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The 30th Novato Festival of Art, Wine & Music

Saturday, Jun 8 10:00a

Downtown Novato, Novato

The Novato Festival of Art, Wine & Music turns 30 years old this year with more fanfare than ever...

Janowski conducts Brahms and Schumann

Saturday, May 18 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Two giants of the Romantic era grace the program. Schumann proudly called his overture “one of the strongest of my musical children...

Robertson leads Ravel and Gershwin

Wednesday, May 22 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Ravel, who heard jazz in Harlem with Gershwin, was dumbfounded by the dazzling Rhapsody in Blue, which Gershwin played at a birthday party for the French composer...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Gautier Capuçon

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Music from three Eastern Europeans gives this program a delightfully colorful sound palette...

Jonathan Biss plays Schumann

Thursday, Jun 13 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Schumann’s lilting, effervescent concerto started out as a shorter piece, but virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck—his wife—urged him to expand it...

MTT and Stravinsky: Stravinsky's Russian Roots

Friday, Jun 21 6:30p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

The joyous Les Noces “depicts” a wedding the way an Altman film uses scraps of conversation to tell a tale, and boasts four pianists on stage...

San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Sunday, May 19 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra is one of the finest ensembles of its kind, anywhere. For three decades, the Youth Orchestra has delighted audiences at home and abroad...

Barantschik and Vinocour play Britten's Double

Thursday, Jun 6 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Britten composed the concerto for violin and his own instrument, viola, at 18; its youthful vigor will challenge the virtuosity of the SFS’s Concertmaster and Principal Violist...

Enrico Rava Tribe ft. Gianluca Petrella

Thursday, Jun 13 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

A European jazz patriarch universally esteemed by his New York peers, Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava has collaborated with some of the music’s most creative figures, from Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd...

MTT and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham

Wednesday, Jun 19 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto and New World Symphony

Saturday, Jun 1 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Thrilling yet moving, powerful yet tender, Dvořák’s New World Symphony is an enormously popular work sure to enthrall listeners young and old...

Chamber Music with members of the San Francisco Symphony

Sunday, Jun 2 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Dalit Warshaw Transformations for String Quartet, and Theremin John Chishom violin, Chunming Mo violin; Yun Jie Liu viola; Barbara Bogatin cello; Dalit Warshaw theremin Dalit Warshaw Nizk’...

MTT and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham - Katharine Hanrahan Open Rehearsal

Wednesday, Jun 19 10:00a

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season...