Short month, full schedule. Let's go!
Theatrical
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench, "30 original plays in 60 minutes, featuring the personal, the political, and the profoundly WTF", at the Taylor Street Theater in San Francisco from 31 January to 22 February.
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: The Bardo, a "convergence of Butoh Dance, Noh Theater and Avant-garde theater traditions" will play at Theater of Yugen's NOHSpace on 31 January - 2 February.
If upbeat orphans are your thing, BroadwaySF brings the musical Annie to the Orpheum Theater on 6 - 9 February.
Theater Rhinoceros presents the world premiere of Doodler, conceived & directed by John Fisher, a crime drama based on a series of murders in the 1970s Castro District, & it runs from 6 February to 2 March.
Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend, a "World Premiere One-Man Whodunnit" written by & starring Nathan Tylutki, plays at the New Conservatory Theater from 6 to 16 February.
Aurora Theater presents The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh, directed by Jennifer Chang, about two Asian immigrant woman spending Thanksgiving together while their husbands are at their hospital jobs, & that runs 8 February through 9 March.
The Lamplighters present A Minister's Wife, the musical based on Shaw's Candida, with music by Joshua Schmidt, lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, & book by Austin Pendleton, at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts on 8 - 9 February & at the Taube Atrium Theater on 15 - 16 February.
BroadwaySF presents Back to the Future: The Musical at the Orpheum from 12 February to 9 March.
The Marsh has a couple of one-person shows coming up this month: on 12 February at The Marsh San Francisco, Yvonne Martinez tells the stories of women of color labor activists in Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman, & on 18 February at The Marsh Berkeley, Pearl Louise talks about her family building a house in a crack-afflicted neighborhood in 1980s Oakland in Pass the Nails and Shame the Devil (directed by David Ford).
Berkeley Rep presents Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, adapted by Conor McPherson & directed by Simon Godwin, from 14 February through 23 March.
SFBATCO presents the world premiere of Cuckoo Edible Magic by Reed Flores, directed by Michelle Talgarow, an anime-&-edible inspired quest through the Bay Area, at the Magic Theater from 13 February through 8 March.
Berkeley Playhouse presents the Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Kimberly Dooley, from 21 February through 30 March.
ACT presents Nobody Loves You: A Musical (book by Itamar Moses, lyrics by Gaby Alter & Itamar Moses, music by Gaby Alter, choreography by Steph Paul, directed by Pam MacKinnon), about a man who goes on a reality dating show to win back his ex, at the Toni Rembe Theater from 28 February through 30 March.
Talking
BroadwaySF presents An Evening with Shankar Vedantam, creator & host of the podcast / NPR program Hidden Brain, on 2 February at the Curran Theater.
As part of its Unscripted series, Broadway SF presents Bill Gates in conversation with Dax Shepard, discussing Gates's new memoir, Source Code (all ticket holders will receive an unsigned copy of the book) on 11 February at the Curran Theater.
On 26 February in Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents historian Heather Cox Richardson in conversation with UC Berkeley Law & History Professor Dylan Penningroth on Forging a New Political System, 2024 and Beyond.
Operatic
Opera San José gives us Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle (performed in English), directed by Shawna Lucey, & conducted by Joseph Marcheso, with Zachary Nelson as Bluebeard & Maria Natale as Judith, & it plays 15 February to 2 March.
Both Eyes Open, a chamber opera about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WWII, with music by Max Giteck Duykers & libretto by Philip Kan Gotanda, plays at UC-Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse on 15 - 16 February.
Pocket Opera starts its 2025 season with Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, with music director Marika Yasuda & stage director Sergey Khalikulov, & you can see it 21 February at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 23 February at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, & 2 March at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
Jeffrey Thomas leads the American Bach Soloists in Handel's Acis & Galatea, featuring soprano
Hélène Brunet as Galatea, tenor James Reese as Acis, & bass Mischa Bouvier as Polyphemus, & tenor Michael Jankosky as Damon, & you can hear it 21 February at Saint Stephen's in Belvedere, 22 February at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Berkeley, 23 February at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco, & 24 February at the Davis Community Church in Davis.
Choral
Sacred & Profane presents Languages of Love, a multilingual traversal of love songs from around the world, & you can hear them on 15 February at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Berkeley & 16 February at Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco.
Vocalists
On 4 February at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents the Bay Area debut of soprano Lise Davidsen, with Malcolm Martineau on piano, performing works by Grieg, Purcell, Verdi, Richard Strauss, Schubert, & Wagner.
On 5 February at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents jazz singer Samara Joy, backed by Connor Rohrer (piano) Paul Sikivie (bass), David Mason (alto saxophone & flute), Kendric McCallister (tenor saxophone), Jason Charos (trumpet), Donavan Austin (trombone), & Evan Sherman (drums).
Taste of Talent presents OperAloha, "an epic Valentine celebration of Love & Music where Opera meets Aloha! Experience a musical feast of Opera, Fado, Hawaiian songs, and Jazz" by performers including Maria Valdes (soprano), Aivale Cole (soprano), Christopher Oglesby (tenor), Jongwon Han (bass-baritone), with Ronny Michael Greenberg on piano, on 5 February at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco.
The first Schwabacher Recital will take place on 13 February at the Taube Atrium Theater, when Georgiana Adams (soprano), Caroline Corrales (soprano), Thomas Kinch (tenor), & Samuel Kidd baritone, with pianist Julian Grabarek, will perform pieces by Amy Beach, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Rebecca Clarke, Richard Strauss, George Butterworth, Alma Mahler, Claude Debussy, & Kurt Weill, selected by tenor Nicholas Phan.
Mavis Staples sings at the SF Jazz Center on 14 - 16 February.
On 16 February at Old First Concerts, Lieder Alive! presents soprano Charlotte Kelso with pianist Peter Grünberg performing songs of "love, longing and fulfillment" by Schubert, Wagner, Mahler, & Marx.
On 21 February at Old First Concerts, mezzo-soprano Naama Liany with pianist Kevin Korth will perform Daydream, a lock-down inspired program of Barber's Despite and Still, Bernstein's I Hate Music: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs, Federico Mompou's Combat del somni, Albena Petrovic's The Piano Blue, & Poulenc's Banalités.
On 26 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances presents mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron with pianist Kunal Lahiry in The Power & the Glory: Music of Colonialism, a program exploring "the search for identity at the height of Empire" & including pieces by Montsalvatge, Valcárcel, Messiaen, Lecuona, Mahler, Schoenberg, Weber, Weill, Sankaram, Delage, Ravvel, Ravaei, Azezi/Frenkel, Ruo, Chen Yi, & traditional melodies.
Orchestral
On 9 February at the Berkeley Community Theater, Joseph Young leads the Berkeley Symphony in a dance-inspired program, featuring The Chairman Dances by John Adams, Anna Clyne's Rumi-inspired DANCE (featuring cellist Inbal Segev & members of the Berkeley Ballet), & the Beethoven 7 (according to Wagner, the "Apotheosis of the Dance").
Esa-Pekka Salonen, whose upcoming departure is like a warning bell in the night that the San Francisco Symphony is being led by its short-sighted Board down a very unfortunate path, conducts two programs this month: he leads the Orchestra in Debussy's Gigues & Rondes from Images pour orchestre, Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand & Rautavaara's Piano Concerto #1 (both with Yuja Wang as soloist) & Debussy's Ibéria from Images pour orchestre, & that's on 13 - 16 February; he then leads the Orchestra in the world premiere of a Symphony commission, Strange Beasts by Xavier Muzik, along with the Prokofiev Piano Concerto #2 (with soloist Daniil Trifonov) & Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring on 21 - 23 February.
Paavo Järvi leads the San Francisco Symphony in Shostakovich's Piano Concerto #2 (with soloist Kirill Gerstein) & the Mahler 7 on 6, 7, & 9 February.
On 8 February at Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony celebrates the Lunar New Year (the Year of the Snake, a resonant animal considering that President "Not Technically a Rapist According to State Law" will be back in office) with a concert led by Francesco Lecce-Chong, featuring soloists Wu Man on pipa & Amos Yang on cello, performing An-Lun Huang's Saibei Dance, from Saibei Suite #2, Tian Zhou's Indigo from Concerto for Orchestra, the world premiere of a new work, commissioned by the Symphony, from Shuying Li, selections from The Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Chen Gang & He Zhanhao, Zhao Jiping's Pipa Concerto #2, & the Spring Festival Overture by Huan-zhi Li (arranged by Long Yu).
On 12 February at Hertz Hall, the UC Berkeley Philharmonia Orchestra, with conductors Thomas Green & Noam Elisha, will perform a free noontime concert featuring Mozart's Overture to the Magic Flute, Rossini's Overture to the Barber of Seville, Jessie Montgomery's Strum, & Wagner's Overture to Die Meistersinger.
On 15 February, Edwin Outwater leads the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra in Carl Maria von Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz, Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, &, with featured vocalist Meow Meow, a semi-staged production of the Brecht/Weill Seven Deadly Sins.
On 26 February at Davies Hall, the SF Symphony presents the Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields, with leader & violinist Joshua Bell, performing Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 104 (with soloists Bell & Fiona Cunninghame-Murray); the Haydn 29, & Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade (as this concert is the culmination of a residency at the SF Conservatory of Music by Bell & the Academy, Cunninghame-Murray & some of the other performers are SFCM students).
Chamber Music
Canta, Violino! (Andrew Finn Magill, violin; Clarice Cast, percussion; Edinho Gerber, Brazilian seven-string guitar) will perform original Brazilian choro & samba music at Old First Concerts on 2 February.
On 2 February at Hertz Hall, Cal Performances presents the Danish String Quartet (Frederik Øland & Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violins; Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola' Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, cello) performing Caroline Shaw's Entr’acte, the Andante from Haydn's String Quartet in F major, Opus 77, #2, Stravinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet, Baroque-era Irish harpist Turlough O’Carolan's Three Melodies: Mabel Kelly, Planxty Kelly, Carolan’s Quarrel with the Landlad, & Shostakovich's String Quartet #15, Opus 144.
Berkeley Chamber Performances presents the Alexander Quartet (Zakarias Grafilo & Yuna Lee, violin; David Samuel, viola; Sandy Wilson, cello), which is disbanding after this season, in Schubert's Death & the Maiden, Kian Ravaei's The Little Things, & the Haydn Quartet Opus 77 #1 in G Major on 4 February at the Berkeley City Club & on 8 February at the Lafayette Library.
The Saturday morning lecture series at Herbst Theater, presented by San Francisco Performances, featuring musicologist Robert Greenberg & the Alexander String Quartet (Zakarias Grafilo & Yuna Lee, violins; David Samuel, viola; Sandy Wilson, cello), completes its exploration of The String Quartets of Papa Joe & Wolfgang with the final concert in the series on 8 February, featuring Haydn's String Quartet in C Major Opus 76, #3, “Emperor”, & his String Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, #1. (This is the final performance for SF Performances by the Alexander String Quartet, which has been their Quartet-in-Residence for 36 years & is disbanding after this season.)
On 9 February at Hertz Hall, Cal Performances presents pianist Wu Han, violinist Arnaud Sussmann, & cellist David Finckel playing Haydn's Piano Trio in E major, Shostakovich's Piano Trio #2 in E minor, Opus 67, & Mendelssohn's Piano Trio #2 in C minor, Opus 66.
Noontime Concerts at Old Saint Mary's in San Francisco offers violinist Pasha Sabouri & pianist Amy Zanrosso playing Beethoven's Sonata #6 in F Major, Opus 10, #2, Stravinsky's Suite Italienne, & Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing Suite, Opus 11 on 11 February & the Midsummer Mozart Chamber Festival Chamber Players (John Wilson, piano; Robin Hansen & Ani Bukujian, violin; Elizabeth Prior, viola; Saul Richmond-Rakerd, cello) playing Amy Beach's Piano Trio in A Minor, Opus 150 & Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Piano Quintet #1 in G Minor on 18 February.
This month's Chamber Music Tuesday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music will take place on 11 February & feature violinist Stefan Jackiw, who, with student performers, will play Ernő Dohnányi's Serenade in C Major, Opus 10; Prokofiev's Violin Sonata #2 in D Major, Opus 94a; & Mendelssohn's String Quintet #2 in B-flat Major, Opus 87.
On 14 February at Old First Concerts, the Shoreline Piano Trio (Sui-mi Shin, violin; Katie Youn, cello; & Menghua Lin, piano) perform Explorations of Love and Art: A Valentine’s Concert, featuring Caroline Shaw's Gustave Le Gray, Maria Theresia von Paradis's Sicilienne, Jessie Montgomery's Duo, Amy Beach's Romance, Opus 23, Jennifer Higdon's Piano Trio. #1, & Clara Schumann's Piano Trio in G minor, Opus 17.
On 15 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances presents cellist Steven Isserlis & pianist Connie Shih performing Beethoven's Cello Sonata in G Minor, Opus 5, #2, Martinů's Cello Sonata #1, Nadia Boulanger's 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano, & Grieg's Cello Sonata, Opus 36.
On 16 February at the Presidio Theater, San Francisco Performances presents violinist Alexi Kenney, violinist/violist Owen Dalby, cellist Christopher Costanza, & pianist Amy Yang performing Danny Elfman's Piano Quartet & Korngold's Suite, Opus 23 for Two Violins, Cello, and Piano left hand.
On 16 February at Hertz Hall, Cal Performances presents the Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre & Harumi Rhodes, violins; Richard O’Neill, viola; András Fejér, cello) performing Haydn's String Quartet in C major, Opus 54, #2, "Tost"; Britten's String Quartet #2 in C major, Opus 36; & Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, Opus 59, #1, "Razumovsky".
On 16 February at Herbst Theater, Chamber Music SF presents Amsterdam wind ensemble Calefax (Oliver Boekhoorn, oboe; Bart de Kater, clarinet; Raaf Hekkema, alto saxophone; Jelte Althuis, bass clarinet; Alban Wesly, bassoon) playing Rameau's Le rappel des oiseaux, Debussy's Four Preludes, a Scarlatti sonata, Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith, Bach's Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, “The Grand”, Henriëtte Bosmans's Quartet, Cole Porter's Just one of those things, & Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
On 22 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances, in association with the OMNI Foundation for the Performing Arts, presents Sharon Isbin on guitar, Amjad Ali Khan pm Sarod, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Bangash on Sarod, & Ammit Kavthekar on Tabla, performing Strings for Peace, a program exploring common ground between Indian ragas & European medieval music,
On 23 February at Hertz Hall, Cal Performances presents the Hagen Quartet (Lukas Hagen & Rainer Schmidt, violins; Veronika Hagen, viola, & Clemens Hagen, cello) playing Haydn's String Quartet in G major, Opus 54, #1 & his String Quartet in E major, Opus 54, #3 as well as Schumann's String Quartet in A major, Opus 41, #3.
The Friction Quartet (Otis Harriel & Kevin Rogers, violin; Mitso Floor, viola; Doug Machiz, cello) presents Hard Times, a program put together by Rogers consisting of Thomas Adès's Four Quarters, Trevor Weston's Fudo Myoo, Vivian Fung's String Quartet #4 “Insects and Machines”, & Tigran Hamasyan's Song for Melan and Rafik & Vortex (arranged by Rogers), & you can hear it 26 February at the Berkeley Piano Club & 28 February at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Palo Alto.
On 27 February at the Presidio Theater, San Francisco Performances presents Dreamers' Circus (Nikolaj Busk, piano; Rune Tornsgaard Sørensen, fiddle; Ale Carr, guitar) playing their twist on traditional Nordic music.
The Sixth Station Trio (Anju Goto, violin; Federico Strand Ramirez, cello; Katelyn Tan, piano) performs Joe Hisaishi’s score for Miyazaki's Spirited Away at Old First Concerts on 28 February & 2 March (it sounds as if the movie will not be shown; the Trio is only playing the music).
Instrumental
On 4 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances presents pianist Sir Stephen Hough, performing Cécile Chaminade's Automne, her Autre Fois & her Les Sylvains; the Liszt Sonata in B Minor, Chopin's Sonata in B Minor, & his own Sonatina Nostalgica.
On 5 February, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in partnership with the Naumburg Foundation will present Jonathan Swensen, the 2024 winner of the Foundation's 2024 Cello Competition, performing Bent Sørensen's Farewell Fantasia for Solo Cello, Bach's Cello Suite #4 in E-flat Major, Dutilleux's Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher, & Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello in B Minor, Opus 8.
On 8 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances presents pianist Marc-André Hamelin, playing Haydn's Piano Sonata in D Major, Frank Zappa's Ruth Is Sleeping, Stefan Wolpe's Passacaglia, John Oswald's TIP, Nikolai Medtner's Improvisation in B Flat Minor Opus 31 #1 & his Danza festiva, Opus 38 #3, & Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau Opus 39 #5 & his Piano Sonata #2, Opus 36 (1931 version).
On 9 February in Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony presents pianist Seong-Jin Cho performing the complete piano music of Ravel; the program will include two intermissions & include Sérénade grotesque, Menuet antique, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Jeux d’eau, Sonatine, Miroirs, Gaspard de la nuit, Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn, Valses nobles et sentimentales, Prélude, À la manière de Borodine, À la manière de Chabrier, & Le tombeau de Couperin.
On 19 February at Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony presents violinist Tessa Lark with pianist Amy Yang, performing Romanian Folk Dances by Bartók, Ysaÿe's Sonata #4 in E minor for Solo Violin, Ysaÿe Shuffle & Jig and Pop by Lark, Kreisler's Chanson Louis XIII et Pavane in the style of Louis Couperin & his Syncopation, & Corigliano's Sonata for Violin and Piano.
On 25 February at Herbst Theater, Chamber Music SF presents the San Francisco debut of pianist Yunchan Lim, who will perform Hanurij Lee's …round and velvety-smooth blend… along with Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Early / Baroque Music
The Cantata Collective continues its survey of Bach's sacred cantatas, presented for free at Saint Mary Magdalen's in Berkeley, on 23 February with Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn, BWV 132; Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin, BWV 144; & Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196, with featured soloists Sherezade Panthaki (soprano), Sara Couden (alto), Matthew Tresler (tenor), & Paul Max Tipton (bass).
Tactus SF celebrates the 500th birthday of Palestrina with performances of sacred & secular choral works, including the Missa Tu es Petrus, on 27 February in San Francisco & 28 February in Berkeley (the website currently doesn't specify where in San Francisco & Berkeley, but you can check here closer to the performance dates).
See also Handel's Acis & Galatea, performed by the American Bach Soloists, listed above under Operatic.
Modern / Contemporary Music
The San Francisco Symphony presents composer Courtney Bryan on 31 January & 1 February; this is part of their Soundbox series; the program is unspecified but we are promised it will add "multisensory experiences to the underground club atmosphere of the SoundBox space"; I don't usually list the SoundBox events, because, when they started, they sold out almost immediately, & I don't generally list sold-out performances, but also because their whole attitude, starting with the "underground club atmosphere" & their oh-so-insidery, coolest-of-the-cool-kids vibe, along with their ridiculous start times & inconvenient set-up, all combined to make my skin crawl, but YMMV, & Bryan sounds like an interesting composer.
On 1 February at Hertz Hall, Cal Performances presents the Eco Ensemble, led by David Milnes, performing music by graduates of UC Berkeley's composition program, including Sivan Eldar's L’eau la colonne le fer for fixed multi-channel electronics; Didem Coskunseven's Dawn Chorus for vibraphone, marimba, bass drums, and electronics; Maija Hynninen's …sicut aurora procedit for solo violin and electronics; Jimmy López's Warped Symmetry for solo flute; Oren Boneh's Her Majesty the Fool for solo accordion & electronics; Mason Bates's Digital Loom for organ and electronica; Keeril Makan's Mercury Songbirds for alto flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello; & Edmund Campion's Le Sillage (WAKE) for improvising cellist, ensemble, and live electronics.
On 1 February at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Caroline Hume Concert Hall, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, joined by guest artists Steven Schick (percussion) & Frederick A Peterbark (tenor), give us Tracing Paths, a program including Jonathan Bingham's Untitled, Zosha Di Castri's Touch/Trace, Olly Wilson's No More, & Thomas Adès's Chamber Symphony, Opus 2, as well as the world premieres of works for oboe, cello, & percussion by two (unnamed) SFCM TAC (San Francisco Conservatory of Music Technology & Applied Composition) students; the concert is preceded by an "Under the Hood" talk, led by SFCMP Artistic Director Eric Dudley, with composers Di Castri & Bingham & percussionist Schick.
On 18 February at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, there will be a String Quartet Composition Recital; the student composers / performers have not been announced yet.
Jazz / Roots
On 1 February at the SF Jazz Center, drummer Kendrick Scott presents the West Coast premiere of Unearthed, a multi-media performance combining poetry, visuals, a string quartet, & a jazz ensemble in a work honoring the Sugar Land 95 (95 unidentified Black prisoners & forced laborers found buried in the Texas town of Sugar Land in 2018).
Tenor saxophonist & composer Isaiah Collier performs 6 - 7 February at the SF Jazz Center: on the 6th as part of his group I AM (also including Timothy Regis on drums) & on the 7th as part of his group The Chosen Few (other players TBA).
Pianist Jason Moran, with the Marcus Shelby New Orchestra & singer Darynn Dean, perform music by Duke Ellington at the SF Jazz Center on 6 - 9 February.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band puts on a Mardi Gras Party & Celebration of the City of New Orleans (plus pre-concert Food, Cocktails & Festivities with Jazz Mafia) at the Presidio Theater on 14 - 15 February (please note that this year Mardi Gras is actually on 4 March; I expect everyone to be fasting & contrite on Ash Wednesday).
Tenor Saxophonist & Vocalist Camille Thurman, with the Darrell Green Quartet, plays the SF Jazz Center on 15 - 16 February.
On 22 February at the Paramount Theater, the SF Jazz Center presents pianist Chucho Valdés & trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, reunited as part of Irakere 50 & joined by Cimafunk, for an evening of Afro-Cuban jazz.
On 28 February in Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents This Land is Our Land, a program featuring the Martha Redbone Roots Project & the American Patchwork Quartet, playing to what's left of America.
Dance
On 7 - 9 February at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents the Diamond Jubilee tour of Twyla Tharp Dance, featuring Diabelli (with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations performed live by pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev) & the West Coast premiere of SLACKTIDE (with Philip Glass's music performed live by Third Coast Percussion).
BroadwaySF presents the World Ballet Company in The Great Gatsby, with choreography by Ilya Zhivoy to an original score by Anna Drubich, at the Curran Theater on 9 February.
From 13 to 19 February, the San Francisco Ballet presents Cool Britannia, a program featuring Chroma (choreography by Sir Wayne McGregor to music by Joby Talbot & Jack White III), Within the Golden Hour (choreography by Christopher Wheeldon to music by Ezio Bosso & Vivaldi), & the North American premiere of Dust (choreography by Akram Khan to music by Jocelyn Pook).
Smuin Ballet offers a Choreography Showcase, featuring work by company artists, from 14 to 23 February at the Smuin Center for Dance.
Ohad Naharin brings his Batsheva Dance Company to Cal Performances & Zellerbach Hall on 22 - 23 February, with the Bay Area premiere of Naharin's MOMO (with music including recordings of Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet’s Landfall & Philip Glass’ Metamorphosis: Two, as well as a song/prayer by Venezuelan musician Arca).
Art Means Painting
Matisse’s Jazz Unbound, a display of the master's 1947 artist book on circus & theater, will be displayed at the de Young Museum from 25 January to 6 July.
The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison Through Art, opens at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on 1 February.
You have until 9 February to see the fabulous Tamara de Lempicka show at the de Young Museum.
Cinematic
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival holds its annual Day of Silents at the SF Jazz Center on 2 February; I am frankly dubious about the Jazz Center as a cinematic venue, but the day's line-up is sterling: Keaton's The Navigator, Ozu's A Story of Floating Weeds, Gary Cooper & Clara Bow in Children of Divorce, & Chicago, the original film about Roxie Hart, & all films, as usual with the Silent Film Festival presentations, have live musical accompaniment.
BAM/PFA launches two series dedicated to non-fiction films: Climate Journalism on Screen begins 2 February & continues through 23 February, & Documentary Voices begins 5 February & continues through 30 April.
The 27th San Francisco Independent Film Festival runs at the Roxie from 6 through 18 February; check out the schedule(s) here.
Sátántangó, Béla Tarr's powerful & moving epic, is being shown at BAM/PFA on 16 February; due to its nearly eight hour length, the movie begins in the early afternoon & is shown with two intermissions.
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