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Musical fireworks from Italy light up the sky in Philharmonia Baroque’s latest outing, with four brilliant soloists.

As part of its residency at UC Davis, March 15-17, members of the St. Louis Symphony walked over campus and serenaded the Egghead sculptures, created by Robert Arneson, with new music by local composers.

The St. Louis Symphony reaches out to the Davis community with a rarely played Beethoven symphony and the brilliant violinist James Ehnes performing Berg.

A celebration of Steve Reich’s minimalist and sensual brilliance wows listeners both old and new at Bing Hall.

Hampered by a diminished piano, soprano Isabel Leonard displays a beautiful voice but a somewhat limited emotional palette.

Santa Rosa Symphony offers awesomeness (Penderecki), painful nostalgia (Elgar), and The Encyclopedia of Affect (Tchaikovsky).

Extreme brinkmanship failed, and long after several apparent "final" deadlines, efforts to end the strike by musicians of the San Francisco Symphony failed, and the long-planned East Coast tour is now canceled.

ODC Dance presents Program A, which tackles eternal life questions writ large with impressive dancing.

In a last dance of sorts, eight dancers perform works by Trisha Brown; offering a demonstration of beauty so shocking, underlining how difficult it is to absorb that its creator is never going to make another dance.

Garrick Ohlsson’s latest release features solo piano works from composers whom he feels connected to personally, but the music may be a disconnect.