Amid a fiscal crisis, the city of Oakland has revoked its funding for the acclaimed women’s vocal ensemble this season.
The Bay Area composer has written his third piano concerto, After the Fall, for the orchestra and virtuoso soloist Víkingur Ólafsson.
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.