Younis Raza – Page 15 – Repeat Performances

February 4, 2016

The Berkeley Symphony with Tito and Tao

A Polish powerhouse and a chiseled beauty… An evening of surprises lay in store for Berkeley Symphony fans last Thursday, Feb. 4 at Zellerbach Hall. The first was Monday’s announcement that Joana Carneiro, their dynamic conductor, was too sick to fly in from Lisbon for the week of rehearsals and to lead them in a concert that she had titled “Majestic.” ...

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January 31, 2016

“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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January 24, 2016

California Symphony in “American Roots”

The dawn of jazz The California Symphony pulled off a one-of-a-kind event last Sunday, Jan. 24, in Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts. Led by an enthusiastic Donato Cabrera, an unusual group of...

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January 15, 2016

“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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December 6, 2015

Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choirs celebrate the holiday season

The joyful ring of young voices There is nothing quite so angelic sounding as children’s chorus. The light high purity of tone is sweet to the human ear, and...

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December 3, 2015

Berkeley Symphony in US Premiere of bayan concerto

Near miss in “Mystical” The Berkeley Symphony’s winter concert, held last Thursday, December 3, explored the twin threads of mysticism and musical construction. Each of the three pieces on their program came from a religious framework and a fascination with structure, an unusual pairing that is the sort of intelligent programming we have come to expect from conductor Joana Carneiro, now beginning her seventh year at the helm of the Berkeley Symphony. The center of...

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