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2009/10 ORDERING INFORMATION

Make sure you have excellent seats at the best price for all the events you want to enjoy for our 2009/10 season. Become a part of Cal Performances' family of Subscribers and Donors now and save up to 15% on single-ticket prices!

To subscribe online, first read our series of helpful hints below and then click the link below.

Helpful Ordering Hints If you are not already logged in to our site, you will be prompted to do so first before beginning your order. Simply log in if you already have an online account with Cal Performances and follow the instructions from there. If you are a first time visitor to Cal Performances' web site, click on "register" at the top of the page under "Please Log In" and take just a few short minutes to set up your account. During the subscription purchase process, please do not use your browser's back button to return to a previous screen. Instead, utilize the "back" or "remove" buttons provided on each page to make changes to your order before placing it in your shopping cart. It is important to review each screen carefully as you build your subscription. Please note that if you want to make changes to a subscription in your order after you have taken the final step of adding to your shopping cart, including changing quantity, event or price selection, you must remove that subscription from your cart and start over again to re-build it. You must have a subscription in your cart before you can add additional discount tickets. If you plan on adding on additional events to your Series subscription with your new Subscriber-A add- Oon 10% discount as part of your initial order, or want to purchase additional seats to one or more of your Choose-Your-Own event selections, be sure to place your initial subscription order into your shopping cart first. Then press the "continue shopping" button to easily add extra events or additional seats to a particular performance at your subscriber discount. Please note: Select your own seating is not available for 2009/10 Subscriptions purchased before July 26, 2009. Subscription seating is completed by our Ticket Office during this time on a first-come, first-served basis according to the priority ordering dates listed below with priority for the most desirable seat locations is given to our most generous donors. [Donor levels and benefits.] Ordering deadlines (to receive your priority within each category): May 20: Producers Circle Donors of $1,200+ June 5: Donors of $600+ and Renewing Subscribers June 12: Email Club Members June 26: New Subscribers Note that because you will be asked to select a seating section/price choice for each performance in your subscription package as part of the process, it is now possible to mix and match pricing sections for different performances when building both your Series or Choose-Your-Own Subscription. Price selections shown for each individual event are at the subscription discounted price per section. Subscription tickets for the 2009/10 Season will be mailed in mid-July 2009. Please note that ticket exchanges are available beginning July 25, 2009.

SUBSCRIBER BENEFITS

A Real Deal—Save up to 15%!
Select any Series Subscription and save up to 15% on single-ticket prices. Plus, Series Subscribers may take advantage of two more ways to save: add more Cal Performances 2009/10 events now or all season long, or bring friends to any subscription performance, and save 10% on single-ticket prices. See below for Series options and prices.

Free Choice
Our Choose-Your-Own (CYO) Subscription allows you the widest possible choice of performances, plus savings on single-ticket prices! Select six or more events on a single order and take 10% off single-ticket prices. CYO Subscribers may add more 2009/10 events all season long at a 10% discount.

Great Seats
Do you want to see the performances from some of the best seats in the house? Priority for the most desirable seat locations is given to our most generous Donors, Subscribers, and Email Club members. To ensure your seating priority, please return your order form by the following dates:

• May 20: Producers Circle Donors of $1,200+
• June 5: Donors of $600+ and Renewing Subscribers
• June 12: Email Club Members
• June 26: New Subscribers

(Single tickets go on sale to Donors of $75+ on July 26, to Email Club members on Aug 2, and to the general public on Aug 9, 2009.)

Convenient Online Ordering
Now you can order your subscription whichever way is most convenient for you! Order online; return the order form via U.S. mail or by fax; or call our Ticket Office directly at 510.642.9988 — all for the same low handling fee!

The Right to Change Your Mind
Subscribers and Producers Circle Donors enjoy advance ticket-exchange privileges free of charge for Cal Performances 2009/10 events (subject to conditions and availability). Please see our Ticket Exchanges page for complete details.

Guaranteed Convenience
Avoid waiting in line (or not getting a ticket at all) for our most popular performances. Order now and you can relax knowing your seat is reserved.

Advance Ordering
Select any 2009/10 Series or Choose-Your-Own Subscription, or become a Donor at the $1,200+ level, and you'll have the opportunity to purchase tickets to this year's Special Events before they go on sale to the general public. Plus, Subscribers and Donors have the opportunity to purchase single tickets before they go on sale to the general public.

Special Treatment
Subscribers and Donors always get the red-carpet treatment. You'll have the opportunity to order tickets in advance of the general public to events added during our 2009/10 Season. (Previous added events have included Mikhail Baryshnikov, David Sedaris, Keith Jarrett, Stephen W. Hawking, and more!) Order early for the best selection and avoid "Sold Out" signs!

2009/10 SERIES OPTIONS

Dance  |  Theater  |  Koret Recital A  |  Koret Recital B  |  Music Before 1850 A  |  Music Before 1850 B  | 
20th Century Music and Beyond  |  Chamber Music  |  Orchestra  |  Jazz A  |  Strictly Speaking  |  Family Fare  | 
World Stage A  |  World Stage B

Choose-Your-Own
Our Choose-Your-Own (CYO) Subscription allows you the widest possible choice of performances, plus savings on single-ticket prices! Select six or more events on a single order (Special Events excluded) and take 10% off single-ticket prices. CYO Subscribers may add more 2009/10 events all season long at a 10% discount.

Dance
Mark Morris Dance Group (Sept 17)
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet (Oct 24)
Lyon Opera Ballet (Feb 26)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Mar 9)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Mar 26)
$150 - $260

Theater
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Love's Labour's Lost (Nov 4)
Druid Ireland, The Walworth Farce (Nov 18)
Laurie Anderson, A New Work (May 7)
$130 - $185

Koret Recital A
Christine Brewer, soprano (Sept 27)
Michael Schade, tenor (Oct 18)
Nuccia Focile, soprano, & David Lomelí, tenor (Nov 15)
Saimir Pirgu, tenor (Apr 11)
$155

Koret Recital B
Louis Lortie, piano (Nov 1)
Garrick Ohlsson, piano (Jan 10)
Julia Fischer, violin (Mar 28)
$110 - $130

20th Century Music & Beyond
A House in Bali, with Bang on a Can All-Stars (Sept 26)
Kronos Quartet with Joan Jeanrenaud, cello (Dec 13)
$70 - $100

Music Before 1850 A
Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Oct 24)
The Tallis Scholars (Dec 4)
Europa Galante with Fabio Biondi, director & violin (Jan 23)
Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall, director & viola da gamba (Mar 16)
Concerto Köln (May 1)
$210

Music Before 1850 B
Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Oct 24)
Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Oct 25)
The Tallis Scholars (Dec 4)
Europa Galante with Fabio Biondi, director & violin (Jan 23)
Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall, director & viola da gamba (Mar 16)
Concerto Köln (May 1)
$225

Chamber Music
Takács Quartet (Oct 11)
Brentano String Quartet (Nov 8)
Takács Quartet (Mar 14)
$130

Orchestra
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu, music director & conductor, Yuja Wang, piano (Nov 22)
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev, founder, artistic director & conductor,
Stefan Jackiw, violin, Lisa Delan, soprano (Feb 19)
Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert Cole, conductor, Alexander Sinchuk, piano, Julian Schwarz, cello (Mar 20)
$70 - $150

Jazz A
Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (Sept 22)
Wayne Shorter Quartet, Featuring Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez (Oct 17)
Taylor Eigsti & Julian Lage Duo (Nov 21)
Pat Metheny, The Orchestrion Tour (Apr 24)
$110 - $200

Strictly Speaking
Michael Pollan (Sept 30)
An Evening with Garrison Keillor (Oct 28)
Alfred Brendel, On Character in Music (Oct 30)
Ira Glass, Radio Stories & Other Stories (Dec 5)
$90 - $150

Family Fare
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Love's Labour's Lost (Nov 7, 2 pm)
Peking Acrobats (Jan 23 or 24)
Dan Zanes & Friends (Mar 6 or 7)
Ballet Folklorico "Quetzalli" de Veracruz (May 2)
Ages 16 and under: $55 - $95
Adults: $95 - $160

World Stage A
Mariza (Nov 19)
Masters of Persian Music (Feb 13)
Altan (Mar 19)
Arlo Guthrie, Guthrie Family Rides Again (Apr 23)
Ballet Folklorico "Quetzalli" de Veracruz (May 2)
$100 - $205

World Stage B
Youssou N'Dour (Nov 12) Cancelled
Angélique Kidjo (Feb 20)
Gilberto Gil, The String Concert, Featuring Jacques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil (Mar 17)
Baaba Maal (Apr 20)
Sweet Honey In The Rock (Apr 22)
$120 - $240