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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Charles Dutoit & Pinchas Zukerman The US Top 6 orchestras will visit Davies Symphony Hall for the SF Symphony 100th anniversary season, leaving Cal Performances at Zellerbach to import the foreign best ensembles. Case in point last Saturday:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Palo Heras-Casado At The SF Symphony While we wish MTT to keep doing his SF Symphony gig for a long long time, he's the longest tenured music director here ever. He doesn't look it, but at 67, he's twice
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien The Martyre de Saint Sebastien, a play by Gabriele D'Annunzio with music by Claude Debussy, was, according to its original producer, "bad." Says the program notes of the SF Symphony. The run which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff At the San Francisco Symphony it's new year, new stuff. The 1992 Ligeti violin concerto will be heard live in San Francisco for the first time ever tomorrow through Sunday. You may recall
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: SFS Concertmaster Sasha Barantschik The 100th anniversary of the SF Symphony is such a big deal, it's sucking the air out of some other impressive milestones. One of these: Alexander Barantschik's tenth year as concert master of
