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Palo Alto Philharmonic. Baroque Music Concert. 8 p.m. Sept. 6. Works by Handel, Gabrieli, Pezel, Speer, Bach and Biber. First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Ave., Palo Alto. $10-$22. www.paphil.org. Radio Flor, A Theatrical Concert by Cascada de Flores. 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6. Tateuchi Hall, Community School of Music and Arts, Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Free. www.arts4all.org or 650-917-6800, ext. 305. Redwood Symphony. With White Album Ensemble of Santa Cruz. Conducted by Eric Kujawsky. 8 p.m. Sept. 12. “With a Little Help From Our Friends” Beatles tribute concert. Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City. $36-$56. FoxRWC.com.
Edward Albee is one of America’s most revered playwrights, and new American Conservatory Theater artistic chief Pam MacKinnon is ballet necklace- dancers gift- sterling silver- ballerina jewelry- recital gift- dance coach- ballet slipper- dancers necklace one of Albee’s favorite stage directors, So for McKinnon’s first directed play at ACT, it’s no surprise she’s mounting an Albee classic — the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Seascape,” which really does include two big lizards as characters, (You didn’t think we made that up, did you?) Here are the deets on the production..
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He returns to San Francisco this weekend as the featured soloist with the 14-piece Inspector Gadje at the Rickshaw Stop for a performance marking the 10th ballet necklace- dancers gift- sterling silver- ballerina jewelry- recital gift- dance coach- ballet slipper- dancers necklace anniversary of Serbian producer DJ Zeljko’s Kafana Balkan dance party, San Francisco’s premiere Balkan music series, With Elizabeth Strong also presenting Turkish-Romani style belly dance, the event marks the release of a live album that Gadje and Lumanovski recorded at Kafana Balkan shows in 2015-26, Led by Italian-born percussionist Marco Peris, Inspector Gadje came together in 2010 through a collaboration with Voice of Roma, a nonprofit that supports Romani culture across the world, With the support of a Haas Foundation grant, the band’s core musicians spent six months studying intensively with Rumen “Sali” Shopov, the Berkeley-based percussion master who hails from a Turkish Roma clan in Bulgaria..
“Oh my gosh, standing room was five deep,” says Helgi Tomasson, director of the San Francisco troupe. He attributes the popularity to several factors: enthusiasm for Wheeldon’s work, advance word of its highly colorful and distinctive look, and, of course, the universally known story. Indeed, it’s a reality these days that the name “Cinderella” — or “Swan Lake,” or “Nutcracker” — can fill a huge theater with eager families, and company directors need to consider the economics of the situation, particularly when creating a full-length production with elaborate sets and costumes. Still, say both Wheeldon and Tomasson, there’s enough that’s new and different about this “Cinderella” to more than justify a new version of the old tale.
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