Putting classic Golden Age film scores next to the composer’s Symphony No. 2 shows what was borrowed and what was missed.
Resurrected by determined advocates like Cox, William Levi Dawson’s symphony is definitely repertory-worthy.
Britten’s chamber opera is brilliantly performed by students in the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program.
The singer traverses an astonishing thematic, emotional, and temporal range in just 90 minutes.
Jörg Widmann’s eerily beautiful Violin Concerto is the perfect complement to this concert led by guest conductor Robin Ticciati.
The legacy of American experimental music is what connects the groundbreaking composer and the Bay Area presenter in a lecture-concert at Mills.
Now a decade old, Prototype continues to introduce work that will soon reach audiences everywhere, like a winning double bill from Emma O’Halloran.
But it’s the Clara Schumann Piano Trio that makes this recording particularly valuable.
The prodigious player is joined by pianist Elliot Wuu for Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 and adds in a Bach suite.
A memorial concert for the experimental composer shows his genius at making us aware of how we listen and how that connects us to one another.
