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Joshua Kosman April 26, 2021 Esa-Pekka Salonen performs Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music” for the SF Symphony’s SoundBox series Photo: Kristen Loken The San Francisco Symphony is scheduled to return to live, in-person concerts in Davies Symphony Hall on May 6, more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to such events, the Symphony announced on Monday, April 26. Musical activity is also expected to resume with weekly programs every Thursday and Friday night thro...

From S.F. Opera to the Rickshaw Stop, presenters struggle to take their patrons’ emotional temperature about reentry Lily Janiak and Joshua Kosman April 14, 2021Updated: April 15, 2021, 7:21 am Krystyna Finlayson shows off the theater tickets she has kept on March 31, 2020, in Walnut Creek. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle In normal times, Walnut Creek theater patron Krystyna Finlayson sees 10 to 15 plays a month. So when playhouses reopen after being dark for more than a yea...

Chronicle Staff April 6, 2021Updated: April 6, 2021, 7:25 pm The Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. Photo: Kyle Jeffers With the announcement that California is eliminating its color-coded tier system and allowing businesses to operate at or near 100% capacity by June 15, Bay Area arts organizations are finally seeing the end of what has been a very long, dark period. Masks will still be a requirement at public events, but the expectation is that life — nightlife — will be r...

Joshua Kosman December 19, 2020Updated: December 22, 2020, 11:13 am Outgoing S.F. Symphony Board President Sakurako “Sako” Fisher is seen near her home in San Anselmo this month. Photo: Nick Otto, Special to The Chronicle To illustrate her vision for how the San Francisco Symphony should work together successfully, Sakurako Fisher reaches far outside the world of classical music, and even outside the arts. Instead, she goes for an analogy from Formula One racing. “To win at r...