Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Audience Member Threatened With Ban From Concert Hall for Holding Up Vulgar Sign (in Finnish) This seems to be a first: The San Francisco Symphony is threatening to ban a regular attendee who held up a profane sign at a concert, written in Finnish, to protest the impending departure of musical director Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Pianist Stephen Hough An interview with pianist Stephen Hough and a review of Opera Parallele's US premiere of composer Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness. British pianist Stephen Hough performs tonight a recital of Debussy and Chopin
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Symphony Harpist Caught Kaepernicking It appears that noted SF Symphony musicians have had a change of heart when it comes to major league sports and proper respect, care of this shot showing harpist Douglas Rioth pulling a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: SeaweedSway Sunday presents local choir, Conspiracy of Beards, which is comprised of 30 men performing exclusively Leonard Cohen songs a capella in complex four- to five-part harmonies, and Beards' sister band, Conspiracy
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "San Francisco Polyphony" by György Ligeti Off the tops of our heads, we can't think of too many classical/chamber pieces written in honor of our fair city. This one, 1973's "San Francisco Polyphony," is by Hungarian-born composer György
Arts & Entertainment Photos: San Francisco Symphony at Dolores Park Dolores Park was packed to the gills this afternoon for the free San Francisco Symphony performance. Folks were even smartly sitting on the well-shaded medians of Dolores Street, which was closed to traffic.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: In the newly released book Smash the Church, Smash the State: the Early Years of Gay Liberation, nearly 40 authors describe their involvement in the radical groups that took the fight for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham will perform the Berg Concerto, "part requiem, part showpiece," which he has explored for years and has played often, and Schubert's Mass No. 6, a "glory of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: During a time in which the military is desperate for new recruits, unless you're openly gay, Ask Not exposes the tangled political battles that led to the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Joshua Bell at the SF Symphony SF Symphony guest conductor Fabio Luisi did his best last week to steal the thunder of violin megastar Joshua Bell. He opened the program with a tone poem by Richard Strauss, Don Juan.
