Reviews

A performance by ARTefact provides an exercise in expectation affecting perception, which becomes the highlight of the concert.

Sponsored by Other Minds and a team of organizations including Cal Performances, the concerts celebrating Conlon Nancarrow's 100th at UC Berkeley’s Hertz Hall were a scene of fascination.

The orchestral might of the Santa Rosa Symphony, under Music Director Bruno Ferrandis, can now truly be heard in the Green Music Center’s splendid acoustics.

Exotic elements hold great appeal when mixed and matched suavely by the Ultra World X-tet.

The S.F. Girls Chorus' season opener, featuring Vivaldi's Gloria, was conducted by Jeffrey Thomas, the American Bach Soloists orchestra provided accompaniment, and soloists gave variety to the vocal fare.

A program that the S.F. Symphony will play on an upcoming tour featuring Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 will show the Asian audiences what our orchestra and its music director are really made of.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and a superb cast prove we can never have too many recordings of Don Giovanni.

Music inspired by Italy launches Marin Symphony’s 60th season, with tasteful and crowd-pleasing effect. A highlight is Jeremy Cohen’s new work for quartet and orchestra.

The Pacific Guitar Ensemble continues to tap the instrument’s potential with another enticing recital.

A good community choir singing masterworks of Renaissance polyphony gets a passing grade and an A+ for effort.