Concerts

The sweet, tangy and devoted energy of San Francisco seemed a deserving stage to Emotional Oranges’ penultimate stop of the “Pulp Fiction” tour.

It might come as a surprise for some that a classical orchestra tackled the “Black Panther” soundtrack, which is smoothly governed by hip hop and traditional African musical influences.

The music Lindemann creates is well-suited for live performance, and even though she may have fumbled the delivery at some points in the night, there was never a moment of boredom or emptiness.

Awash in a deep golden-orange glow, violinists Vita Yee and Jory Fankuchen, violist Ivo Bokulic and cellist Samsun van Loon settled in a circle beneath the church’s intricately embellished dome, prepared to usher audiences into their wildest dreams.

Wang played with the kind of intense virtuosity that felt like she was beating Rachmaninoff to the punch. Her touch was precise and resonant throughout the concerto, and her fingers moved with the quick dexterity of a hummingbird.

When not playing up the crowd, Reich bodied the resonances of Gaga’s lower timbers — the roars in “Shallow” (here, the sounds of labor) and the heartache of “Million Reasons,” which cleverly soundtracked the inner monologue of Reich’s reservations about her baby.

Following the release of her debut studio album Young Forever, Barrett stopped at San Francisco’s Masonic on March 19 as part of her headlining tour.

Though the night of March 19 was heavy with drizzle and gloom, singer-songwriter Gatlin was armed with an exuberant set to open for Vérité at The Independent.

Vulnerable yet vibrant, Chappell Roan’s music feels fit for late nights spent spinning beneath glittering mirrorballs. Amid the intimate radiance of San Francisco’s August Hall, the rising pop star’s breathless admirers had the opportunity to capture this very sensation on March 14.

Masego had San Francisco at his fingertips — and he knew it. Enveloped in smoke and a sultry, amber glow, he took The Warfield stage with sheer magnetism on the night of March 14.