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It may be an acquired taste, but once music lovers develop an interest in the music of 20th-century composer Alban Berg, it can become a passionate preference. If you are timid sampling atonal music, rest assured- there is a strong Romantic aesthetic informing even his thorniest scores. New listeners are amazed how well they stand the test of time. Alban Berg Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra   SFS Media, the San Francisco Symphony's (SFS) top-rank in-house media production company releases an album of three major Berg works recorded in high-resolution, avai...

12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. V...

Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 13.09 EST Though the San Francisco Symphony brought it to London just a week after the premiere in 2003, My Father Knew Charles Ives has had few British performances since, and remains one of John Adams’s less well-known orchestral scores. It’s a substantial work – three movements lasting nearly half an hour – designed both as a homage to the two men mentioned in the title, and as an evocation of the New England in which they both lived and Adams himself grew up. John Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre album cover His father ...