July 24, 2011
Festival del Sole Ends with Glitter
Scottish media sensation Susan Boyle aside, most well known performers were pretty sharp even when they...
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July 15, 2011
Mendocino Music Festival turns 25
Opera in the Redwoods
The Mendocino Music Festival opened July 9 for its 25th season on the headlands of Mendocino, in the artistic heart of the North Coast. Erected in the meadow was the festival tent, an enormous structure measuring over a quarter of an acre, tent poles festooned with orange banners, and with smaller tents selling beverages from the local wineries and breweries.
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June 14, 2011
Ojai Festival comes to Berkeley
Upshaw and Aussies promise…
Ojai North! came to Berkeley the week of June 13 in a new partnership between the Southern California music festival and Cal Performances. Monday’s concert at Zellerbach held jazz/classical fusions by festival artistic director Maria Schneider. I got to hear Tuesday’s concert, the...
May 14, 2011
Trimpin at Stanford
A cycle of sound and memory...
Trimpin, the single-named kinetic sculptor, just finished a year of residency at Stanford, courtesy of Stanford Lively Arts. Along with his work with students and with the electronic...
May 3, 2011
Woodwinds in the Berkeley City Club
Quinteto Latino, a woodwind quintet established by Armando Castellano to promote the music of Mexican composers, played a wide-ranging set May 3 at the Berkeley City Club. The home of Berkeley Chamber Performances, this quirky and elegant Julia Morgan-designed residence hall—where concrete structural elements arch into refined force diagrams like the bones and articulation of some exotic creature—creates a...
April 15, 2011
Oakland Symphony at the Paramount
Success at the Paramount
The Oakland East Bay Symphony filled Oakland’s Paramount Theatre with a big sound that suited its Art Deco excess,...