Events Around the Bay
January 27 at 6–7 p.m. program; 7 p.m. book signing
We all saw Baez on the big screen this week at the premiere of the award winning movie “A Complete Unknown” portrayed to the perfection by a movie star Monica Barbaro, but now you can see her in person at her appearance at the prestigious Commonwealth Club, where the star will talk about her personal thoughts and life experiences.
Meet the person behind the stardom as she shares the stories in her book of poems When You See My Mother: Ask Her to Dance Baez shares poems about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Learn about the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on Baez art. I know you will find this collection as Baez inspiring personal diary in the form of poetry. Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California is a nonprofit public forum. In Conversation with Ben Fong-Torres, Music Journalist; Former Editor and Writer, Rolling Stone; Hosted by Robert Melton, Co-chair, Arts Member-led Forum.
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Photo courtesy of the Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
New Century Chamber Orchestra Presents:
“MUSICAL DIVERSIONS: C.P.E. Bach, Shostakovich, and Bartók”
with internationally-acclaimed guest pianist Inon Barnatan
January 17-18 at 7:30 pm in Berkeley; January 18 at 3PM at Sonoma State University,
January 19, at 2PM at Presidio in San Francisco
Praised by The New York Times as “one of the most admired pianists of his generation,” virtuoso pianist Israeli-American Inon Barnatan joins New Century Chamber Orchestra with British Violinist Daniel Hope and its brilliant Music Director and Concertmaster and Brandon Ridenour, Trumpet musician supreme for an electrifying collaboration on two of the great works for piano and string orchestra: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor and C.P.E. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D minor. The program also includes Bela Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra. “It is one of the great works for strings,” says Hope. “It gives everyone in the ensemble something to say and a chance to really show what they do. It’s a bit like a meeting on the town square with a raucous finale that comes to an absolutely tremendous conclusion.”
ABOUT NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
One of only a handful of conductorless chamber ensembles in the world, New Century Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1992 and includes 19 string players from the San Francisco Bay Area as well throughout the United States. Musical decisions are made collaboratively, resulting in an enhanced level of commitment from the musicians and concerts of remarkable precision, passion, and power. The internationally acclaimed British violinist and Deutsche Grammophon recording artist Daniel Hope has been the ensemble’s Music Director since 2018. Beyond regular season concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area, New Century has toured nationally and internationally. In June 2023, the ensemble released its debut album with Daniel Hope on the Deutsche Gramophone label, Music for a New Century.
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Tickets: $35-$80; Info and purchase: www.ncco.org
Free open rehearsal: Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 10:30am-1:00pm at Forest Hill Christian Church, 250 Laguna Honda Boulevard, San Francisco
To confirm your attendance at the open rehearsal, RSVP to tickets@ncco.org Program
Photo courtesy of Marco Borggreve
Comedian/Actor Sebastian Maniscalco is on His Way to San Jose
February 1 at 7pm at SAP Center
If you wish to laugh for 2 hours straight – get your tickets ASAP! The hottest and my absolutely favorite comedian who sold out 4 consecutive nights of his performances at the renowned Madison Square Garden in New York, is on his way to San Jose!
Born in 1973 to Italian-immigrant parents, Sebastian Maniscalco grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and started his career in comedy in Los Angeles in 1998 while he was waiting tables at the Four Seasons Hotel. Maniscalco paved his way to fame one joke at a time, often running over to the famous Comedy Store for impromptu performances. Building a good fan base prior to playing arenas, Maniscalco obtained his popularity through word-of-mouth. Humble about his vision for his career, he never envisioned selling out huge arenas, but now with his fame on the rise, he was deemed one of the highest-paid comedians in 2017 and 2018 by Forbes magazine. After his Netflix comedy specials put him on the map, Maniscalco made his acting debut in the film “Green Book” with bit parts in several other films and recently hosted the MTV music video awards in 2019. See you at SAP in San Jose!
Information tickets-center.com
SAP Center at 525 West Santa Clara St., San Jose
Photo courtesy of SAP Center
A Firechat with Bill Gates at the History Museum in Mountain View
February 11 at 1pm
Join an extraordinary Computer History Museum (CHM) Live event as they welcome Bill Gates to discuss his deeply personal new memoir, Source Code, in conversation with Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe.
If you would like to watch the event online, you can join the Livestream on CHM’s YouTube channel. About the book: The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age. The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world. Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.
Information – 650-810-1010
Event Fee: $35 per ticket. Tickets for the in-person event include a copy of the book and admission for one person. This event will be available to watch on the Museum’s YouTube channel.
Computer History Museum – 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd, in Mountain View
Photo courtesy of CHM
By Lina Broydo
