Monday, March 28, Earplay offers works by John Cage, Elliott Carter, Jonathan Harvey, Mei-Fang Lin, and Michelle Lou, at Herbst Theater, with tickets at the bargain price of $20 and the sensible start time of 7:30 (pre-concert talk at 6:45).
SF Conservatory of Music’s Opera Theater presents Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites in English at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, March 31 through April 2; tickets are available through the Cowell Theater Box Office at 415-345-7575.
On April 1, Old First Concerts presents the Del Sol String Quartet in music by Zhou Long, R. Murray Shafer, Elena Kats-Chernin, Ben Johnston, and Reza Vali.
The Aurora Theater presents Tennessee Williams’s Eccentricities of a Nightingale, starting April 1.
American Bach Soloists present secular works by Bach and Telemann April 1-4, in various locations.
Cal Performances presents Jessica Rivera on April 3 at 3:00 in Hertz Hall, singing Schumann’s Frauenliebe und leben, Debussy’s Ariettes oubliees, and Mark Grey’s Atash Sorushan (Fire Angels), a new song cycle commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11, written for Rivera and also featuring Molly Morkoski on piano and MEME (the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble from the University of Chicago).
Also on April 3, at 1:00, Cutting Ball Theater Hidden Classics Reading series presents Marivaux’s The False Suitor in a new translation by Ann and George Crowe, directed by Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose.
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players present their fortieth anniversary gala concert, featuring music by Terry Riley, Beat Furrer, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Charles Boone, at Herbst Theater on Monday April 4 at 7:30. The Riley work is the famous In C. There is a reception afterwards.
ACT presents Sartre’s No Exit, in case you needed a reminder that hell is other people, starting April 7.
Berkeley Rep offers Chekhov’s Three Sisters, in a version by Sarah Ruhl, starting April 8.
April 8 at the Community Music Center (544 Capp Street in San Francisco), new music ensemble Redshift and percussion trio Rootstock present music by Marc Mellits, Derek Bermel, Belinda Reynolds, Ryan Brown, Steve Reich, John MacCallum, Guo Wenjing, and Chilean folk music.
Between the Lines, the new music ensemble at the SF Conservatory of Music, presents Homage to Andrew Imbrie, featuring Chicago Bells, from Time to Time and String Quartet No. 5, plus Gunther Schuller’s String Quartet No. 4, on April 9.
Philharmonia Baroque closes its season with Haydn’s Creation, April 8-13, in various locations.
SF Conservatory of Music presents An Evening with Frederica von Stade, in which she will offer coaching, career advice, and stories from her career to voice students, on April 12 at 7:30. Admission is free but tickets are required; contact the box office at 415-503-6275.
San Francisco Ballet offers two programs; Program 7 offers Stravinsky’s Petrouchka.
The San Francisco Symphony presents Osmo Vanska conducting the world premiere of Red and Green by Thomas Larcher, the Ralph Vaughn Williams Symphony No. 2, A London Symphony, and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, with soloist Alexander Barantschik playing the same violin (presumably) used at the work’s world premiere in 1845. That’s April 8-9; on April 14-17, Charles Dutoit conducts the Berlioz Symphonie fantastique and Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lontain (with cello soloist Gautier Capucon).
San Francisco Performances is taking up a lot of real estate on my April calendar, with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in three different programs (March 30-April 3); the much-praised Pavel Haas Quartet playing Schulhoff, Debussy, and Haas himself (Quartet No. 2, Op. 7, From the Monkey Mountains; that’s on April 3 at 7:00); Dubravka Tomsic playing Chopin and Beethoven (April 9); the Tetzlaff Quartet playing Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Schoenberg (April 16); Lucinda Childs recreating Dance, her 1979 collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt (April 28-30); and Philip Glass playing solo piano works by himself (April 30).
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