Previews

A pianist besotted with the music of Sondheim presents variations on his brilliant songs by an A-team of composers/arrangers.

This is it: The Oakland East Bay Symphony, conducted by Carl Davis, and the S.F. Silent Film Festival, in the most complete restoration possible of Napoleon, will screen the 5 1/2-hour film four times at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre.

San Francisco Conservatory is about to set loose its annual Hot Air Music Festival, which offers something for everyone — plus it’s all free and high-flying!

This is an engaging quartet whose youthful energy comes across on stage.

Voices of Music is one of the fastest-rising of the Bay Area’s huge number of early music groups.

A new film documents the rich life of the revered, polymath composer Lou Harrison.

A beloved opera gets manga-nized and reinvented, as a “fantasia on a theme by Mozart.”

Listeners can expect to hear a variety of styles from the classical
repertoire to a fusion of genres including American jazz and Irish
idioms.

The Oakland-East Bay Symphony's coming concert, Heroes and Giants, is a demonstration of Michael Morgan’s programming genius.

Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini, the imaginative musician who founded Concerto Italiano 28 years ago, will be featured on an upcoming SFS program of Mozart and Haydn.