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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Mahan Esfahani and Michael Maul in Conversation
Mahan Esfahani and Michael Maul in Conversation
Listen in on harpsichorist Mahan Esfahani and Michael Maul, director of the Leipzig Bach Archive, as they discuss how documents in the Archive show how exacting Bach wanted his pieces played, what happens in the almost two centuries between Bach writing the Goldberg Variations and it being played for the first time publically, why Bach went to Leipzig in the first place, and more.
This conversation video was recorded in conjunction with the Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord performance, part of the Cal Performances at Home Spring Season.
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Digital Classroom Performer Spotlight: Vân-Ánh Võ
Digital Classroom Performer Spotlight: Vân-Ánh Võ
Vân-Ánh Võ creates stunning, complex works by melding Vietnamese musical traditions with a variety of genres.
Award-winning composer and musician Vân-Ánh Võ leads an immersive “show and tell” of traditional Vietnamese instruments, demonstrating the sound of each unique, hand-constructed instrument, and featuring them in her compositions.
2020/21 Cal Performances Classroom Performer Spotlights featured videos of extraordinary local performers as they pull back the curtain on their work, and the art, cultures, and traditions that inspire them. Artists reflect their community’s rich culture, and the Bay Area stands out as a home to remarkable and diverse performing artists.
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Artist Conversation with Mahan Esfahani: 2020/21 Season
Artist Conversation with Mahan Esfahani: 2020/21 Season
A Conversation with Cal Performances Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen
A harpsichord and Goldberg Variations primer! Listen as Mahan Esfahani talks in depth with Cal Performances Executive and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen about his instrument, Bach’s beloved piece he will be playing, and more in this Beyond the Stage artist talk.
This artist conversation video was recorded in conjunction with the Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord performance, part of the Cal Performances at Home Spring Season.
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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