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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
Issue 21 (June 25)
In this issue: Choreographer Bintou Dembélé revamps Les indes galantes; Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s performance at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Concert; Blind Willie McTell’s “Statesboro Blues”; soprano Karita Mattila performs Sibelius’ “Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte”; Astor Piazzolla and Friends perform “Libertango”; violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo perform “I Will Survive”
Issue 20 (June 22)
In this issue: Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung performs Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26; Mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry performs Bizet’s Seguedille from Carmen; Pianists Martha Argerich and Evgeny Kissin perform Lutosławski’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini; Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell perform George Balanchine’s pas des deux from Agon; the Orchestre de Paris performs Revueltas’s “Noche de encantamiento” from La noche de los mayas
Issue 19 (June 18)
In this issue: Donald Byrd’s Greenwood performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Thomas Adès’ “O Albion” performed by Endellion Quartet; Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides, Now;” Charles-Marie Widor’s Toccata from Symphony for Organ No. 5 performed by organist Wayne Marshall; Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium performed by Gaechinger Cantorey and SWR Symphonieorchester; Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Issue 18 (June 12)
In this issue: Soprano Julia Bullock performs an excerpt from Purcell’s The Indian Queen; vocalist and flutist Nathalie Joachim performs alongside Spektral Quartet; pianist Aaron Diehl performs Duke Ellington’s “Single Petal of a Rose;” Julius Eastman’s “Stay on It;” Lawrence Brownlee performs Donizetti’s “Ah, mes amis;” Alvin Ailey’s For ‘Bird’ – With Love
Issue 17 (June 4)
In this issue: A relatively short musical journey between Germany and the Balkans and features some truly marvelous performances, including work from Benjamin Millipied, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Lucia Popp, Goran Bregović and His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra, and the Czech Philharmonic.
Issue 16 (June 1)
In this issue: In times of upheaval, we have always found it helpful—indeed, necessary—to come together and raise our voices in song.