2007/08 Season

Video: Merce Cunningham visits Ford Point Watch a video of Merce Cunningham and Cal Performances' Director Robert Cole visiting Ford Point in April 2008 and discussing the Craneway Event project for the first time. QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version Video Program Notes: Alessandro Striggio's Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno for 40 and 60 voices One of the highlights of the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition is the American premiere of Alessandro Striggio's 16th-century long-lost Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno for 40 and 60 voices, the largest known contrapuntal choral work in Western music. UC Berkeley musicologist and renowned harpsichordist Davitt Moroney discovered the work at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France after a two decade search. In the latest installment of Cal Performances' web series, Video Program Notes, Professor Moroney talks about the search and the music that London's Guardian called "a masterpiece...not just the choral event of the year but possibly of the decade." (Length: 6:00) QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version Dial-up version Video Program Notes: Focus on Twyla Tharp Henry Berg, former Joffrey Ballet member and one of the original dancers in Deuce Coup, talks about working with Tharp. (Length: 7:00) QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version Dial-up version RealVideo Format (Get free player here) Standard version Mark Morris in Conversation with Robert Cole Learn more about the inner workings of the long and fruitful relationship between Mark Morris Dance Group and Cal Performances with a converation between Mark Morris and Robert Cole, Director of Cal Performances (recorded August 31, 2007). QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version: Part 1 Broadband version: Part 2 Broadband version: Part 3 Dial-up version: Part 1 Dial-up version: Part 2 Dial-up version: Part 3 RealVideo Format (Get free player here) Standard version Cal Performances At 100 Composer Jake Heggie narrates the story of Cal Performances' origin and highlights from its 100 years featuring luminaries such as Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Morris, Dave Brubeck and Laurie Anderson. (Length: 11:00) QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version Dial-up version RealVideo Format (Get free player here) Standard version Video Program Notes: Mark Morris "Dancemaker and spellbinder" (The New Yorker) Mark Morris and Cal Performances Director Robert Cole go way back. Listen and watch as they chat about their friendship and working relationship, including The Hard Nut. (Length: 4:30) QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version Dial-up version RealVideo Format (Get free player here) Standard version KQED Spark segment on Robert Cole When Spark, KQED's local arts television show, wanted to highlight influential arts leaders in the Bay Area, it came to Cal Performances to see how Director Robert Cole works his magic. During his 18 years in Berkeley, Cole has turned Cal Performances into one of the country's leading arts presenters. (Length: 11:00) RealVideo Format (Get free player here) Standard version AileyCamp! AileyCamp, the nationally acclaimed youth program, conceived by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and administrated by Cal Performances, teaches dance and life lessons to Berkeley/Oakland middle school students. Follow three Ailey campers from beginning impressions through the grand finale performance. (Length: 7:00) QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version Dial-up version RealVideo Format (Get free player here) Standard version Behind the Scenes at Cal Performances The Bolshoi Ballet is opening at Zellerbach Hall in just a few hours. Watch what it takes to get great art on the stage while running a dynamic arts organization. (Length 7:00) QuickTime Format (Get free player here) Broadband version Dial-up version RealVideo Format (Get free player here) Standard version © Cal Performances, U.C. Regents, 1998 - 2008 General Questions: ticketscalperfs.berkeley.edu Website Comments: wwwcalperfs.berkeley.edu