Where There’s Hope, There’s Life
BERKELEY—A great new era was launched here. Now there is Hope for us all. British leader/violin virtuoso Daniel Hope, that is, who is our latest classical-music rock star. He led the most exquisite “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis” you have ever heard in his debut as artistic director Feb. 8. His New Century Chamber Orchestra produced breath-taking sonorities and perfect tuning in playing an updating of a 17th-century theme reenkindled a century ago by Ralph Vaughn Williams. A…