June 24, 2010
Kitka’s ‘Singing Through Darkness’
An ancient sound
Kitka, which started out as an informal group accompanying the dance company Westwind, has traveled many paths since 1979 as both a musical ensemble...
June 2010
June 17, 2010
Fresh Voices at Live Oak Park
Experimental opera alive and well in Berkeley
Artistic director Harriet March Page and composer Mark Alburger have...
San Francisco Symphony’s “The Rite of Spring”
The wonders of Spring
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring has often been named one of the musical works that
defined and separated the Romantic era of the 19th century from the Modernist era of the 20th century. Certainly it transformed classical dance as it was known in Europe at the time, and since then almost every noted choreographer of the 20th century—from Nijinsky to Béjart, from Kenneth...
June 16, 2010
Bay Area Summer Music Festivals
The Bay Area may be foggy, but the nights will sizzle this summer in a slew of festivals, ranging from Bach favorites to hot-off-the-press premieres. Here is a selection of some popular favorites.
Garden of Memory www.gardenofmemory.com
June 21 from 5:00 – 9:00 at...
June 10, 2010
San Francisco Opera’s ‘Die Walküre’
Invoking the Elemental
There were times when I felt as if we were sitting in a movie theater, everyone’s vision directed toward large images splashed across the scrim at...
June 9, 2010
San Francisco Opera’s ‘The Girl of the Golden West’
The golden voices of the Golden West
Although they are the musical backbone and background of most of the productions at the San Francisco Opera, the opera chorus seldom has the...