Previews

Two superstars will be playing two No. 2 concertos too difficult for most other mortals.

The Pacific Guitar Ensemble is a group dedicated to keeping this dynamic process alive, and it invites audiences to come along for the ride.

With Locaphonic, Hannah Addario-Berry melds two of the Bay Area’s salient obsessions, food and music, in concerts that have all the right ingredients for success.

There are some anniversaries that have to be celebrated by those who really care. The hundredth anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire is one of those.

Read this surprising story of how Richard Patterson found the Pacific Guitar Ensemble and got a home-cooked Italian dinner for 10 into the bargain.

The choral director, one of the best in the business, is busy with a brand-new organization, one with plenty of support that seems likely to become a strong artistic presence in the Bay Area community.

Up-and-coming Chinese baritone Ao Li, enjoying a success at S.F. Opera, readies for his salon performance.

Margaret Jenkins, whose troupe and work has been part of San Francisco’s DNA since the 1970s, presents four performances at the San Francisco JCC’s Kanbar Hall, Oct. 18–21, with dances from the company repertory as well as a preview of the new Time Bones, which she created with her eight dancers. Set to a score by Paul Dresher, it premieres in 2013 as part of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s 40th anniversary season.

Many are familiar with Serge Prokofiev’s strikingly descriptive music for Serge Eisentstein’s film Alexander Nevsky. He also wrote equally expansive music, with vocal soloists and chorus, for another Eisenstein film extravaganza, Ivan the Terrible (1944)

The current revival tour, which began this year in France, heads to Italy, London, Toronto, and Brooklyn before reaching Berkeley. Catch this radical work while you can — you may not get another chance.