Reviews

Robert P. Commanday - May 27, 2014

The future of the very young musicians from the Crowden School trumpeted bright at the school’s 30th Anniversary Concert in UC Berkeley’s Hertz Hall on Saturday night.

Margaret Jones - May 26, 2014

Chora Nova's season-ending concert brings is a festive finale, a beautiful collaboration of sacred texts and soloists.

Steve Osborn - May 26, 2014

The Santa Rosa Symphony,with piano soloist Jeffrey Kahane and conductor Bruno Ferrandis, performed a benefit concert in honor of more than 20,000 children served by the Symphony's extensive outreach efforts.

Niels Swinkels - May 26, 2014

A S.F. Symphony concert of a hard-hitting (and string-breaking) Prokofiev combines with easy listening classical before a auditorium at Davies Symphony Hall.

Jason Victor Serinus - May 25, 2014

The West Bay Opera's Magic Flute list of joys is long, a cumulative accomplishment of production, casting, and intention.

Niels Swinkels - May 21, 2014

Volti closed its 35th season with world premieres of music by American composers Melissa Dunphy and Ted Hearne, plus two Volti-commissions by Kirke Mechem.

Steven Winn - May 19, 2014

Great exaltations ring out through Oakland's Paramount Theatre when the Oakland East Bay Symphony and Oakland Youth Orchestra ssemble for a performance of Berlioz’ stupendous Requiem.

David Bratman - May 19, 2014

The Symphony Silicon Valley offers a Brahms inspired concert with guest conductor Karen Kamensek and guest pianist Jon Nakamatsu.

Jeff Dunn - May 16, 2014

From moments of tender lyricism to thrilling virtuoso expostulations, the Christian Tetzlaff-Tilson-Thomas axis held San Francisco Symphony patrons in thrall.

Niels Swinkels - May 13, 2014

The second concert from the S.F. Symphony with Dutch guest conductor Ton Koopman offers a view of the great German composer through the eyes of a Bach scholar, and a lesson in why he considers Bach the center of his musical world.