Month: June 2021

Following tradition, the Czech Philharmonic brings the current season to a close with two performances at the Smetana National Festival held each year in Litomyšl, the birthplace of Bedřich Smetana. Both performances will be led by the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, Tomáš Netopil – the first featuring concertmaster Jiří Vodička as soloist in Dvořák’s Violin…

At this week’s San Francisco Virtual Jazz Festival, SFJAZZ streams a tribute to one of the most important and influential figures in Cuban music – pianist and composer Ernesto Lecuona. He is honored by three of today’s greatest Latin Jazz pianists – Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Michel Camilo – in a concert recorded at…

Miami-based New World Symphony this week pays tribute to Anne Frank, the young girl who spent two years in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, and whose diary detailing those years of captivity made her famous the world over. Ju‌ne 1‌2th would have been Anne Frank’s 92nd birthday, and to mark the occasion, the New World Symphony…

This week, the San Francisco Symphony’s Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Symphony, in a performance at Davies Symphony Hall, of Richard Strauss’s Serenade in E flat major, contemporary composer Daniel Kidane’s Be Still, and Brahms’ Violin Concerto, with Grammy Award-winning Augustin Hadelich as soloist. Augustin Hadelich – “… a singularly gifted, characterful musician …”…

The Nice Philharmonic Orchestra presents an all-French concert on 18th and 19th June – with Lionel Bringuier leading the Orchestra in a performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major – soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet – and Bizet’s Symphony in C. Multi-award-winning artist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is acknowledged as one of the finest pianists of today. In…

This week, the Virtual San Francisco Jazz Festival, hosted by SFJAZZ pays tribute to Thelonious Monk, and features performances by Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, and Marcus Shelby & his Orchestra with their tribute to Duke Ellington. Streaming on Thursday is the documentary and concert film Music in Monk Time: A Retrospective Tribute to…

This next week, in the online presentation of its Nightly Opera Streams, the Metropolitan Opera presents productions which have been brought forward to a more contemporary time than that in which they were originally set. The first of these productions, to be streamed on Monday, June 7th, is a highly acclaimed interpretation of Verdi’s Rigoletto…

SFJAZZ opens the San Francisco Jazz Festival tomorrow – and this year it’s to be an all-digital affair, enabling not only US jazz enthusiasts, but late-nighters in other parts of the world, to enjoy some of the finest jazz around today. Featuring 18 concerts throughout the month of June, this celebration of jazz – which…