Can social media help to popularize classical music? TwoSet Violin’s appearance in SF showed one way to engage a younger audience.
In a fearsomely demanding program at Davies, Hamelin delivered Beethoven, Schumann, and Ravel with his signature command and reverence.
The conductor enters the fifth year of her tenure after a string of successes with Wagner and Verdi.
Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s slow tempos were a blessing in Philharmonia's West Coast tour with pianist Vikingur Ólafsson.
Oakland Symphony Music Director Kedrick Armstrong began his second season with an eclectic program culminating with Stravinsky’s Firebird.