Younis Raza

Five minutes can sometimes turn a pleasant hour into an extraordinary one. Such was the case last Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Menlo-Atherton Center for Performing Arts. Music@Menlo, the Peninsula’s...

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Joyfully extravagant Carmina Burana at the Paramount Oakland’s Paramount Theatre, a sturdy work of beaux-art beauty, may have swayed a little...

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Passionate performance from Carneiro, Berkeley Symphony Joana Carneiro programmed a subtle and difficult roster of works for the Berkeley Symphony’s January 26 concert, and then led them in a...

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Riveting performance of Harrison A work of modern tone clusters and ancient tuning filled UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on Thursday, Dec. 8, with Lou Harrison’s Piano Concerto, the centerpiece of a concert by the Berkeley Symphony. Alternating meditative and brutal, pianist Sarah Cahill performed a striking rendition that brought the audience to their feet. ...

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Mixing new and old, Brentano Quartet foments a reverent rebellion Musical and poetic fragments draw us inside the creative process, a gestation rich in possibility. And when those fragments are from great composers, they possess a lure like the greatest unsolved mathematical problems. The Brentano String Quartet celebrated its twentieth anniversary by asking six contemporary composers to write new fragments based on six unfinished works. San Francisco Performances...

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