Arts & Events

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) is best known for the operas and opera-ballets he composed at Versailles for the court of Louis XIV. One of these latter is the rarely heard Les Surprises de l’Amour, first performed at Versailles 1748. Recently, as part of the Barefoot Chamber Concerts, an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society, excerpts from Rameau’s Les Surprises de l’Amour were performed in a transcription by 18th century composer Ludwig Christian Hesse, who scaled down this work to present it in a small chamber music ensemble. Bay Area musicians formed a group called Harmonia Felice consisting of viola da gambists Amy Brodo and Roy Wheldon, theorbist Jon Mendle, and harpischordist Caitlyn Koester, and these instrumentalists were joined by singers Caroline Jou Armitage, soprano, and Brian Thorsett, tenor. The concert was in the Parish Hall of Berkeley’s Saint Mary Magdalene Church on Friday, May 19 at 6:30 pm. -more-

Worth Noting:

So far no meetings are listed for Thursday or Friday adding extra days to the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. Check the City website for late announcements and meetings posted on short notice at: https://berkeleyca.gov/

Only those meetings noted as recorded can be accessed for a full record after the meeting is over. City meeting minutes contain only actions, the outcome of votes on action items. In meetings that are not recorded, discussion is heard only by those who attend the meeting and there is no record of discussion.

• Monday:
  • 12 noon the Community for a Cultural Civic Center online on Turtle Island Monument.
  • 2:30 pm the Agenda Committee meets in the hybrid format to review the City Council draft agenda for June 6. The Bird Safe Ordinance is on the June 6 City Council agenda. (this meeting is audio recorded (not video) and allows attendees to save the transcript)
  • 6 pm the Zero Waste Commission meets in person.
    
    
  • 6 pm Speaking Up for Point Molate meets online Jacob T. Henry Engineering Geologist SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board on “Cleaning Up Point Molate: Progress and Challenges. “ (recorded) The May 15 video on the steep decline of bird populations and preventing deadly bird-glass collisions is available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOi8cGie_8s
• Tuesday:
  • 4 pm City Council Special Meeting on Unfunded Liabilities and Infrastructure Needs is in the hybrid format (video recorded and allows attendees to save the transcript)
  • 6 pm City Council regular meeting in the hybrid format Surveillance Ordinance on the agenda. (video recorded and allows attendees to the save transcript)
• Wednesday:
  • 6 pm Civic Arts Commission meets in person.
  • 6 pm the Environment and Climate Commission meets in person.
  • 6:30 pm the Police Accountability Board meets in the hybrid format.
  • 7 pm the Disaster and Fire safety Commission meets in person.