Magen Solomon’s San Francisco Choral Artists, having justreceived a favorable review in Fanfare for their recent With Strings Attached CD, should makeanyone’s shortlist of choral concerts to attend.
While it’s hard to explain the artistic alchemy that makes Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera a success, it is surprisingly entertaining in the theater.
We were all grateful for Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But we’re even happier to see him creating works like this brilliant Violin Concerto.
At Old First Concerts, composer David del Trediciand and duo pianist comrade Marc Peloquin offer the composer’s own Gymnopedies, Mandango, and Carioca Boy.
If you were to take a chance on a concert this weekend, or get on one waiting list, or if there were a concert worth standing outside with a really winning smile and a sign pleading for spares this weekend, this is the one.
It’s the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, and a very few organizations are celebrating with retrospectives of the work of this challenging, odd composer. The festival with the most to offer is the one by sfSound at Old First Concerts.
By now, if you haven’t heard of Classical Revolution, the chamber music collective that specializes in bringing classical music to local neighborhood venues, you’re behind the times.
