Mondavi Center Podcasts

Welcome to the Mondavi Center’s podcast page.  Here you will find a complete listing of all the podcasts we’ve produced, as well as instructions as to how to listen and what to do if you encounter problems.  We plan to add new podcasts every few weeks as the season progresses, so we hope you’ll bookmark this page and return often!

Podcasts:

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Lectures

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - April 16, 2010
Speaker: David Robertson, Music Director, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Length [00:30:43m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet - April 09, 2010
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Malaty, Executive Director, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Length [00:31:51m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Cantus - December 06, 2009
Speaker: James Hernandez, Instructor, Natomas Charter School Performing and Fine Arts Academy (Ret.), Private Voice Instructor
Length [00:32:45m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - November 21, 2009
Speaker: Christian Baldini, Music Director & Conductor, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Length [00:31:04m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - November 14, 2009
Speaker: Nicholas McGegan, Conductor, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Length [00:31:14m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Paul Dresher Ensemble - November 12, 2009
Speaker: Paul Dresher, creator of Schick Machine

Length [00:24:01m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - November 11, 2009
Speakers: Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director, Globe Theatre and
Peter Lichtenfels, Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, UC Davis
Length [00:27:02m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Emerson String Quartet - October 24, 2009
Speakers: David Finckel, Cellist, Emerson & Don Roth, Ph.D., Executive Director, Mondavi Center, UC Davis
Length [00:29:25m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Merle Haggard - September 28, 2009
Speaker: Jesse Drew, Ph.D., Director, Technocultural Studies, UC Davis

Length [00:40:02m]: Download

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Lectures

Mondavi CenterUC Davis Graduate School of Management:
Non-Profit Performing Arts Management Roundtable Discussion - June 2, 2009
Speakers:
Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Wayne Brown, Director, Music and Opera Education & Access, National Endowment for the Arts
Ken Foster, Executive Director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)
Paul Nicholson, Executive Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland)

Length [01:53:48m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: San Francisco Symphony - May 21, 2009
Speaker: D. Kern Holoman, Professor, Department of Music, UC Davis
Length [00:42:52m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar - May 13, 2009
Speaker: Matthew Grasso, Classical Guitarist, and Instructor, Sacramento City College
Length [00:42:52m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project - April 4, 2009
Speaker: Terry Nathan, Professor, Art-Science Fusion Program and Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis
Length [00:29:54m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - March 28, 2009
Speaker: David Deffner, adjunct faculty, American River College,
and Director of Music, Davis Community Church
Length [00:32:57m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra - March 20, 2009
Speaker: Steve Roach, Director of Jazz Studies, CSUS
Length [00:28:55m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Academy of Ancient Music - March 17, 2009
Speaker: Jessie Ann Owens, Dean, Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, UC Davis
Length [00:28:55m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Angela Hewitt - March 1, 2009
Speaker: Angela Hewitt, pianist
Length [00:33:42m]: Download

Mondavi CenterPre-Performance Lecture: Philip Glass - February 18, 2009
Speaker: Pablo Ortiz, Professor, Department of Music, UC Davis
Length [00:25:24m]: Download

Punch BrothersPre-Performance Lecture: Punch Brothers - February 14, 2009
Speaker: Joe Craven, Joe Craven Trio
Length [00:32:36m]: Download

Munich Symphony OrchestraPre-Performance Lecture: Munich Symphony Orchestra - February 13, 2009
Speaker: Maestro Michael Goodwin, Musical Director of The Auburn Symphony
Length [00:35:18m]: Download

Mondavi CenterThe Forum@MC: Fables, Fairy Tales and the Arts - January 29, 2009
What’s unique about the way fairy tales and fables have touched the arts, as compared to other forces (politics, literature, psychology, et al)? UC Davis faculty Della Davidson (who set Transformations, Anne Sexton’s poetic meditation on Grimm’s Fairy Tales to dance), Lucy Corin (whose fiction is touched by fable) and Brenda Schildgen (Co-editor, The World of Fables) discuss how the world of fairy tales and fables has touched the arts and their own work. Jeffrey Callison, of KXJZ’s Insight, will moderate.

Length [00:55:37m]: Download

Mondavi CenterThe Forum@MC: Civil Rights: The Music and the Movement
- January 14, 2009
Moderated by Jeffrey Callison, host of Insight on KXJZ.
Dr. Milmon Harrison, African American & African Studies, and singer Mavis Staples consider the role of music in the 1960s Civil Rights movement.
Length [01:04:27m]: Download

ABT IIPre-Performance Lecture: Mavis Staples - January 14, 2009
Speaker: Jon Fox, Bluegrass Writer and Historian
Length [00:27:52m]: Download

Mondavi CenterThe Forum@MC: History in Blue: The Life and Times of Blue Note Records
- January 13, 2009
Ravi Coltrane, the saxophonist from the Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary tour,  joins Peter Williams, Artistic Director of Yoshi’s and Gary Vercelli, Jazz Music Director at KXJZ, in a panel discussion about the impact Blue Note Records has had on jazz.  Moderated by Jeffrey Callison, host of Insight on KXJZ.
Length [01:05:03m]: Download

ABT IIPre-Performance Lecture: ABT II - November 7, 2008
Speaker: Ron Cunningham, Artistic Director, Sacramento Ballet Company
Length [00:43:06m]: Download

James ConlonLecture: James Conlon - October 17, 2008
Length [01:47:27m]: Download

James ConlonPre-Performance Lecture: Inbal Pinto - October 14, 2008
Speaker: Shelly Gilbride, PhD Candidate in Performance Studies,
Department of Theatre and Dance, UC Davis
Length [00:29:07m]: Download

James ConlonPre-Performance Lecture: Delfeayo Marsalis - October 09, 2008
Speaker: John Abigana, Music Director, Woodland High School
Length [00:34:52m]: Download

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08-09 Season Launch

Focus On Film - August 28, 2008
Length [22:08m]: Download

Mondavi Center’s Executive Director Don Roth’s Top Picks! - March 28, 2008
Length [21:25m]: Download

Classical Events - March 28, 2008
Length [11:20m]: Download

Masters of Our Time and Tour de Force Series - March 28, 2008
Length [11:42m]: Download

Distinguished Speakers Series - March 28, 2008
Length [08:05m]: Download

Jazz Events - March 28, 2008
Length [05:04m]: Download

Dance Series - March 28, 2008
Length [05:35m]: Download

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Artist interviews

Young Artists Competition (Lara Downes) - July 29, 2008
Length [09:36m]: Download

Merce Cunningham interviewed by Don Roth - April 9, 2008
Length [12:06m]: Download

Shen Wei Dance Arts - February 27, 2008
Length [19:22m]: Download

Liz Phillips and Nelson Gallery Director Renny Pritikin - January 1, 2008
Length [15:09m]: Download

Handel's Messiah:
Jeffrey Thomas-American Bach Soloists - November 30, 2007
Length [14:13m]: Download

Nati Cano of Day of the Dead Fiesta - October 24, 2007
Length [07:06m]: Download

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE One Shot - October 1, 2007
Length [11:51m]: Download

Della Davidson - COLLAPSE (suddenly falling down) - October 1, 2007
Length [15:03m]: Download

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Lectures

Forum@MC:
The Creativity Project - May 20, 2008
Length [00:45:19m]: Download

Pre-performance Lecture:
Merce Cunningham - April 25, 2008
Length [34:10m]: Download

Pre-performance Lecture:
Stefon Harris - April 10, 2008
Length [32:21m]: Download

Pre-performance Lecture:
Anoushka Shankar - April 5, 2008
Length [41:31m]: Download

Pre-performance Lecture:
Leon Fleisher - February 29, 2008
Length [33:34m]: Download

Pre-performance Lecture:
The Magic Flute - February 28, 2008
Length [27:38m]: Download

Pre-performance Lecture:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - January 27, 2008
Length [32:18m]: Download

Forum@MC:
HIV/AIDS and the Spirit of Uganda: Art, Epidemic, and Healing - January 23, 2008
Length [01:04:43m]: Download

Pre-performance Lecture:
St. Petersburg Philharmonic - November 11, 2007
Length [32:17m]: Download

Forum@MC:
The Pentagon Papers: Their Place in Politics and Law - October 29, 2007
Length [52:04m]: Download

Forum@MC: Legacy in the World of Dance - October 26, 2007
Length [1:00:06m]: Download

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Help Desk

How to Listen to a Podcast on Your Computer
Mondavi Center podcasts are MP3 files, which can be opened using a variety of programs.  For most users, it will be possible to listen on your computer simply by double-clicking the “play” icon, which should open the file and allow it to play as it “streams” from our website through whatever program is set up on your computer as the “default” media player.  Some common media player programs are Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, and iTunes, and most likely one of those is already installed on your computer.  If you do not have a media player, you will need to download and install one. All the previously listed players are available as free downloads, as are many others.  The Mondavi Center can not endorse or recommend a particular program.

How to Listen to a Podcast on Your MP3 Player
If you own a portable MP3 player and would like to listen to our podcasts on that system, you will need to first download the podcast file.  To do this, “right click” on the “Download” link, and select “Save Target As…”  This should open a “dialogue box” that will ask you where you wish to save the podcast file. (Be sure to remember where you save it!)  Once you’ve selected a destination for your file, click “Save” and the file should begin downloading to your selected location.

Once the file has been downloaded to your computer, you may transfer a copy to your MP3 player.  In most cases, this can be done by simply “dragging” the file to your player using your mouse.  For example, to transfer the file to an iPod, you would need first open iTunes.  Then, click on the podcast file and drag it to the “Library” folder.  Alternatively, you may wish to import the file using the “Import” function iniTunes:  From the toolbar, click on “File” and scroll down to select “Import.”  This should open a dialogue box that should enable you to select the location where you saved the podcast file.  Select the file, and click “Open.”

How to Report a Problem
If you encounter technical problems with one of our podcasts or if you have comments or questions about the content, please email mcwebchanges@ucdavis.edu.