Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Tenor Brian Thorsett The presenting organization Curious Flights took off in 2013 to feature the rarely heard corners of the modern music repertory. Over the weekend, at the San Francisco Conservatory, they introduced the West Coast
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The SF Symphony Britten Festival If the opera is named after your character, you better be up for the task. Stuart Skelton delivered big time as Peter Grimes. A search on this website for Stuart Skelton yields a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Curious Flights at the SF Conservatory Youthful exuberance achieves stunning results, as the second concert of the Curious Flights season demonstrated Tuesday night at the San Francisco Conservatory. Both the composer (a young Benjamin Britten) and the performers (most
Arts & Entertainment Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and String with the NCCO Benjamin Britten visited North America in April 1939, and found more than he hoped for. He came from Britain to perform and present some of his compositions in Canada and the U.S.
Arts & Entertainment Anesthesia: Brain Numbing with Non-Sense Take tonight. There’s a cool concert at Herbst Theater, presented by Other Minds, an organization devoted to new music: Dennis Russell Davies and his partner, Maki Namekawa, playing music for two pianos