March was certainly jam-packed, and I went to as many things as I realistically could. When I started this blog six years ago I vowed the one thing I would never do was apologize for being behind on posting, which was a surprisingly realistic assessment and one that has often comforted me, sort of. So I'll do what I can when I can, and let's look at April:
Tomorrow, 1 April, both Jonathan Biss and Keith Jarrett play piano (in separate performances) at Cal Performances. On 13 April the period-instrument quartet Quatuor Mosaïques plays Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Schubert, and on 22 April Musicians from Marlboro plays Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich. On 29 April Sandrine Piau gives a solo recital. (Cal Performances will announce its next season on 24 April.)
San Francisco Performances also has two interesting-looking concerts tomorrow, 1 April: Nareh Arghamanyan on piano in the afternoon and Dawn Upshaw singing a whole mess of stuff in the evening (Upshaw is rescheduled from January). The Vijay Iyer Trio plays Herbst on 7 April; the Arditti Quartet play Beethoven, Berg, Ades, and Bartok on 12 April; Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes perform Mahler and Shostakovich on 23 April; and Jessica Rivera sings Mompou, Richard Strauss, and Barber on 29 April. (SF Performances will announce its next season on 17 April.)
Aurora Theater presents Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol, in a new translation by Margret Schaefer, 6 April to 13 May.
Cutting Ball Theater presents Strindberg's Easter on, well, Easter, 8 April, as part of its Hidden Classics Reading Series. Their next mainstage production, Tenderloin by Annie Elias (in collaboration with others) runs from 27 April to 27 May.
ACT presents the west coast premiere of Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison, 29 March to 22 April.
The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most visits Davies Hall 15-16 April as part of the SF Symphony's centennial season, bringing (among other things) works they've commissioned from Saariaho and Ades. Susanna Mälkki conducts the San Francisco Symphony 27-28 April in works by Grisey, Prokofiev, and Sibelius.
Philharmonia Baroque closes its season with Handel's setting of Alexander's Feast, Dryden's ode to the power of music; 19-22 April, in Atherton, San Francisco, or Berkeley (more information here.)
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