Women Conquering Berkeley
BERKELEY,CA—The highlight of the Berkeley Symphony program the other night was, astonishingly, the surprise vocal encore running close to 10 minutes in length: The S.F. Girls Chorus singing a near-a-cappella work with mezzo obbligata,”Only in Sleep” by the Australian Eriks Esenvalds. If ever there was proof of the emergence of the creative female, it was in this mellifluous chorus for the girls as led by the SFGC director, Valérie Sainte-Agathe. How apt, the distaff triumph in this hot-and-cold evening focusing…