Arts And Entertainment
Classical Music Shop Celebrates Busoni
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday December 11, 2007
The premiere recording of Ferruccio Busoni’s Complete Two Piano Works (EMI/Angel) will be celebrated by the Musical Offering (Bancroft Avenue below Telegraph), this Wednesday 5-7 p.m., with a reception for and signing by pianists Daniell Revenaugh of Berkeley and Lawrence Leighton Smith, currently musical director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.
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Shift Theatre, BHS Present ‘Noises Off’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday December 11, 2007
“I’m going to do something wrong here ...” Those ominous words, emblazoned on the cover of the program to the Shift Theatre/Berkeley High School Drama production of Michael Frayn’s backstage bungler, Noises Off, telegraph the message of this non-message play clearly. And a great deal is going to be done wrong. Repeatedly. That’s the whole show.
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The Life and Music of a Legendary Singer-Songwriter
By Art Goldberg, Special to the Planet
Tuesday December 11, 2007
One of the most enjoyable and inspiring films I’ve seen in a long time comes to Berkeley for one day only, this Thursday, Dec. 13 at the California Theater, a benefit for the local Gray Panther chapter. Screenings are at 2 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Tickets are $10.
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Nuclear Power in the Wake of Chernobyl
Tuesday December 11, 2007
Living With Chernobyl: The Future of Nuclear Power, a new documentary by Berkeley filmmakers and journalists Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin, will air at 11 p.m. Thursday on KQED Channel 9.
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‘Wild Christmas Binge’ at SF Playhouse
By Ken Bullock , Special to the Planet
Friday December 07, 2007
In Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, directed by Berkeley favorite Joy Carlin at the San Francisco Playhouse off Union Square, what at first flush seems to be a loopy burlesque of that seasonal chestnut, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, proves postmodern.
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Revels Open at Oakland Scottish Rite Auditorium
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday December 07, 2007
The California Revels opens tonight (Friday) at the Oakland Scottish Rite Auditorium on Lake Merritt, celebrating its 22nd season in two weekends of music, dance and pageantry.
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Moving Pictures: 'I Am Cuba' — A Long-Neglected Masterpiece of Political Filmmaking
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday December 07, 2007
When art dabbles in politics it runs the risk of its politics subsuming its art. No matter how great the artistic achievement, there is always the danger that critical and popular reception may be held hostage to considerations that go far beyond artistic merit.
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