“An extended residency by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, appearances by the St. Louis Symphony with Music Director David Robertson, choreographer Twyla Tharp, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and an interdisciplinary focus on the work of J.S. Bach are among the highlights of the 2015-16 season for Cal Performances, announced by Executive and Artistic Director Matías Tarnopolsky,” writes Joshua Kosman in Wednesday’s (4/22) San Francisco Chronicle (password required). The season “is the first to unfold under the rubric of Berkeley Radical, the organization’s new program to forge connections with the community…. A focus on the natural world will include the St. Louis Symphony’s performance of ‘From the Canyons to the Stars,’ Olivier Messiaen’s orchestral ode to the beauty of the American West, with a visual essay by Berkeley photographer Deborah O’Grady. New approaches to genre-blurring performance are explored in ‘ReVisions,’ including concerts by the Ensemble Intercontemporain with Music Director Matthias Pintscher…. Bach will figure prominently in presentations by Tharp, violinist Gil Shaham, and the Bach Collegium Japan.” There will be performances of choreographer Mark Morris’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird and the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra will also appear in 2015-16.
Posted April 22, 2015
