Janos Gereben

Fremont Symphony's 50th season continues with "A Celebration of Fremont," a concert on March 30 at Smith Center, Ohlone College. The program begins with silent film pianist Jon Mirsalis paying homage to the beginnings of the film industry in Niles with Son of a Gun, starring Broncho Billy.

A visionary and controversial figure in opera, Gerard Mortier, died Saturday at his home in Brussels. He was 70 years old.

... as for the item above, about the New Esterházy Quartet's program, Michelle Dulak Thomson has also this to say:

Meanwhile, donations have kept the Peninsula Symphony operating through its

It took almost a half-year to move from suspicion to indictment and arrest, but on Feb.

ODC/Dance, Brenda Way's perpetually peripatetic dance company returns home to San Francisco now and then — for 43 annual home seasons, to be exact — and beginning March 20, it will strut its always-new stuff at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.