October 11, 2015
SF Performances and YBCA present Sankai Juku
A study in fundamental beauty
When the lights came up again on the stark stage of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, the audience sighed.
In...
October 2015
October 10, 2015
Outstanding opening for Santa Rosa Symphony
Big sound, strong performers at Sonoma State
After a concert at Sonoma State’s Weill Hall one is left with an appreciation for acoustics that should be part of every concert experience. The design and dimensions of this hall, which opened just four years ago, create a sound with a natural loft, clarity and intimacy that is breath taking.
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October 8, 2015
San Francisco Opera presents “Lucia di Lammermoor”
A friend once told me that he stopped going to opera because he got tired of watching women die. The only difference in the ending of most operas, especially the 19th-century operas, which are so often performed because of their melodic seductiveness, is how rather...
October 2, 2015
Oakland Symphony at the Paramount
Beginning a fresh season… and name.
The Oakland East Bay Symphony, newly renamed as the Oakland Symphony (which is what everyone already...
ACT stages “Monstress”
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October 1, 2015
Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra at Cal Performances
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