Following the connections in Stephen Hough’s recital program for San Francisco Performances, was almost as engaging as his playing.
A pair of one-act operas range from the restrained to the flamboyant.
Britten’s brilliant Violin Concerto outshines the rest of the 20th-century program.
Fine performances fail to lift the music above the pleasantly familiar.
Playing music suggested by W. Kamau Bell, the orchestra showed an inspiring willingness to experiment.
S.F. Symphony’s stripped-down staging highlights the operetta’s strengths and weaknesses.
The piano wizard brings out the best in the San Francisco Symphony in a program that ranged from the playful to the cerebral.
Your first challenge is finding it, but that’s kind of the point, pilgrim.
An absorbing medieval music concert refreshes and uplifts while not shorting the entertainment side of things.
Soloists Nikolas Nackley and Tonia D’Amelio straddle the spiritual and the erotic in a charged performance of two cantatas.
