
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Chango Spasiuk is the unquestioned master of chamamé, music that comes from the heart of northeastern Argentina. Spasiuk's energetic virtuosity unleashes wild howls of creative fervor coupled with an almost terrifying mastery of the accordion. The resulting sound is at once hauntingly familiar and movingly distinct.
Reservations available beginning March 24.
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February 20, 2009 |
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Villa Theater Lab: The Ghost Road Company presents Orestes
Fridays and Saturdays February 20 - February 21, 2009
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Orestes is the third part of the Home Siege Home trilogy based on The Oresteia by one of California's most ambitious experimental theater ensembles. Orestes is tormented after killing his mother, Clytemestra, the Furies seek revenge for their fallen leader, and Apollo and Athena struggle to extract some peace and justice from the rubble. Tickets $7.
Friday, February 20, and Saturday, February 21, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 21, and Sunday, February 22, 3:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale beginning January 22.
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February 21, 2009 |
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Villa Theater Lab: The Ghost Road Company presents Orestes
Weekends February 21 - February 22, 2009
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Orestes is the third part of the Home Siege Home trilogy based on The Oresteia by one of California's most ambitious experimental theater ensembles. Orestes is tormented after killing his mother, Clytemestra, the Furies seek revenge for their fallen leader, and Apollo and Athena struggle to extract some peace and justice from the rubble. Tickets $7.
Friday, February 20, and Saturday, February 21, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 21, and Sunday, February 22, 3:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale beginning January 22.
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April 17, 2009 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Troubadour Theater Company presents Oedipus, "The King"
Fridays and Saturdays April 17 - April 18, 2009
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
What happens when Sophocles meets Graceland? Find out when the Los Angeles-based Troubadour Theater Company—a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred, Commedia dell'Arte-flavored ensemble of actors, musicians, and comedians—tackles the ancient Greek tragedy. Their fast-paced, laugh-filled, loose adaptations of classic plays (As U2 Like It, Fleetwood Macbeth) and films (It's a Stevie Wonderful Life) as well as their original productions and sketch material, guarantee that this will not be your father's Oedipus cycle.
Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19, 3:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale beginning March 24.
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April 18, 2009 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Troubadour Theater Company presents Oedipus, "The King"
Weekends April 18 - April 19, 2009
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
What happens when Sophocles meets Graceland? Find out when the Los Angeles-based Troubadour Theater Company—a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred, Commedia dell'Arte-flavored ensemble of actors, musicians, and comedians—tackles the ancient Greek tragedy. Their fast-paced, laugh-filled, loose adaptations of classic plays (As U2 Like It, Fleetwood Macbeth) and films (It's a Stevie Wonderful Life) as well as their original productions and sketch material, guarantee that this will not be your father's Oedipus cycle.
Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19, 3:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale beginning March 24.
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May 15, 2009 |
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Villa Theater Lab: The SITI Company presents Antigone
Fridays and Saturdays May 15 - May 16, 2009
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Director Anne Bogart and the members of her New York City-based ensemble—founded to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through international cultural exchange—bring to the Villa the first public presentations of their latest project, an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone by Irish dramaturge and translator Jocelyn Clarke.
Friday, May 15, and Saturday, May 16, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, and Sunday, May 17, 3:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale beginning April 23.
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May 16, 2009 |
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Villa Theater Lab: The SITI Company presents Antigone
Weekends May 16 - May 17, 2009
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Director Anne Bogart and the members of her New York City-based ensemble—founded to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through international cultural exchange—bring to the Villa the first public presentations of their latest project, an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone by Irish dramaturge and translator Jocelyn Clarke.
Friday, May 15, and Saturday, May 16, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, and Sunday, May 17, 3:00 p.m.
Tickets on sale beginning April 23.
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