The Oakland-East Bay Symphony is playing a tribute to Bay Area resident jazz legend Dave Brubeck, who died last year at the age of 92. The benefit concert will raise money for the OEBS education programs.
When pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin comes to town, it’s often to play something gnarly or seldom played. In his appearances with the S.F. Symphony this time he’s scheduled for Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
The Marin Symphony, with pianist Joyce Yang, provides an illuminating session of compare-and-contrast of Debussy’s La Mer, along with some delicious Ravel.
If you can’t get enough of trombones (see Berlioz’ Te Deum), you can return in May to Davies Symphony Hall for a celebration of Beethoven's middle years, which includes his rarely performed Equali for four trombones.
The point of this concert is to throw a spotlight on a range of cultures not normally represented on American orchestral programs in their own voices — an important component of keeping orchestral music healthy and relevant.
Weeks after the San Francisco Symphony plays Anton Brucker's gorgeous Seventh Symphony, the Berkeley Symphony, under the guiding hand of Joana Carneiro, will play his Fourth Symphony.
If you heard Handel’s Messiah at Grace Cathedral last December, you may be interested in the arrival of the New College Choir from Oxford, which sings J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion at Grace on Good Friday.
In his quest to illuminate the life work of Robert Schumann, the fascinating pianist Jonathan Biss has enlisted the Elias String Quartet to pair Schumann’s string quartet and piano quartet in E-flat, with Henry Purcell’s string fantasias.
