What better musical way to ring in the Year of the Horse with the entire family than the San Francisco Symphony's 14th Annual Chinese New Year concert.
On Jan. 23, Sarah Cahill and the Ives String Quartet will play Henry Cowell’s music in two concerts at San Quentin State Prison, where the Menlo Park-born composer was locked up from 1936-1940.
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.
