The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

One of the more exciting & unexpected developments in my now four decades plus of opera-going is the resurgence, not just in specialty f...

Last Sunday night I was in Berkeley's First Congregational Church for the first performance in centuries of Alessandro Scarlatti's L...

Last Sunday I stood under the brick arches of First Congregational Church in Berkeley, waiting for my concert companion, watching the clo...

Philharmonia Baroque started its season with two enjoyable concerts, both of which I attended in Berkeley, at First Congregational. Each...

Sunday was one of those unpleasantly hot days that smear through the occasional week here in the Bay Area. Fortunately it had cooled down by...

Sunday afternoon I went to First Congregational Church in Berkeley to hear Philharmonia Baroque 's performance of Handel's opera ...

The last performance I went to in 2012, though not the last I will be posting about, was Philharmonia Baroque's all-Bach concert, conduc...

Last night I was back at First Congregational Church in Berkeley for Purcell's Dioclesian , the fourth and final performance of the firs...

A few weeks ago at First Congregational Church in Berkeley I heard Philharmonia Baroque ’s performance of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast; or...

The Cal Performances season opened this week with the annual visit of the Mark Morris Dance Group , in a revival of Morris’s 1989 classic, ...

The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is marking its thirtieth anniversary by launching its own record label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions...

It’s sugarplum month, but we don’t need to let that stop us. There will be Christmas-tinged items on this list, but that’s hardly avoidable,...

Cal Performances gets things off to a terrific start with several west coast premieres from the Mark Morris Dance Group : Socrate, Looky, a...

It finally dawned on my American mind that in order to reduce my debt level I should maybe stop spending so much money; and though I do have...

April 8, 10, 11, and 13, Nicholas McGegan leads Philharmonia Baroque in Handel’s great opera, Orlando (one of the first operas I ever saw !...

So there I was Thursday before last, on my way to Philharmonia Baroque’s Purcell program at Herbst Theater, crossing a one-way street with t...

At the end of April I had one of those over-planned weeks, with night after night of concerts, and I ended up with a cold that was getting w...