Just extended for a two-week Bay Area run, The Girls in the Band offers entertainment and good music in big band jazz style, as well as artful explanation of why “girl bands” were both a rarity and a refuge.
One thing that co-founder and lutenist David Tayler wants you to know about the group’s upcoming “Venetian Vespers” concert: It’s going to be fun ... exactly what you want this time of year amidst the cookie-cutter carols concerts.
Smuin Ballet avoids the whole Nutcracker scrum every year by doing a program they call The Christmas Ballet. It’s the opposite of traditional, despite its 20th anniversary this year.
There is a particularly Episcopalian (Anglican) Christmas service sometimes titled “Festival of Lessons and Carols.” In San Francisco, it makes you think of Grace Cathedral, where the Choir of Men and Boys celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.
The Brooklyn-based Project Trio, coming to the Harker School on Dec. 13., has drawn a huge audience across the Internet with beat-boxing, and has been redefining the borders between classical music and jazz, and other styles.
O.K., maybe you’re thinking King Wenceslas not Henry VIII, but you can usually trust California Bach Society choral director Paul Flight’s inventive programming, so don’t judge this concert by its title.
