Arts & Entertainment Hitting More than the Right Notes A finely modulated musicality pervaded his interpretation whenever Prokofiev gave him the opportunity, but the concerto is mostly a showpiece to display a dazzling technique, and Bronfman was up to the task, hands
Arts & Entertainment Russian Prokofiev, Russian Preview. There will be a party on Thursday night after the performance to start the Russian festival, which you can join too (ticket info here). We would suggest showing the Big Lebowski on a
Arts & Entertainment Der Rosenkavalier If the set-up sounds French to you, don’t worry: it reminds us of La Chartreuse de Parme rewritten by Proust, complete with the blurred genders and the turn of the 20th century
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: The Tyrant. Despite wearing the beret of a dictator, Duykers comes across as pretty innocuous as far as tyrant goes: he anguishes about writing a speech for the 20th anniversary of the coup that put
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Epicugenerous There's a bunch of activities around National Hunger Awareness Day, but we would like to mention one: a fund raiser organized by epicurious.com at Farallon tomorrow (Friday). Proceeds benefit the Second Harvest,
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Don Giovanni Was it, as this Berkely Daily Planet op-ed conjectured, due to the new media suite, which will record every performance on high definition from this Don Giovanni on and thus will put some
misc Opera in Dolores Park and Free Classical Music We even took a few pictures, that you'll find below the jump. If you want a not-exactly-rain-but-not-good-weather-either-check, there's plenty opportunities: first, the warm and toasty Opera House on Van Ness will start its
SF News CalTrain Derails, Provides a Fence to Heckle their Crew Safely. How the f* did they manage to do that? And most importantly, how were they going to undo it last evening? See that giant red crane truck on the left? There's another one
misc SFist Give-Away: 86 Recipe Cards The San Francisco world of restaurant gossip columnists went head over heels when Grace-Ann Walden retired from the Chronicle and the Inside Scoop column. She had all the info, friends in all dining
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Interview: There Has Got To Be A Twist, S'got Such A Supple Wrist. Still, he keeps coming back to his roots here in the Bay, and will perform this Friday, May 11 at 8pm at the Florence Gould theater and the day after, Saturday, May 12
Arts & Entertainment Arrivederci Hans, das war der letzte Tanz. Friday will be a farewell: it is the last "Friday 6.5 show" of the season, a last dance of sorts, if only to make sense of our title. The performance is at
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Salivates on the Opera's Next Season. Gockley had made changes, some good like moving the subtitles back to the top; some great like the live videocast on the civic center plaza; some so-so, like the redesign of the visual
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: the First Emperor. Today’s performance was the First Emperor, a world premiere by Tan Dun, the composer of the music for movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or operas like the peony pavilion. We got
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Jennifer Koh. To drive the point home, SF Performances is inviting Jennifer Koh to perform this Saturday at Herbst theater. Jennifer Koh is an outstanding violinist who is totally committed to an exciting, modern, living
Arts & Entertainment Carmen and Manon: Girls Gone Wild Carmen wants to have her cake and eat it too: she finds Don Jose cute, and he is hopelessly in love with her. So she demands that he abandons his career as a
Arts & Entertainment Atlantic Crossing. was described to us in the program notes as a piece of extraordinary difficulty for the pianist, equal only to the Rachmaninoff piano No.3, that technical summit of the repertoire. Kevin Volans
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Marc-André Hamelin MAH: Everything I do musically comes from my belief that the piano repertoire is a great deal larger than most people realize. From what is heard in piano recitals these days, it's easy
Arts & Entertainment Keeping Score: Stravinsky 1-SFist Eve 0. Tonight’s episode focuses on the Rite of Spring, which is described by members of the orchestra as "sexy," "rock’n’roll" and "raw." MTT would not be our first choice to tell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gavin to 49ers: Hit the Road, PlumpJack! Wine was flowing freely, and Gavin was having his fair share. We mean, he had a lot to get over with. Which explains we could overhear him say such things as: If I
Arts & Entertainment MTT Scores Again. A few years back, we were flipping the channels, and we ended up on a program on PBS. We recognized Michael Tilson-Thomas and at first, we were thinking, hey, it’s our MTT,
Arts & Entertainment The Barber of Seville. The house is early 20th century, Mies Van der Rohe inspired, and black Le Corbusier leather chairs match the architecture of the time; but the costumes (by Yan Tax) vary between period and
Arts & Entertainment Thibaudet/Bychkov at the Symphony Bychkov opened with Last Round, a two movement piece by Osvaldo Golijov, a 45yo Argentinian composer who now lives in Massachussetts, the first time this piece was played in San Francisco. The piece
Arts & Entertainment Mahler Symphony No. 5 Mahler's 5th Symphony is one of his most famous works: the 4th movement, Adagietto, became super popular as the soundtrack of Visconti's Death in Venice, and the whole piece has an epic, cinematic
