Classical Music

Way to Go, Ohio

If Bouncer's Date at Andalu Was an Episode of "The Wire"

Jazz Mafia's Adam Theis on the Group's New Hip-Hop Symphony, Performing with Blackalicious, and More

Jazz Mafia's Shotgun Wedding Quintet, with MC Dublin in the middle, and Adam Theis on the far right.​ Whatever you're doing this weekend, we can pretty much guarantee that the members of the Jazz Mafia are doing more. The S.F. jazz collective's hip-hop outfit, Shotgun Wedding Quintet, is serving a ... More >>

Symphony Charges S.F. Library $480 Yearly, Despite $2.6M Annual Taxpayer Subsidy

Thanks for placing your overdue-book fines in my pocket​The San Francisco Symphony will receive $2.6 million in taxpayer subsidies during the current fiscal year. Nonetheless, it charges the San Francisco Public Library an additional $480 per year for dropping off old programs, the San Francisco c ... More >>

Win Tickets to the Final Performance of Jazz Mafia's Hip-Hop Symphony

Jazz Mafia performing Brass, Bows & Beats​What's a hip-hop symphony, you ask? Well for one thing, it's a major musical event -- Jazz Mafia mastermind Adam Theis premiered his Brass, Bows, & Beats at the Palace of Fine Arts in 2009, and later took it to the Montreal Jazz Festival, Newport J ... More >>

Friday Night: Rufus Wainwright Does Shakespeare at Davies Symphony Hall

Rufus Wainwright​Five Shakespeare Sonnets  Rufus Wainwright and the San Francisco Symphony November 13, 2010 @ Davies Symphony Hall Better than: Rufus Wainwright sings Dante's Interno. All right, I'll just say it: most of my knowledge of classical music comes from honking "Flight of ... More >>

Jazz Mafia Founder Adam Theis on the Group's 10-Year Anniversary

Bill EvansJazz Mafia, with Adam Theis front and center.​Tonight at Mezzanine, Jazz Mafia celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special concert featuring rappers Lyrics Born and Lateef (as Latyrx). Jazz Mafia was founded in San Francisco a decade ago by composer and multi-instrumentalist Adam T ... More >>

Verdi's Massive 'Aida' Shines at SF Opera

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

What to Want to Be When You Grow Up

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

Radio Rahaim

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

Free Opera on a Big TV

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

We Salute You

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

All Together Now

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

Classical & Opera

Cory WeaverAida​Giuseppe Verdi's Micaela Carosi as Aida @ September 24, 2010War Memorial Opera HouseBetter than: The D-Backs (we hope) The forthcoming observation about San Francisco Opera's production of Aida is not intended to be dismissive of the backflipping acrobats, the dancers, the endle ... More >>

The Young Man's Dream

Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.

Wear Your Tiara

Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.

Hot Bach in the Summertime

Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.

Lucia and the She-Bitch have a lot in common

Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.

Finishing touches put on Duke Ellington's opera

Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.

My Tunes: Kronos Quartet

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

Heavenly Choir

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

Philip Glass' Appomattox a Civil Bore

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

They Really Are the World

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

The Lowdown

Stuck for ideas? These events should keep you busy till Christmas.

Adams vs. Glass

Two contemporary music giants descend upon the Bay

Misc. Reviews

Philip Glass' opera rises above tragedy

The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Avant-garde opera right in the heart of Oakland

Say Schwa

Spending depressed days at Tosca, eavesdropping on silly bands

Red Sparowes

At the Soundless Dawn

Wearing It Well

CanStage's wordless version of The Overcoat explores the soul of a dreamer in a workaday world

Dog Bites

The thrill of Beach Blanket Babylon auditions

Feed Your Head

The San Francisco International Arts Festival now rocks with world music

Living La Vida Loca

Fiesta in the Mission

Bohemian Rhapsody

Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème is real opera -- with an extra dash or three of spectacle

Seasoned Dancers

This year, you'll find a bittersweet tinge to the comic ballets of the Mark Foehringer Dance Project

Mind Over Clatter

A Pulitzer surprise notwithstanding, Other Minds continues its noncommercial quest to make the world safe for weird music

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

Emergency String Quartet revolutionizes modern chamber music

Boxed Ears

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

Pointed Counterpoints

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Stage

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Reviews

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Striking Chords

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Local Rites for Universal Rights

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Ol' Blue Screen

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?

Reviews

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?

Samples

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?

Recordings

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?

Night+Day

New software lets anyone sing like Sinatra or compose like Mahler. But do we really want computers that make country-and- western stars croon on key?