Theatrical
The Berkeley Playhouse presents the musical Once (book by Enda Walsh, music & lyrics by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová), directed by Josh Marx & with music direction by Michael Patrick Wiles, from 20 February to 15 March.
Berkeley Rep presents Arthur Miller's All My Sons, directed by David Mendizábal & starring Jimmy Smits, from 20 February through 29 March.
On 20 & 21 February at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Hume Concert Hall, the SFCM Musical Theater Department will present The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (music & lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin), directed by Michael Mohammed, with musical direction by Michael Horsley.
Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience, by Adrienne Torf & Raymond O Caldwell, an exploration of the poet & activist's life & works by the Fountain Theater of Los Angeles, including musical settings by Torf, John Adams, & Bernice Johnson Reagon, will play at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on 24 February.
The African-American Shakespeare Company presents The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by James Mercer II, from 25 February to 29 March at the Phoenix Theater in downtown San Francisco.
On 28 February at the Curran Theater, BroadwaySF presents All Things Equal: The Life & Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a one-person show by Rupert Holmes, starring Michelle Azar as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, & directed by Laley Lippard.
Pocket Opera presents Puccini's Madame [sic] Butterfly, with Music Director Temirzhan Yerzhanov & Stage Director Melody Tachibana King, featuring Hannah Cho as Cio Cio San, Chester Pidduck as Pinkerton, Anders Fröhlich as Sharpless, & HaYoung Jung as Suzuki, & that's 20 February at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 22 February at the Gunn Theater at The Legion of Honor in San Francisco, & 1 March at the Hillside Club in Berkeley.
Opera San José presents the classic double-bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, conducted by Alma Deutscher & directed by Shawna Lucey, at the California Theater from 15 February to 1 March.
West Edge Opera presents Snapshot, its preview of four operas in process: Case Closed (composer Martin Rokeach, librettist Steven Blum), in which a TV news reporter covers a crime she was responsible for (a car accident after which she fled the scene); Cry Wolf (composer JL Marlor, librettist Clare Fuyuko Bierman), in which a trio of young men get caught up in on-line "ideological rabbit holes"; Threshold of Brightness (composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh, librettist Lisa Flanagan), about Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who insisted on writing "as freely as a man would"; & The Joining (composer Issac lo Schankler, librettist Aiden K Feltkeamp), about a futurist world in which golems play a prominent & ambiguous role, & you can experience it all on 28 February at First Congregational in Berkeley & 1 March at the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco's War Memorial Complex.
On 22 February at Mission Dolores Basilica, the Nebula Consort concert will include Warum ist das Licht gegeben, opus 74 by Brahms & Three Shakespeare Songs by Vaughan Williams.
The San Francisco Early Music Society presents women's vocal ensemble Vajra Voices in Aquitania to Appalachia: Our Ancient Belonging, a program ranging from 11th-century polyphony to American traditions of devotional singing; the group will be joined for these performances by special guest Shira Kammen, playing vielle & medieval harp, & you can hear them 27 February at First Presbyterian in Palo Alto, 28 February at First Congregational in Berkeley, & 1 March at Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal in San Francisco.
Nate Widelitz leads the California Bach Society in On Leaving: Music for Parting and Passage, a "contemplative program centered on loss, longing, and transcendence", featuring works by Bach, Galina Grigorjeva, & "multiple settings of a plaintive Tenebrae text", & you can hear it 27 February at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco, 28 February at All Saints' Episcopal in Palo Alto, & 1 March at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Berkeley.
On 5 February at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents Cécile McLorin Salvant, joined by the ensemble of Sullivan Fortner (piano), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), & Kyle Poole (drums), performing selection from her new album, Oh Snap, as well as other pieces.
On 5 February at the Henry J Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Mandy Patinkin, with Adam Ben-David on piano, will perform a "hand-picked collection of classic numbers".
On 7 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances presents baritone Davóne Tines with performance ensemble Ruckus in What Is Your Hand in This?, a program including works by Stephen Foster, Handel, Douglas Adam August Balliett, Joshua McCarter Simpson, John Dickinson, Benjamin Carr, Julius Eastman, Clyde Otis, George W Clark, William Billings, & Sam Cooke, as well as traditional tunes.
On 21 February at Zellerbach Playhouse, Cal Performances presents jazz vocalist & composer Somi, performing recent works based on her roots in Rwanda, Uganda, & the United States.
Dianne Reeves appears at the SF Jazz Center on 20 - 22 February.
Madeleine Peyroux appears at the SF Jazz Center on 24 - 25 Feburary.
On 1 February at Herbst Theater, John Kendall Bailey leads the San Francisco Civic Music Association in The Ballad of Revolt by Harald Sæverud, Finlandia by Sibelius, & the Beethoven 3, the Eroica; the concert is free but RSVPs & donations are appreciated.
On 7 February at Heron Arts in San Francisco, One Found Sound presents Supernatural, a program "inspired by the natural and otherworldly that push the boundaries of the observable universe", featuring Stravinksy's Dumbarton Oaks, Wings by Darian Donovan Thomas, Violent, Violent Sea by Missy Mazzoli, & the Mendelssohn 4, the Italian.
On 14 February in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Hume Concert Hall, Edwin Outwater leads the SFCM Orchestra in Steven Mackey's Urban Ocean, Gershwin's An American In Paris (this piece will be conducted by Chih-Yao Chang), & the Brahms 1.
On 20 February at the Paramount, Kedrick Armstrong (with Tracy Silverman as violin soloist) leads the Oakland Symphony in the world premiere of Daniel Bernard Roumain's America, To US (an Oakland Symphony commission), as well as Chen Yi's Introduction, Andante, and Allegro, the Adagio from the Mahler 10, Reena Esmail's She Will Transform You
On 20 & 21 February at Hertz Hall, David Milnes leads the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in Varèse's Amériques & the Shostakovich 7.
Jory Fankuchen leads the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra in Seeing Double, a program featuring Jens Ibsen's Scene Symphony (an SFCO Commission with support from the NEA), the Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra by Philip Glass (Jory Vinikour on harpsichord), & the Haydn 49, La Passione, & that's 27 February at the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco, 28 February at First United Methodist in Palo Alto, & 1 March at First Congregational in Berkeley; concerts are free but RSVPs are appreciated.
On 28 February at Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony celebrates the Lunar New Year: Year of the Horse with a concert led by Mei-Ann Chen, with soloists George Gao on erhu & Yuhsin Galaxy Su on clarinet joining the band to perform music by Huan-Zhi Li, Che-Yi Lee, Tyzen Hsiao, Huang Ruo, George Gao, An-Lun Huang, Chen Ge Xin, & the ever-beloved Traditional.
On 8 February at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, the Berkelium String Quartet, a new local chamber group (Dan Flanagan, violin; Jacob Hansen-Joseph, viola; Michael Graham & Karen Shinozaki Sor, cellos), will perform as-yet unannounced pieces.
On 8 & 15 February at the Valley Center for Performing Arts in Oakland, the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra will presents chamber concerts (the program has not been announced for either date).
On 13 & 15 February at Old First Concerts, Sixth Station Trio (Katelyn Tan, piano; Anju Goto, violin; Federico Strand Ramirez, cello), will perform music by Joe Hisaishi from the Studio Ghibli classic Howl’s Moving Castle.
On 17 February at the Barbro Osher Recital Hall, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music presents its monthly Chamber Music Tuesday, this month featuring violinist Stella Chen, who will perform, joined by SFCM faculty & students, Mozart's Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, & Brahms's String Sextet #2 in G Major, Opus 36; on 16 February, in the SFCM's Sol Joseph Recital Hall, Chen will offer a Master Class.
On 20 February at Old First Concerts, Ensemble Les Six (for this concert, Catalina Barraza, violin; Katie Youn, cello; & Ihang Lin, piano) will perform Chopin's Études, Opus 10, #3, #4, & #5; Jessie Montgomery's Duo for Violin and Cello; the Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia; & Debussy's Piano Trio in G major.
On 21 February at Noe Valley Ministry, the San Francisco Civic Music Association presents Juego de Ladrones by Oscar Navarro, Paul Taffanel's Quintet for Winds in G minor, & Elgar's Piano Quintet in A minor, Opus 84; the concert is free but RSVPs & donations are appreciated.
On 22 February at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Symphony offers Roots and Resonances, a chamber program curated by composer Samuel Adams that will include Salina Fisher's Komorebi, Osvaldo Golijov's Mariel, Michio Kitazume's Side By Side, Haruka Fujii's Divisions, & Sundial by Adams.
On 22 February at Noe Valley Ministry, Noe Music presents the Junction Trio (Stefan Jackiw, violin; Jay Campbell, cello; Conrad Tao, piano), performing John Cage's Melodies 1 - 3, Beethoven's Piano Trio in D major, Opus 70 #1, the Ghost, John Zorn's Ghosts (interspersed after Beethoven’s Largo assai movement), Cage's Melodies 4 - 6, & Schubert's Piano Trio in B-flat major.
On 22 February at Herbst Theater, Chamber Music San Francisco presents the Aris Quartet (Anna Katharina Wildermuth & Noëmi Zipperling, violins; Caspar Vinzens, viola; Lukas Sieber, cello), who will perform the Beethoven String Quartet in G Major, Opus18, #2; the Shostakovich String Quartet in C minor, Opus 110; & the Brahms String Quartet in A minor, Opus 51, #2.
On 22 February the Hillside Club in Berkeley, as part of its Chamber Music Sundaes series, will present the CMS Wind Quintet (Laura Griffiths, oboe; Mike Gamburg, bassoon; Jeremy Simas, bass clarinet; Kevin Rivard, French horn; Britton Day, piano) performing Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano & Mozart's Quintet for piano and winds.
On 22 February at Hertz Hall, Cal Performances presents the Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre & Harumi Rhodes, violins; Richard O’Neill, viola, András Fejér, cello; please note that Fejér, the last remaining member of the original 1975 Takács Quartet, will step down at the end of this season, making this performance his final Berkeley appearance with the ensemble), who will perform the Bay Area premiere of NEXUS by Clarice Assad as well as Haydn's String Quartet in G minor, the Rider & Debussy's String Quartet.
On 28 February at Hertz Hall, Matthew Sadowski leads the UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble in Gustav Holst's Second Suite in F, Zhou Tian's Nocturne, & Mark Camphouse's A Movement for Rosa.
Here's what's going on at Noontime Concerts this month, if you're near Old Saint Mary's in San Francisco on a Tuesday at 12:30: on 3 February, pianist Cristiana Pegoraro will perform pieces (some adapted for solo piano) by Rossini, Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart, Andrew Lloyd Webber, & herself; on 10 February, pianist Mark Valenti will perform works by Debussy, Barber, & Brahms; on 17 February, the Bridge Players (Amy Zanrosso, piano; Randall Weiss, violin; Natalia Vershilova, viola; Victoria Ehrlich, cello) will perform works by Fauré & Schumann; & on 24 February, flutist William Underwood III & pianist Carl Blake will perform together.
On 1 February at Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony presents An Evening with Nicola Benedetti; violinist Benedetti will be joined by Plínio Fernandes on guitar, Hanzhi Wang on accordion, & Adrian Daurov on cello to perform works, or arrangements of works, by Maria Theresia von Paradis, Henryk Wieniawski, Manuel Ponce, Paganini, Sarasate, Vittorio Monti, Ernest Bloch, & Debussy, as well as traditional tunes.
On 1 February at the Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland, pianist Mira T Sundara Rajan will perform Finding Jazz in the Classics: Improvisation, Harmony, Spirituality, a program including works by Bach, Brahms, Scriabin, & Ginastera.
On 8 February at Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony presents in solo recital pianist Yefim Bronfman, who will perform Schumann's Arabesque in C major for Piano, Opus 18, the Brahms Piano Sonata #3 in F minor, Opus 5, Debussy's Images for Piano, Set 2, & Beethoven's Piano Sonata #23 in F minor, Opus 57, the Appassionata.
On 9 February at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Barbro Osher Recital Hall, pianist Sarah Cahill performs No Ordinary Light, "a new project combining classical and new compositions on the theme of homage and loss", featuring Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, Prelude: Hammer the Sky Bright by Samuel Adams, Hommage a Fauré by Robert Helps, Homage to William Dawson by Zenobia Powell Perry, Fugue to David Tudor & Hommage à Milhaud by Lou Harrison, Holding Pattern by Maggie Payne, & Circle Songs by Danny Clay (the project title comes from Jawaharalal Nehru’s eulogy after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: “The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light").
On 10 February at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents pianist Bruce Liu playing Ligeti's Fanfares, Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, the Moonlight & his Sonata in C major, the Waldstein, Chopin's Nocturnes, Opus 27, Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, Mompou's Au clair de la lune, Albéniz's El Puerto, & Liszt's Rhapsodie espagnole.
On 20 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances presents violinist Jennifer Koh with pianist Thomas Sauer performing Lili Boulanger's D’un matin de printemps, her Nocturne, & her Cortège), Tania León's Para Violin y Piano, Ravel's Violin Sonata #2 in G Major, Saariaho's Tocar, & Fauré's Violin Sonata #1 in A Major, Opus 13.
On 20 February at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, mandolinist Avi Avital leads Philharmonia Baroque in works by Vivaldi, Bach, Giovanni Sollima, & Bartók.
On 25 February at Davies Hall, the San Francisco Symphony presents pianist Mao Fujita in solo recital, performing as-yet-unannounced music.
On 27 February in Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents Chris Thile on mandolin & vocals, performing "an eclectic program, including selections from his new recording of Bach sonatas and partitas".
On 28 February at the Berkeley Piano Club on Haste Street, Four Seasons Arts presents pianist Awadagin Pratt performing the Brahms Ballades, Opus 10, his Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, & selections from Couperin's 16th Order.
Voices of Music will perform Valentine's Day: Love Songs from the 17th Century, featuring soprano Amanda Forsythe & a small instrumental ensemble performing English & Italian songs, & that's 13 February at First Congregational in Palo Alto, 14 February at Old First in San Francisco, & 15 February at First Congregational in Berkeley.
Jeffrey Thomas leads the American Bach Soloists in The Harmonic Labyrinth, a program featuring Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Locatelli's Violin Concerto in D Major, the Harmonic Labyrinth, Bach's Non sa che sia dolore, Cantata 209, & Scarlatti's Salve Regina, with soloists Maya Kherani (soprano), Sarah Coit (mezzo-soprano), YuEun Gemma Kim (violin), & Bethanne Walker (flute), & you can hear them 27 February at Saint Stephen's in Belvedere, 28 February at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Berkeley, 1 March at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco, & 2 March at Davis Community Church in Davis.
On 6 - 7 February, the San Francisco Symphony presents SoundBox: Dream Awake, curated by violinist Alexi Kenney, in an unspecified program that "leads us into a realm infused with nocturnal energy and psychedelic fantasy".
On 7 February at Hertz Hall, Cal Performances presents the Eco Ensemble, directed by David Milnes, in a program featuring works from two new members of UC Berkeley's composition department, Matthew Evan Taylor & Mu-Xuan Lin.
On 22 February at Zellerbach Playhouse, Cal Performances presents Sandbox Percussion (Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney) & pianists Conor Hanick & Matthew Aucoin from AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) in Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt, a "layered, shimmering minimalist work from the 1970s that has earned a dedicated following in ten Holt’s native Netherlands".
On 27 February at Herbst Theater, San Francisco Performances presents the Attacca Quartet (Amy Schroeder & Domenic Salerni, violins; Nathan Schram, viola; Andrew Yee, cello) & vocalist Theo Bleckmann in the West Coast premiere of David Lang's note to a friend.
On 27 February at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Barbro Osher Recital Hall, Nicole Paiement leads the SFCM's New Music Ensemble in the world premiere of Inbal Segev's Postcards to Jerusalem, Missy Mazzoli's Ecstatic Science, Billy Childs's A Day in the Forest of Dreams, & the world premiere of the chamber orchestra version of Jake Heggie's "From the Book of Nightmares" (with soprano Lisa Delan & cellist Evan Kahn).
On 21 February at the Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland, the Marcus Shelby Sextet will perform Conversation: The Language of Charles Mingus, a program exploring the legacy of the great bassist; in addition to Shelby on bass, the Sextet includes Darren Johnston (trumpet), Tony Peebles (alto sax), Danny Lubin-Laden (trombone), Greg Jacobs (piano), & Jemal Ramirez (drums).
On 28 February, there will be An Evening With Sun Ra Arkestra at The Chapel on Valencia Street in San Francisco.
From 13 to 15 February at the ODC Theater, Smuin Contemporary Ballet presents Spring Point, a program featuring new works by choreographers Maggie Carey, Cassidy Isaacson, Julia Feldman, & Babatunji.
On 14 February at the Golden Gate Theater, BroadwaySF presents the World Ballet Company (based in Los Angeles, led by Sasha Gorskaya & Gulya Hartwick) in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
On 14 February at the Brava Theater Center, Fever presents Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty.
On 21 - 22 February at Zellerbach Hall, Cal Performances presents choreographer Kyle Abraham's troupe, A.I.M (Abraham.In.Motion), performing three of his works: The Gettin’ (music from Max Roach, with arrangements & original compositions by Robert Glasper), If We Were a Love Song (music from Nina Simone), & 2 X 4 (music by Shelley Washington); the music will be performed live by Charenée Wade & Crystal Monee Hall, vocals; Liany Mateo, bass; Luther Allison, piano; Otis Brown III, drums; Guy Dellecave, saxophone; & other musicians to be announced.
From 27 February to 1 March at Zellerbach Playhouse, Cal Performances presents the Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre in Gathering; "[c]onceived, written, and directed by choreographer Samar Haddad King", the work "explores themes of love, loss, trauma, and dislocation. Through movement, text, song, and puppetry"; be warned, though, that audience participation will apparently be requested (or required).
The Mostly British Film Festival runs 5 to 12 February at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco; see the full schedule here.
The 28th San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF Indie Fest) will take place at the Roxie Theater from 5 to 15 February; check out the schedule here.-
This month's Classic Movie Matinee at the Orinda Theater is Blonde Venus, the Josef von Sternberg / Marlene Dietrich film from 1932, so yes, it's pre-Code, & that's on 24 February.
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