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Cal Performances at Home: Beyond the Stage. Artist talks; interviews; lectures; Q&A sessions with artists, Cal Performances staff, and UC Berkeley faculty; and more!

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 10 (April 30)

In this issue: Bach played by pianists Márta and György Kurtág; Caroline Shaw’s Passacaglia from Partita for Eight Voices performed by Roomful of Teeth; Handel: “Where shall I fly?” from Hercules, HWV 60 performed by Joyce DiDonato; Antonio Martín y Coll’s Folías de España (Diferencias sobre las folías) performed by Jordi Savall; “I Didn’t Know What Time it Was” performed by Cécile McLorin Salvant; and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

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Zoom FAQ

More Information about Zoom

On the day of the event, join the Live Q&A by following these steps:

  1. Select the Join Conversation Now link on the Season Preview homepage.
  2. Turn on your video.
  3. Due to the large number of attendees you will be automatically muted when you join and unmuted by the moderator if you have questions.
  4. To make comments or pose questions, please use the Zoom chat function to alert the moderator.

If you are having technical problems, please email donate@calperformances.org.

If you don’t want to join online, you can call +1 669 219 2599, enter the meeting ID 995 9921 4700, and the password 2020. If you dial in and would like to ask a question, dial *9.

For more Zoom help, visit the Zoom website.

Issue 9 (April 23)

In this issue: Choreographer Vaslav Nijinksy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune performed by Rudolf Nureyev; Wagner’s: Prelude to Lohengrin performed by Lucerne Festival Orchestra and conducted by Claudio Abbado; Debussy’s Toccata from Pour le piano performed by pianist Beatrice Rana; “Pilgrim’s Chorus,” after Wagner’s Tannhäuser performed by pianist Donald Lambert; Debussy’s Cello Sonata performed by cellist Gautier Capuçon and pianist Jorge Viladoms; Wagner’s Prelude and “Liebestod” from Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde performed by soprano Kirsten Flagstad with Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler.

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Now, More Than Ever: Special Student Issue

In this issue: Justin Peck’s The Times are Racing;  Canteloube’s “Baïlèro” from Chants d’Auvergne performed by Victoria de los Ángeles and Orchestre Lamoureux; “Tight” performed by Jazzmeia Horn; Michelle Dorrance at the Stockholm Tap Festival 2014; Brahms’ Scherzo from the F-A-E Sonata performed by Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt; Haydn’s Allegro molto from Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb/1 performed by Jacqueline du Pré and the English Chamber Orchestra

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