Arts & Entertainment Spend Chinese New Year With The SF Symphony The SF Symphony rings in the Year of the Pig with their annual East-meets-West lunar new year afternoon concert on Saturday, Feb. 24 -- this year's performances feature works by local Asian-American composer
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 Upcoming Events -- Hilary Hahn The Korngold incorporates various movie themes from 1930s Hollywood, and the symphony will also be performing Aaron Copland's and a suite by Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly. (We don't think the Kodaly has any
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 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
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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
SF News Gavin's Back! So Mayor Gavin Newsom can't be bothered to show up for a police commissioner meeting or deal with MUNI, the taxicab commission, or the Dept. of Building Inspection -- but he's so there
misc The Philistine's Fall Music Preview. You want to go below to see movie clips of Deborah Voigt and our running commentary on the SF Symphony's and SF Opera's season. Picture of MTT -Hi, Mike, good to see you
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Verdi's Requiem A shiny light was squarely placed on Verdi's score: all the details came out brightly, all the nuances were expertly underlined. That delicate, masterfully controlled introduction only lead to more of the same
Arts & Entertainment Philistine Believes in Life After Love We said "twin" but the Labeque sisters are not twins, they are two years apart. They just play up the confusion with paired outfits and make-up styles, with Katia's bustier in black and
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Honi Soit Qui Mahler Pense. This week's performances will instead offer Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, and both the ballet and the Mahler recordings are related to the program of the week past, which we attended on Friday. That symphony
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony: Dr. Atomic Strikes Back. For the new new stuff, there is a Concerto for Piano by Kevin Volans, and a Concerto for Orchestra by Robin Holloway, two world premieres commissioned by the SF Symphony. We know very
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony, Which Then Goes to China. The trip will happen, and it would have been a shame if it had ended up being cancelled: for one, classical musicians are not being paid much compared to other entertainers in this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony: Lang Lang Lang Lang is pianist with a vast appeal crossing over to the general audience, not just the classical arena: his official web site biography mentions his playing on Jay Leno's show before his
SF News Sister City-hood Is Powerful Sister sister -- Shanghai and SF affirmed their 25 years of friendship as Gavin and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng totally touched their cut pinky fingers together to affirm their sister city status. Gavin
Arts & Entertainment Fall Classical Music Preview Tomorrow, the symphony kicks it off with a gala, celebrating three anniversaries: Michael Tilson Thomas's, aka MTT, 10th anniversary at the baton, Shostakovich's 100th birthday next year, and the 25th anniversary for Davies
