May 5, 1pm to 3pm, The Musical Offering Cafe, 2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
A lecture by Professor Mark Slobin
Back in 1967-72, Mark Slobin surveyed and described the folk musics of the Central Asian peoples of northern Afghanistan.
He will illustrate their musical traditions along with an introduction to the period and the peoples.
Dr. Slobin is Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus
Wesleyan University
https://mslobin.faculty.wesleyan.edu
New book: Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back
https://global.oup.com/.../pr.../motor-city-music-9780190882082...#
Suggested donation: $10 cash or check at the door
Folk-Music-of-Afghanistan-Before-the-Wars.eventbrite.com
May 5, 1pm to 3pm, Silk Road House, 1944 University Ave, Berkeley
Michael Moran
A new play by Caridad Svich | Based on a novel by Isabel Allende | Directed by Michael Moran
Based on Isabel Allende's best-selling novel, Caridad Svich's <em>The House of the Spirits</em> follows three generations of the Trueba family-their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, and their place in the post-colonial social and political turmoil embroiling their South American country. This darkly poetic adaptation incorporates magical realism to weave the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate.
May 5, 2pm to 4pm, Zellerbach Playhouse