Be'eri Moalem

At the Days and Nights Festival, Philip Glass conjures distinct sound colors as his musical fingerprint in music heavy on the synthesized organs.

Carmel’s new Days and Nights Festival embraces the idea of repetition, with brilliantly played works by founder Philip Glass, Schubert, and Shostakovich

An eclectic musical evening showed lines blurring between classical, academic, popular, live, and electronic.

The NCCO's premiere of featured composer Mark O'Connor's Elevations wasn't the concert highlight — the orchestra's rare ensemble unity made everything sound great.

Symphony Silicon Valley has fun with Stravinsky and a new work by Paquito d’Rivera, with Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse as well-matched soloists.

At the Marin Symphony, Zuill Bailey cannily controls his sound in the Dvořák Cello Concerto; and a Persian-style work by Behzad Ranjbaran gets its first outing.

What other touring orchestra posts its country's flag on stage when performing internationally? Israel's nationalistic pride is well known, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is a particularly special source of honor for Israelis.

Michael Morgan and the Oakland Symphony and Chorus blessed concertgoers at the Paramount Theatre with a taste of heaven — an earnest and wonderfully played performance of Brahms’German Requiem.

The stage at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus is large enough to fit a full orchestra. But on Saturday night, one man stood alone on the stage with his violin, dressed in black, lit by a spotlight against a solid dark backdrop. No piano accompaniment or even a music stand — the solitary Christian Tetzlaff, playing the complete Sonatas and Partitas.

The Del Sol Quartet performs an often mesmerizing always amplified program of new works that ends on an electrifying note.