The Midsummer Mozart Festival finishes up with a performance of the composer’s unfinished “Great” Mass in C Minor. The Pacific Mozart Ensemble joins George Cleve’s orchestra and four strong soloists for this passionate, gorgeous music.
It’s the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, and a very few organizations are celebrating with retrospectives of the work of this challenging, odd composer. The festival with the most to offer is the one by sfSound at Old First Concerts.
The Hidden World of Girls, the Kitchen Sisters show that transforms to a multimedia performance at the Cabrillo Festival this week, is really about what’s hidden in a good story, and the rituals of storytelling.
Opera fans have a good few weeks ahead if they haven’t decamped for summer vacations. First up, this weekend, is the Merola Opera Program with Dominick Argento’s quirky, imaginative Postcards From Morocco.
The little Midsummer Mozart Festival will be in full swing this weekend, with pianist Audrey Vardanega, now an experienced soloist at the advanced age of 16, playing the delightful Piano Concerto in G Major, No. 17.
Performances at the Freight and Salvage in honor of Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday illuminate just how interesting a figure he was, not just the mythology that sprang up in his wake.
You’ll be able to hear world-class piano duos take on La
Mer, Nuages, La Valse, The Rite of Spring, and more at the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music.
