Previews

This Sunday, the prodigiously accomplished David Requiro joins forces with the excellent pianistRoy Bogas for a recital that leads off a fantastic season of concerts at the Crowden School intheir Sundays@Four series.

Other Minds, in collaboration with Cal Performances, is putting on a major retrospective of Conlon Nancarrow’s music this weekend. It’s music that, as Frank Zappa said, “will kill you.” (And he meant that in a good way.)

“Improv queens” the Real Vocal String Quartet, on deck Nov. 14 at Salons at the Rex, is classically trained but embraces many musical idioms.

Two superstars will be playing two No. 2 concertos too difficult for most other mortals.

The Pacific Guitar Ensemble is a group dedicated to keeping this dynamic process alive, and it invites audiences to come along for the ride.

With Locaphonic, Hannah Addario-Berry melds two of the Bay Area’s salient obsessions, food and music, in concerts that have all the right ingredients for success.

There are some anniversaries that have to be celebrated by those who really care. The hundredth anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire is one of those.

Read this surprising story of how Richard Patterson found the Pacific Guitar Ensemble and got a home-cooked Italian dinner for 10 into the bargain.

The choral director, one of the best in the business, is busy with a brand-new organization, one with plenty of support that seems likely to become a strong artistic presence in the Bay Area community.

Up-and-coming Chinese baritone Ao Li, enjoying a success at S.F. Opera, readies for his salon performance.