At the San Francisco Symphony it's new year, new stuff. The 1992 Ligeti violin concerto will be heard live in San Francisco for the first time ever tomorrow through Sunday. You may recall Ligeti from the soundtrack of 2001, A Space Odyssey or from the San Francisco Polyphony, an early 70s commission of the SF Symphony he wrote shortly after a six month stint as Composer in Residence at the farm. Ligeti (1923-2006) may be another dead European composer, but unlike them Wolfgangs and Ludwigs, he took the trouble to visit and write stuff for us. more ›

We're lucky to welcome Christian Tetzlaff, the latest in a string of young-ish super-talented violinists to grace a SF stage. He'll be at Herbst theater tomorrow night, with SFist interviewee and ace pianist Leif-Ove Andsnes as part of SF Performances concert series, in a program of violin sonatas by Brahms, Schubert, Mozart and Janacek. more ›