The orchestra’s season opener features a Kevin Puts piece he created with their support when he was an up-and-coming composer.
The North American premiere of a 1734 Handel serenata is an interesting glimpse of the composer fulfilling his duties as unofficial court composer. Eyes and ears were on some of the strongly cast soloists.
Two commissions honor Marin Alsop, the festivals founder and guiding light.
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.
