Steve Osborn

Putting classic Golden Age film scores next to the composer’s Symphony No. 2 shows what was borrowed and what was missed.

Bella Hristova is an exceptional soloist in this work that combines jazz and orchestral traditions.

Composer Enrico Chapela Barba writes masterfully for both ensembles in a new work titled Los Braceros.

Symphony, conductor, and soloists are in tip-top form in a concert that also included Korngold’s Violin Concerto.

Cellist Adelle-Akiko Kearns is outstanding in Max Bruch’s Canzone.

Pianist Natasha Paremski brings grace to a Rachmaninoff concerto.

The orchestra shows its strengths in Brahms’s Second Symphony.

The SSU Symphonic Chorus is the star of a very bright show.

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine soars in the rarely heard French masterpiece.

The pianist’s reading of a Shostakovich concerto brings out the best in the Santa Rosa Symphony.