2024 cultural events
This page lists 47 cultural events I attended in 2024. Movies are listed on my films page, not here. The program index page displays thumbnails of all the printed program images. Cities are in California, except as noted.
I started keeping event data in the format used by this page in 2010, so data from 2010 to date is accurate. I started keeping appointment calendar data in .txt format in August 2005. I later extracted 2005-2009 event data ex post facto, so data for 2005 to 2009 is less complete and a bit less accurate. I have older pocket calendars and hard copies of event programs going back to 1963, but I have not yet scanned programs for years before 2010 or entered event data for most years before 2005.
See also: 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1971 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 All
Click on a heading below to sort the list accordingly. Click on a Program link to see the printed program for an event. Enter a search string (e.g., "Mahler", "Berkeley", "piano") below to filter the output.
| Date | Category | Description | Performers | Venue | City | Works | ||||
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| 01/06/24 @ 19:00 | Concert | S.F. Tape Music Festival | Victoria | San Francisco | Program | |||||
| 01/14/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | Musicians from Silkroad | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 01/18/24 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Seong-Jin Cho, piano Dalia Stasevka, conductor |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' |
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| 01/25/24 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mahler: Symphony No. 5 | |||
| 02/01/24 @ 19:30 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, harpsichord Richard Egarr, conductor/harpsichord |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Telemann: Concerto in F Major Bach: Concerto for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1060 Telemann: Concerto in A Minor Bach: Concerto for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1061 Bach: Concerto for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1062 Telemann: Overture-Suite 'Alster' |
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| 02/05/24 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Earplay | Earplay | Old First Church | San Francisco | Program | Thiebaut: panta rhei Sorkin: String Trio in Two Movements Chuaqui: Ad Hoc Saariaho: Light and Matter |
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| 02/06/24 @ 12:03 | Recital | Noontime Concerts | Daniel Glover, piano | Old St. Mary's | San Francisco | Program | Bach: Arioso Clementi: Sonata quasi-Concerto Oldham: Andante Tranquillo Barber: Canzone Chopin: Grande Polonaise Brillante |
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| 02/18/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | Brentano String Quartet | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Bartók: 44 Duos for two violins: Burlesque, Mosquito Dance, Marching Song, Fairy Tale Bach: The Musical Offering: Canon Bach: The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus VII Bartók: Microkosmos: #141, #113 Purcell: Fantasia No. 11 Haydn: String Quartet Op. 40 No. 2: Allegretto Berio: Duetti per 2 violini: Yossi Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 59 No. 1: Allegretto vivace Bartók: String Quartet No. 5 |
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| 02/25/24 @ 11:00 | Brunch | West Edge Opera | West Edge Opera | Berkeley Piano Club | Berkeley | Program | Wagner: Arias Stookey: Aria from Bulrusher Boehler: Arias |
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| 03/02/24 @ 20:00 | Concert | Kronos Quartet | Kronos Quartet | Zellerbach | Berkeley | Program | Green: Kronos at Fifty Briseno: El Sinaloense Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 4 Rini: Segara Gunung Reich: Triple Quartet Gordon: gfedcba Lizée: ZonelyHearts |
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| 03/03/24 @ 15:00 | Opera | Snapshot 2024 | West Edge Opera | Atrium | San Francisco | Program | Edwards & Ralls: Nu Nah-Hup Verrett: Madame Theremin Linnard: Least of My Children Boehler: The Road to Wellville |
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| 03/17/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | Meena Bhasin, Owen Dalby & Friends | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Mozart: String Quintet, K. 516 Golijov: Tenebrae Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 |
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| 03/18/24 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Earplay | Earplay | Old First | San Francisco | Program | Hosokawa: Threnody Castro: Forms & Doubles Ulman: Skamandros II Koh: The flower mantis Kittos: Dyades |
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| 03/24/24 @ 15:00 | Concert | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Mitsuko Uchida, conductor José Maria Blumenschein, concertmaster |
Zellerbach | Berkeley | Program | Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 Widmann: Chorale Quartet Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 |
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| 04/02/24 @ 19:30 | Ballet | Alvin Ailey | Alvin Ailey | Zellerbach | Berkeley | Program | ||||
| 04/10/24 @ 12:45 | Sports | SF Giants Baseball | Nationals vs. Giants | Oracle | San Francisco | |||||
| 04/11/24 @ 19:30 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque | Richard Egarr, conductor Shunske Sato, violin |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' |
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| 04/13/24 @ 14:00 | Ballet | San Francisco Ballet | San Francisco Ballet | Opera House | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 04/14/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | Nomad Session | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Grainger: Lincolnshire Posey Day: Unquiet Waters Aminikia: Tehrangeles Mellits: Spliter Russell: Nomad Concerto" |
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| 04/24/24 @ 12:45 | Sports | SF Giants Baseball | Mets vs. Giants | Oracle | San Francisco | |||||
| 05/20/24 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Earplay | Earplay | Old First | San Francisco | Program | Gee: Mouthpiece 40 Seif: Syriac Fugato 2 Walker: Perimeters Au Yong: The Headlands Suite |
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| 05/29/24 @ 12:45 | Sports | SF Giants Baseball | Phillies vs. Giants | Oracle | San Francisco | |||||
| 06/13/24 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini |
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| 07/11/24 @ 12:45 | Sports | SF Giants Baseball | Blue Jays vs. Giants | Oracle | San Francisco | |||||
| 08/04/24 @ 15:00 | Opera | Legend of the Ring | West Edge Opera | Scottish Rite | Oakland | Program | Wagner: Legend of the Ring | |||
| 08/11/24 @ 15:00 | Opera | Bulrusher | West Edge Opera | Scottish Rite | Oakland | Program | Stookey: Bulrusher | |||
| 08/14/24 @ 13:00 | Musical | Girl from the North Country | Golden Gate | Golden Gate | San Francisco | Program | McPherson: Girl from the North Country | |||
| 08/18/24 @ 15:00 | Opera | Jacqueline | West Edge Opera | Scottish Rite | Oakland | Program | Woolf: Jacqueline | |||
| 08/22/24 @ 12:45 | Sports | SF Giants Baseball | White Sox vs. Giants | Oracle | San Francisco | |||||
| 09/04/24 @ 13:30 | Theater | Born with Teeth | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Bowmer | Ashland OR | Program | Adams, L. D.: Born with Teeth | |||
| 09/04/24 @ 20:00 | Theater | Macbeth | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Bowmer | Ashland OR | Program | Shakespeare: Macbeth | |||
| 09/05/24 @ 20:00 | Theater | Coriolanis | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Thomas | Ashland OR | Program | Shakespeare: Coriolanis | |||
| 09/06/24 @ 13:30 | Theater | Behfarmaheen | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Thomas | Ashland OR | Program | Akhavan: Behfarmaheen | |||
| 09/06/24 @ 20:00 | Theater | Much Ado About Nothing | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Allen | Ashland OR | Program | Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing | |||
| 09/19/24 @ 19:00 | Chamber | Piano Première | Noe Music | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Bach:Italian Concerto Prutsman: Shadows Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales |
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| 09/29/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | John Kimura Parker, piano | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 27 #2 'Moonlight' Ravel: Jeux d'eau Chopin: Preludes No. 15, No. 24 Hirtz: Wizard of Oz Fantasy Brahms: Piano Quartet #3 Louie: Scenes from a Jade Terrace |
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| 10/17/24 @ 19:30 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque | Grete Pedersen, conductor Thomas Carroll, basset clarinet |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | von Bingen: O Frondens Virga Shaw: Entr'acte Haydn: Symphony No. 49 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| 10/20/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | Gilles Apap, violin | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 10/26/24 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Eureka Chamber Music | Gary Hoffman, cello | Calvary Lutheran | Eureka | Program | Debussy: Cello Sonata Chopin: Cello Sonata Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 |
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| 11/07/24 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Nicholas Collon, conductor Conrad Tao, piano |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Adès: Three-piece Suite from Powder Her Face Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 Elgar: Enigma Variations |
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| 11/07/24 @ 19:30 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Avi Avital, mandolin Estelí Gomez, soprano |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor Traditional: Venetian Traditionals Vivaldi: Four Seasons Vivaldi: Aria from L'Olimpiade" |
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| 11/15/24 @ 19:30 | Concert | San Francisco Symphony | Kazuki Yamada, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Fujikura: Entwine Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Fauré: Requiem |
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| 11/16/24 @ 17:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | Balourdet Quartet | Hosfelt Gallery | San Francisco | Program | Al-Zand: Strange Machines Novak: Impossible Inventions Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op. 135 |
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| 11/17/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Music | Balourdet Quartet | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Haydn: String Quartet 'Lark' Al-Zand: Strange Machines Novak: impossible inventions Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 |
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| 11/19/24 @ 12:30 | Chamber | Noontime Concerts | Prior/Kang/Langr Trio | Old St. Mary's | San Francisco | Program | Bach: Suite No. 3 for solo viola Telemann: Fantasy No. 2 for solo flute Rachmaninoff: Prelude No. 4 for solo harp Debussy: First Arabesque for solo harp Debussy: Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp |
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| 11/24/24 @ 16:00 | Chamber | SF Contemporary Music Players | SF Contemporary Music Players | Brava | San Francisco | Program | Schwendinger: The Artist's Muse Logan: Mother Eve Kouyoumdjian: Moerae (The Fates) Thomas: Terpsichore's Box of Dreams |
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| 12/01/24 @ 17:00 | Film | The General | Stephen Prutsman, piano Telegraph Quartet |
Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Prutsman: Keaton's The General |
