THE ARTS: Jazz and string quartets, step-dancing back to Mondavi, 14th annual Valentine Auction

JAZZ AND STRING QUARTETS: A jazz quartet and a string quartet are set to play at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts next week:

  • Wayne Shorter Quartet -- Shorter, a saxophonist, formerly played with Miles Davis and Art Blakey, and co-founded the jazz-rock fusion group Weather Report. Now he is back performing straightforward acoustic jazz. 8 p.m. Feb. 2, Jackson Hall.
  • Kronos Quartet --This string group's program calls for accompaniment by Wu Man on pipa, or Chinese lute, for Terry Riley's new work The Cusp of Magic and Tan Dun's new Ghost Opera. 8 p.m. Feb. 3, Jackson Hall.

STEP-DANCING BACK TO MONDAVI: The Trinity Irish Dance Company, a perennial favorite at the Mondavi Center, is due back for next month. A news release states that the Irish-American troupe "mixes aerial grace, hard-driving percussive power and lightning-fast agility to create a new vocabulary for Irish step dancing." Two performances are set for Feb. 7 in Jackson Hall:

11 a.m. in the school matinee series and 8 p.m. in the Global Beat series. A postperformance question-and-answer session is planned after the evening show. Teachers, educators and others interested in purchasing tickets for the matinee should call (530) 754-4689.

14TH ANNUAL VALENTINE AUCTION: The Nelson Artfriends' 14th annual Valentine Auction is under way, with a portion of the proceeds destined for the Nelson Gallery on campus. Silent bids can be submitted online through 5 p.m. Feb. 3; then, from 7 to 10 p.m. that day, the bidding goes live at Lea Rosenberg's home in Davis. Admission to the live auction is $50 per person and includes light refreshments. Twenty-one pieces of art — including paintings, drawings and ceramics — are up for auction. To see them, and to place silent bids, go to http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu and click on "Auction Website" under 2007 Valentine Auction. More information: (530) 752-8500 or nelsongallery@ucdavis.edu.

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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu

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