Chimes Tour
Chapel of the Chimes Mausoleum Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A remarkable vision was fashioned at the beginning of the 20th century in Oakland at the end of Piedmont Avenue—the California Memorial Columbarium, now known as Chapel of the Chimes. Designed by the gifted Julia Morgan and later expanded under the creative vision of Frank Lloyd Wright protégé Aaron Green, Chapel of the Chimes has been serving families in need for over a century. Now a City of Oakland Distinguished Landmark, Chapel of the Chimes is a community treasure preserved from the past and entrusted hereafter to present and future generations. Beautiful gardens, alcoves, stairwells, fountains and chapels rising into vaulted ceilings and illuminated by natural light await you! Space is limited for these docent-guided tours. Reservations are highly recommended. Please phone to let us know if you can join us.
Contact: Allison Rodman (510) 228-3207
The Chimes Tour happens the third Saturday of every month from 10 am to noon.
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Jazz at the Chimes - Oakland Jazz Choir
Chimes Chapel Sunday, July 20, 2008 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Oakland Jazz Choir is a class act...13 superb voices with a crackerjack rhythm and a hot pianist who can really swing. Their repertoire spans many styles with straight-ahead jazz fans and those who may not be fans of jazz saying: "Thumbs up!"
Jim Ocean, Creative Musical Alternatives
Local jazz vocal ensemble, The Oakland Jazz Choir, presents an afternoon of cool harmonies and solo performances of arrangements including Spain by Chick Corea, Minuano by Pat Metheny, Bernie's Tune by Bernie Miller, Don't Explain by Billie Holiday, Along Came Betty by Benny Golson and many more.
Having performed all of their concerts out of town the past 2 years, the choir is looking forward to bringing it to the hometown crowd. This is a fundraiser for the choir, which is a nonprofit organization run by a core group of its members. What makes this incarnation stand apart from its predecessors is that artistic collaboration from all singers is welcomed.
OJC has collaborated with notable jazz, blues and gospel artists including Mark Murphy, Marlena Shaw, Madeline Eastman, Faye Carol, Brenda Boykin and Terrence Kelly. Venues have included Yoshi's, the International Association of Jazz Educators convention, The Great American Music Hall, the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, and the Grass Valley Center for the Arts. The choir has performed at numerous jazz festivals including SF Jazz, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Sonoma Jazz Festival, the Vallejo Jazz Festival and the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival. OJC also brings jazz into the Oakland public schools during Black History Month and Jazz Appreciation Month. Through the Bread and Roses Organization, OJC has brought its musical inspiration to those incarcerated in local jails and prisons.
The concert will be followed by a reception where you can meet the choir, enjoy refreshments.
Silent Auction with fabulous prizes. Visit the OJC website to see prizes and bid in advance.
Tickets $28 general/$20 students & seniors in advance available through www.brownpapertickets.com; $33 general/$25 seniors & students at the door, based on availability.
Info: (510) 228-3218
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Oakland Jazz Choir
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Opera at the Chimes - The Ugly Duckling
Chimes Chapel Sunday, August 24, 2008 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Oakland Lyric Opera's 2008 Sunday Afternoon Musicale & Tea Series presents "The Ugly Duckling," Prokofiev, Opus 18. Join soprano Paula Goodman Wilder and piano accompanist Alexander Katsman for their special interpretation of this early work for voice and piano which was later orchestrated in 1932. It is set mostly word for word, with only a few parts left out of the tale. In the dialogue between piano and voice, the composer uses an extreme economy of means in some places--alternating in the right hand between just two notes--like a drone, while the voice weaves in and out of dissonance with the piano. The simplicity is deeply affecting. The piano has to create sound-pictures of ducks waddling and flapping, little birds sitting on a fence and fluttering off, birds pecking and attacking; then, the bleak frozen landscape, and finally, with spring, the soaring flight of larks and swans and flowers bursting into bloom. The ending when the "duckling" discovers he is a swan is completely ecstatic.
An artists reception will immediately follow the performance.
Tickets $20 General, $18 Students, Kids 12 to 17 Free / Checks or cash only /Includes post-concert reception. Reservations requested. Tickets may be purchased at the door / Box office open at 12:30 p.m.; Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Free parking in lot across the street Reservations / Info: (510) 836-6772 or -6773; oaklandlyricopera@juno.com
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Oakland Lyric Opera
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Chimes Tour
Chapel of the Chimes Mausoleum Saturday, September 20, 2008 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A remarkable vision was fashioned at the beginning of the 20th century in Oakland at the end of Piedmont Avenue—the California Memorial Columbarium, now known as Chapel of the Chimes. Designed by the gifted Julia Morgan and later expanded under the creative vision of Frank Lloyd Wright protégé Aaron Green, Chapel of the Chimes has been serving families in need for over a century. Now a City of Oakland Distinguished Landmark, Chapel of the Chimes is a community treasure preserved from the past and entrusted hereafter to present and future generations. Beautiful gardens, alcoves, stairwells, fountains and chapels rising into vaulted ceilings and illuminated by natural light await you! Space is limited for these docent-guided tours. Reservations are highly recommended. Please phone to let us know if you can join us.
Contact: Allison Rodman (510) 228-3207
The Chimes Tour happens the third Saturday of every month from 10 am to noon.
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Jazz at the Chimes - Vive Le Jazz
Chimes Chapel Sunday, September 21, 2008 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
"...Think Paris...and red wine...and new love, lost in a kiss on a wet cobblestone street" and you have Vive Le Jazz!
Bay Area based Vive Le Jazz performs original vocal and instrumental compositions written by the group's leader George Cole. Their music is influenced by the sound of the legendary Hot Club of France and guitarist Django Reinhardt. VLJ repertoire also highlights classic selections from the Great American Songbook.
The concert will be followed by an artist reception where concert-goers are invited to meet the artists and their bandmates, enjoy refreshments and purchase CDs.
Tickets $15 general/ $10 seniors & students available at the door only starting at 12:30 pm on the day of the show. Cash only. Kids under 12 are free. Plenty of free parking.
Contact: (510) 228-3218; mdorazi@lifemarkgroup.com
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Vive Le Jazz!
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Jazz at the Chimes - vocalist Jamie Davis
Chimes Chapel Sunday, October 19, 2008 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jamie Davis, dubbed the “chocolate baritone,” holds a position amongst the pantheon of great male vocalists with a full deep baritone voice that has been paired with some of the world’s most famous talent. Davis counts Patty Austin, Tony Bennett, George Benson, The Count Basie Orchestra, Rosemary Clooney, Jimmy Cobb, and Billy Cobham, Wycliffe Gordon, Plaz Johnson, Jimmy Heath and John Handy as some of the premier performers with whom he has shared the stage.
During his career, Davis has traveled and performed extensively around the world as a headliner and as the lead vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra. His full rich, deep baritone voice was tapped to narrate ‘A Time to Remember,’ a docudrama which won the Black American Independent Filmmakers Award. In 1999 in recognition of his steady accomplishments in the San Francisco area jazz scene, Davis was invited to be a part of the prestigious ‘Bay Area’s Giants of Jazz’ photograph, a event inspired by
the acclaimed, historical ‘A Great Day in Harlem’ photo of 1952.
Davis’ solo CDs include It’s All About Love, It’s A Good Thing and his newest Vibe Over Perfection (release July 2008).
The concert will be followed by an artist reception where concert-goers are invited to meet the artist and his band, enjoy refreshments and purchase CDs.
Tickets $15 general/ $10 seniors & students available at the door only starting at 12:30 pm on the day of the show. Cash only. Kids under 12 are free. Plenty of free parking.
Contact: (510) 228-3218; mdorazi@lifemarkgroup.com
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Jamie Davis
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Jazz at the Chimes - Marcus Shelby Trio
Chimes Chapel Sunday, November 16, 2008 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Bay Area bassist, bandleader, composer and educator Marcus Shelby has garnered high esteem in the jazz community here in the Bay Area and beyond. In his 23 years in jazz he has built a diverse and accomplished biography. Recent honors include the City Flight Magazine 2005 award as one of the “Top Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area”.
Shelby was bandleader of Columbia Records and GRP Impulse! Recording Artists Black/Note and is currently the Artistic Director and leader of The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, The Marcus Shelby Septet and the Marcus Shelby Trio, which he brings to the Chimes on this date.
The concert will be followed by an artist reception where concert-goers are invited to meet the artist and his band, enjoy refreshments and purchase CDs.
Tickets $15 general/ $10 seniors & students available at the door only starting at 12:30 pm on the day of the show. Cash only. Kids under 12 are free. Plenty of free parking.
Contact: (510) 228-3218; mdorazi@lifemarkgroup.com
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Marcus Shelby
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