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MTT and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham

Wednesday, Jun 19 8:00p

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 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...

8th Annual Funk Out with R.O.C.K.

Friday, May 31 8:00p

Mighty, San Francisco

Funk out with R.O.C.K. is in its 8th year as an over-the-top event with 100% of proceeds benefiting San Francisco nonprofit Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.)...

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’...

Robertson leads Ravel and Gershwin

Friday, May 24 6:30p

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...

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...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Gautier Capuçon - Katharine Hanrahan Open Rehearsal

Wednesday, May 29 10:00a

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

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

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...

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...

Bernhoft plus Sun Rai

Tuesday, Jun 25 8:00p

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

Since releasing his sophomore album "Solidarity Breaks" in early 2011, Norwegian retro-soul singer/multi-instrumentalist Bernhoft has thrilled crowds around the world with his stripped-down yet amp...

SILA - SuperAfrican: CD And Comicbook Release Extravaganza

Saturday, Aug 24 8:00p

The Chapel, San Francisco

A Native of Kenya, SILA is known for spearheading a polyrhythmic renaissance and establishing a reputation for dynamic live performances!...

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...

Mortified

Friday, Jun 14 7:30p

DNA Lounge, San Francisco

After 7 yrs, check out the bay's funniest and most outlandish comedic/ music experience...

Cal Shakes - American Night: The Ballad of Juan José

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda

Hailed as a “boisterous, rollicking, surreal…journey into American history” by the Mail Tribune during its sold-out run at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Night brings the groundbreaking work...

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...

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...

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...

Dead Certain: A Critically Acclaimed Psychological Thriller on Union Square. Memorial Day Special (click here for more)

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Hotel Cartwright Union Square (Pacific Heights Room), San Francisco

Dead Certain is an "edge-of-your-seat" thriller -- NYC Retrovisionmedia called this production "the sleeper of New York City's small theater season to date"...

Bernie Granados: Original Paintings & Masks

Saturday, Jul 27 10:00a

Gathering Tribes, Albany

Bernie Granados, Jr...

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...

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