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Arts Week: April 3, 2014

MUSIC

Anglerfish
April 5, 9 p.m., free
Level 6, West Entry Parking Structure
This Saturday night the heavy rock sounds of local band Anglerfish’s upcoming concert will be echoing throughout the West Entry Parking Structure at UC Davis.

AKOKA: The End of Time
April 5, 8 p.m., tickets $25 to $49
Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
Inspired by the premier renowned clarinetist Henry Akoka’s prison camp recordings, fellow prison camp survivor Olivier Messiaen will perform his “Quartet for the End of Time.” The performance will be accompanied by pieces from David Krakauer and hip-hop artist Socalled.

DANCE

The Power of 1
April 6, 3 p.m., $12
Studio Theatre, Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop
The Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre (PTDT) will be presenting “The Power of 1,” a contemporary piece that considers individual personal and cultural perspectives, to start their 29th season as a dance studio. The performance features the talents of the PTDT, the PTDT apprentice company and Third Stage Dance Company.

 

ART

Hollingshead: The Art of Portrait
April 7 to May 4, free
Nelson Gallery
Curated by art history graduate student Emily Dorn, this exhibition will feature the portraits of Paul W. Hollingshead, a photographer who worked with famed modernist and Vanity and Vogue photographer Edward Steichen. Hollingshead’s images often captured the best in his sitters, enhancing the glamor of everyday people.

 

OPERA

Otello
April 7, 7 pm., tickets $10 to $20
Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
The San Francisco Opera will be performing Verdi’s adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy Othello. The Mondavi Center performance will feature the vocal abilities of South African tenor Johan Botha and Bulgarian soprano Svetelina Vassileva in leading roles.

 

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