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After a 12-hour negotiating session that ended at 4 a.m. on Friday, the strike called by musicians of the San Francisco Symphony on Wednesday, continues.

We can’t throw a parade, but here’s a playlist ready for your celebration of all things Irish.

Thanks to the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, his Requiem, one of the most popular choral works of all time, is sure to figure in the Bay Area concert scene a number of times this year. 

For a famous violinist, Midori cuts an intentionally low profile, so you can be forgiven for not noticing that she will be performing a Bay Area recital soon, for San Francisco Performances.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and their dynamic leader, Richard Tognetti return  to Cal Performances for a wide-ranging pair of programs, featuring pianist Alice Sara Ott in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Genre-bending is the all-embracing category for the annual Switchboard Music Festival in San Francisco’s Mission District.

A splendid performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel emphasizes composer John Adams’ achievement in The Gospel According to the Other Mary.