With Benny Watson, keys & vocals; Carla Kaufman, bass
510-841-7225
Big parking lot behind, on Berkeley Way!
http://www.spatsberkeley.com
12 noon to 3pm, SPATS 1974 Shattuck Av
Mark Morris Dance Group, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale. $40-$126. 642-9988. [email protected]
3pm, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Dana Spiotta in conversation with Greil Marcus about her new novel," Innocents and Others" (Scribner, $25).
Innocents and Others tracks the friendship of two women, both filmmakers: Meadow, who makes art films, and Carrie, who makes commercially successful films with a feminist slant. Their friendship is complicated, but their devotion to each other trumps their wildly different approaches to film and to life.
Dana Spiotta is the author of Stone Arabia, a National Books Critics Circle Award finalist, and Eat the Document, a finalist for the national book award. Spiotta is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize for Literature. She lives in Syracuse, New York.
4pm to 5pm, 2904 College Avenue
$12 adv./$18 day of show. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
4pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States
PEBBLE Historical Concert presents the hidden side of Baroque Music
Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir will explore the hidden side of Baroque music when its advanced choirs - Ensemble, Ecco, and Ancora - sing works from Venice and Guatemala.
Featured works include 'Quedize Alegres Pastores' and 'Pues en Constantes' by Francisco Delgado, and selections from Italian-born composer Nicola Porpora, including 'Dixit Dominus' and 'Magnificat.'
"Ensemble and Ancora will present ravishing music written for the girls of the Venetian ospedali, whose performances - typically hidden behind screens for modesty's sake - were widely lauded for their vocal and instrumental prowess," said Eric Tuan, PEBCC's new conductor of Ecco. "Ecco pulls back the curtain on the musical traditions of Baroque Guatemala presenting the modern premieres of three works" said Tuan. Each of these pieces are newly edited by Conductor Tuan specially for the Piedmont Choir.
In the adventurous spirit for which PEBCC is known, the Historical Concert brings music from forgotten communities back to life for the first time in centuries.
If your child loves to sing, bring them to this concert and let them experience this dynamic, vivid, and often surprising music at the Historical Concert.
About Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir:
The acclaimed Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir (PEBCC) has been offering children an outstanding program of choral training and performance since 1982. The Choir regularly collaborates with major Bay Area arts organizations. The Choir's comprehensive music curriculum provides approximately 350 students, ages newborn-17, from over 100 schools in three counties.
$12-30.
http://pebcchistoricalconcert2016.eventbrite.com
Website: http://piedmontchoirs.org
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 510-547-4441
Contact: Rita Forte
Tickets are available through Eventbrite or at the door.
4pm to 6pm, First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way
SPEAKING TERMS -- " a performance piece for speaker and music "
A monologue
Speaker: Michael McDonagh
Music: Bach Cello Ste # 2 in BWV 1008
Misha Khalikulov -- www.stringquake.com -- cello
35-40 min.
A RUSSIAN NOVEL [ Anna and Vronsky ] " a performance piece for 4 actors and music"
A radically compressed take on Tolstoi's great novel with separate yet interlocking parts
Actors: Madison Mentz (Princess Anna Karenina), Nassim Aboufaraj (Anna's lover Count Vronsky), Michael McDonagh (Anna's husband Alexei Karenin) , Caroline Schink (Vronsky's mother Mme Vronsky)
Music; Tchaikovsky Op.19 6 morceaux pour piano --- Jim Jowdy - piano
45-50 min.
MIchael McDonagh Speaking Terms www.youtube.com
$25
5pm to 8pm, 2133 University Ave.
LoCura, Mozaik, Amir Abbas, Fanny Ara, Miriam Peretz & Nava Dance Collective. $12. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
7:30pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States