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For UC Berkeley junior and art practice major Juliette Mekikian, the history of music mirrors the history of art with a “very beautiful, synchronized” pattern. Both are constantly bending and morphing as the interests and habits of their curators transform from one thing to the next.
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Even when not scheduled for a professional performance, the 12 pianos scattered throughout the garden’s 55 acres seldom stood unplayed.
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Beilman, 28, and Tyson, 31, have played together for nine years, and tonight is the final recital of a three-day Bay Area run.
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Before you read any further, open up Spotify or Apple Music or Tidal or whatever service you use to listen to music, and put on “Called Out In The Dark.”
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Yet this list of accomplishments is built almost singlehandedly by the program’s intense dedication to education above all else, a factor that especially shone through in Saturday night’s performance.
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Legends like Hans Zimmer and Kendrick Lamar are certain to draw massive crowds, but they aren’t the only artists taking over next week.
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Because I wasn’t immediately learning what I wanted to play, I wasn’t interested. I didn’t pay attention at all for the first two months of lessons. Apparently, during that period he taught me how to read music, and I missed all of it.
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On Sunday night, world-renowned violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman led London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a rousing performance at San Francisco’s Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The Royal Philharmonic and Zukerman put on an entirely Beethoven program, consisting of the overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus,” the Violin Concerto in
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It’s sometimes weird the things that make us feel depressed — a 14-year-old incontinent dog, for example. Not because that’s gross and doggy diapers are degrading for all parties involved but because it reminds us that one day, in about 490 dog years, we, too, will require diapers. The fact
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On May 10 and 11, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performed Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo” cello concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor to a packed house in Hertz Hall. The two pieces, separated by an intermission, contrasted each other in both tone and inspiration, coming together to display
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