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Day: May 23, 2015

STUNNING SYMPHONIC NIGHT

STUNNING SYMPHONIC NIGHT

SFS’ Sensitive, Soulful Bartok & Mozart They put it all together, with inspiring sensitivity as never before. Pairing two repertory staples plus a new curtain-raiser is hardly news. But with the expert performances, the pindrop silence, and the sense of awe, this one proved one of the great symphony concerts of recent years. It was the San Francisco Symphony taking on one of the great 20th-century works, written by a dying man driven far from home by war: Bartok’s Concerto…

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REQUIEM FOR A CHAMBER-CONCERT SERIES

REQUIEM FOR A CHAMBER-CONCERT SERIES

LOS GATOS, CA—-In affluent Silicon Valley, of all places, a salient chamber-music series in a beautiful intimate church just bit the dust after 16 years. The church bells in the steeple should have tolled on the hillsides when the Sunset Concerts at St. Luke’s Church played the grand finale May 22. With just a 150-seat capacity, despite people hanging from the rafters, the ticket income could not close the gap, and volunteers to keep running the program were in short…

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OAKLAND BALLET’S EFFUSIVE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

OAKLAND BALLET’S EFFUSIVE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

14 Ballets Mark the 50th’s Ambitious Concert Program OAKLAND—The classic bedtime story has a young girl beset by all manner of hardships having the perfect dream. The Oakland Ballet had its perfect dream with its gala 50th-anniversary performance at the Paramount Theatre May 23. The troupe laboriously put together a program to top all pot-pourri ballet programs, spotlighting 15 snippets of its ballets new and old showing off a smart, and thoroughly integrated ensemble. Included were six (!) short world…

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