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!
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Issue 56 (Feb 26)
Hybrid virtual-live performances of Bach’s Goldberg Variations performed by Mahan Esfahani; Beethoven’s Adagio sostenuto from Piano Sonata, Quasi una fantasia (Moonlight) performed by Mitsuko Uchida; Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” performed by Nina Simone; Smoke, Part 3 performed by Sylvie Guillem and choreographed by Mats Ek
Artist Conversation with Takács Quartet: 2020/21 Season
Artist Conversation with Takács Quartet: 2020/21 Season
A Conversation with Cal Performances Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen
The Takács Quartet talks with Cal Performances Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen about how new members enter an established group, what the thought process was behind the program, relationships individual members have with pieces being played in the concert, and more in this Beyond the Stage artist talk.
This artist conversation video was recorded in conjunction with the Takács Quartet performance, part of the 2020/21 Cal Performances at Home Spring Season.
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Issue 55 (Feb 19)
Celebrating the life of legendary jazz keyboardist Chick Corea, with Corea’s “Armando’s Rhumba” performed by Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea; Biber’s Violin Sonata No. 5 in E minor performed by Rachell Ellen Wong and Robert Warner; Beethoven’s Maestoso – Allegro from String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major performed by Quatuor Ébène; Arvo Pärt’s The Woman with the Alabaster Box performed by Ars Nova Copenhagen
Issue 54 (February 11)
Celebrating Black History Month with Mozart’s “Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln” performed by Reri Grist; Excerpt from Im schwarzen Rössl performed by Katherine Dunham; Balm in Gilead performed by Alicia Graf Mack and choreographed by Arthur Mitchell; Coltrane’s “Alabama” performed by John Coltrane; Richard Smallwood’s “Total Praise” performed by Richard Smallwood and Vision; “Life Lines” performed by Flutronix with Joe Blaxx; Emancipation of Expressionism performed by Boy Blue and choreographed by Kenrick “H20” Sandy
Issue 53 (February 4)
Selections of Purcell’s “When I am laid in earth” (“Dido’s Lament”) from Dido and Aeneas featuring Janet Baker, soprano and London Philharmonic Orchestra; Jessye Norman, soprano and Orchestra of St. Luke’s; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Ondrejcak, director; Annie Lennox and London City Voices
Fact or Fiction: Disinformation and Freedom of Speech
Fact or Fiction: Disinformation and Freedom of Speech
Illuminations “Fact or Fiction” Talk
How does a country founded on a bedrock principle of freedom of speech move forward in the age of disinformation? UC Berkeley thought leaders Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law; Henry Brady, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy; and Geeta Anand, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism came together on January 31, 2021 for a timely discussion on the topic of the proliferation of disinformation in today’s public sphere and its intersection with a concept we hold dear: freedom of speech. Janet Napolitano, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2009–2013), University of California President (2013–2020), and current Professor and Faculty Director of the new Center for Security in Politics at the Goldman School of Public Policy both moderated and participated in the discussion. Viewers had the opportunity to submit questions for the panel upon registration.
This event was presented as part of Cal Performances’ Illuminations: “Fact or Fiction” programming, which examines what happens when alteration of the truth—even the deliberate dissemination of disinformation—begins to affect our ability to tell fact from fiction, and how this challenge is impacting today’s world.
This talk was free and open to the public.
