If you plan to drive up I-80 to the next concert of the Vallejo Symphony to hear virtuoso Meredith Brown, you must be prepared to play her second-most-important instrument. No, not the French horn, but the one in which “Freeway Philharmonic’” members are extremely practiced: the steering wheel.
The Paramount Theatre returns to its roots and its “mighty Wurlitzer” takes center stage at the upcoming Oakland East Bay Symphony concert on March 19 and 21.
It’s not your standard concert evening — and that’s just the point.
Back in the days when the piano ruled and recordings didn't exist, a lot of music for four hands (one piano, two players, as opposed to two pianos) got written or arranged for the home market.
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to Joel Fan’s 2006 CD, World Music, you’re missing a wonderful introduction to contemporary classical music from around the globe. You’ll still have a chance to hear large parts of it live when he performs at Holy Names University in Oakland on March 20.
Mandolin, usually of the flatback variety, is a given to stand in for fiddle in bluegrass or country swing, yet not so much for violin in classical music — nor as a solo instrument with orchestra.
After last year's hip, happening Switchboard Music Festival, one of the event's cocreators, Jonathan Russell, moved to Washington D.C and another, Ryan Brown, decamped to Princeton, New Jersey.
Quartet San Francisco is definitely not your grandmother’s string quartet. While other ensembles stick to classical masters like Beethoven and Brahms, this ensemble’s tastes also lean toward blues and bluegrass — not to mention jazz, pop, funk, and even tango.
“Forecast: Sunny, With a Chance of Song.” With this meteorological conceit, the program for San Francisco Choral Artists’ concerts around the Bay Area in March features a full spectrum of great modern choral compositions from the beginning through the middle of the 20th century, with two commissioned pieces dating from last year — one composed by SFCA composer in residence Brian Holmes, the other
In a time when natural disasters in Haiti and Chile have many people mobilizing their charitable impulses, the musicians of Voices of Music are lending their own helping hand.
