Reuniting this summer for the first time in nearly a decade, virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass, and Chris Thile on mandolin will perform live at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theatre. The original Goat Rodeo Sessions, a 2011 double-Grammy winner, was the first step in this collaboration. The Greek Theatre concert, with guest vocalist Aoife O’Donovan, will feature...

Program: Balanchine/The Four Temperaments (music: Hindemith) Justin Peck/Heatscape (music: Martinů) Alexei Ratmansky/Symphonic Dances (music: Rachmaninoff)

Program: Balanchine/The Four Temperaments (music: Hindemith) Justin Peck/Heatscape (music: Martinů) Alexei Ratmansky/Symphonic Dances (music: Rachmaninoff)

Program: Balanchine/The Four Temperaments (music: Hindemith) Justin Peck/Heatscape (music: Martinů) Alexei Ratmansky/Symphonic Dances (music: Rachmaninoff)

Composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue arrives in Berkeley with his Secret Society, an 18-piece big band from New York, for a performance of video, text, and music exploring the American fascination with conspiracy theories. Taking his title from a 2009 book by Kathryn Olmsted (Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11), Argue has created a multimovement...

Composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue arrives in Berkeley with his Secret Society, an 18-piece big band from New York, for a performance of video, text, and music exploring the American fascination with conspiracy theories. Taking his title from a 2009 book by Kathryn Olmsted (Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11), Argue has created a multimovement...

Program: Haydn/String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, The Fifths Ligeti/String Quartet No. 1, Métamorphoses nocturnes Dvořák/String Quartet in G major, Op. 106

Madeleine Peyroux and Paula Cole join together for a double bill of two vocalists performing music from their hit records. Madeleine Peyroux’s breakout 2004 recording Careless Love features new versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, and Hank Williams. Paula Cole’s 1996 album This Fire went double platinum, hit #20 on the Billboard charts, and earned seven Grammy...

Back in Berkeley following their 2018 performance of Ada/Ava, Chicago’s collective of musicians, composers, theater artists, and filmmakers captivates with its handmade creations. Frankenstein, co-commissioned by Cal Performances, weaves together the plot of Mary Shelley’s gothic tale with themes of desire, birth, and loss from the author’s own biography—asking us to consider our responsibility...

Back in Berkeley following their 2018 performance of Ada/Ava, Chicago’s collective of musicians, composers, theater artists, and filmmakers captivates with its handmade creations. Frankenstein, co-commissioned by Cal Performances, weaves together the plot of Mary Shelley’s gothic tale with themes of desire, birth, and loss from the author’s own biography—asking us to consider our responsibility...