A Secret Rose, Rhys Chatham’s 100-guitar, “No Wave” extravaganza, is stretching new-music presenter Other Minds, socially and artistically, as well as financially.
José Manuel Carreño, the new artistic director of Ballet San Jose, has a vision for the company that is globe-hopping and local, contemporary and neo-classical; a refreshed troupe that will hold its own near and far.
The space age has inspired many musicians to write music inspired by our efforts to understand our solar system and universe. Here's to inspiration from the stars.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Symphony, SFCV brought students to the orchestra’s performance of the complete score to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo at the S.F. Symphony. Read their reactions here.
Guitarist Bryce Dessner of the indie rock band The National is also an indie composer for classical ensembles like the Kronos Quartet, a record producer, a collaborator with other artists, and even a little bit of an impresario.
Watch a SFCV produced slideshow of Lisa Bielawa’s Crissy Field Broadcast — simultaneously an experiment in large-scale community music-making and a kind of interactive, open-air sound sculpture created by over a thousand musicians tramping over the former airfield.
Celebrating the orchestra’s 25th anniversary, the Oakland East Bay Symphony and Michael Morgan have one of the few long-term orchestra-conductor relationships that have grown more fruitful with time.
There is so much scary, spooky music out there, Halloween is practically a classical music holiday. This is just a beginning sampler ranging from ghost stories to haunted house staples. Have fun.
