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Belleville,” which is a retro comedy that tells a story of a caper involving
American gangsters, Tour de France bicyclists, and a trio of colorful

vaudevillian sisters out to expose a crime ring.

Composer Benoît Charest (born in French-speaking Candadian province of

Quebec) will conduct an eight-piece jazz orchestra (Le Terrible Orchestre de
Belleville) in a live performance of his Oscar-nominated score for the film.

The music evokes the streets of 1920s Paris and “Le Jazz Hot” and includes

a variety of live sound effects to accompany the film.

The story is told largely through the images on screen — the film does not
have a lot of spoken dialog. The event is family-friendly, kids will enjoy the

animation, and watching the band members create hand-crafted sound

effects. The show will also appeal to adults who enjoy art-house cinema.

Tickets for this event ($25-$65 general, discounts for children) have sold

briskly, with only scattered seats still available online at MondaviArts.org.
(And if the title of film sounds faintly familiar, you are correct. The

Mondavi Center also hosted a “Triplets of Belleville” Cine-Concert back in

2016.)

On Saturday, April 6, in Jackson Hall, the Mondavi Center will continue the

venue’s long (and ongoing) association with the London-based Academy of
St. Martin in the Fields orchestra and American violinist/conductor Joshua

Bell, who visit Davis on an almost annual basis.

This year’s program will include a new work titled, “Flight of Moving Days”

by American composer Vince Mendoza — commissioned by the Academy
to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Neville Marriner (1924-2016), who

was the Academy’s founding conductor back in 1958.