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CaliforniaStateUniver- sity, Chico's School of the Arts will present it Glori- ous Sounds of the Season concert at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 and 6 and 2 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Harlen Adams The- atre. This Chico holiday tra- dition is a festive event fea- turing music and drama for the season. Faculty and students perform holiday favor- ites, with special treats galore. Performers include the CSU Chico Choral Ensem- bles, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Jazz X-Press, chamber and theatre en- sembles, soloists, and read- ers. Proceeds benefit student scholarships in the Chico State Department of Mu- sic and Theatre. All tickets are $20; available at the Univer- sity Box Office, (530) 898- 6333. For more information about the concert, call (530) 898-5917 or visit www.schoolofthearts- csuchico.com. CHICOSTATE Gl or io us S ou nd s of t he S ea so n in C hi co COURTESYPHOTO Jeff Bridges & The Abid- ers is scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 in Chico State's Laxson Auditorium as part of the Chico Performances series. Season subscribers may purchase tickets through 6 p.m. Friday by calling the University Box Office at 530 898-6333 or sending an email to ubocustomerser- vice@csuchico.edu. Gen- eral tickets sales will begin at 10 a.m. Monday. Guests will have the op- portunity to meet Bridges at a pre-show meet and greet for $100. Premium tickets are $68, adults $58, seniors $56 and youth $40. Bridges' musical talents came to fore in his por- trayal of Otis "Bad" Blake in 2009's multi-award win- ning movie Crazy Heart, but his musical journey be- gan long before that film. Following the release of Bridges' self-titled album in 2011, the album debuted at #25 on the Billboard charts while also notching chart debuts on the Folk Albums #2, Top Rock Albums #5, and Top Country Albums #10 charts. Although previously re- leasing his debut album Be Here Soon in 2000, it was his portrayal of a griz- zled former country music legend in Crazy Heart, an Academy Award-winning performance, that helped reignite his musical pas- sions. CHICO PERFORMANCES Jeff Bridges and The Abiders coming in January REDDING Shasta College's Division of Arts, Communi- cations, Consumer and So- cial Sciences announces the upcoming winter concert of the Chamber and Concert Choirs in the Shasta College Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Satur- day, Dec. 6. The Chamber Choir will sing Renaissance motets, modern choral music in- cluding Autumn, a piece by Bakersfield composer Kevin Memley. The Concert Choir will sing a selection of sacred and secular music. Instrumental students from the Music Depart- ment will perform, includ- ing Amon Cowell with the Trumpet Concert by Auru- tunian. The choirs are un- der the direction of Dr. Eliz- abeth Waterbury, accompa- nied by Ellen Southard on piano. Tickets will be available online at shastacolllege. edu/choral or at the door for $7 general admission and $5 seniors and students. For more information call the Division of Arts, Com- munications, Consumer and Social Sciences at (530) 242-7730. SHASTA COLLEGE Chamber and concert choirs to perform REDDING The Simpson University Music Depart- ment will present Mag- nificat during its annual Christmas concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7. This annual Christmas Concert has become a com- munity favorite, with a wide variety of excellent Christ- mas music performed by all of Simpson's ensembles, in- cluding the Simpson Cho- rale, Simpson Handbell Choir, Trinity Repertory Singers and Shasta Sym- phony Orchestra. As the centerpiece, this year's concert features John Rutter's beautiful Magni- ficat. This work for choir and orchestra captures the depth of beauty of Mary's prayer and is one of the most beloved works of the choral repertoire. This concert will be held at the Heritage Student Life Center at Simpson Uni- versity, 2211 College View Drive, Redding. Tickets are $10 for gen- eral admission, $8 for se- niors and students, and are available at the door, at the campus bookstore, or on- line at simpsonu.edu/mu- sicevents. SIMPSON Un iv er si ty i n Re dd in g to host Christmas concert The Orland Art Gallery invites the public to enjoy Christmas cakes, cider and the poetry of Rae Turnbull at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10. In 1989, Friend of the Family Features published a paperback collection of 54 of Turnbull's poetic es- says. The book's title, "Echoes in the Corners of my Heart," was taken from the last line of one of Rae's most beloved essays. Only 2,000 copies of the book were published, and the book sold out very quickly. Three other collections followed, and Friend of the Family Features real- ized it needed to produce more than 2000 copies, so those three collections are still available. However, "Echoes in the Corners of my Heart" is now considered a collec- tor's item. Turnbull will present the very first public read- ing of "Echoes in the Cor- ners of my Heart" at the Orland Art Center. Cost is $10 per person and checks should be made out to the city of Orland. Each person who at- tends this Christmas fund- raiser will receive a Christ- mas gift of a calligraphed copy of the poetic essay that inspired the book. For Christmas gift giving, ad- ditional copies of the es- say, along with the other three poetic essay collec- tions will be on sale. All proceeds go to the Orland Arts Commission. The gallery is at 732 Fourth St. For more information, call the gallery at (530) 865-5920. ART GALLERY Poet to read from rare publication in Orland By Charles J. Gans TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK Ruben Blades says he never imagined his CD "Tangos" would be nominated for a Latin Grammy. Instead, it's up for two — album of the year and best tango album. "People probably have to rub their eyes and say, 'What, Ruben Blades in the tango category?' I was sur- prised because you never know about Grammy nom- inations. My album 'Siem- bra,' arguably the biggest seller in the history of salsa, never got nominated for a Grammy," said the 66-year-old Blades, who has won four Latin Gram- mys and six Grammys. The Panamanian-born Blades says the nomina- tions are affirmation of his belief that re-creating his salsa songs as tangos would work, even though he had to use completely different phrasing in sing- ing such songs as "Paula C," "Ligia Elena," and "Adan Garcia." At Thursday night's Latin Grammys, Blades will be performing the "Tangos" version of his biggest hit, "Pedro Na- vaja," inspired by "Mack the Knife," his socially con- scious song about the life and death of a murderous street hustler. On the new album, he performs "Pedro Navaja" with veteran Argentine bandoneonist Leopoldo Federico's orchestra as a milonga, a slightly faster tango style, a far cry from the original version on his 1978 "Siembra" album with Willie Colon, with blaring police sirens and horns and a throbbing salsa beat. "I felt that the instru- mentation and the atmo- sphere that tango creates would make the lyrics more relevant and stron- ger," Blades said in a re- cent interview. "Salsa is action music, whereas in the tango you have space for reflection. There is something about tango that is very emo- tional. The instruments — the violin, the bando- neon — evoke nostalgia, sadness, opportunities lost and/or found. I always felt that some of my lyr- ics were shortchanged by the salsa format" with its strong rhythms that got in the way. Blades and his collab- orator, arranger Carlos Franzetti, began discuss- ing the tangos project more than a decade ago, but Blades put his enter- tainment career on hia- tus to serve as Panama's Minister of Tourism from 2004-2009. Franzetti says the biggest challenge was to dissect Blades' origi- nal songs and "mix the el- ements into a new brew." "Tango is a completely different genre than salsa: no constant rhythmic pulse, no percussion, dif- ferent melodies, harmo- nies and instrumentation," Franzetti said in an email. "I had to apply all these tango elements to Ruben's songs, maintaining their integrity while making them into believable tan- gos and milongas." "Tangos" reflects a genre-blending approach to music that Blades has dubbed "mixtura." Blades will soon be go- ing into the studio to do a "rock en espanol" al- bum, also including some English-language songs he wrote with Lou Reed, with his new Paraiso Road Gang band that he formed with his wife, singer Luba Mason, which he says will play an unpredictable mix from tango and salsa to jazz and bluegrass. "Mixtura" might also describe Blades' diverse career paths that also in- clude acting and politics. He resumed his act- ing career after leaving his government post, tak- ing supporting roles in the Denzel Washington film "Safe House" and the upcoming film "Hands of Stone," a biopic about his friend, Panamanian box- ing legend Roberto Du- ran, starring Venezuelan Edgar Ramirez and Rob- ert De Niro. Blades says writing songs about social change compelled him to show he cares by taking an active role in Panamanian pol- itics. He's put his enter- tainment career on hold for several years at a time to get a master's degree in international law from Harvard in the '80s, form his own political party and run for president in the '90s, and then serve as Minister of Tourism. He's embarking on his final world salsa tour next year and plans to quit per- forming salsa except in Panama by the end of 2016. MUSIC Ru be n Bl ad es ta ng os h is w ay t o La ti n Gr am my s ASSOCIATED PRESS Ruben Blades is nominated for two Latin Grammys for his "Tangos." album. He will also perform at the awards show on Nov. 20 in Las Vegas. 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