/ Department of Music Content for 51³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏÍø en /arts/blog/weekender-hum-gershwin-tune-listen-grammy-award-winning-violinist-visit-gorman <figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media align-right"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/trio_magnoliana_headshot_2-edited.jpg.jpg" width="675" height="1200" alt="People in band with blurred background" typeof="Image"> </div> <figcaption><em>Trio Magnoliana. (Eunah Cho/courtesy)</em></figcaption> </figure> <p>&nbsp;</p> May 20, 2025 - 2:25pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/weekender-hum-gershwin-tune-listen-grammy-award-winning-violinist-visit-gorman /arts/blog/weekender-wearable-design-spring-music-next-season-mondavi-tickets-go-sale <figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/Digital%20Stealth%20Gods%20by%20Dylan%20Mulder%20at%20World%20of%20WearableArt%202016.jpg" width="2813" height="4838" alt="Photo of composite figures" typeof="Image"> </div> <figcaption>Digital Stealth Gods by Dylan Mulder at World of Wearable Art 2016 (Courtesy photo)</figcaption> </figure> <h2><span lang="EN"><strong>Industrial designer Dylan Mulder brings wearable technology </strong></span></h2> May 15, 2025 - 4:03pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/weekender-wearable-design-spring-music-next-season-mondavi-tickets-go-sale /arts/blog/weekender-music-new-book-puppet-more <h4>This "weekender" covers two weeks of events while the Arts Blog is on hiatus next week.</h4><h2 class="heading--underline"><strong>Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington plays flute concert</strong></h2><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Thursday, April 17, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center</strong></span></p> April 17, 2025 - 3:41pm Jamie Sara Gelfond /arts/blog/weekender-music-new-book-puppet-more /arts/blog/weekender-soul-music-drag-and-artmix-bring-fun-arts <h2 class="heading--underline"><span lang="EN"><strong>Indulge your senses in Shaam-E-Ghazal poetry night</strong></span></h2><figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media align-left"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-03%20at%2010.17.05%20PM.png" width="1000" height="1002" alt="Flyer for Shaam-E-Ghazal." typeof="Image"> </div> <figcaption>Flyer for Shaam-E-Ghazal (courtesy)</figcaption> </figure> <p><span lang="EN"><strong>Thursday, F</strong></span></p> February 06, 2025 - 8:27am Jamie Sara Gelfond /arts/blog/weekender-soul-music-drag-and-artmix-bring-fun-arts /arts/blog/weekender-ruby-neri-and-her-art-thiebaud-endowed-lecture-new-art-coming-gorman <h2 class="heading--underline">Welcome to the weekend (almost)</h2><p><em><span lang="EN">In this week’s Arts Blog, you can catch artist Ruby Neri talking about her art at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and an opera at The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. (Tickets are almost out for the opera though). Also, the annual Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed lecture features Mexican American painter Enrique Chagoya. All these events are free. And there’s much more.&nbsp;</span></em></p> January 30, 2025 - 9:00am Jamie Sara Gelfond /arts/blog/weekender-ruby-neri-and-her-art-thiebaud-endowed-lecture-new-art-coming-gorman /arts/blog/first-opera-black-american-discovered-uc-davis-historian-finally-gets-its-due <figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/Dede_Morgaine_p230_231_msHarvardHoughton.jpg" width="4728" height="3131" alt="Digitized transcription of original opera from 1800s" typeof="Image"> </div> <figcaption>Digitized version of original opera by Edmond Dédé uncovered in historian Sally McKee's research.</figcaption></figure> January 30, 2025 - 2:59am Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/first-opera-black-american-discovered-uc-davis-historian-finally-gets-its-due /arts/blog/weekender-10th-annual-tea-colloquium-exhibits-opening <h2 class="heading--underline"><strong>This year’s annual Valente Lecture features Emily </strong><span><strong>Zazulia</strong></span><strong> on Medieval Music</strong></h2><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Thursday, Jan. 23, 4-5:30 p.m., Everson Hall Room 266</strong></span></p> January 23, 2025 - 9:23am Jamie Sara Gelfond /arts/blog/weekender-10th-annual-tea-colloquium-exhibits-opening /arts/blog/weekender-art-for-family-comedy-book-readings-and-more Watch a historical, if disturbing, movie; meet the filmmakers, and go to after-hours Art Jam. All free....Many other no or low-cost options. November 14, 2024 - 8:44am Jamie Sara Gelfond /arts/blog/weekender-art-for-family-comedy-book-readings-and-more /arts/blog/rohde-awarded-commission-koussevitzky-foundation-library-congress A 51³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏÍø professor recently received a 2024 commission from the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation ) to write a new work for Brightwork New Music September 18, 2024 - 7:41am Jamie Sara Gelfond /arts/blog/rohde-awarded-commission-koussevitzky-foundation-library-congress /arts/blog/weekender-uc-davis-faculty-perform-throughout-world-august 51³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏÍø faculty perform throughout the world in August, and catch an alum in a Woodland Opera House production. July 25, 2024 - 1:17pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/weekender-uc-davis-faculty-perform-throughout-world-august