The new music dynamo continues its anniversary season by focusing on the legacies of local composers.
As a sampling of Switchboard’s genre-blurring monthly “new music” series, the lineup for the March edition in the Tenderloin was perfectly eclectic.
The new music festival brought back artists from its previous 20 years, all of them impressively creative still.
Three pianists, three hours, and 20 Philip Glass Études equal one riveting event.
In the third installment of a year-long project, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players offered two excellent premieres inspired by death and loss.
Despite wrinkles in the format, the Symphony's hip new series continues to impress.
Last month, a spirit of innovation and inclusion reigned as practioners and devotees of contemporary music performed and traded ideas.
Ingratiating, swinging, but also refined and transparent, So Percussion were at the top of their game in their Bay Area concerts.
The Empyrean Ensemble presented new works by Pulitzer Prize-winner Melinda Wagner and UC Davis composers at the 2015 Music and Words Festival.
With an emphasis on women creators, New York's Prototype Festival challenges stereotypes but also delivers powerful music theater.
