Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Zosha Di Castri with the SF Symphony The New Voices project, a collaboration of the New World Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony (both MTT-led) and the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes to get young composers to write for large orchestra,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Symphony Opening Night We expect a good time from an opening gala at the SF Symphony. After all, there's an open bar, fancy (or "fancy," in some cases) attire, and everyone rejoices over the new musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Beethoven Recordings and Writings As the Fall season for classical music is upon us, you can bet on this: even though 2013 is an anniversary year for Verdi, Wagner, Britten or Lutowslavsky, you'll hear more Beethoven. Ludwig
Arts & Entertainment A Touch Of Class For Jerry Garcia's 71st Birthday At Davies (By Angela Zimmerman) Grateful Dead fan or not, it's impossible to deny the impact of Jerry Garcia, especially living here in the Bay Area. Had he survived the health and addiction issues that
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway: Tickets to the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with Warren Haynes & the SF Symphony Celebrate Jerry Garcia’s 71st birthday with this ground-breaking orchestral program, featuring Garcia’s original compositions, and timeless standards that were hallmarks of Garcia and the Grateful Dead's shows. Collaborating with the Symphony,
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway: Tickets to The Matrix Live with the SF Symphony You and a friend could spend a summer night watching the cyberpunk action film The Matrix as composer Don Davis conducts the San Francisco Symphony in a live performance of his famous score.
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway: Two Tickets to a San Francisco Symphony Performance of Video Games Live! Gamers and non-gamers alike, don’t miss this explosive, one-of-a-kind entertainment experience! On July 25th and 26th, be immersed in the most popular video games of all time in this concert featuring exclusive
Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This Tonight: Janelle Monáe At S.F. Symphony Seeing Janelle Monáe performing "Q.U.E.E.N." live is reason enough to see her at Davies Symphony Hall tonight. Another good reason? She's appearing tonight to benefit the San Francisco Symphony's
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: S.F. Symphony Musicians Go On Strike After a rather tone-deaf protest at San Francisco City Hall yesterday -- where, while donning L.A. Dodgers hats, a quartet performed in front of a Giants cap on the dirty floor --
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Symphony Oboist Dies After Suffering Hemorrhage Onstage Last Saturday night San Francisco Symphony principal oboist William Bennett suffered a brain hemorrhage in the middle of a performance of Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto. Bennett collapsed onstage just two minutes into the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Bing Concert Hall Opening The Bing opened with a bang. It's technically the Bing Concert Hall, on the campus of Stanford University, but ushers had been instructed to greet us with a "welcome to The Bing", which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Pandora at the SF Symphony A bunch of musicians of the SF Symphony fancy themselves as composers. Violinist Sarn Oliver, bassoonist Stephen Paulson, trumpeter Mark Inouye, even MTT have penned original classical, jazz or ballet music. But assistant
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: A Week of Classical Grooves Reviews of a few performances over the past week or so: Andras Schiff co-hosted by the SF Symphony and SF Performances; the first SF Opera production of Lohengrin in sixteen years; and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Week Review In Classical Grooves A few reviews: Friday's Rite of Spring by the Bad Plus with SF Performances, Wednesday's Moby-Dick at SF Opera, András Schiff in a concert jointly hosted by the SF Symphony Project San Francisco,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: I Capuletti at SF Opera, Mahler at SF Symphony the Cypress String Quartet and Three reviews in this post. I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the SF Opera, Samuel Adams and Mahler at the SF Symphony, and the Cypress String Quartet at Old First Church. I Capuleti
Arts & Entertainment Picture Gallery: Last Week's SF Symphony Gala Because we took the pictures at the SF Symphony Gala with our cell phone, we must offer you a second, higher definition glimpse at the swells in their Gucci and De La Renta
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The SF Symphony 101st Season's Gala Take your pick of a party at Civic Center on Wednesday night: either the Red Hot Chili Peppers headlining the Salesforce convention social event, or the SF Symphony Gala. From the balcony of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Previews the 2012-13 Classical Music Season The Fall classical music season, or as we call it, the soundtrack to the election campaign, opened last night with the San Francisco Symphony. It's an odd duck opening, as the Real Thing,
Arts & Entertainment Sponsored Post: Classical Mystery Tour - Music of The Beatles The following post is from our advertiser, The San Francisco Symphony. When Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles to America in 1964, everything changed the way Americans listened to music, the way we wore
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Interviews: Multimedia Artist Nick Hillel Hungarian composer Béla Bartók does not shy away from controversy. As part of the 100th anniversary season of the SF Symphony, we heard the Miraculous Mandarin played in December by the visiting BSO,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Finnish Conductor Susanna Malkki Susanna Mälkki broke the glass ceiling at La Scala, being the first woman to conduct an opera there, and we thought it must have happened in the seventies, eighties the latest. Sure, the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: the Cleveland Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra, in a press conference known as The Decision, announced that they were taking their talents away from the Midwest. Their goal in leaving Cleveland wasn't to win six, seven or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: American Mavericks We caught the second orchestral program of the American Mavericks Festival at the SF Symphony and what an eclectic, puzzling, and overall exhilarating show it was. (The third program repeats tonight through Saturday)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: the American Mavericks Festival Countering your Tom Cruise, Mark Cuban and John McCain for the short list of American mavericks, MTT and the SF Symphony offer their own selection: Aaron Copland, Lou Harrison, Charles Ives, in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Charles Dutoit With The SF Symphony Almost a hundred years ago, Stravinsky defibrillated classical music. He shocked it back to life, saving it from the deathly grasp of romanticism. And in a more literal sense, he gave it back
