Employee Discounts to Cal Performances 'Illuminations' series

February 14, 2022

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Dear Colleagues,

Cal Performances would like to offer you $5 tickets to two very special performances coming to Zellerbach Hall. Both of these thrilling productions are making their West Coast Premiere and both are part of Cal Performances Illuminations series, exploring issues of "Place and Displacement."

Jason Moran and Alicia Hall-Moran’s
Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration

West Coast Premiere
Thu, Feb. 17, 7:30pm, Zellerbach Hall

The celebrated wife and husband duo of classical vocalist Alicia Hall Moran and jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran curate a special edition of their expansive concert Two Wings. In a series of "gripping portraits of a vast social upheaval" (Chicago Tribune), the duo's deeply personal presentation
Two Wings explores the Great Migration of six million Black Americans from the rural South to northern cities, the West, and beyond. As the brave travelers move north and west (even passing through California, where Hall Moran was born), we hear the richly varied Black music that accompanies them on their journeys, from Harlem Renaissance-era jazz songs, gospel hymns, bebop standards, Broadway show tunes, and classical and chamber music, to the Morans’ own compositions.

A conversation with the artists and the Othering and Belonging Institutes' john a. powell follows the performance.

Ted Hearne and Saul Williams’
Place

Sat, Mar. 12, 8pm, Zellerbach Hall

  • West Coast Premiere
  • A 2021 Pulitzer Prize nominee
  • The cast recording of the work received two Grammy nominations this year.

How does a white millennial man create a work that explores the topographies of gentrification and displacement? Engaging the mind of poet Saul Williams, composer Ted Hearne confronts this issue head-on in Place, a fiery yet thoughtful oratorio.

A true dialogue, the first part of the libretto is a collage of Hearne’s own autobiographical reflections, which are placed in conversation with - and overtly challenged by - Williams’ trenchant text in the second half, which addresses displacement through the lens of settler colonialism, police violence, and Afrofuturism.

Making its Bay Area premiere, this evening-length work features six vocalists and an 18-member ensemble that blends R&B and electronic music with acoustic orchestral sonorities composed in Hearne’s distinctive style.

Discounted $5 tickets are now available to UC Berkeley faculty and staff, limit of six (6) tickets per event. Tickets can be ordered:

  • Online through this secure link: https://bit.ly/3uHg0x1
  • By phone (510) 642-9988
  • Or through the Ticket Office at Zellerbach Hall, using the promo code.

Buying Tickets Online: Enter Promo Code FACSTAFF5Discount instructions: The Cal Performances ordering system will automatically enter the promo code when you use the link above. If you buy tickets without using the link above, you must enter the promo code FACSTAFF5, then look for the "UCB Fac/Staff Discount" price type when selecting your seats, displayed at the $5 reduced price. Offer valid in price levels 2–6. Requires login. If you do not have a Cal Performances account, register at the prompt. Limit 6 tickets per event. Not applicable on prior purchases. Offer expires Feb. 17 (for Two Wings) and Mar. 12 (for Place). 

SAFETY FIRST: Proof of vaccination status and masking is required for all events. 

We look forward to welcoming you back to Zellerbach Hall for these thrilling productions.  

thank you,
Jeremy & Eugene


Jeremy Geffen, Executive and Artistic Director, Cal PerformancesEugene Whitlock, Chief People & Culture Officer

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