Results tagged “felixmendelssohn”

Music@Menlo opens tonight. It's the local equivalent of all these famous fancy summer festivals, Marlboro, or Tanglewood, without the hassle of leaving the bay. So tonight, you can listen to darn good chamber music, with a world class cast of musicians, or you can listen to Bug's Bunny's music. M@M was created in 2003 by a married couple, pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel. Finckel is the steadying hand in the Emerson String Quartet (interviewed by us here), maybe the most celebrated classical music chamber ensemble. He has studied with Rostropovich, has won all the acclaim any artist could hope for. Eight grammies!

Tomorrow night, under the auspices of SF Performances at Herbst Theater, the Guarneri Quartet will play its last concert in San Francisco: they're hanging up their instruments after fourty-five years of service. If that weren't reason enough to go see them one last time --they pretty much define string quartet-- they do present an exciting program. They may have one foot in retirement, but they'll still play the Mendelssohn Octet and the exciting Bay Area premiere of Derek Bermel's Passing Through.