Reviews

The season opener of the San Francisco Wind Ensemble's second season was a strong display of great musical things already happening, and a very promising indication of great things to come.

The piano duo ZOFO regales its audience with a bright, brainy, bravura all-American program.

The program XXTremes, which opened the Smuin Ballet's season, journeyed across varied landscape and had a good time doing so.

Philharmonia Baroque journeyed to two musical capitals simultaneously, graced by soloists Carolyn Sampson and David Daniels, and conductor Nicholas McGegan’s ability to coax the best from his wonderful orchestra.

The season opener at the Berkeley Symphony brings an experiment in sounds with Campion's <em>Ossicles</em>.

A S.F. Symphony concert led by Pablo Heras-Casado offers a fascinating mix-and-match program, impressively executed, with a stunning performance by Leila Josefowicz.

A review of the live-streamed show of the Joe Goode Performance Group’s newest dance/theater work, Hush, performed live through Sunday at Z Space.

In San José, Symphony Silicon Valley opens its new season with just plain good music, well played.

Clerestory performs a program, "The Bard," based entirely on the words of William Shakespeare — musical settings of Shakespeare, written by composers mostly born in the 20th century.

The New Century Chamber Orchestra excelled at audience-wooing, thanks to their superb skills and those of two composers, one for each fashion, new and old.