Reviews

Joe Cadagin - May 19, 2015

What happens when indeterminate music’s “happy accidents” are not so accidental?

Charlise Tiee - May 18, 2015

The symphony closes out the season with Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta.

David Bratman - May 18, 2015

Clarinetists Romie de Guise-Langlois and David Shifrin, occasionally joined by violin and piano, dazzled.

Niels Swinkels - May 13, 2015

A lovely rendering of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is unfortunately paired with Bernstein’s brash, ostentatious Age of Anxiety.

Rebecca Wishnia - May 12, 2015

The composer’s Time, Place, Action got its West Coast premiere, but stronger pieces by Debussy and Haydn received less attention from the quartet.

Be'eri Moalem - May 11, 2015

Violinist Christian Tetzlaff offers a palate cleanser of Webern to breakup his performace of the complete Brahms violin sonatas.

David Bratman - May 11, 2015

The symphony, with assistance from choristers, performed the Rachmaninoff masterpiece, which is based off the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

Janice Berman - May 11, 2015

The performance had all the pageantry one would expect from the classic tale, but little choreography.

Monica Hunter-Hart - May 8, 2015

The group’s May 1 concert consisted of symphonies and "party tricks."

Niels Swinkels - May 6, 2015

The early music group introduced a young cello soloist and played a sprightly reading of a Bach orchestral suite.