Mondavi Center Lectures

Speaker David Deffner, adjunct faculty, American River College, discusses Estonia, the musicians of ENSO, and the music of the ENSO performance.

Speaker: Steve Roach, Director of Jazz Studies, California State University, Sacramento, speaks on the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

Speaker Jessie Ann Owens, Dean, Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, UC Davis, discusses Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg concertos.

Hewitt discusses playing Bach’s much-beloved masterpiece, Goldberg Variations.

Speaker: Pablo Ortiz, Professor, Department of Music, UC Davis, talks about the influence of composer Phillip Glass.

Speaker: Joe Craven, Joe Craven Trio speaks about the origins of bluegrass and it's associated instruments.

Speaker: Maestro Michael Goodwin, musical director of the Auburn Symphony discusses the Munich Symphony Orchestra and great classical composers.

What’s unique about the way fairy tales and fables have touched the arts, as compared to other forces (politics, literature, psychology, et al)? UC Davis faculty Della Davidson (who set Transformations, Anne Sexton’s poetic meditation on Grimm’s Fairy Tales to dance), Lucy Corin (whose fiction is touched by fable) and Brenda Schildgen (Co-editor, The World of Fables) discuss how the world of fairy tales and fables has touched the arts and their own work. Jeffrey Callison, of KXJZ’s Insight, will moderate.

Speaker Jon Fox discusses the musical history of Mavis Staples.

Moderated by Jeffrey Callison, host of Insight on KXJZ.

Dr. Milmon Harrison, African American & African Studies, and singer Mavis Staples consider the role of music in the 1960s Civil Rights movement.