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October 22, 2010

Flight and CBS in San Francisco

  CBS does Purcell and Handel to a turn Paul Flight, in his fifth season as artistic director of the California Bach Society, led a full program of two baroque works, Henry Purcell’s Hail! Bright Cecilia and Handel’s delightful oratorio, Acis and Galatea, at St Mark’s Lutheran Church in San...

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October 17, 2010

Sanford Dole celebrates vocal chamber music at St. Johns

  Accomplished singers, lively program in Berkeley The Sanford Dole Ensemble, created out of a vocal tradition to explore contemporary music for voices and instruments, opened their new season with a chamber concert Sunday, October 17, the first in what they hope to be an annual tradition. The four singers, violin and piano were neatly matched by the intimate space of St John’s Presbyterian...

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October 9, 2010

Takács Quartet at Herbst

  After a summer of recuperation and preparation, San Francisco Performances is open for business again. Popular jazz vocalist Paula West, backed by the George Mesterhazy Quartet, unveiled her new material for their opening event on Friday, October 8, kicking off SF Performances’ jazz series before setting off for engagements in New York.   Hungarian wit propels...

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October 1, 2010

Del Sol Quartet at Berkeley Art Museum

  Jaunty Bay Area quartet fills art museum Pianist Sarah Cahill and the Berkeley Art Museum, hosts of the First Friday L@TE series, brought the Del Sol String Quartet to the museum’s ground floor on Oct 1. The concrete gallery, a cubist’s paradise, magnified the sound with echoes that reverberated up through the cantilevered levels. This series of unusual concerts blends...

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September 19, 2010

Berkeley Symphony with Jennifer Koh-preview

A tale of two concertos Two very different concertos will share the limelight in Berkeley Symphony Orchestra’s opening concert next Thursday, September 23 at 7:00. Renowned violinist Jennifer Koh will solo in both Beethoven’s and John Adams’ violin concerti, led by Joana Carneiro for the start of her second season as the BSO’s conductor and artistic director. The early start will allow...

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Chanticleer at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

  Earthly and unearthly—a vocal tradition that explores space The twelve gifted men of Chanticleer brought a new choral program to the SF Conservatory of Music this week. “Out of This World!” was a forum that used the harmonies of the human voice to point to the larger harmonies of space. Some physicists speak of the eleven dimensions of string theory—ten curling up...

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