Arts & Lectures is pleased to travel to unique and significant architectural environments to celebrate the experience of music. We will present world-class artists in three distinguished Santa Barbara buildings.

Sunday, December 4
Aulos Ensemble with Julianne Baird

Frohman and Marsten, architects

This fine example of English Gothic Revival architecture was the first church designed by Phillip Hubert Frohman, who went on to design some fifty churches and became the Supervising Architect of the National Cathedral in Washington DC. It will be an intimate setting for a Christmas concert by a brilliant Baroque ensemble. »

Wednesday, May 10
Sharon Isbin, guitar
NEW LOCATION!

David Adler, architect

In 1940 architect David Adler was enlisted to give the former post office building an “appropriate museum look.” He simplified the building’s existing Italianate façade and converted small postal workrooms into galleries. By replacing the rollback roof with a skylight and the traditional post office writing stand with a mosaic-tiled pond—dominated by an imposing ancient Greek burial urn—he transformed the original lobby into a lush garden atrium. This atrium will provide a beautiful setting for Sharon Isbin’s guitar artistry. »

Sunday, May 21
Mark O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz Trio

Edwards, Plunkett and Howell, architects

Chiefly designed by the team of Edwards and Plunkett, best known for the Arlington Theatre, this gracious Spanish revival style clubhouse provides the Old World charm suited to a special concert. »

 
UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Chamber Music in Historic Sites series is licensed in Santa Barbara by an agreement with Chamber Music in Historic Sites®—a nationally licensed series, Dr. MaryAnn Bonino, founder and president. Warm thanks to Barbara Lowenthal and members of the board of the Pearl Chase Society for their support and guidance in this undertaking.