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Berkeley Symphony on the hunt for new music director
Nov 20, 2024 · Joseph Young is stepping down from his role as music director of Berkeley Symphony at the end of the 2024-25 season, after six years on the job.. Young is only the orchestra’s fourth music director in its half-century history. His appointment at the beginning of the 2019-20 concert season was a surprise, since he initially made his way to the symphony to step in for an ill colleague.
Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen keeps S.F. Symphony on course in
Oct 5, 2024 · With his signature flair for the theatrical, Shostakovich ups the ante in the concerto’s linked third and fourth movements. As Salonen and the Symphony laid the groundwork for the Passacaglia’s variations, Shoji offered a nostalgic glance, both melodically and temperamentally, back toward the Nocturne.
Review: Aurora Theatre’s ‘Fallen Angels’ falls… flat
Oct 25, 2024 · If you’re not already familiar with Coward’s 1925 comedy of manners, which opened Oct. 24, you — along with Julia (Kina Kantor) and Jane (Emily Newsome) — might be certain that Maurice simply has to turn up any minute.
Review: ‘Wicked’ is the best movie musical in years | Datebook
Nov 19, 2024 · Cynthia Erivo, left, is Elphaba and Ariana Grande is Glinda in “Wicked,” directed by Jon M. Chu. Photo: Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures The marketing of “Wicked” has been so obnoxious for so long — since stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were everywhere at the Summer Olympics ...
Review: A surprising and riveting fourth novel closes out Southern ...
Oct 18, 2024 · The Southern Reach Trilogy was a huge success for VanderMeer. But it also, and purposefully so, left many questions unanswered. That is where “Absolution” comes in: It acts first and foremost as a stand-alone, but also as a new way to enter the trilogy.
Review: ‘The Wild Robot’ may be DreamWorks’ finest ... - Datebook
Sep 25, 2024 · As Roz learns feelings, her look evolves through dings, moss and carbon-based replacement parts into that of a more organic being. Still, this contraption remains a whiz-bang wonder of swirling, detachable appendages and vibrant lights that go into action with such lithe speed, Transformers look like clanking rust buckets by comparison. And it’s not just Roz; every frame is saturated in ...
Review: ‘Babylon’ is Damien Chazelle’s brilliant fever ... - Datebook
Dec 16, 2022 · “Babylon” isn’t a perfect film. But it’s a great film, great enough that a lot of people are going to absolutely hate it. When I walked out of the theater, I heard two guys raving about how this was the worst movie they’d ever seen.
BroadwaySF’s 2024-25 season is full of fan favorites and
Feb 13, 2024 · When BroadwaySF flings wide the lobby doors for its 2024-25 season, it’ll be with a musical that premiered in San Francisco in 2003 and later enjoyed a 20-month, 660-performance run here. That’s the gravity-defying “Wicked,” Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz’s prequel to “The Wizard of Oz,” which, running Aug. 28 through Oct. 13 at the Orpheum Theatre, opens the presenter’s ...
Why Tamara de Lempicka is suddenly all the rage a century after …
Sep 26, 2024 · Rubio, the president of Women in Film San Francisco Bay Area and founder of East Meets West Productions (2014’s “East Side Sushi”), got some invaluable celebrity help of her own in making her de Lempicka film.Noted collector Barbra Streisand provided Rubio with high-resolution images of the artist’s work, and the legendary singer and filmmaker OK’d the sections featuring her ...