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2005/06 Season Calendar

September  |  October  |  November  |  December  |  January  |  February  |  March  |  April  |  May  |  June
September
9	Fri	Sheng Xiang
10	Fri	Sheng Xiang: Film and Panel Discussion: Music, Community Politics, and Environmental Justice in Taiwan
14	Wed	Horacio Franco, recorder
15	Thu	National Ballet of China: Film and Colloquium: Raise the Red Lantern
16-18	Fri-Sun	National Ballet of China, Raise the Red Lantern
18	Sun	Rudolf Buchbinder, piano: Sightlines: Pre-concert talk by musicologist John Palmer
18	Sun	Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
22-24	Thu-Sat	Mark Morris Dance Group, Celebrating Twenty-Five Years
25	Sun	Rudolf Buchbinder, piano: Sightlines: Pre-concert talk by musicologist John Palmer
25	Sun	Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
26	Mon	John Adams and Peter Sellars in Conversation: Science and the Soul: Robert Oppenheimer and Doctor Atomic
28	Wed	Mark Morris Dance Group: Film and Colloquium: Four Saints in Three Acts
29-30	Thu-Fri	Mark Morris Dance Group, Four Saints in Three Acts
October
1	Sat	Mark Morris Dance Group, Four Saints in Three Acts
6	Thu	Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano & Zurich Orchestra La Scintilla
9	Sun	Takács Quartet & Garrick Ohlsson, piano
12-16	Wed-Sun	Kirov Ballet & Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, The Sleeping Beauty
14	Fri	Kirov Ballet & Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, The Sleeping Beauty: Petipa, Tchaikovsky and The Sleeping Beauty Symposium
14	Fri	The Yuri Yunakov Ensemble featuring Ivo Papasov
16	Sun	Christopher Maltman, baritone
19	Wed	Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
21	Fri	Mariza
21-30	Fri-Sun	Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell'arte Conference: Exhibitions
22	Sat	Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell'arte Conference: Commedia in the Bay Area
23	Sun	Sequentia: Sightlines: Pre-concert talk by director Benjamin Bagby
23	Sun	András Schiff, piano
23	Sun	Sequentia
26	Wed	Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Sightlines: Pre-performance talks by Professor Paolo Bosisio, Department of Theater History, University of Milan
26-30	Wed-Sun	Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Arlecchino, Servant of Two Masters
27	Thu	Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell'arte Conference: Making Theater with Ferruccio Soleri of Piccolo Teatro di Milano
27	Thu	Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Sightlines: Pre-performance talks by Professor Mel Gordon, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
28	Fri	Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Sightlines: Pre-performance talks by Professor Paolo Bosisio, Department of Theater History, University of Milan
28	Fri	Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell'arte Conference: Taboo and Humor Today: What's Funny and What's Forbidden
29	Sat	\Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Sightlines: Pre-performance talks by Professor Mel Gordon, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
29	Sat	Hilary Hahn, violin
30	Sun	Arlo Guthrie, 40th Anniversary Celebration of Alice's Restaurant
November
3	Thu	Beijing People's Art Theatre, The Teahouse: Lecture: "Lao She's The Teahouse and Modern China" by Peter Li, Rutgers University
5	Thu	Beijing People's Art Theatre, The Teahouse: Conversation with Pu Cunxin, China's AIDS Ambassador
5	Sat	Composer Portrait: György Ligeti/Christopher Taylor, piano: Sightlines: Post-performance talk with Robert Steele of Columbia University and pianist Christopher Taylor
5	Sat	Composer Portrait: György Ligeti/Christopher Taylor, piano: Music & Mathematics: Christopher Taylor in Conversation with Bob Osserman
5-6	Sat-Sun	Beijing People's Art Theatre, The Teahouse
6	Sun	Composer Portrait: György Ligeti/Christopher Taylor, piano
9-13	Wed-Sun	Propeller, The Winter's Tale
11	Fri	Youssou N'Dour & The Egyptian Orchestra
12	Sat	Borodin Quartet: Sightlines Pre-concert talk by UC Berkeley musicologist William Quillen
12	Fri	Borodin Quartet
12	Fri	An Evening with Ira Glass & Chris Ware
13	Sun	Jonathan Lemalu, bass-baritone
17	Thu	Tania Libertad
18	Fri	Radio Kaboul: Ustad Mahwash and Friends
19	Sat	Randy Cohen
20	Sun	Deborah Voigt, soprano
December
1	Thu	The Tallis Scholars: Key Notes Lecture: "How Awesome is this Place!: Placing Sacred Renaissance Vocal Music in the Context for Which it Was Written"
3	Sat	The Tallis Scholars: Sightlines: Pre-concert talk with director Peter Phillips, moderated by Paul Ellison, Director of Music, Church of the Advent, San Francisco
3	Sat	The Tallis Scholars
4	Sun	Artists of the Mariinsky Academy
9-18	Fri-Sun	Mark Morris Dance Group, The Hard Nut
January
8	Sun	Julia Fischer, violin
20-21	Fri-Sat	Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
21	Sat	Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company: Sightlines: Post-performance discussion with choreographer Bill T. Jones and the company
22	Sun	Brad Mehldau Trio & Bill Frisell Quintet
29	Sun	Composer Portrait: Magnus Lindberg/International Contemporary Ensemble
February
4	Sat	Imago Theatre: Sightlines: Pre-performance talk with members of the company
4	Sat	Imago Theatre, Biglittlethings
8-9	Wed-Thu	An Evening with John Cleese
9	Thu	Les Violons du Roy: Key Notes Lecture: "Early Music, Modern Instruments"
10	Fri	Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul with special guest Burhan Öçal
11	Sat	Chick Corea & Touchstone
11	Sat	Mark Dresser, Myra Melford, Bob Ostertag & David Wessel
12	Sun	Les Violons du Roy with Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano
17	Fri	Perú Negro
18-19	Sat-Sun	Noche Flamenca
19	Sun	Jonathan Biss, piano
24	Fri	Sweet Honey in the Rock
25-26	Sat-Sun	Moscow Circus, A Russian Winter's Tale
28	Tue	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
March
1-5	Wed-Sun	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
5	Sun	Composer Portrait: John Adams/Alarm Will Sound
8-9	Wed-Thu	Julio Bocca's Ballet Argentino & Octango, Boccatango
9	Thu	Hespérion XXI/La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall, director and viola da gamba, The Music of Don Quixote
9	Thu	Hespérion XXI/La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall, director and viola da gamba: Key Notes Lecture: "Quixotic Music."
11	Sat	Hespérion XXI/La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall, director and viola da gamba: Sightlines: Pre-concert talk with music director Jordi Savall, moderated by Kate van Orden, Associate Professor, Department of Music, UC Berkeley
11	Sat	Maria del Mar Bonet & Mônica Salmaso
11	Sat	Hespérion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall, director & viola da gamba, Musical Encounters of Fire and Water from the Old World and the New
12	Sun	Takács Quartet: Sightlines: Pre-concert talk by Joseph Kerman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, UC Berkeley
12	Sun	Masters of Persian Classical Music
12	Sun	Takács Quartet
15	Wed	Dave Brubeck Quartet & Ramsey Lewis Trio
17	Fri	Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu: Lecture/Demonstration
18	Sat	Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu: Sightlines: Post-performance discussion with artistic director Patrick Makuakäne
18	Sat	Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
18	Sat	Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu
24-25	Fri-Sat	Cesaria Evora
26	Sun	Vadim Repin, violin & Nikolai Lugansky, piano
30	Thu	Ladysmith Black Mambazo
31	Fri	Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort: Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort/SCRIPTUM Modern Japanese Prints
April
1	Sat	Eddie Palmieri Septet with Nicholas Payton, trumpet
1	Sat	Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort
2	Sun	Brentano String Quartet: Sightlines: Pre-concert talk by violinist Mark Steinberg
2	Sun	Brentano String Quartet with Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
6-9	Thu-Sun	Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet & Orchestra, Natalia Makarova's Swan Lake
10	Mon	Frank Rich
23	Sun	Krystian Zimerman, piano
28	Fri	PRI's Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
29	Sat	Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion
30	Sun	Ballet Folklorico "Quetzalli" de Veracruz
May
5-6	Fri-Sat	Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
7	Sun	Jerusalem Quartet
7	Sun	Ravi Shankar, sitar & Anoushka Shankar, sitar
12	Fri	Centennial Season Celebration & Gala
June
4-11	Sun-Sun	2006 Berkeley Festival & Exhibition
4-11	Sun-Sun	Le Poème Harmonique Michel Richard de Lalande: Tenebrae
9-10	Fri-Sat	Le Poème Harmonique & Le Centre National des Arts du Cirque Baroque Carnival
15-18	Thu-Sun	Baryshnikov Dance Foundation presents Hell's Kitchen Dance