Arts & Events

Currently, Philharmonia Baroque is performing Handel’s 1638 oratorio Saul throughout the Bay Area. I attended the Saturday, April 6 performance at Berkeley’s First Congregational Church. In addition to a Sunday matinee, April 7 at the same local venue, Saul will be given Friday, April 12 at San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre and on Saturday, April 13 at First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto. -more-

The Tallis Scholars, long recognized as the world’s leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music, offered on Thursday evening, April 4, a program of music inspired by the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Peter Phillips, the group’s founder and director, announced from the stage that this was the nineteenth time The Tallis Scholars were performing in Berkeley’s First Congregational Church, the first having been in 1989. Hearing The Tallis Scholars perform sacred works by Renaissance composers who had close associations with the Sistine Chapel was a rare treat. The a capella polyphony of the ten Tallis Scholars vocalists was transcendent. one might even say, trance-inducing. -more-

Worth Noting:

City Council is on Spring Recess until April 22.

Wednesday the Police Review Commission starts with review of Lexipol Policies (policing policies) at 5:30 pm followed by the regular meeting at 7 pm.

Thursday the Community Environmental Advisory Commission (CEAC) agenda looks very interesting.

General information including the Land Use Calendar, tentative schedule of City Council work sessions, boards and commissions delinquent in posting meeting minutes and links to BUSD and regional meetings are posted at the bottom after the summary of next week’s meetings. -more-