) concerts coming up in the next two weeks: | Quote: |
| A Tribute to Wayne Shorter SFJAZZ Collective Joe Lovano, artistic director and saxophones Dave Douglas, trumpet Stefon Harris, vibraphone and marimba Miguel Zenón, alto sax and flute Robin Eubanks, trombone Renee Rosnes, piano Matt Penman, bass Eric Harland, drums Thursday, March 13, 8 pm Hill Auditorium Main Floor $44 · $38 · $32 · $20 Mezzanine $34 · $30 · $10 Balcony $26 · $20 · $16 · $10 Heralded by the Los Angeles Times for its "sheer, out-of-the-box musicality," the SFJAZZ Collective explores the last 50 years of jazz repertoire through new compositions written by band members and new arrangements of seminal works from modern jazz history. Led by Joe Lovano, the Collective’s 2008 concert pays tribute to the genius of saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, with performances of his works juxtaposed against new pieces composed by each of the eight individual Collective members. Through this innovative approach — simultaneously honoring jazz’s recent history while championing the music’s up-to-the-minute directions — the Collective shows that jazz is a living, ever-changing, and ever-relevant art form. |
That will be tonight. 
Tomorrow:
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| San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Friday, March 14, 8 pm Hill Auditorium Main Floor $75 · $68 · $60 · $36 Mezzanine $60 · $50 · $10 Balcony $40 · $36 · $20 · $10 Jean Sibelius remarked to his close friends, “If I cannot write a better symphony than my Seventh, then it shall be my last.” Indeed, the composer's one-movement work was not only his last complete symphony, but one of his final compositions. The work is programmed alongside Beethoven’s first fate-defying statement of musical revolution, the “Eroica” symphony, performed here with full orchestra under the baton of one of today’s most exciting conductors, Michael Tilson Thomas. The San Francisco Symphony is widely regarded as a major, innovative classical powerhouse. Please note: There will be no late seating for this concert until intermission. Program · Sibelius : Symphony No. 7 (1924) · Beethoven : Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 ("Eroica") (1805) |
Looking forward to that.
My Beethoven Symphony Quest will then have led to hearing his Third, Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth live. (Had tickets to go hear hisSixth last year, but that concert fell into the gap in my life when I was so sick and my knee was blown out, so I was not able to go. 
). Next week:
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| Bach's St. Matthew Passion Detroit Symphony Orchestra UMS Choral Union MSU Children's Choir Jerry Blackstone, conductor featuring Karina Gauvin, soprano Susan Platts, alto Steven Tharp, tenor Marek Rzepka, bass Nikolay Borchev, Jesus Rufus Müller, Evangelist Friday, March 21, 7:30 pm [NOTE TIME] Hill Auditorium Main Floor $56 · $50 · $44 · $26 Mezzanine $44 · $36 · $10 Balcony $30 · $26 · $20 · $10 Were it not for the composer Felix Mendelssohn, who rediscovered Bach’s St. Matthew Passion more than 75 years after the composer’s death, the world might never have been introduced to the music of this incredible composer and organist who revolutionized church music in the 18th century. Using the Biblical text of the Passion according to the evangelist Matthew, traditionally read on Palm Sunday, Bach’s work is a musical and dramatic interpretation of the events of Holy week. It is indisputably one of the highest achievements of Western art, written to be performed each year at Easter. This Good Friday performance features the UMS Choral Union and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in their only performance of the work. This concert will last approximately three hours. |
That should be so good I am sure it will raise up the hairs on the back of my neck.
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