Previews

Marianne Lipanovich - May 16, 2011

Wide-ranging premieres and a remounting of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio (last heard locally two decades ago) mark the concert by San Francisco Sinfonietta.

Michael Zwiebach - May 10, 2011

For their big finale this week, Peninsula Symphony brings in baritone Eugene Brancoveanu and soprano Heidi Moss for a delightful set of opera excerpts from the great repertory warhorses. The 140 voices of the Stanford Symphonic Choir are also on hand to help knock down the walls in the Aida excerpts.

Michael Zwiebach - May 10, 2011

Magnus Lindberg is a major name in composition, and not just because of the “Magnus” part. He's at the Herbst Theatre this Sunday, courtesy of S.F. Performances, as part of a piano trio that also includes Jennifer Koh on violin and Ansi Karttunen on cello.

Michael Zwiebach - May 10, 2011

Volti's odyssey through new and contemporary choral pieces continues this Sunday with the premiere of Matthew Barnson's Genesis. Barnson won this year's Choral Arts Laboratory residency prize. There's more than one premiere on the program, so if you like a bit of mystery and surprise along with really fine singing, you should have this concert on your schedule.

Michael Zwiebach - May 10, 2011

This Friday, Street Scene, the Kurt Weill-Langston Hughes opera comes to the Paramount Theatre stage, played by the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Michael Morgan. It is every bit as marvelous as Morgan says, and you probably won't soon get another chance to hear it in the Bay Area.

Michael Zwiebach - May 3, 2011

The S.F. Choral Artists is taking a big leap, both in visibility and in its repertoire. For its upcoming concert on Sunday, the group is going for its whiskers, partnering with the Alexander String Quartet in a concert that features three — count 'em — commissioned world premieres.

SFCV Staff - May 3, 2011

Garrick Ohlsson's fingers will be flying at the Disney Family Museum in the Presidio on Wed., May 18 when he headlines San Francisco Classical Voice’s 3rd Annual Donor Appreciation Event.

Michael Zwiebach - April 26, 2011

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has generously donated her time for a Japan disaster relief fund-raiser, sponsored by Play for Japan USA.

Michael Zwiebach - April 26, 2011

As the S.F. Symphony returns to action after a brief off-week, they get to work with one of those superb but unheralded conductors who seem more inexplicable in these days of well-oiled publicity machines: Peter Oundjian, known for being self-effacing and for connecting brilliantly with orchestra players.