This week, two of the area’s biggest arts organizations announced their new performance series.
After teaming up with Live Nation last year, Montalvo has found a new partner for their 2011 summer series in the Sobrato Arts Foundation for Education. Together they’ll present 11 shows from June to August, with tickets going on sale April 16. The series opens with Brian McKnight (June 9), and includes the Tubes featuring Fee Waybill (June 11), Soul Asylum with dada (June 17), Smash Mouth (July 8), The ÒE Family” featuring Sheila E and Pete Escovedo, Howard Jones (July 10), Vertical Horizon with Kevin Cadogan’s Third Eye Blind (July 15), Blues Traveler (Aug. 4), Christopher Cross (Aug. 19), Herb Apert & Lani Hall (Aug. 21) and Air Supply (Aug. 27).
Stanford Lively Arts’ 2011-2012 season features 30 performances from October through May. The line-up features several returning audience favorites like So Percussion, whose performance features electronic artists Matmos , the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and a program of music by John Cage (Oct. 26); St. Lawrence String Quartet (returning with their Sunday series Oct. 23); Pacifica Quartet (Nov. 4); Chanticleer’s Christmas event (Dec. 13); and Kronos Quartet (Feb. 12). It also continues SLA’s emphasis on new works and commissions, featuring premieres of works by Osvaldo Golijov (Oct. 23) and Sally Beamish (Feb. 29), along with Stanford composer Jonathan Berger (Jan. 29). Among other highlights will be two performances by vocal ensembles: Theatre of Voices presents Stanford alum David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Little Match Girl Passion, and Anonymous 4 returns for a 25th anniversary show (Apr. 18).
