The coming months promise orchestra aficionados all around the Bay Area a wide array of music. In this list, “classic” scores. Whatever your taste or locale, there’s something intriguing beckoning you in the near future. Here are some of the many highlights ahead.
Actually, this list, by two of SFCV’s top critics only covers the second half of the year. But just 10 picks for the entire year? That would be impossible.
When looking at the hundreds of symphony, opera, chamber music, and dance performances coming to the Bay Area during the first half of 2011, there has to be some touchstone to narrow
Since the 1930s, the city of Saint Francis has hosted a burgeoning Mexican music scene. SFCV's Jesse Hamlin introduces you to the rich panoply spreading forth from the Mission District and elsewhere in the Bay Area.
Bucking nationwide trends, the city by the Bay's premier orchestra worked its way to the top of the symphonic world and improved its financial health, while reaching thousands of new listeners.
Production details are set for Christopher Theofanidis' new work set to premiere at the San Francisco Opera, continuing a tradition of commissioning new operas.
Casually asking a few people about their favorite holiday song or music grew like Topsy, and here are a few from among many replies. Most are abbreviated, and any response with "Jingle Bells" or TV commercial soundtracks was ruthlessly eliminated.
In 1911, just after the Great Quake of 1906 wiped out much of the city, the San Francisco Symphony was born, and the orchestra is now preparing for a star-spangled centennial season. Here's a preview of great things to come.
