Previews

A Latino-based ensemble strives to provoke audiences to see immigration issues with fresh and more-tolerant eyes.

Musical sisters know how to shake it, for audiences that enjoy a variety of styles.

A pianist besotted with the music of Sondheim presents variations on his brilliant songs by an A-team of composers/arrangers.

This is it: The Oakland East Bay Symphony, conducted by Carl Davis, and the S.F. Silent Film Festival, in the most complete restoration possible of Napoleon, will screen the 5 1/2-hour film four times at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre.

San Francisco Conservatory is about to set loose its annual Hot Air Music Festival, which offers something for everyone — plus it’s all free and high-flying!

This is an engaging quartet whose youthful energy comes across on stage.

Voices of Music is one of the fastest-rising of the Bay Area’s huge number of early music groups.

A new film documents the rich life of the revered, polymath composer Lou Harrison.

A beloved opera gets manga-nized and reinvented, as a “fantasia on a theme by Mozart.”

Listeners can expect to hear a variety of styles from the classical
repertoire to a fusion of genres including American jazz and Irish
idioms.