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Robertson leads Ravel and Gershwin

Thursday, May 23 8:00p

Weill Hall at the Green Music Center, Rohnert Park

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...

An Affaire de Coeur

Saturday, May 18 7:00p

Gallery 111, Sausalito

Experience “A Story of Beauty and Decay” by San Francisco’s hottest new artist, Natalie Nesser...

Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon

Saturday, May 18 6:30p

Club Fugazi, San Francisco

The always-changing Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon is the world’s longest running musical revue...

Show For Equality: The Stephanie Teel Band

Sunday, Jun 16 7:00p

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

Marriage Equality USA is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization fighting solely for the freedom to marry at the state and federal levels – including successful initiatives in New Y...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...