Mozart in Prague “The musicians established their fluency and command early on… The program carried the implicit message that great music is never an exit ramp out of reality. It’s an exploration of human experience in its widest and deepest dimensions.” —San Francisco Classical Voice House of Time spirits us to Prague, the city that welcomed (more…)

Hold Fast: Music of the Elizabethan Avant-Garde “Something more comes across—a polyphonic conversance among viols…. Each player conveys lyric urgency and amusement, so much so, the result seems contemporary—there’s an evolving unexpectedness from the instruments. Strange indeed.” —Huffpost, The Blog Tye’s In Nomine, Crye; The Song Called Trumpets by Parsons; Browning, My Dear by Woodcock; and many other esoteric four- through (more…)

Harpsichord Recital: J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations Perhaps more myth than fact, Bach supposedly wrote the Goldberg Variations for his student Johann Goldberg to play during Count Keyserling’s insomniac nights. The thirty-two galant-style movements, rich in contrasts, are variations on the bass line’s chord progressions. Concert and CD reviews all commend the young Spanish performer’s expressive and fluid (more…)

“The story’s framework is simple yet striking, and more than a novelty: it’s an apt, big-hearted way to puzzle together many pieces of Deen’s journey. ‘Draw the Circle’ does not sugarcoat his despair or incidents of violence, yet it rather amazingly reaches back to retrieve people who easily could have been cut out for life.”  (more…)

On-stage tickets are now available! But hurry – they’ll be gone before you know it! “CRITIC’S PICK: A coup! Brings the feuds that roiled the radical black-liberation movement of the 1960s to vivid life.” – New York Times The assassination of Malcolm X—both the story we think we know and illuminating details that have seldom been (more…)