Arts & Events

New: Nicola Benedetti Scores Hit After Hit in Zellerbach Recital

Reviewed by James Roy MacBean
Monday January 28, 2019 - 01:33:00 PM

When you open a violin recital with the magnificent but notoriously difficult Chaconne from J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor, you’re making a doubly bold and incautious move. First, you need to get the Bach Chaconne right, which is no easy task, or else you risk undercutting the recital from the outset. Second, if you play the Bach Chaconne successfully, what can you possibly offer the audience after this summa cum laude of works for violin? Happily, in her recital of Sunday, January 27 at Zellerbach Hall, Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti answered both of these issues with a superb – and superbly planned -- recital, which also featured her long-time collaborator Alexei Grynuk on piano. Suffice it to say that in this recital Nicola Benedetti scored hit after hit, beginning with Bach but also including Prokofiev, Wynton Marsalis, and Richard Strauss. -more-


The Berkeley Activist's Calendar, Jan.27-Feb.3

Kelly Hammargren, Sustainable Berkeley Coalition
Saturday January 26, 2019 - 10:19:00 AM

Worth Noting:

Appeals to City Council of Projects Approved by Zoning Adjustment Board

Tuesday (agenda item 14.) - 1155-1173 Hearst - location in Strawberry Creek Watershed prone to seasonal flooding, rehabilitation/development adds 11 units and eliminates 6 (currently occupied) rent controlled units and rented house,

Thursday 6:00 pm – 2190 Shattuck – 18 story @ Allston & Shattuck obstructs view of Golden Gate from Campanile Way Plaza (base Sather Tower). Appeal to lower building height to preserve view, appellants support development of lower height mixed-use building at site

The deadline to comment on the Local Hazard Mitigation plan draft (the Plan for preparing for natural disasters and reducing the impacts) is February 28.

https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Mitigation/#Download_the_First_Draft_2019_LHMP


Sunday, January 27, 2019

No city meetings or events found -more-