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Press Kits: 2024-25
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A Clear and Present Danger: The Wild West of the Web, the First Amendment, and Saving the News
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Ai Weiwei’s World of Art Lost and Found
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Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
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Cal Performances at Home Fall 2020
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Cal Performances at Home Spring 2021
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Canto Ostinato: An AMOC* & Sandbox Percussion Co-Production
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common ground[s] by Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo
The Rite of Spring by Pina Bausch
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Fact or Fiction: Disinformation and Freedom of Speech
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Memphis Jookin’: The Show Featuring Lil Buck
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My Old Home, A Novel of Exile: Orville Schell and Peter Sellars in Conversation, with Musical Interludes
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Not Our First Goat Rodeo
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Sarabande Africaine: Angélique Kidjo and Yo-Yo Ma
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The Future of American Democracy: The 2024 Election and Beyond
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The Summit: The Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6
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The Triplets of Belleville Cine-Concert
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This Land Is Our Land: Featuring Martha Redbone Roots Project and American Patchwork Quartet
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Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration
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2022–23 Season Announcement Press Kit
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2023–24 Season Announcement Press Kit
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2024–25 Season Announcement Press Kit
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2025–26 Season Announcement Press Kit
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2026–27 Season Announcement Press Kit
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21st Annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp
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22nd Annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp
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23rd Annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp
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24th Annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp
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A Conversation with Rita Moreno
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A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
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Aaron Diehl Trio
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Aga Khan Master Musicians with Vincent Peirani and Vincent Ségal
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Ailey Camp 20th Anniversary
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Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation
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Alexandre Kantorow, piano
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Alexi Kenney, violin
Shifting Ground
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Cal Performances’ 2024 Gala
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Ambrose Akinmusire, composer, electronics, and trumpet
Aszure Barton, choreographer and director
A a | a B : B E N D
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Amina Edris, soprano; Pene Pati, tenor; Robert Mollicone, piano
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An Evening with Audra McDonald
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An Evening with Kelli O’Hara
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An Evening with Robert Reich
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Angel Blue, soprano
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Angélique Kidjo
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Angélique Kidjo
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Angélique Kidjo’s
Yemandja
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Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
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Antonio Sánchez: Birdman LIVE
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Artemis
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Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor; John Churchwell, piano
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Asmik Grigorian, soprano; Lukas Geniušas, piano
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Attacca Quartet
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Attacca Quartet, 2026–27 Ensemble in Residence
Jan 31, 2027 with Caroline Shaw
and Feb 28, 2027
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Attacca Quartet: Attacca Playlist
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Avi Avital, mandolin; Hanzhi Wang, accordion
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Avi Avital, mandolin; Miloš Karadaglić, guitar
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Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
75th Anniversary Tour
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Ballet Hispánico
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Bang on a Can: Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer
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Batsheva Dance Company: MOMO
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Batsheva Dance Company: MOMO
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Beatrice Rana, piano
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Behzod Abduraimov, piano
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Behzod Abduraimov, piano
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Ben Bliss, tenor; Christopher Allen, piano
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Benjamin Beilman, violin; Steven Osborne, piano
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Blake Pouliot, violin, Henry Kramer, piano: Follow the Lieder
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Boy Blue
Boy Blue’s performances have been cancelled
due to travel restrictions for foreign nationals entering the United States.
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Brad Mehldau Trio
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Brad Mehldau: Fourteen Reveries
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Brentano String Quartet
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Bria Skonberg
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Bria Skonberg, trumpet, vocals
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Bruce Liu, piano
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Cal Performances 2020–21 Season Announcement
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Cal Performances 2021–22 Season Announcement
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Cal Performances at Home: Layla and Majnun
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Caleb Teicher & Company; Conrad Tao, piano
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers
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Canadian Brass
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Carol T. Christ to join Jeff MacKie-Mason as Board of Trustees Co-Chairs
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Castalian String Quartet
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Cécile McLorin Salvant
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Cécile McLorin Salvant
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Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid; Marc Ribot, guitar: Film Screening with Live Music
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Cheyenne Jackson: That Guy From That Thing
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
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Chris Thile, mandolin and vocals
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Christine Goerke, soprano; Craig Terry, piano
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Christine Goerke, soprano; Craig Terry, piano
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Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words)
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Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
13 Tongues
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Colin Currie Group
Synergy Vocals
A Steve Reich Celebration
Colin Currie, conductor and percussion
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Compagnie Hervé Koubi Sol Invictus
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Conrad Tao, piano
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Damien Sneed
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Daniil Trifonov, piano
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Daniil Trifonov, piano
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Danish String Quartet
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Danish String Quartet
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Danish String Quartet
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Danish String Quartet
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Danish String Quartet
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Danish String Quartet; Johannes Rostamo, cello
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Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
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David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
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David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
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David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
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David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
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David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
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David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano
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David Sedaris
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David Sedaris: An Evening with David Sedaris
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Disney Concerts Presents
Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert
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Disney’s MOANA Live-To-Film Concert
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Dorrance Dance
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Dorrance Dance: The Nutcracker Suite
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Dover Quartet
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Dover Quartet
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Dover Quartet
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Dover Quartet
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Drum Tao 30th Anniversary Tour
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Drum Tao: The Best
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Eco Ensemble
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Eco Ensemble
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Eco Ensemble; David Milnes, director
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Eco Ensemble; David Milnes, director
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Eco Ensemble: Best of Berkeley
David Milnes, director
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Eco Ensemble
David Milnes, director
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Eifman Ballet
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Eifman Ballet
Russian Hamlet
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Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano; Howard Watkins, piano
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Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano; Sean Shibe, guitar: Orlando Variations
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Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
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Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma
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English Baroque Soloists
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Ensemble Basiani
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Ensemble Cherubim Chamber Chorus: Carols of Birds, Bells, and Peace from Ukraine: A Holiday Celebration
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Eric Lu, piano
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Eric Lu, piano
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Erin Morley, soprano; Malcom Martineau, piano
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Evren Ozel, piano: Music of the Night
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Ex Machina / Robert Lepage & Cirque FLIP Fabrique SLAM!
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Ezra Klein: A Liberalism That Builds
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Fighting the Disinformation Machine: Social Media and the Future of Journalism
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Filippo Gorini, piano
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Geneva Lewis, violin; Evren Ozel, piano
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George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
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Grupo Corpo: GIRA and 21
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Gustavo Dudamel conducts Encuentros Orchestra
with special guest esperanza spalding
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Hagen Quartet
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Heather Cox Richardson In Conversation With Dylan Penningroth
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Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas:
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; II Pomo d’Oro Orchestra and Choir
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Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Oliver Wass, harp
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Igor Levit, piano
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Ilmar Gavilán, violin; Aldo López-Gavilán, piano
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Ira Glass
Creator & Host of Public Radio’s This American Life
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Isidore Quartet
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Isidore String Quartet
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J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
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JACK Quartet
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Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor; Il Pomo d’Oro
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Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor; Michał Biel, piano
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Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Jake Heggie, piano
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Jason Moran and the Harlem Hellfighters: James Reese Europe and the Absence of Ruin
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
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Jazzmeia Horn
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Jazzmeia Horn
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Jean Rondeau, harpsichord
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Jean Rondeau, harpsichord: All-French Baroque Program
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Jeremy Denk replaces Tom Borrow, piano
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Jeremy Denk, piano
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Jeremy Denk, piano
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Jeremy Denk, piano
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Joffrey Ballet
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John Cameron Mitchell and Amber Martin in Cassette Roulette
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John Malkovich, The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
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Jonas Kaufmann, tenor; Helmut Deutsch, piano
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Jordi Savall
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Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI
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Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations
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Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, and Hespèrion XXI
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Jordi Savall: Songs, Battles, and Dances from the Old and the New World (1100–1780)
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Jordi Savall
Hespèrion XXI
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Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Time for Three, string trio
in Emily No Prisoner Be, a new song cycle by Kevin Puts
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Joyce DiDonato: Eden
A Cal Performances Co-commission
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Joyce Yang, piano
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Judy Collins: Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: The Farewell Tour
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Julia Bullock, classical singer; Laura Poe, piano
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Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band
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KODO: One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe
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Kodo: One Earth Tour 2027: Luminance
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Kodo
Tsuzumi: One Earth Tour
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Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and fortepianos
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Kristin Chenoweth For the Girls
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Kronos Quartet
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Kronos Quartet with special guest Wu Man, pipa
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Kronos Quartet: Beyond the Golden Gate
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Kronos Quartet: Five Decades
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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Lara Downes and Friends
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Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, director
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5
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Le Consort
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Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
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Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
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Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Yuja Wang, piano
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Leonidas Kavakos, violin
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Les Arts Florissants with Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons at 300
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
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Lester Lynch, baritone; Kevin Korth, piano
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Lester Lynch, baritone; Kevin Korth, piano
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Lila Downs
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Lila Downs: Día de los Muertos
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Lise Davidsen, soprano; James Baillieu, piano
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Lise Davidsen, soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano
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London Symphony Orchestra
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Los Angeles Master Chorale
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Lukas Sternath, piano
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LUNA LAB@10 Celebrating a Decade of Young Composers
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Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
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Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
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Mahler Chamber Orchestra
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Mahler Chamber Orchestra
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Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director
José Maria Blumenschein, concertmaster and leader
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Manual Cinema
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Manual Cinema
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Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch, Inspired by Macbeth
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Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol
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Maria Manetti Shrem and Elizabeth Segerstrom California Orchestra Residency
Vienna Philharmonic
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor,
Christiane Karg, soprano,
Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano,
Yuja Wang, piano
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Mariachi Herencia de México, La Nueva Generación Tour, Día de los Muertos
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Mark Morris Dance Group
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Mark Morris Dance Group
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Mark Morris Dance Group: Holidayland
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Mark Morris Dance Group: MOON
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Mark Morris Dance Group: Pepperland
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Mark Morris Dance Group
The Look of Love (Bay Area Premiere)
An Evening of Dance to the Music of Burt Bacharach
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Mark Padmore, tenor; Mitsuko Uchida, piano
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Martha Graham Dance Company
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Marvel Studios BLACK PANTHER in Concert
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Matthew Whitaker
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Matthew Whitaker
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Matthew Whitaker Quartet
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Maxim Vengerov, violin; Polina Osetinskaya, piano
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Maxim Vengerov, violin
Polina Osentinskaya, piano
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Miami City Ballet
George Balanchine’s Jewels
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Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out
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Michelle Cann, piano
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Mitsuko Uchida, piano
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Mitsuko Uchida, piano
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MOMIX Botanica
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MOMIX: Alice
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Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour
Celebrating 65 Years
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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Displacement
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Mummenschanz: 50 Years
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Nathalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet
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Nathalie Joachim: Ki moun ou ye (Who are you?)
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New Year’s Eve Musical Celebration
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Niladri Kumaar: The Space Between the Notes
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Nina Stemme, soprano
Magnus Svensson, piano
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Njioma Chinyere Grevious, violin
Andrew Goodridge, piano
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Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano
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Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
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OKAN
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Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi; American Modern Opera Company
US Premiere
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Opera Parallèle: La Belle et la Bête
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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Julia Bullock, soprano
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Owls
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Paquito D’Rivera
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Paris Opera Ballet
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Patti LuPone: Songs from a Hat
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Paul Appleby, tenor; Conor Hanick, piano
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Paul Lewis, piano
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Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, principal conductor
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano
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Pilobolus
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Pilobolus: re:CREATION
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Pass It On: 60th Anniversary Musical Celebration
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Quatuor Ébène
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Rachell Ellen Wong, violin
Cole Itzkoff, cello
David Belkovski, harpsichord
The Grand Tour
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Renée Fleming, soprano
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Renée Fleming, soprano
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Renée Fleming, soprano, Inon Barnatan, piano
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Rhiannon Giddens and the Old-Time Revue
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Samantha Hankey, mezzo-soprano; Myra Huang, piano
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Samara Joy
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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Holiday Spectacular
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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Holiday Spectacular 2025!
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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Holiday Spectacular 2026!
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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Holiday Spectacular!
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San Francisco Symphony; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Carey Bell, clarinet
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San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
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Seong-Jin Cho, piano
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
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Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens
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Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual
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Sō Percussion
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Somi
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Soweto Gospel Choir: Peace
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Soweto Gospel Choir
HOPE – It’s Been A Long Time Coming
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Spektral Quartet
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Step Afrika!
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Step Afrika! The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence
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Steve Reich at 90: A Birthday Celebration with Bang on a Can All-Stars and Ensemble Signal
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Steven Banks, baritone saxophone; Xak Bjerken, piano, Golden Silhouettes
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Story Boldly’s Defining Courage: An Immersive Live Event
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Sullivan Fortner Trio
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Takács Quartet
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Takács Quartet
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Takács Quartet
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Takács Quartet
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Takács Quartet
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Takács Quartet
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Takács Quartet
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Takács Quartet with Jeremy Denk, piano
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Takács Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola
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Takács Quartet with Stephen Hough, piano
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Takács Quartet
Sunday, October 11, 2026 with Jeremy Denk, piano and January 24, 2027
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Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips, director
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Taylor Mac & Matt Ray’s Bark of Millions
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Ted Hearne and Saul Williams’ Place
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Tessa Lark, violin; Amy Yang, piano
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Tessa Lark, violin; Andrew Armstrong, piano
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Tessa Lark, violin; Joshua Roman, cello; Edgar Meyer, double bass
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Tetzlaff Quartet
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Tetzlaff Quartet
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The Australian Ballet: Oscar© by Christopher Wheeldon
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The Complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes
Pianists to include Timo Andres, Aaron Diehl, Daniela Liebman, and Jason Moran
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The English Concert
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The English Concert; Handel’s Hercules, Harry Bicket, conductor
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The English Concert; Harry Bicket, conductor
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The English Concert; Harry Bicket, Conductor; Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto
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The English Concert: Handel’s Alessandro; Harry Bicket, conductor and harpsichord
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The English Concert
The Clarion Choir
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The Hot Sardines: Holiday Stomp
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The Joffrey Ballet
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The Joffrey Ballet: Anna Karenina
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The Tallis Scholars
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The Tallis Scholars
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The Tallis Scholars: Mysteries and Miracles
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The Tallis Scholars: Palestrina 500
Peter Phillips, director
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The Tallis Scholars: Slings and Arrows
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Theatre of Voices
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Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Baroque violin; Thomas Dunford, lute: The Mad Lover
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Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin, Justin Taylor, harpsichord
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Third Coast Percussion & Salar Nader, tabla: Murmurs in Time
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This performance has been canceled
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Tom Borrow, piano
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Twelfth Night: All’Italiana
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Twyla Tharp Dance; Diamond Jubilee, Featuring Third Coast Percussion and Constance Volk, flute
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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
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Urban Bush Women: Hair & Other Stories
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Vân-Ánh Võ and Blood Moon Orchestra
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Vienna Boys Choir
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Vienna Boys Choir: Strauss For Ever
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Vienna Boys Choir
Christmas in Vienna
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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Thielemann, conductor
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Vienna Philharmonic; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano
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Vienna Piano Trio
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Víkingur Ólafsson, piano
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Víkingur Ólafsson, piano: Opus 109
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WAYNE SHORTER AND ESPERANZA SPALDING’s …(Iphigenia)
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Wild Up: Julius Eastman’s Femenine; Christopher Rountree conductor
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William Kentridge UC Berkeley Residency
Fall 2022–Spring 2023
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William Kentridge’s SIBYL (US Premiere)
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William Kentridge’s The Great Yes, The Great No
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William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load
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Wu Han, piano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; David Finckel, cello
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Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, Gathering
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Yamato: The Drummers of Japan
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Ying Fang, soprano
Myra Huang, piano
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yMusic
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yMusic
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yMusic Performs a World Premiere by Gabriella Smith
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Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott
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Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion
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Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion
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Zlatomir Fung, cello
Janice Carissa, piano
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Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Hope, violin
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