Composer, arranger, singer-songwriter and pianist Clarice Assad can put on a variety show by herself, but she is getting some major assist tonight at Yoshi's/San Francisco.
The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall, the dazzling 1,400-seat heart of Sonoma State University's $130 million Donald & Maureen Green Music Center opened this weekend with two festive and sold-out performances.
In the beginning, sort of, there was The Da Vinci Code (no, actually, it was Edgar Saltus' 1891 Mary Magdalene: a Chronicle or even the Gospel of Luke), then came John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary.
