Launching its season with terrific dancers and successful explorations of new repertory, Smuin Ballet appears poised to climb to a higher level in the regional ballet firmament.
Dipping into later-than-real-Baroque territory, Philharmonia Baroque clearly loves to perform Brahms Serenades, which it plays as if living in the style of his era.
Philharmonia Baroque essays Henry Purcell’s rarely performed Dioclesian, a semi-opera chockful of stories of love, lust, and politics, all dressed in splendid music.
The brilliant new Weill Hall starred in the Green Music Center’s gala opening, eclipsing even the playing of the Santa Rosa Symphony and Lang Lang and the work of three conductors.
The “imagined places” of Samuel Carl Adams’ Drift and
Providence enriched the orchestral palette with new sounds, alongside Mahler's all-encompassing Fifth, reminding patrons of the S.F. Symphony’s world-class status.