Cal Performances
A‘ RADICAL’ new season
A weeklong residency by conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela— part of a new initiative titled Berkeley RADICAL— will launch Cal Performances’ 2015- 16 season in September.
The newRADICALseries also includes performances by the St. Louis Symphony, the KronosQuartet, Texas theater group the Rude Mechanicals and the Mark Morris Dance Group.
The big news for the newseason is Berkeley RADICAL( Research and Development Initiative in Creativity, Arts, Learning), which will combine residencies, performance, the commissioning and documentation of new works and more. Dudamel and the Bolívar Orchestra arrive in September for Sept. 24- 25 concerts featuring Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 7 and 8 and the composer’s Ninth Symphony. The conductor’s residency also will include master classes, school visits and a screening of Jamie Bernstein’s “Crescendo ! The Power of Music.”
Among other artists booked for the RADICAL program the new season are the Kronos Quartet in a “visually enhanced” performance of Terry Riley’s “Sun Rings”; the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan; the Austin, Texas- based theater group Rude Mechanicals performing “Stop Hitting Yourself”; and the return of the Mark Morris Dance Group’s evening- length masterwork, “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.”
The fall season features the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis ( Sept. 18) ; Alexei Ratmansky’s “Cinderella,” by the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra ( Oct. 1- 4) ; the Takács Quartet ( Oct. 11) ; and the eco ensemble’s performance of Kaija Saariaho’s cello concerto “Notes on Light” ( Oct. 23). Twyla Tharp’s company dances into town ( Oct. 1618), and violinist Leila Josefowicz plays John Adams ( Nov. 8). The Danish String Quartet returns with two programs Nov. 22.
Season subscription packages, $ 70$ 362, go on sale Monday. Individual tickets go on sale later: www. calperformances. org.