Reviews

Rebecca Wishnia - October 27, 2024

Guest conductor Thomas Wilkins leads an appealing program that also includes music by William Grant Still and Leonard Bernstein.

Tamzin Elliott - October 22, 2024

David T. Little’s composition is a challenging experiment in form and genre, part film screening and part live performance.

Nicholas Jones - October 22, 2024

Meyer, violinist Tessa Lark, and cellist Joshua Roman perform three of the bassist’s crossover compositions in advance of recording them.

Michael Zwiebach - October 22, 2024

Kedrick Armstrong conducts his first concert as music director, featuring jazz artists with Bay Area ties and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4.

Lisa Hirsch - October 21, 2024

Richard Wagner’s epic of love and death comes to glorious life in a dramatically sung production led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim.

Rebecca Wishnia - October 21, 2024

In his own composition, the conductor turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s recently appointed principal cello, Rainer Eudeikis.

Josef Woodard - October 15, 2024

Mixing surprise with structural logic, the nonconformist soloist steals the show in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1.

Nicholas Jones - October 15, 2024

The world’s most honored viol player is joined by passionate fellow musicians in a concert inspired by one of Claudio Monteverdi’s operas.

Richard S. Ginell - October 15, 2024

In a performance at Disney Hall, the pianist and his band champion the legacy of this influential figure in the early history of jazz.

Tamzin Elliott - October 14, 2024

Flutist and composer Rachel Beetz shares her latest works and improvisations.