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John Goldman Tribute Concert

Monday, Jun 17 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Join us in celebrating the extraordinary leadership of outgoing Symphony President John Goldman...

Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor

Sunday, May 19 2:00p

Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Alexander Barantschik violin Jonathan Vinocour viola Michael Grebanier cello Anton Nel piano Beethoven Piano Quartet in E-flat major Barber Cello Sonata in C minor Schumann Piano Trio in D...

Previewing The Gospel of Mary Magdalene: A San Francisco Opera World Premiere

Sunday, May 19 5:00p

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, San Francisco

Mark Adamo, called “a brilliant theater composer” by the New York Times, will unveil his new opera, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, this June at San Francisco Opera...

Songs of San Francisco: From Gold Rush to Golden Gate (1840's–1930's)

Saturday, May 18 8:00p

Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, San Francisco

Gina Morgano, soprano, Brian Thorsett, tenor, and a choir of Bay Area youth join the San Francisco Bach Choir in a musical valentine to the city we love: from old Mexican-American folksongs, to son...

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...

The Gospel Gators of San Francisco State University

Sunday, May 26 7:00p

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

The SF State Gospel Choir was founded by current choir director Ja Ronn Thompson in the Spring of 2004. At that time he didn’t expect anyone to take him seriously...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’...

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