Previews

It has become a tradition for Chamber Music San Francisco to offer the Brandenburg Concertos on Mother’s Day weekend. 

For its final regular season concert, American Bach Soloists will present Handel’s dramatic cantata Apollo e Dafne (1709-1710). 

Alasdair Neale and the Marin Symphony have put together a great Debussy/Ravel concert, ending with Debussy’s marvelous sea symphony, La mer. 

It doesn’t exactly take insider knowledge to proclaim that the San Francisco Ballet’s Cinderella — with choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, scenery and costumes by Julian Crouch (who designed Broadway’s The Addams Family among other things), and puppetry by renowned master Basil Twist, not to mention Prokofiev’s music — is likely to be a big hit. 

It’s almost essential to see this production of Little Women at the S.F. Conservatory of Music for anyone planning on seeing the composer/librettist’s latest opus, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, at the S.F. Opera in June.

Taylor, 82 and amazing, sends three shows March 30-April 2 to the Novellus Theater, including local premieres of Kith and Kin, Gossamer Gallants and The Uncommitted. 

If you can’t get enough of trombones (see Berlioz’ Te Deum), you can return in May to Davies Symphony Hall for a celebration of Beethoven's middle years, which includes his rarely performed Equali for four trombones.

A trailblazing ambient-music conference, with talks and live concerts featuring a range of composers and artists, revs up for its time in the sun, in San Rafael on May 3–5.

Mattias Goerne, one of the great baritone lieder specialists of this or any age, partners with pianist/conductor Christoph Eschenbach in a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise.

Jepetha, one of the greatest music dramas ever penned, promises to be a fine performance.