Are video games capable of delivering the next generation of audiences to the symphony orchestra’s door? The huge popularity of video game concerts is too real to ignore, and the S.F. Symphony is betting on selling out two video game concerts at Davies Hall.
It only took a few days for the American Bach Soloists to sell out its festival production of Heinrich Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis. For the lucky few who saw it, many of them new to ABS, it was massively entertaining.
Mary Falvey — a leader in the founding group of SFCV, a board member from the beginning, its first treasurer, and board chair since 2010 — will yield the board chair post to Alisa Won.
In honor of the huge Bach-fest going on in the Bay Area and its neighbor, Carmel, we’ve put together a mixtape of highlights of pieces you’ll be able to hear in live performance over the next month. Consider this mix an intro to Bach’s immense musical imagination.
Meet Yoko Rosenbaum, enrolled at Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute. As remarkable as her playing is now, her development and progress are astonishing her mentors — again.
Among the better known opportunities for small children to come into the world of music in general, and classical music,in particular, is Music Together, which has more than half a dozen studios in the Bay Area.
America’s midsummer holiday is upon us, and the parades are gearing up. For the thousands who will be retiring to the backyard barbecue after the parade, there’s this playlist, with some of the perennial favorites and a couple of surprises.
