Reviews

David Bratman - October 24, 2022

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program of dark favorites by Modest Mussorgsky, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.

Jeff Kaliss - October 24, 2022

The fifth in a series of multimedia events gives another meaning to the term “infotainment.”

Michael Zwiebach - October 18, 2022

The violinist was on hand for Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto in a concert also featuring Brian Raphael Nabors’s Upon Daybreak.

Janice Berman - October 18, 2022

The show was only an hour, but with choreographer Alonzo King backed by master percussionist Zakir Hussain, everything was choice.

Jim Farber - October 18, 2022

In his recital at The Wallis, the pianist/composer was oddly uncommunicative.

Steven Winn - October 18, 2022

In SF Opera’s production of Poulenc’s masterpiece, spiritual concerns are powerfully dramatized.

Richard S. Ginell - October 18, 2022

The Icelandic pianist ups the quirkiness factor by recording his latest album on both a grand and an upright.

Steven Winn - October 16, 2022

This collaborative work responding to the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the police demands sustained attention.

Giacomo Fiore - October 16, 2022

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon is among the artists featured on opening night.

David Bratman - October 16, 2022

It’s a gigantic new piece that, perhaps surprisingly, is entirely at home on a program of 20th-century masterworks.