Arts & Events

The 50th anniversary of Jean-Luc Gordard's post-May '68 docu-agit prop (and satiric) film 'Sympathy for the Devil,' featuring the Rolling Stones--including a run-down Brian Jones--recording their samba-flavored masterpiece at London's Olympia Studios, intercut with Black Panthers reciting Amiri Baraka poems and clips of the Vietnam War, will be celebrated with a screening in a newly remastered High Definition 50th anniversary edition print at the East Bay Media Center ( 510-849-3699; eastbaymediacenter.com ) Friday at 7:30 pm. 1939 Addison, between Milvia & MLK Way. Tickets $12 at the door or through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sympathy-for-the-devil-tickets-60666209265

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Like a good French wine that gets better with age, French-born pianist Héiène Grimaud seems to get better and better as time passes. Now approaching age fifty, Héiène Grimaud has outgrown her early reputation as a strong-willed, sometimes quirky interpreter of the standard piano repertoire. These days, she is simply hailed as an outstanding pianist, much loved by audiences here and around the world. Over the weekend of April 25-27, Ms. Grimaud joined the San Francisco Symphony in performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58. The orchestra was led by conductor James Gaffigan, who is familiar to local audiences from his tenure as associate conductor of the San Francisco Symphony from 2006 to 2009. -more-

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