The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Last night I was at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for the second of Ensemble Parallele ’s three performances of John Harbison’s The Gr...

Last Saturday I was at the first concert of BluePrint’s season. BluePrint , the new music ensemble at the San Francisco Conservatory of Musi...

I’ll start off with what is sure to be a highlight: Ensemble Parallele is premiering a new chamber-opera reduction (prepared by Jacques Des...

Above are postcards of Matisse's Femme au Chapeau and Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein, just two among the many riches of The St...

I was at the Thursday and Saturday night performances of 4 Saints in 3 Acts, sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (in conjun...

In conjunction with their amazing reunion of the Stein collection this summer, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is sponsoring a revi...

August is as usual a fairly slow month, but there’s a surprising amount of opera on offer: This year’s Merola singers, by all accounts a ver...

Fortunately the symphonic excitements happening elsewhere in the Bay Area last night didn’t keep Ensemble Parallele 's production of Ph...

I've just heard (via SF MOMA's e-mail newsletter) that they will be presenting Stein/Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts sometim...

February 4-6, Magnificat presents works by Renaissance women composers (Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, and Elisabet...

The San Francisco Opera season is well underway, but the one genuinely exciting, do-not-miss production is coming up in a few weeks: Karita...

Ensemble Parallele gave a much-needed jolt to the Bay Area opera scene with its triumphant production last weekend of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck ...

Even with my favorite composers and performers I usually don’t remember when or why exactly I started listening to them. (Why do I listen to...