In 2007, composer Nathaniel Stookey went to the dump and hit stuff. Things like bowls, bottles, pipes, dresser drawers, shopping carts, oil drums. When…
Lovers of both early- and late-19th-century symphonic drama en plein air, start your picnic blankets. Grassy knolls and tormented classical music being two luxuries…
It’s tempting to think of Mercury Soul’s Mason Bates and Benjamin Schwartz as modern day, musical equivalents of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Bates…
Forecasting the Doom of Classical Music is its own cottage industry, from cocktail party chatter lamenting the genre's graying audience to statistical evidence that…
Nobody tells the whole truth on his or her résumé. Eager to land a new job, who among us hasn't omitted a firing here…
In a couple of weeks’ time, the San Francisco Symphony and maestro Michael Tilson Thomas will embark upon their eighth European tour together. Joined…
Many chanteuses can rip the heart out of a famous show tune. But only a few can act. And even fewer can play the…
Where to catch cool fireworks shows around town
Potato pancakes$9 Pea soup$5 Boiled potatoes with quark$10.50 Wiener schnitzel$16 Apple strudel$6 Schnitzelhaus Sauerbraten$15.75 Suppenküche, 525 Laguna (at Hayes), 252-9289. Open for dinner nightly…
It's not like the San Francisco Symphony needed Metallica to prove they were hip: Rock stars have always played their block party benefit, the…
