S.F. Symphony’s imaginative music incubator featured exhilarating, intergenerational family duets.
The scaled-down song cycle is inspired by stories from Lydia Davis.
From von Biber’s bombastic Battalia to the subtleties of a recent Andrew Norman piece, the NCCO played everything with grace and beauty.
William Kentridge fuses physics, early modernist art, jazz-age music, and colonial history in a profound multimedia revue.
Great performances mark Left Coast Chamber Ensemble’s ambitious program of two new Kurt Rhode operas.
Tod Browning’s classic film is more camp than creepy, but Philip Glass’s score still engages the imagination.
An airy afternoon of dances and a Bach concerto ends with Bartók’s spirited and spooky Divertimento.
Echoes of 19th-century American music permeate works by George Crumb and Caroline Shaw.
High modernism is alive and well and cellist Karttunen brought some fine, new examples to Cal Performances.
The pianist with deep ties to the county and the string quartet brought music back to the Green Music Center.
