2014 cultural events

This page lists 37 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.

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Date	Category	Description	Performers	Venue	City		Works
11/02/14 @ 14:00	Theater	Arguendo	Elevator Repair Service	Z Space	San Francisco	Program	Arguendo
11/29/14 @ 14:00	Theater	Disgraced		Lyceum	Manhattan MY	Program	Akhtar: Disgraced
11/25/14 @ 20:00	Theater	A Delicate Balance		Golden	Manhattan NY	Program	Albee: A Delicate Balance
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
05/08/14 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Ton Koopman, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Bach:: Cantata BWV 207a Bach: Missa Brevis
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
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
03/11/14 @ 20:00	Concert	Los Angeles Philharmonic	Gustavo Dudamel, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Corigliano: Symphony No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
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
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
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
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
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
09/18/14 @ 13:30	Theater	Water by the Spoonful	Oregon Shakespeare Festival	Thomas	Ashland OR	Program	Hudes: Water by the Spoonful
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
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
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
02/27/14 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Mahler: Symphony No. 3
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
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
06/01/14 @ 14:00	Opera	Marriage of Figaro	Cinnabar Theater Mary Chun, conductor	Cinnabar	Petaluma	Program	Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
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'
05/29/14 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Charles Dutoit, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Poulenc: Gloria Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Fauré: Requiem
08/10/14 @ 15:00	Opera	La Bohème	West Edge Opera	Ed Roberts	Berkeley	Program	Puccini: La Bohème
05/02/14 @ 20:00	Indian	Sitar recital	Shujaat Khan, sitar	Nourse	San Francisco	Program	Raga Yamani
08/23/14 @ 20:00	Theater	I Hate Hamlet	Murphys Creek Theater	Black Bart	Murphys	Program	Rudnick: I Hate Hamlet
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
06/27/14 @ 19:30	Theater	Twelfth Night	Murphys Creek Theater	Brice Station	Murphys	Program	Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
09/18/14 @ 20:00	Theater	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Oregon Shakespeare Festival	Allen	Ashland OR	Program	Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona
09/17/14 @ 20:00	Theater	Into the Woods	Oregon Shakespeare Festival	Allen	Ashland OR	Program	Sondheim: Into the Woods
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
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
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
04/04/14 @ 20:00	Concert	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra	Nicolas McGegan, conductor	SF Jazz	San Francisco	Program	Vivaldi: Juditha trimuphans
04/27/14 @ 14:00	Opera	Opera Parallèle	Nicole Paiement, conductor	YBCA	San Francisco	Program	Weill: Mahagonny Songspiel Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias