2006 cultural events

This page lists 42 cultural events I attended in 2006. 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 have hard copies of printed programs for most of these events, but I have not scanned them yet.


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
01/16/06 @ 20:00 Concert Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Davies San Francisco Mozart: Mass in C Minor
Mozart: Requiem
01/31/06 @ 17:30 Concert San Francisco Symphony Micheal Tilson Thomas, conductor Davies San Francisco Copland: Orchestral Variations
Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
02/03/06 Concert SFDS Concert for Community SF Day School San Francisco
02/10/06 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin/leader Herbst San Francisco Uccellini: Sonata seconda
Marini: Sonata
Rossi: Sonata
Marini: Zarabanda III
Biber: Sonata XI
Vivaldi: Sinfonia
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 11
Wassenaer: Concerto III
Tartini: Violin Concerto
Locatelli: Introduzzione No. 1
02/15/06 @ So:ir SFDS 8th Grade Soiree SF Day School San Francisco
02/22/06 @ 20:00 Theater Doubt Walter Kerr New York, NY Shanley: Doubt
03/10/06 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Cyndia Sieden, soprano
Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
Herbst San Francisco Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Mozart: Arias
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
03/12/06 @ 19:00 Concert London Philharmonic Roberto Minczuk, conductor
Sergey Khachatryan, violin
Davies San Francisco Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
03/13/06 @ 19:00 Chamber Earplay Mary Chun, conductor Herbst San Francisco Program Trapani: Sunflower Suite
Veeneman: Pneuma
Satterwhite: Memento Mori 3
Winges: Reciprocal Tapestries
Dzubay: Singing the Sun
04/03/06 @ 20:00 Chamber Imani Winds Herbst San Francisco Santamaria: Afro Blue
de Falla: Four Spanish Pieces
Traditional: Steal Away
Schifrin: La Nouvelle Orleans
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles
Piazzolla: Oblivion
Harbison: Quintet
04/09/06 @ 14:00 Opera Marriage of Figaro SF Conservatory
Richard Harrell, director
Judith Yan, conductor
Cowell San Francisco Mozart: Marriage of Figaro
04/13/06 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Micheal Tilson Thomas, conductor Davies San Francisco Webern: Six Pieces
Stravinsky: Petroushka
Ives: New England Holidays
04/21/06 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, conductor Davies San Francisco Beethoven: Overture to King Stephen
Beethoven: Opferlied
Cannabich: Mozarts Gedaechtnis Feyer
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
04/27/06 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Micheal Tilson Thomas, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
Davies San Francisco Mozart: Divertimento
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Tchaikovsky: Sextet
05/10/06 @ 19:15 Sports SF Giants baseball Cubs vs. Giants AT&T Park San Francisco
05/21/06 @ 14:00 Recital Wellborn Students SFCM San Francisco
05/22/06 @ 19:00 Chamber Earplay Mary Chun, conductor Herbst San Francisco Program Ortiz: The Motorcycle
Walter: Durchscheinende Etüde IV/d
Fahlman: Autumn Medlody
Chang: Longing
Galindo: Post-Colonial Discontinuum
05/23/06 @ 19:15 Sports SF Giants baseball Cardinals vs. Giants AT&T Park San Francisco
06/01/06 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Micheal Tilson Thomas, conductor Davies San Francisco Mahler: Symphony No. 8
06/02/06 Opera The Rake's Progress West Bay Opera
Mary Chun, conductor
Lucie Stern Palo Alto Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
06/08/06 @ 19:30 Theater West Side Story SFDS 8th grade SF Day School San Francisco Bernstein: West Side Story
06/16/06 Recital Star Dance Studio Star Dance Studio Herbst San Francisco
06/22/06 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Davies San Francisco
07/14/06 @ 20:00 Theater Twelfth Night Murphys Creek Theater Stevenot Murphys Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
Rudnick: I Hate Hamlet
07/25/06 @ 19:30 Sports Tennis Stanford
09/10/06 @ 19:30 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
Mari Kodama, fortepiano
First Congregational Berkeley Mozart: Les petits riens
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 'Linz'
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
Haydn: Symphony No. 90
09/18/06 @ 19:00 Chamber Earplay Mary Chun, conductor Herbst San Francisco Program Persichetti: Infanta Marina
Caltabiano: Lines from Poetry
Josheff: House and Garden Tales
Shearer: Bagatelles
Chen Yi: YangKo
Larsen: Slang
10/05/06 @ 19:00 Opera Tristan und Isolde San Francisco Opera
Donald Runnicles, conductor
Opera House San Francisco Program Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
10/12/06 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Patti LuPone, soprano
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Herbst San Francisco Geminiani: The Inchanted Forest
Locatelli: Concert Grosso
Heggie: To Hell and Back
10/16/06 @ 19:30 Rock Bob Dylan Kings of Leon
Bob Dylan
Civic Auditorium San Francisco
10/22/06 @ 14:00 Chamber SFS Chamber Music Davies San Francisco
11/03/06 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Herbst San Francisco
11/04/06 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Micheal Tilson Thomas, conductor
Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
Davies San Francisco Reich: Variations
Schoenberg: Songs from Brettl-Lieder
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
11/09/06 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Micheal Tilson Thomas, conductor
Jeremy Denk, piano
Davies San Francisco Mozart: Works
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 'Paris'
11/17/06 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Micheal Tilson Thomas, conductor
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Davies San Francisco Balakirev: Russia
Volans: Atlantic Crossing
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
11/18/06 @ 20:00 Opera Every Man Jack Sonoma City Opera
Mary Chun, conductor
Person Petaluma Larson: Every Man Jack
11/24/06 @ 20:00 Film San Francisco Symphony David Robertson, conductor Davies San Francisco Chaplin: City Lights
12/08/06 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, conductor Herbst San Francisco Bach: Christmas Oratorio
12/17/06 Theater Rock'n'Roll Royal Court Theater London Stoppard: Rock'n'Roll
12/18/06 Theater Much Ado About Nothing London Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
12/21/06 @ 19:30 Concert Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips, director St. John's London Program
12/29/06 @ 20:00 Recital Bach cello suites Jean-Baptiste Toselli,cello St.-Ephrem Paris Program Bach: Cello Suites