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Cal Performances at Home is much more than a series of great streamed performances. Fascinating behind-the-scenes artist interviews. Informative and entertaining public forums. The Cal Performances Reading Room, featuring books with interesting connections to our Fall 2020 programs. For all this and much more, keep checking this page for frequent updates and to journey far, far Beyond the Stage!
Major support for Beyond the Stage is provided by Bank of America.
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Beyond the Stage
Seeing Double: the Doppelgänger Project
In this article, Thomas May discusses the term Doppelgänger, how composers have used this theme over time, the upcoming Danish String Quartet concerts debuting the project of the same name, and more.
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Artist Conversation with Danish String Quartet: 2021/22 Season
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A Conversation with Cal Performances Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen
The iconic Danish String Quartet sits down with Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen to discuss their new Doppelgänger project, commissioning composers, the emotional and formal challenges of performing pieces by Schubert, the physical challenges of performing live music, and more in this Beyond the Stage artist talk.
This artist conversation video is presented in conjunction with the Quartet’s two Cal Performances 2021/22 visits on Oct 10 and Apr 29.
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Issue 64 (September 23)
Celebrating six examples of exceptional virtuosity, of supremely talented performers stretching the boundaries, breaking through barriers, and pushing our conceptions of excellence past pre-existing limits
9/11: A Turning Point
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An Illuminations “Place and Displacement” Talk
Featuring: Lowell Bergman (moderator), Janet Napolitano, Fawzia Koofi, Brian Knappenberger, Mo Naqvi, Matt Pottinger, Jane Ferguson, Frances Townsend, Dale Watson, and John Sopko
September 11, 2001 thrust the United States into a new era: the War on Terror. The attack was not a bolt from the blue; it sprang from a destabilized Afghanistan and the rise of Al-Qaeda. The day proved a stunning turning point, triggering the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and, later, Iraq. At the chaotic conclusion to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan two decades later, America—and the rest of the world—grapples with twenty years of destabilization and displacement, and an equally-long train of movements of people, including the creation of an immense new population of refugees.
Join us for our first Illuminations: “Place and Displacement” event of the season, a special panel discussion with the filmmakers and key participants of Netflix’s new hit documentary Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, chronicling why 9/11 happened and the day’s consequences. Moderated by UC Berkeley’s own Lowell Bergman, emeritus professor of journalism and an executive producer of the Netflix series, the panel will also feature special guest commentator Janet Napolitano, the former Secretary of Homeland Security and president of the University of California.
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Issue 63 (August 19)
A strong current of folk music runs through these selections, demonstrating the unique flexibility of the genre.
Issue 62 (July 15)
A few instances of how composers have been known to reuse, reduce, edit, and adapt both their own music and that of others.