Reviews

Other Minds Festival finishes its season with a flurry of improv, video, electroacoustic works, and reams of imagination.

The Secret Garden, a joint presentation by the S.F. Opera and Cal Performances, introduces opera to children and families with visuals and performances key to its success.

Playing a fascinating program of Mozart and Haydn, the Gold Coast Chamber Players’ performance fell short.

The first concert of the Other Minds Festival #18 juxtaposes music from Greenland, India, and the Faroe Islands.

You can’t scotch S.F. Ballet’s vigor and its ever-venturesome choreography, whether old or young.

The San Francisco Symphony memorializes one of its great members, oboist William Bennett, with a moving concert of Bruckner and Mozart.

Baritone Thomas Hampson’s artistry guarantees a memorable evening of art songs, by Schumann, Barber, and Michael Hersch.

Yuri Possokhov's Rite of Spring is extraordinary, demonstrating his mastery of the rhythms and impulses of the score, conducted and played with beauty and precision by Martin West and the S.F. Ballet Orchestra.

Even though a bit hampered, soprano Susanna Phillips charms with her distinctive recital of songs by Berg, Chausson, Messiaen, Granados, and Schubert.

It takes a family to make a musical dynasty, as the innumerable Bach composers proved, with works well-performed by the California Bach Society.