Anybody who likes Romantic music will love Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs and the interpreter at the San Francisco Symphony this week will be the young, golden-voiced soprano Elza van den Heever.
A preview of the season opener at the Oakland East Bay symphony and a one-of-a-kind chat with Carlos Santana, who is bringing people together across musical lines, and is right in tune with the orchestra.
It turns out the Bay Area has a legit klezmer band of its own. A concert titled “Klezmania!” will celebrate the holidays and Chanukah with traditional klezmer, Yiddish and Israeli folk songs, along with original klezmer compositions.
The Berkeley Repertory Theatre is adding another dimension to The Composer is Dead, with an original theatrical adaptation of this wildly popular marriage between Lemony Snicket’s story and Nathaniel Stookey’s musical score. The work comes to the stage Dec. 2.
The S.F. Choral Society swings into action with Maurice Durufle's beautiful Requiem, accompanied by Rodney Gehrke on organ, and the California Chamber Symphony. Bob Geary's groups regularly produce wonders. This will be another.
Leighton Fong and Anna Presler (of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble) and Karen Rosenak (Earplay) join forces for another of the Crowden Music Center's Sunday@ Four concerts. What's not to love?
Voices of Music, the little band of hard-core early music players, is a presence on the Web. You can hear them live this weekend in a concert of 17th-century fantasias by a group of composers you may never have heard of.
Arnaldo Cohen is rightly esteemed by afficionados of classical piano; now is your chance to catch him in his four-hand recital with up-and-comer Nareh Arghamanyan at Herbst Theatre.
