The 90-year-old composer appears in likely his last tour, a collaboration with German video artist Lillevan.
Cellist Evan Kahn is the soloist on a higher plane for The Protecting Veil, while Stacy Garrop’s Inner Demons plumbs the depths.
At Grace Cathedral, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning work has its Bay Area premiere on a program that’s powerfully contemplative.
San Francisco is the connecting thread through this concert, from the featured composers to the stellar student and alumni performers.
Omar Offendum’s storytelling, rapping, and singing weave together past and present in a closely observed whole.
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s work is bold and beautiful and couldn’t be timelier.