Spencer uses the MLK holiday to introduce singers from her mentoring program across a weekend of sets at the SFJAZZ Center.
The group’s latest concert, “Lift Every Voice,” comforts fire-ravaged Los Angeles the day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Soprano Julia Bullock joins the esteemed London-based ensemble for an invigorating concert at Cal Performances.
The orchestra and soloist Víkingur Ólafsson give the world premiere of After the Fall, Adams’s third piano concerto.
The eminent jazz artist also brings in an East Bay-reared rhythm section of bassist David Ewell and percussionist Sameer Gupta.
On her debut solo album, American Sketches, Lee veers from traditional works to jazz and ragtime.
The orchestra’s former associate conductor returns to lead a heartening program that has Ray Chen soloing in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto.
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili is brilliant in Beethoven, and the orchestra responds marvelously to Ticciati.
Baroque cantatas that set the Roman story are gloriously sung on the latest release from French early-music ensemble Les Paladins.
Sony Classical has put out a 22-CD anthology that captures the heyday of recordings devoted to this American composer.
