Previews

Michael Zwiebach - February 27, 2012

This is an engaging quartet whose youthful energy comes across on stage.

Michael Zwiebach - February 27, 2012

Voices of Music is one of the fastest-rising of the Bay Area’s huge number of early music groups.

Brett Campbell - February 23, 2012

A new film documents the rich life of the revered, polymath composer Lou Harrison.

Ken Bullock - February 22, 2012

A beloved opera gets manga-nized and reinvented, as a “fantasia on a theme by Mozart.”

Michael Zwiebach - February 16, 2012

Listeners can expect to hear a variety of styles from the classical
repertoire to a fusion of genres including American jazz and Irish
idioms.

Michael Zwiebach - February 16, 2012

The Oakland-East Bay Symphony's coming concert, Heroes and Giants, is a demonstration of Michael Morgan’s programming genius.

Michael Zwiebach - February 16, 2012

Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini, the imaginative musician who founded Concerto Italiano 28 years ago, will be featured on an upcoming SFS program of Mozart and Haydn.

Brett Campbell - February 16, 2012

Charles Amirkhanian travels the world to find new music and innovative composers, and will soon convene his latest finds at the 17th Other Minds Festival in Woodside.

Michelle Dulak Thomson - February 15, 2012

The Afiara String Quartet balances a lively interest in new works with deep insight into core classical repertoire.

Jason Victor Serinus - February 15, 2012

A chamber choir probes music of the heart and soul, including a work inspired by Martin Luther King’s vision of freedom when in the Birmingham jail.