Celebrating 65 with A&L 

The Montecito Club clubhouse was socially gridlocked when retiring Miller McCune Executive Director Celesta Billeci revealed UCSB Arts & Lectures’ forthcoming 65th season featuring more than 50 events, including seven evenings of newly commissioned works representing its contribution to the national celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.

Highlights include legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing three new pieces commissioned by A&L, a night of timeless soul with Boz Scaggs, and dance performances by awe-inspiring international companies including the Shaolin Monks, Ballet Preljocaj, and Jerome Robbins Ballet.

Itzhak Perlman returns with an all-star klezmer band, and acclaimed lecturers Fareed Zakaria and bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert take the stage.

There is also a celebration of composer Philip Glass’s 90th birthday.

Quite the lineup.

Among the 200 supporters were Bruce Heavin, NancyBell Coe, Salud Carbajal, Bob Weinman, Anne Towbes, Isaac Hernandez, and Marybeth Carty.