August 29, 2015
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan at Subterranean Artshouse
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music
July 31, 2015
Music@Menlo – a Schubert Festival
A classy phenomenon held for three weeks on the peninsula, Music@Menlo is devoting this year’s summer festival to the short and prolific life of Franz Schubert. Their fifth main concert program, titled “The Setting Sun,” perused chamber works from the last two years of his life including the powerful Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major for piano, violin and cello.
Friday’s concert, on July 31, was an opportunity to hear his natural exuberance tempered by ill...
July 26, 2015
Valley of the Moon Music Festival in Sonoma
Sonoma finds a sweet spot
The sleepy town of Sonoma is celebrating the inauguration of a new music festival this year. Sited in a bucolic vale but easily accessible to the Bay Area, the Valley of the Moon Music Festival is the brainchild of a well-known East Bay duo, pianist and composer Eric Zivian and cellist and early music enthusiast Tanya Tomkins.
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July 15, 2015
Mendocino Music Festival celebrates 29 years of excellence
On the fog-shrouded coast of Mendocino one can find half-hidden troves of berries, small and surprisingly flavorful. And like coastal berries one can find artists and artisans, singers and music lovers who emerge each summer to support their beloved Mendocino Music Festival, now in its 29th year.
And another surprise of the North Coast is the hospitality of the locals, who open their homes to house 90 musicians for three weeks every summer.
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June 20, 2015
Ojai in Berkeley
A festival of beaten gold.
The Ojai Music Festival, a venerable institution that has brought unusual music to the quiet Ojai valley for the last 59 years, has been collaborating with Cal Performances for the past four years to bring their weeklong series to the Bay Area. This year was another opportunity to hear the energetic programming that has been their hallmark.
Not only is this a celebration of edgy music, but it lives on the edge by changing...
June 15, 2015
Summer music madness
After a great year for Bay Area classical music, the summer festival season is fast upon us.
This very week Cal Performances closes out a full year of programming with its reprise of the Ojai Music Festival, held on the Berkeley campus this Thursday and Friday evening and all day Saturday, June 20. Each year this long-running festival chooses a fresh artistic director. This year conductor and percussionist Steven Schick will lead an exploration of twentieth century...