Jeff Dunn

Charles Dutoit guest conducts, with mixed success, two works of French composers evoking Spain, plus an Elgar work mystifying Britain.

Eco Ensemble admirably delivers some unsettling, foreboding music, with a noted film-score composer present.

The San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, conducted by Charles Dutoit, perform Hector Berlioz’s Te Deum in colossal mode, along with the Pacific Boychoir.

For those living the lush life, the San Francisco Symphony is presenting an all-French program featuring soprano Renée Fleming in orchestral songs by Debussy and Canteloube.

Wednesday night, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San
Francisco Symphony played Mark Volkert’s Pandora for the first
time, and it was full of surprises.

Berkeley Symphony and their music director, Joana Carneiro deeply engage contemporary symphonic music in all its diversity. 

In their final Berkeley concert, Esa-Pekka Salonen and his Philharmonia
Orchestra thrill Berkeley with an impassioned account of Mahler's 9th
Symphony.

The opening night concert at Oakland's Paramount Theatre for the OEBS officially celebrated Democracy, in tune with the recent national election, and aptly symbolized in the programming.

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 Oakland East Bay Symphony concludes the national election work week with all American composers.