ON STAGE: The Foreigner, Bat Boy: The Musical and Edge Performance Festival

EXHIBITIONS

The Cambridge, Mass.-based Firebird Ensemble, performing adventurous, contemporary music, is here for a week in residency that includes three concerts: tonight and Friday night (April 22 and 26) and a free noon concert on Thursday.

The residency also includes workshops, master classes and a free public lecture by the artistic director, Kate Vincent, 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday (April 25), in 115 Music Building, on the topic "Survival Tips for Successfully Negotiating the Year After Graduation," for composers and performers.

The concerts:

Monday, April 22 — From Calm to Clash, 7 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

• Stephen Stucky — Dust Devil for Solo Marimba
• Donald Crockett — Night Scenes for Piano Trio
• Eric Moe — Meanwhile Back at the Ranch for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano and Percussion

The program also includes a snare drum suite:

• Nicholas Papdor — Variable Rates
• Roger Zahab — a spunky twenty-eight
• Curtis Hughes — flagrant

Thursday, April 25 — New works by graduate student composers. Shinkoskey Noon Concert, Yoche Dehe Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center.

• FangWei Luo — Dream for Flute, Cello and Percussion
• Chris Castro — Mock-Fantasy for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Cello
• Bryce Cannell — Rattenkönig for Violin, Viola, Cello and Percussion

Friday, April 26 — Mystical Journeys, 7 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre

• Jonathan Harvey — Flight-Elegy for Violin and Piano
• Andrew Norman — Companion Guide to Rome for String Trio
• C. Bryan Rulon — Divine Detours for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Percussion
• Rolf Wallin — The Age of Wire and String for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Percussion

Tickets for the Monday and Friday night concerts are available through the Mondavi Center box office, online; by telephone, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787; or in person (the box office is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday).

Poster celebrates center's 10th anniversary season

The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is offering patrons a fun to remember the center’s 10th anniversary season, which wraps up in May.

The remembrance is a poster of legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer’s vibrant Dancer — who, back in October, came to life on the Jackson Hall stage to help launch the 2012-13 season. Music and choreography added to this “Mondavi Moment,” during which more than 200 people took to the stage to dance with the cartoon.

For the celebratory poster, commissioned by the Mondavi Center, Feiffer’s Dancer comes to life at the center’s front door. Fittingly, center officials said, the Dancer’s lively and joyous appearance reflects the same energetic and inspiring moments that all kinds of artists brought to the center in its first decade.

The poster comes in two sizes: 20 inches by 30 inches ($35) and 11 inches by 14 inches ($25), and can be ordered online or purchased at the Mondavi Center Gift Shop and UC Davis Stores (main bookstore, Memorial Union).

A limited edition of 100 posters signed by Feiffer will be available for $250 each starting Monday, April 29. For more information on the limited edition posters, contact Elisha Findley (530) 754-5436.

All proceeds go to Friends of the Mondavi Center.

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