The Civic Center Community Benefit District is presenting a free, 90-minute long musical event that moves from place to place called "Holiday Lights and Fanfare," beginning this Friday.
San Francisco Opera's The Barber of Seville for Families at the War Memorial on Saturday afternoon brought in a full house, half the audience consisting of children — unusual ones.
Semyon Bychkov's direction of the SFS at its very best and Ragnar Bohlin's brilliant SFS Chorus gave an utterly moving War Requiem without a smidgen of sentimentality.
