Performing arts
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Jonathan Biss, piano: The Complete Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven
Performing Arts - Music | September 22 | 3-5 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Jonathan Biss, Cal Performances
Programs:
Saturday, September 21
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major, Op. 27, No. 1, Quasi una fantasia
Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26, Funeral March
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, Waldstein
Sunday, September 22
Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major, Op. 7
Piano Sonata No. 17 in... More >
$68 (prices subject to change)
Tickets go on sale August 6. Buy tickets online or by calling 5106429988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Cal Performances presents Jonathan Biss performing The Complete Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven in Hertz Hall.
Mark Morris Dance Group: Mozart Dances
Performing Arts - Dance | September 22 | 3-5 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
More than a decade after its West Coast premiere in Cal Performances’ 2007–08 season Mark Morris’ Mozart Dances returns to Zellerbach Hall. Morris’ choreography is set to three Mozart piano works—the Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K. 413; the Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448; and the Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595. The music is performed by the Berkeley Symphony... More >
$42-148 (prices subject to change)
Tickets go on sale August 6. Buy tickets online or by calling 5106429988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Mark Morris Dance Group performs Mozart Dances Friday–Sunday, September 20–22, 2019 in Zellerbach Hall.
Brandi Carlile
Performing Arts - Music | September 22 | 5:30 p.m. | Hearst Greek Theatre
By The Way, I Forgive You is not an album about forgiveness in the easy sense—where someone has hurt you and then suddenly there’s a great reconciliation and a remorse-filled scene with two people running across the golden wheat field towards an embrace that somehow undoes a lifetime of pain and damage, as if the past has no meaning.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Delicateness in Times of Brutality
Performing Arts - Dance | September 23 | 6-8 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room - Patio
Wendy Jehlen, Founder and Artistic Director, ANIKAYA Dance Theater; DAKEI
Morio Tanimura; Yoshiko Honda; Nobunaga Ken
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), The Japan Foundation New York
Delicateness in Times of Brutality is a performance by Japanese butoh dancer DAKEI and American movement artist Wendy Jehlen. This piece was inspired by a performance protest of the same title (Delicadeza em Tempos da Brutalidade) that took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil in May 2015, in response to the bureaucratic coup that resulted in the dismantling of human rights and arts... More >
Free
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
The English Garden: Noon Concert Series
Performing Arts - Music | September 25 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
20th century English art song cycles by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Gurney performed by students of the vocal studies program.
William Basset, baritone
Emily Drummond, mezzo-soprano
Luke Dzwonczyk, baritone
Jeffrey Sykes, piano
Nikolas Nackley, director
Free. No reserved seating.
Doors: 12:00pm
Concert: 12:15-1pm
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Stebbins Piano Series: Six Preludes and Fugues from "The Well Tempered Clavier" BK2 by J.S. Bach
Performing Arts - Music | September 26 | 12:15-1 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club, Stebbins Lounge
Betty Woo, UC Berkeley - Music Department
Hong Kong-born pianist, Betty Woo, received her D.M.A. degree in performance practice from Stanford University and the Artist Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has performed all over the world and teaches at UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Conservatory and Holy Names University.
She is performing a series of six preludes and fugues from J.. Bach's beloved "Well- Tempered... More >
RSVP by calling Front Desk at 5106424175, or by emailing Front Desk at womensfacultyclub@gmail.com by September 26.
Social Distortion: with guests: Flogging Molly, The Devil Makes Three, and Le Butcherettes
Performing Arts - Music | September 26 | 4 p.m. | Hearst Greek Theatre
Here’s how you know you’ve made it in the music business: You’ve stayed strong for three decades on your own terms, on your own time, by your own rules, and over that time your influence has only grown.
Rae Armantrout reading with Matthew Bowie
Reading - Literary | September 26 | 6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife Room
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Gary Clark Jr.: with guest: Michael Kiwanuka
Performing Arts - Music | September 28 | 7:30 p.m. | Hearst Greek Theatre
On the title track of “This Land,” Gary Clark Jr. is staking his claim to a literal place on the map, settling in and declaring: “I told you there goes the neighborhood… This is mine now, legit.” It’s a song with real-life roots in how Clark and his family have traded up in turf in his native Texas and been met with some suspicious glances upon move-in.
