Previews

Stephanie Jones - March 4, 2012

Musical sisters know how to shake it, for audiences that enjoy a variety of styles.

Brett Campbell - March 3, 2012

A pianist besotted with the music of Sondheim presents variations on his brilliant songs by an A-team of composers/arrangers.

Janos Gereben - March 2, 2012

This is it: The Oakland East Bay Symphony, conducted by Carl Davis, and the S.F. Silent Film Festival, in the most complete restoration possible of Napoleon, will screen the 5 1/2-hour film four times at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre.

Stephanie Jones - February 29, 2012

San Francisco Conservatory is about to set loose its annual Hot Air Music Festival, which offers something for everyone — plus it’s all free and high-flying!

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.