András Schiff's concerts at Davies Hall next week bring to conclusion an extensive, ambitious, multi-city, multi-year program based on the final three piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.
An impressive Herbst Theatre is set to reopen, with new features that improve the music hall's sound, and a look at the most dangerous chandelier in musical theater.
Robert Paul Commanday, who died last night in his Berkeley home at age 93, was a prominent presence and inspiring gadfly to generations of musicians, audiences, and journalists.
