Our intrepid Rubin Institute fellow spent a busy weekend in the city on a hill, catching five different ensembles.
The pioneering flutist and SF Symphony collaborative partner makes a masterpiece out of Marcos Balter’s imaginative work.
The music of Billy Childs, Gabriella Smith, and Steven Mackey interprets the threat to California’s oldest living things.
In Variations on a Theme by FDR, composers from John Harbison to Vijay Iyer take inspiration from emblematic American stories.
The company realizes Jack Perla’s one-act An American Dream in vivid detail.
The Takács Quartet’s first violinist tracks his own history and those of favorite composers in Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home.
A DVD of the new ballet shows its onstage brilliance in addition to being a great score.
The Pasadena Playhouse offers a glimmering revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical about art and artists.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard is back for a polished solo turn in Béla Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto.
A talented cast of young, ethnically diverse singers delivers a scintillating performance of José Maria Condemi’s wittily conceived production.
