The elegant ‘Forever Tango’

  There is a famous tango scene in the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) in which Rudolph Valentino slinks around the floor with Beatrice Dominguez. He does a sultry job of it, despite the gaucho boots and long spurs,...

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Berkeley Symphony in US Premiere of bayan concerto

Near miss in “Mystical”  The Berkeley Symphony’s winter concert, held last Thursday, December 3, explored the twin threads of mysticism and musical construction. Each of the three pieces on their program came from a religious framework and a fascination with structure, an unusual pairing that is the sort of intelligent programming we have come to expect from conductor Joana Carneiro, now beginning her seventh year at the helm of the Berkeley Symphony. The center of...

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