Canada’s nouveau cirque troupe, Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus, includes its diverse forms of acrobatics, avant-garde dance, physical comedy, music, song, video projections and live DJ-ing in its production of PSY. $22.00-$52.00. 642-9988. www.calperformances.org
3pm, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Calling by Evie Ladin. $4 kids/$6 adults. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
3pm to 4:30pm, Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo
BCCO will feature three works from its national Young Composers Competition, as well as Maurice Durufle’s Requiem Op. 9.
Durufle’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem, composed in 1947, has been described as "an astounding successful compromise between musical styles 1,400 years apart." The Requiem draws its musical themes from both Gregorian chant and the modern harmonic language of Debussy, Ravel, and Faure.
For more information, call BCCO at 510-433-9599, or see http://www.bcco.org.
Free (Donation appreciated)
510-433-9599
4:30pm to 6:30pm, St Joseph the Worker Church 1640 Addison
An afternoon of deeply swinging jazz from some of the top players in the Bay Area: Chuck MacKinnon, trumpet; Al Bent, trombone; Mark Levine, piano; John Wiitala, bass; and Ron Marabuto, drums.
The Jazzschool is pleased to include this event as part of National Chamber Music Month.
www.jazzschool.org
4:30pm to 6:30pm, Jazzschool 2087 Addison St
8 pm
Steve Adams - woodwinds
Scott Walton - bass
The Steve Adams/Scott Walton duo will be playing their very first gig, premiering new pieces for woodwinds, bass and electronics by Steve. These will include "Force Field of Oblivion" with a lush, evocative strangeness and "Ogonix," where the computer gets to direct them, as well as a new arrangement of "Ylyx," dedicated to John Lee Hooker.
9 pm
John Shiurba's 5x5
John Shiurba- guitar
ma++ ingalls-clarinets
Monica Scott- cello
Scott Walton-contrabass
Gino Robair- drums
John Shiurba's 5x5 CD release party on 5/5! A crack ensemble has been put together to navigate the dicey contrapuntal rhythmic terrain of 5x5 2.1, which is the first of five sets in the second of five groups of five short pieces written for five players to be used as interjections within a continuous improvisation.
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford