The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music provide a nice classical chamber series at the Legion of Honor, but their signature event has quickly become Chamber Music Day at the de Young Museum.
Possessed of a large, rich, flexible voice that works equally well in Verdi, Wagner, and Handel, Stephanie Blythe leaves all that behind to once again champion American music in recital.
One of Russia’s premier performing arts organizations under its charismatic leader, Valery Gergiev arrives at Cal Performances in Berkeley, after opening the Carnegie Hall season.
Composer Steve Reich turns 75 this year and keeps on rolling. And the 38-year-old Kronos Quartet keeps going with him. On its Cal Performances recital this Sunday, Kronos plays Reich's music composed for the quartet; likely to make it one of the most life-affirming concerts of the season.
David Ramadanoff's downbeat for the Vallejo Symphony's season-opening concert marks two remarkable, contrasting events: the 80th season for the orchestra of a small city, and a comeback from last year's seemingly terminal money problems.
