At this year's Ojai Festival, with pianist Michiko Uchida as music director, Mozart meets the modernism of legendary L.A. modernism of Schoenberg and Cage.
At 91, the nation’s most famous living composer remains spry on the podium, leading the Boston Pops through an array of “Star Wars” highlights and other audience favorites.
Joshua Kosman April 26, 2021
Esa-Pekka Salonen performs Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music” for the SF Symphony’s SoundBox series Photo: Kristen Loken
The San Francisco Symphony is scheduled to return to live, in-person concerts in Davies Symphony Hall on May 6, more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to such events, the Symphony announced on Monday, April 26.
Musical activity is also expected to resume with weekly programs every Thursday and Friday night throughout May and June.
The programs will initially be limited to socially distanced audiences of no more than 200 patrons, said CEO Mark C. Hanson. But if state and city restrictions continue to loosen, he said, the orchestra has a safety plan awaiting approval that will allow them to fill Davies to 35% capacity or nearly 1,000 people.
Chronicle Staff April 6, 2021Updated: April 6, 2021, 7:25 pm
The Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. Photo: Kyle Jeffers
With the announcement that California is eliminating its color-coded tier system and allowing businesses to operate at or near 100% capacity by June 15, Bay Area arts organizations are finally seeing the end of what has been a very long, dark period.
Masks will still be a requirement at public events, but the expectation is that life nightlife will be returning to something that resembles “normal” before the beginning of summer. That means movie theaters, plays, concerts, the ballet and other vital elements that make up the Bay Area’s once vibrant arts and entertainment scene will finally be seeing live audiences again.