Best Bets: March 2nd – March 8th

We have a global edition of Best Bets: March 2nd – March 8th. There’s also two major birthday celebrations, a very important reunion and a celebration of art.

GOLDA SCHULTZ DARK MATTERS RECITAL – Various Locations – March 3^rd –  March 25^th

Soprano Golda Schultz embarks on a six-city tour with a recital entitled Dark Matters. Jonathan Ware joins as her accompanist.

The program explores the thoughts we have at night. She will performs songs by Johannes Brahms, George Crumb, Florence B. Price, Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss (Four Last Songs) and Rita Strohl.

The tour begins at Concergetbouw in Amsterdam on March 3^rd. On March 5^th they will perform at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. March 7^th finds them at Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart.

The dates in the United States begin on March 17th and 18^th at Perelman Theater in Philadelphia. On March 22^nd they will perform at Shriver Hall in Baltimore. They close out the tour at The Civic Theatre in New Orleans as part of the New Orleans Opera Festival on March 25^th.

For tickets and more information, click on the venue or festival name above.

BILL FRISELL 75^th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION TOUR – Various Locations – March 2^nd – March 29^th

On the heels of the release of his excellent new album In My Dreams and on the cusp of turning 75, guitarist/composer Frisell is going on tour. Knowing his work, he will spend as much time looking forward as he does backwards.

For most of these dates he is joined by drummer Tim Angulo and bassist Luke Bergman.

The tour begins on March 2^nd at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla On March 4^th and 5^th he will be at Blue Note in Los Angeles. On March 7^th he’ll be at SFJAZZ Herbst Theatre in San Francisco with special guests Ambrose Akinmusire, Petra Haden, Eyvind Kang, Hank Roberts and Jenny Scheinman. On March 8^th he’ll be at The Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, CA.

March 12^th finds the trio at the Aladdin Theater in Portland, OR as part of the PDX Jazz Festival. Charlie Hunter Trio will open for that concert. March 13^th they will be at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. March 19^th they will perform at the Federal Theatre in Denver.

Two different programs celebrate his birthday at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room in New York. On March 27^th he will perform In My Dreams with Scheinman, Kang, Roberts, Tony Scherr and Rudy Royston. On March 28^th the program is called Duets and will feature Petra Haden, Angulo and Akinmusire. The celebrations come to an end on March 29th at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, PA in a program called Celebrating Seventy-Five Years & Beyond with Petra Haden.

For tickets and more information, please click on the date for each concert. To see Frisell’s full tour schedule, please go HERE.

WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS – Greenwich House Theater – New York, NY – Now – May 10^th OPENING NIGHT: March 5^th

Those of us old enough to remember My Dinner with Andre will be thrilled to know that Wallace Shawn and André Gregory have reunited for this new play written by Shawn and directed by Gregory.

Three family members are joined by the father’s mistress to discuss the intimacies of their lives. There’s not much else to tell you since the press materials and website feature the same language that talk around the play without getting into specifics.

But it was written Shawn! So that’s reason enough to go see this play. Hope Davis, Maria Dizzi, John Early and Josh Hamilton star in the play.

As a bonus, Shawn will perform a one-man play called The Fever in the same space on Sunday and Monday nights.

For tickets and more information, please go HERE.

THE GREAT WALL OF LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series – Walt Disney Concert Hall – Los Angeles, CA – March 7^th

Artist Judy Baca’s mural The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a source of great inspiration for outgoing LA Phil Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. For his final season with the LA Phil he, along with composer Gabriela Ortiz, brought together six composers to write a piece of music inspired by the mural, the city of Los Angeles and its residences.

The composers are Juhi Bansal, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Viet Cuong, Estevan Olmos, Xavier Muzik and Nina Shekhar.

Accompanying this concert will be a film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

For tickets and more information, please go HERE.

IMAGINE US: CELEBRATING AMERICA AT 250 – Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra – Carson Auditorium – Interlochen, Michigan – March 7^th

This is one of many celebrations of America’s 250^th birthday. And it sets a very high standard for what other institutions will be doing.

The concert intersperses new works by Interlochen students amongst a program that includes Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 4, Reena Esmail’s RE|Member and closes with the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Cello Concerto. The soloist will be Yo-Yo Ma.

Of the student works, the concert opens with Sydney Lea Kassekert’s Imagine which has been arranged for cello, vocals and guitar. Kassekert will sing and play guitar and Ma will accompany her on cello. Five other student works are also included in the show.

The Interlochen Arts Academy Choir also performs. Cristian Mǎcelaru conducts. (Look for our interview with him later this week.)

For tickets and more information, please go HERE.

That’s Cultural Attaché’s Best Bets: March 2nd – March 8th.

Enjoy your week! Go see a show!

Main Photo: Bill Frisell (Photo by Carole D’Inverno/Courtesy BillFrisell.com)