2014 cultural events
This page lists 52 cultural events I attended in 2014. 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.
Highlights of 2014 to date:
- An otherwise dreary SFS rehearsal enlivened by Piazzolla's Melodia - Libertango featuring Seth Asarnow's fabulous bandoneón playing.
- Hudes' Water by the Spoonful at Ashland: amazing play, inventive production, good performances. Great theater all around!
- Ives' Three Places in New England at SFS rehearsal under MTT: just an astonishing piece in spite of the distractions of the rehearsal setting, and still entirely fresh after a century.
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 2025 All
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| Date | Category | Description | Performers | Venue | City | Works | ||||
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| 01/22/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Alexander Barantschik, leader/violin Seth Asarnow, bandoneón |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mozart: Divertimento, K. 138 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Britten: Simple Symphony Piazzolla/Cohen: Melodia - Libertango |
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| 01/30/14 @ 18:00 | Lecture | New Music and YOU | R. Wood Massi, lecturer Thalia Moore, cello |
Museum of Performance+Design | San Francisco | Program | Crumb: Sonata for Violoncello Solo | |||
| 02/02/14 @ 16:00 | Chamber | SF Early Music Society | Galax Quartet Karen Clark, contralto |
St. Mark's | San Francisco | Program | Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum Gesualdo: Beltà poi che t'assenti Wheldon: On the Petaluma River Schwantner: Dream Drapery |
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| 02/27/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mahler: Symphony No. 3 | |||
| 03/02/14 @ 16:00 | Chamber | SF Early Music Society | Quicksilver | St. Mark's | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 03/07/14 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin/leader | SF Jazz | San Francisco | Program | Muffat: Fasciculus I 'Nobilis Juventus' Schmelzer: Sonata III Schein: Suite VII Biber: Sonata IX Schemlzer: Baletto a 4 Pastorella Umstatt: Concerto for Violin Pisendel: Sonata for Orchestra Bach: Ricercar à 6 from The Musical Offering Telemann: Overture-Suite 'Les Nations' |
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| 03/08/14 @ 20:00 | Concert | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Julia Fischer, violin |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Ives/Brant: The Alcotts from Concord Sonata Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique |
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| 03/09/14 @ 16:00 | Vocal | Noe Valley Chamber Music | Kitka | St. Mark's | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 03/11/14 @ 20:00 | Concert | Los Angeles Philharmonic | Gustavo Dudamel, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Corigliano: Symphony No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 |
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| 03/20/14 @ 18:00 | Lecture | New Music and YOU | R. Wood Massi, lecturer Terrie Baune, violin Daniela Mineva, piano |
Museum of Performance+Design | San Francisco | Program | Crumb: Four Nocturnes | |||
| 03/31/14 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Earplay | Mary Chun, conductor | ODC | San Francisco | Program | Crumb: Four Nocturnes Winges: Local Colloquies Omiccioli: falling through infinity Ahn: ADGC Hersh: Full Court Press |
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| 04/04/14 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicolas McGegan, conductor | SF Jazz | San Francisco | Program | Vivaldi: Juditha trimuphans | |||
| 04/06/14 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Valley Chamber Music | Del Sol Quartet Stephen Kent, didjeridu |
St. Mark's | San Francisco | Program | Sculthorpe: String Quartet No. 14 Ueno: Peradam Sculthorpe: String Quartet No. 18 Fairouz: The Named Angels |
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| 04/09/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 'Romantic' Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 |
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| 04/19/14 @ 20:00 | Chamber | Telegraph Quartet | Telegraph Quartet | Private | San Francisco | Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 'Dissonance' Webern: String Quartet Britten: String Quartet No. 1 |
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| 04/25/14 @ 14:00 | Panel | IEEE Milestone | Gary Kildall tribute | City Hall | Pacific Grove | Program | ||||
| 04/27/14 @ 14:00 | Opera | Opera Parallèle | Nicole Paiement, conductor | YBCA | San Francisco | Program | Weill: Mahagonny Songspiel Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias |
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| 05/02/14 @ 20:00 | Indian | Sitar recital | Shujaat Khan, sitar | Nourse | San Francisco | Program | Raga Yamani | |||
| 05/08/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Ton Koopman, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Bach:: Cantata BWV 207a Bach: Missa Brevis |
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| 05/16/14 @ 16:30 | Ceremony | Newcomb-Tulane College 2014 Senior Awards | McAlister | New Orleans LA | Program | |||||
| 05/17/14 @ 09:00 | Ceremony | Tulane Commencement | Super Dome | New Orleans LA | Program | |||||
| 05/17/14 @ 15:00 | Ceremony | Newcomb-Tulane College Undergraduate Degree Ceremony | Super Dome | New Orleans LA | Program | |||||
| 05/27/14 @ 16:00 | Ceremony | Cardozo Commencement | Avery Fisher Hall | Manhattan NY | Program | |||||
| 05/29/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Charles Dutoit, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Poulenc: Gloria Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Fauré: Requiem |
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| 06/01/14 @ 14:00 | Opera | Marriage of Figaro | Cinnabar Theater Mary Chun, conductor |
Cinnabar | Petaluma | Program | Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro | |||
| 06/27/14 @ 19:30 | Theater | Twelfth Night | Murphys Creek Theater | Brice Station | Murphys | Program | Shakespeare: Twelfth Night | |||
| 07/24/14 @ 19:30 | Theater | Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike | Guthrie Theater | Guthrie | Minneapolis MN | Program | Durang: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike | |||
| 08/10/14 @ 15:00 | Opera | La Bohème | West Edge Opera | Ed Roberts | Berkeley | Program | Puccini: La Bohème | |||
| 08/23/14 @ 20:00 | Theater | I Hate Hamlet | Murphys Creek Theater | Black Bart | Murphys | Program | Rudnick: I Hate Hamlet | |||
| 09/11/14 @ 12:45 | Sports | SF Giants baseball | Diamondbacks vs. Giants | AT&T Park | San Francisco | |||||
| 09/17/14 @ 20:00 | Theater | Into the Woods | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Allen | Ashland OR | Program | Sondheim: Into the Woods | |||
| 09/18/14 @ 13:30 | Theater | Water by the Spoonful | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Thomas | Ashland OR | Program | Hudes: Water by the Spoonful | |||
| 09/18/14 @ 20:00 | Theater | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Allen | Ashland OR | Program | Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona | |||
| 09/25/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Ives: Three Places in New England Strauss, Johann Jr.: Beautiful Blue Danube Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra |
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| 10/01/14 @ 18:00 | Ceremony | Techmanity Awards | San Jose Convention Center | San Jose | ||||||
| 10/05/14 @ 19:00 | Benefit | Queenie Moon Conspiracy Show | Joan Mankin Benefit | Geary | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 10/08/14 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicolas McGegan, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello |
SF Jazz | San Francisco | Program | Haydn: Symphony No. 57 Bach, C.P.E.: Concert for Violoncello Boccherini: Concerto for Violoncello No. 7 Haydn: Symphony No. 67 |
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| 10/09/14 @ 19:30 | Concert | Zakir Hussain | Zakir Hussain, tabla Kumaresh Rajagopalan, violin Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena |
SF Jazz | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 10/10/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Juraj Valčuha, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Stucky: Jeu de timbres Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 |
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| 10/10/14 @ 19:00 | Benefit | Other Minds | Marc-André Hamelin, piano | Private | San Francisco | Program | Feldman: For Bunita Marcus | |||
| 10/19/14 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Valley Chamber Music | Hausmann Quartet | St. Mark's | San Francisco | Program | Haydn: String Quartet Op. 33 #5 Gruenberg: Four Diversions Debussy: String Quartet |
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| 10/22/14 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Christian Zacharias, conductor & piano | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Copland: Appalachian Spring Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 Haydn: Symphony No. 93 |
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| 11/02/14 @ 14:00 | Theater | Arguendo | Elevator Repair Service | Z Space | San Francisco | Program | Arguendo | |||
| 11/07/14 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Julian Wachner, conductor Andreas Scholl, countertenor |
Calvary | San Francisco | Program | Bach: Symphonia from Cantata No. 42 Händel: Arias Telemann: Concerto for Violon, Oboe, and Two Horns Bach: Cantata No. 170 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 |
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| 11/09/14 @ 20:00 | Rock | The Abiders | Jeff Bridges & The Abiders | Great American | San Francisco | |||||
| 11/15/14 @ 18:30 | Concert | Dorado Schmitt | Durado Schmitt and the Django Reinhart All-Stars | SF Jazz | San Francisco | |||||
| 11/23/14 @ 16:00 | Chamber | SF Early Music Society | East of the River | St. Mark's | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 11/25/14 @ 20:00 | Theater | A Delicate Balance | Golden | Manhattan NY | Program | Albee: A Delicate Balance | ||||
| 11/29/14 @ 14:00 | Theater | Disgraced | Lyceum | Manhattan MY | Program | Akhtar: Disgraced | ||||
| 11/30/14 @ 15:00 | Theater | Curious Incident... | National Theatre | Ethyl Barrymore | Manhattan MY | Program | Stephens: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | |||
| 12/05/14 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Calvary | San Francisco | Program | Vejvanovský: Sonata Natalis Esterházy: Cur fles, Jesu Haydn: Ave Regina Coelorum Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini |
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| 12/21/14 @ 16:00 | Chamber | SF Early Music Society | Magnificat | St. Mark's | San Francisco | Program |
