2007 cultural events

This page lists 42 cultural events I attended in 2007. 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
02/08/07 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Herbst San Francisco Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Weber: Symphony No. 1
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 'Clock'
02/16/07 @ 19:00 Sports SAP Open tennis HP Pavilion San Jose
03/01/07 @ 19:30 Concert San Francisco Symphony John Adams, conductor Davies San Francisco Adams: a flowering tree
03/12/07 @ 19:00 Chamber Earplay Mary Chun, conductor Herbst San Francisco Program Ligeti: Cello Sonata
Jones: Fictons
Penderecki: Clarinet Quintet
Carr: Four Wilde Aphorisms
Rohde: DoubleTrouble
03/16/07 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra John Holloway, violin/leader
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Herbst San Francisco Charpentier: Les Rendez-vous des Tuileries
Biber: Sonata VIII
Blow: Venus and Adonis
Muffat: Sonata II
Bach: Concerto for 2 violins BWV 1043
Vivaldi: Violin concerto
Geminiani: Concerto Grosso 'La Follia'
03/18/07 @ 14:00 Recital Charles Rosen Charles Rosen, piano Gould San Francisco Beethoven: Piano Sonata 'Appassionata'
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
03/29/07 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Davies San Francisco Aho: Louhi
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1
04/02/07 @ 20:00 Revue Disposable Nation Second City Chicago IL Disposable Nation
04/03/07 @ 20:00 Theater Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Broadway in Chicago Leslie Bank Chicago IL Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
04/05/07 @ 20:00 Concert Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Symphony Hall Chicago IL Castellanos: Santa Cruz de Pacairgua
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
04/06/07 @ 20:00 Theater Wicked Broadway in Chicago Oriental Chicago IL Holtzman/Schwartz: Wicked
04/13/07 @ 19:30 Reception Eytan Fox Eytan Fox, director San Francisco
04/14/07 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Davies San Francisco Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky: Apollo
Takemitsu: Fantasma/Cantos
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
04/15/07 @ 14:00 Opera A Midsummer Night's Dream SF Conservatory Cowell San Francisco Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
04/16/07 @ 18:30 Concert San Francisco Symphony Davies San Francisco
04/20/07 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, conductor Herbst San Francisco Handel: Belshazzar
04/21/07 @ 14:00 Recital Christine Ko Christine Ko, piano SFCM San Francisco Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 28 'Pastorale'
Liszt: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
Lierbermann: Gargoyles
Schubert: Allegro moderato from Piano Trio
04/27/07 @ 13:10 Recital SFSU William Wellborn, piano Knuth San Francisco
04/30/07 @ 13:00 Sports San Jose Giants baseball Mariners vs. SJ Giants Municipal Stadium San Jose
05/09/07 @ 20:00 Film Brand upon the Brain! Guy Madison, director Village East Cinema New York NY Madison: Brand upon the Brain!
05/10/07 @ 20:00 Theater Frost Nixon Jacobs Theatre New York NY Morgan: Frost Nixon
05/12/07 @ 14:00 Recital Andrew Win Andrew Win, piano SFCM San Francisco Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 3
Muczynski: Preludes
Chopin: Ballade No. 3
05/20/07 @ 14:00 Recital Students of Wellborn SFCM San Francisco
05/21/07 @ 19:00 Chamber Earplay Mary Chun, conductor Herbst San Francisco Program Hong: Impetuoso
Escalona-Mijares: Cincos Transfiguraciones Llana
Ustvol'skaya: Trio
Radford: Portals/Portails
Alberga: Suite from Dancing with Shadows
06/07/07 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor/piano
Alexander Barantschik, violin
Davies San Francisco Mozart: Violin Sonata
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
06/10/07 @ 18:00 Indian Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain, tabla Herbst San Francisco
06/22/07 @ 19:00 Recital Star Dance Studio Star Dance Studio Herbst San Francisco
06/25/07 @ 20:00 Opera Abduction from the Seraglio Sonoma City Opera Sonoma Mozart: Abduction from the Seraglio
09/12/07 @ 19:15 Sports SF Giants baseball Diamondbacks vs. Giants AT&T Park San Francisco
09/20/07 @ 19:00 Chamber Wayne Peterson 80th Earplay Knuth San Francisco Program
09/27/07 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan, conductor Herbst San Francisco Mozart: Il re pastore
09/29/07 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Davies San Francisco Mozart: Symphony No. 34
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
10/12/07 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Monica Hugett, violin/leader Herbst San Francisco Vivaldi: Concerto for violin
Vivaldi: Concerto for oboe
Vivaldi: Concerto for violin
Vivaldi: Concerto for two violins
Vivaldi: Concerto for oboe and violin
Vivaldi: Concerto for violin
10/13/07 @ 20:00 Indian Hindustani vocal Laxmi G. Tewari, vocals Ives Hall Rohnert Park
10/18/07 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Kurt Masur, conductor Davies San Francisco Liszt: Totentanz
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
11/02/07 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Herbst San Francisco
11/03/07 @ 19:30 Theater On the Razzle Lowell HS Lowell San Francisco Stoppard: On the Razzle
11/12/07 @ 19:00 Chamber Earplay Mary Chun, conductor Herbst San Francisco Applebaum: Entre Funerailles IV
Lim: Heart's Ear
Peterson: Duo
Davies: Economies of Scale
San Martin: Dances
White: mind's fear/heart's delight
11/15/07 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Sergey Khachatryan, violin
Davies San Francisco Ives: Psalm 90
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Ives: New England Holidays
11/30/07 @ 20:00 Concert San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Davies San Francisco Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
12/02/07 @ 14:00 Opera Macbeth San Francisco Opera
Massimo Zanetti, conductor
Opera House San Francisco Program Verdi: Macbeth
12/14/07 @ 20:00 Concert Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Konrad Junghänel, conductor Herbst San Francisco Schütz: Weihnachtshistorie
Kuhnau: O heilige Zeit
Rosenmüller: Sonata No. VII
Rosenmüller: Magnificat