Recent works by Christopher Rouse and James MacMillan highlight the 2016 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s opening concert.
Pianist Yefim Bronfman is outstanding in the S.F. Symphony premiere of a new piece bustling with musical ideas and technical challenges.
The Parisian-inflected program featured works by Saint-Saëns, Franck, and da Falla.
The noted conductor wields the baton with the S.F. Symphony this month in a program of Britten, Mozart, and Dvořák.
The semistaged production cleverly transcends limits and delivers an exuberant reading of Bernstein’s score.
A John Adams piece featuring electric violin is at the heart of a program exploring the contemplative side of 20th-century music.
The popular mezzo-soprano justifies her adulation in a standout performance of an eerie Berlioz cantata.
A concerto penned under the auspices of the symphony’s Young American Composer-in-Residence program gets the spotlight in a beautifully balanced program.
With his opera in suspended animation, the composer Mark Grey puts forth a Frankenstein Symphony based on its themes at the Berkeley Symphony.
A new Jennifer Higdon suite highlights an evening of music inspired by — but not necessarily for — dancing.
