“Oboe Bliss” in Mill Valley

The oboe and English horn, instruments that rarely headline, took their spot in the sun last Sunday in Mill Valley’s intimate 142 Throckmorton Theater. The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble often delights in a historical lens on the present by pairing older works with brand new ones, and in this concert, which they named “Oboe Bliss,” they assembled a program around two quintets for wind and strings. ...

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Satchmo at ACT’s Geary Theater

  It’s hard to know where to begin describing Satchmo at the Waldorf. All the explanatory terms fall flat in giving an overall impression of this intelligently written and brilliantly acted play...

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San Francisco Ballet’s Program 1

  San Francisco Ballet opens the season fresh and snappy  On Sunday SF Ballet opened its 2016 season with three short pieces by three of its favorite choreographers – Helgi Tomasson, Yuri Possokhov...

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“Sisters of Invention” book arts show at SF Center for the Book

Book arts: playful mediums, dream-like messages. The flowering of a genre is well illustrated in “Sisters of Invention,” a show that ended last Sunday, Jan. 10 at SF’s Center for the Book. Following the 45-year-long careers of three pioneering book artists – Jaime Robles, Sas Colby and Betsy Davids – this show asks deep questions and provides some delightfully small answers. Among them is the seductive power of book arts in the...

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