Joe Cadagin

William Kentridge fuses physics, early modernist art, jazz-age music, and colonial history in a profound multimedia revue.

In an ambitious program featuring pipa player Wu Man, the orchestra showed power in excess, with less finesse.

Hans Abrahmsen’s hour-long meditation, Snow, anchors an entertaining program from S.F. Contemporary Music Players.

Stravinsky’s century-old piece still resonates with more power and urgency than the contemporary works it inspired.

Libby Larsen’s operatic adaptation of Shelley is less than riveting in a confusing production.

In a concert featuring a wide range of subjects and inspiration, the older works fared best.

The ensemble achieved sublimity in their rendition of a movement from Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles.

The Rule of Three ruled this show, featuring a varied trio of concertos.

Composer Andy Akiho evokes computers instead of using them in his piano quintet. Maybe that’s the secret of his success.

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen brought Romantic expressivity to a pair of neoclassical masterpieces.