Reviews

Jeff Dunn - January 18, 2015

Two works that are worlds apart but complement each other shared the bill at Thursday's Berkeley Symphony concert.

Jim Farber - January 17, 2015

The Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series harbors a Frankenstein and other offbeat works conducted by John Adams.

Niels Swinkels - January 17, 2015

Warm and fuzzy it wasn't, but Gidon Kremer's traversal of two pieces by Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg were worth the price of admission.

Monica Hunter-Hart - January 17, 2015

SFCV introduces one of the members of the Emerging Writers Program with a review of a cheery winter concert in Northampton, MA.

Zoe Madonna - January 15, 2015

With an emphasis on women creators, New York's Prototype Festival challenges stereotypes but also delivers powerful music theater.

Zoe Madonna - January 13, 2015

The New York vocal octet brought Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer-winning Partita and a set of edgy, shorter works to the Twelfth Night Festival.

David Bratman - January 13, 2015

Usually hidden in the pit, S.F. Opera Orchestra musicians took center stage at Music at Kohl Mansion, and played a beautiful and intriguing concert.

Steve Osborn - January 12, 2015

The violinist's bravura playing dominated the concert, but it was Copland who triumphed, musically.

Jeff Kaliss - December 19, 2014

Branford Marsalis as you’ve never heard him before, on solo saxophone, in a ranging program of styles, in the cavernous, holy confines of Grace Cathedral.

Niels Swinkels - December 16, 2014

With Artistic Director Magen Solomon as tour guide, the S.F. Choral Artists took their audiences on an unusual holiday trip around the world.