November 2014 – Repeat Performances

November 29, 2014

Susanna Mälkki conducts Jeremy Denk and the SF Symphony

Denk does Béla – a sensitive reading After days of turkey and pumpkin and fullness and family, Davies Symphony Hall was nearly sold out for a concert of good-natured music. Led by visiting Swedish conductor Susanna Mälkki, the San Francisco Symphony was gloriously responsive in the first half but more pedestrian in the second. ...

Categories: music

November 26, 2014

Kathleen Turner takes on Molly Ivins

Kathleen Turner channels a media icon “Alcohol gets you nowhere,” the woman sprawled with a bottle of booze on Berkeley Rep’s Roda stage...

Categories: theater

November 17, 2014

“Breakfast with Mugabe” plays at Aurora Theatre

Despot and doctor clash at Aurora Theatre A play in which a brutal dictator is stalked by the ghost of a former political ally. It sounds...

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November 16, 2014

Escher Quartet in Burlingame

From frogs to dead flies—a compelling quartet at Kohl Mansion Burlingame’s Music at Kohl Mansion welcomed the Escher Quartet to its Great Hall last Sunday, Nov. 16. This young foursome, with their magnificent technique and monumental interpretation, is at the height of their powers: last year they won a prestigious Avery Fisher career grant, highlighted Music@Menlo’s summer festival, and championed the four Zemlinsky quartets with two just-released...

Categories: music

November 15, 2014

Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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Categories: dance

November 14, 2014

Britten’s “Curlew River” at Cal Performances

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Categories: opera