Mark Rudio was raised on metal and funk, but once he discovered Beethoven and opera he never looked back. He writes about performing arts under the pseudonym John Marcher at A Beast in a Jungle.
Nuances of the performance were lost to the unforgiving acoustics of the Rodin Gallery at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, but the musicians’ camaraderie shone through.
The program — which explored works from Haydn, Mozart, Debussy, and Stravinsky — pit the sets of composers against each other, whether that was its intention or not.
Noe Valley Chamber Music returned after four years off to draw the largest audience in its 22-year history in San Francisco on Sunday, in a performance hosted by SFOO cellist Emil Miland.
“Digital Debussy,” is part of pianist Kathleen Supové’s "The Exploding Piano" project, an attempt to remake the classical concert experience and everything that goes with it.
In a concert of fascinating music, the scene is stolen by an ambitious account of war. Does the effort to document the horrors as realistically as possible result in good music?
