2013 cultural events

This page lists 46 cultural events I attended in 2013. 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 2013 to date:

Stage 3 Theater's extraordinary production of August Wilson's Fences, a great play with moving performances by all.
A magnetic performance of Carl Nielsen's Sixth Symphony by the SF Symphony, conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. I didn't much like Blomstedt during his SFS tenure, but this performance was exceptional: vibrant, gripping, outstanding in every respect.
Noe Valley Chamber Music's gala, a magical afternoon with Frederica von Stade, William Burden, and Jake Heggie; kudos to all!
The spine-tingling piano trio Latitude 41, playing unfamilar trios by Saint-Saëns in the wonderful acoustics of St. Mark's; another great success for Noe Valley Chamber Music.

And a couple lowlights:

An excruciating SFS rehearsal conducted by Marek Janowski, mostly painstaking but endless and totally uninteresting Schumann. The Brahms Double was much more fun, but terminated early due to union requirements and poor time management. A perfect example of why I used to hate going to rehearsals.
A rehearsal of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht sans chorus; what were they thinking?
And yet another excruciating SFS rehearsal: Semyon Bychkov conducting Richard Strauss Alpensymphonie. Far from my favorite Strauss and hard to take when played straight through, but endless with uncountable breaks. The huge orchestra sometimes sounded great, but at other times was very ragged indeed; they needed the rehearsal. And the Till Fellner Mozart piano concerto that shared the program was not rehearsed. Time to stop going to rehearsals, maybe?

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
03/09/13 @ 19:00	Opera	Ariodante	SF Conservatory Baroque Ensemble Corey Jamason, conductor	SFCM	San Francisco	Program	Händel: Ariodante
05/28/13 @ 20:00	Theater	Black Watch	National Theater of Scotland	Armory	San Francisco	Program	Burke: Black Watch
04/12/13 @ 20:00	Opera	Bonjour M. Gauguin	West Edge Opera Mary Chun, conductor	El Cerrito Perf. Arts	El Cerrito	Program	Carlone: Bonjour M. Gauguin
05/31/13 @ 20:00	Opera	Carmen	Cinnabar Theater Mary Chun, conductor	Cinnabar	Petaluma	Program	Bizet: Carmen
03/02/13 @ 19:00	Theater	Fences	Stage 3 Theater	Stage 3	Sonora	Program	Wilson: Fences
11/01/13 @ 20:00	Theater	La Cage aux Folles	Cinnabar Theater Mary Chun, conductor	Cinnabar	Petaluma	Program	Fierstein/Herman: La Cage aux Folles
03/17/13 @ 14:00	Theater	Our Town	SFSU	SFSU Little Theater	San Francisco	Program	Wilder: Our Town
06/30/13 @ 14:00	Theater	The Diviners	Stage 3 Theater	Stage 3	Sonora	Program	Thomas: The Diviners
10/13/13 @ 19:00	Recital	Andras Schiff	Andras Schiff, piano	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Bach: Goldberg Variations Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
03/18/13 @ 19:30	Concert	Earplay	Earplay	ODC	San Francisco	Program	Carter: Elegy Kuehn: Colored Shadows Sevilla: Caprice Yao: Sotto Voce Schoenberg: Ein Stelldichein Josheff: Waiting
05/20/13 @ 19:30	Chamber	Earplay	Mary Chun, conductor	ODC	San Francisco	Program	Miller: Scrim Schoenberg: String Trio, Op. 45 Alessandrini: Trio (d'après Schoenberg) Tôn-Thât: Métal, Terre, Eau Festinger: Kleinen doch emsigen
02/04/13 @ 19:30	Chamber	Earplay	Mary Chun, conductor	ODC	San Francisco	Program	Ran: East Wind Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony Op. 9 Hurtado: Intermezzo Zbyszynski: Daguerreotype Cage: Living Room Music Ueno: 12.12.12
03/16/13 @ 10:00	Indian	Hindustani vocal	Anand Bhate, vocal Bharat Kamat, tabla Suyog Kundalkar, harmonium	Jain Temple	Milpitas	Program	Raga Miyan ki Todi Raga Lalit-Bhatiyar Morning ragas
02/10/13 @ 15:00	Chamber	Julliard String Quartet	Julliard String Quartet	McKenna	San Francisco	Program	Mozart: String Quartet No. 21 Carter: String Quartet No. 5 Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 131
05/19/13 @ 16:00	Chamber	Noe Valley Chamber Music	Federika von Stade, mezzo-soprano Jake Heggie, piano	St. Mark's	San Francisco	Program	Songs
04/14/13 @ 16:00	Chamber	Noe Valley Chamber Music	Ives Quartet	St. Mark's	San Francisco	Program	Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 Harrison: String Quartet Set Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1
11/10/13 @ 16:00	Chamber	Noe Valley Chamber Music	Latitude 41	St. Mark's	San Francisco	Program	Schubert: Notturno Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 1 Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 2
01/13/13 @ 16:00	Chamber	Noe Valley Chamber Music	Mark Teicholz, guitar Ian Swensen, violin	St. Mark's	San Francisco	Program	Bartok: 6 Romanian Dances Giuliani: Variations, Op. 24a Nazareth: Two Pieces Beaser: Mountain Songs Assad: Sergio Assad Piazzola: l'Histoire du Tango
10/06/13 @ 16:00	Chamber	Noe Valley Chamber Music	ZOFO: Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano	St. Mark's	San Francisco	Program	Gershwin: Cuban Overture Shawn: Three Dance Portraits Barber: Souvenirs Pavkovic: Chimaera Frank, Gabriela Lena: Sonata Serrana No. 1
09/27/13 @ 20:00	Concert	Old First Concerts	Wild Rumpus	Old First Church	San Francisco	Program	Takemitsu: Air Yao Chen: O... What an Awakening Romitelli: Trash TV Trance Feldman: Only Tzortzis: Incompatible(s) VI Deak: Metaphor Saariaho: Cendres
04/11/13 @ 19:30	Concert	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra	Nicholas McGegan, conductor	Herbst	San Francisco	Program	Händel: Teseo
12/06/13 @ 20:00	Concert	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra	Nicholas McGegan, conductor	SFJazz	San Francisco	Program	Stanley: Concerto for Strings Croft: The Burial Service Boyce: Salomon, a serenata
02/15/13 @ 20:00	Concert	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra	Nicholas McGegan, conductor	Herbst	San Francisco	Program	Haydn: Symphony No. 44 'Trauer' Bach, J.C.: Sinfonia Concertante Bach, J.C.: Symphony No. 6 Mozart: Symphony No. 29
10/04/13 @ 20:00	Concert	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra	Nicholas McGegan, conductor Carolyn Sampson, soprano David Daniels, countertenor	SFJazz	San Francisco	Program	Pergolesi: Sinfonia from Olympiade Händel: Airas Durante: Concerto for Strings No. 2 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
03/15/13 @ 20:00	Concert	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra	Rachel Podger, violin/leader	Herbst	San Francisco	Program	Corelli: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 1 Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin, Op. 9, No. 6 Mossi: Concerto for Four Violins Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Violins Pergolesi: Concerto for Violin Locatelli: Concerto for Four Violins
11/15/13 @ 20:00	Concert	Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra	Steven Fox, conductor Anna Dennis, soprano Tanya Tomkins, cello	SFJazz	San Francisco	Program	Berezovsky: Symphony in C Bortniansky: Suite from Alcide Facius: Concerto for Violoncello Fomin: Dance of the Furies from Orpheus Bortniansky: Suite from Le fils rival Glinka: Selected pieces
11/03/13 @ 16:00	Chamber	SF Early Music Society	Archetti	St. Mark's	San Francisco	Program	Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 2 Geminiani: Concerto Grosso Op. 7, No. 2 Händel: Concert GrossoOp. 6, No. 7 Avison: Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti Händel: Concert for Organ and Strings 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' Hellendaal: Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 5
10/13/13 @ 16:00	Chamber	SF Early Music Society	Ostraka	St. Mark's	San Francisco	Program	Boismortier: Suite en re mineur Lully/de Viseé: Logistille Marais: Les Voix Humaines Lully/de Viseé: Chaconne des Arlequins d'Hervelois: Suite en la mineur Forqueray: Chaconne, La Buisson Marais: Les Folies d'Espagne de Viseé: Allemande: Tombeau Corbetta: Autre Chaconne Corette: Sonate en re mineur
05/29/13 @ 19:15	Sports	SF Giants baseball	As vs. Giants	AT&T Park	San Francisco
05/21/13 @ 19:15	Sports	SF Giants baseball	Nationals vs. Giants	AT&T Park	San Francisco
04/25/13 @ 20:00	Concert	San Francisco Symphony	Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Matthias Goerne, baritone	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Wagner: Flying Dutchman, 'Die Frist ist um' Wagner: Walküre, Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
04/17/13 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Augustin Hadelich, volin	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 Beethoven: Violin Concerto
05/29/13 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Juraj Valčuha, conductor Gautier Capuçon, cello	Davies	San Francisco		Dvorák: Cello Concerto Kodály: Dances of Galánta Bartók: Suite from The Wooden Prince
05/15/13 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Marek Janowski, conductor Arabella Steinbacher, volin Alban Gerhardt, cello	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Schumann: Manfred Overture Brahms: Double Concerto Schumann: Symphony No. 3 'Rhenish'
05/03/13 @ 20:00	Concert	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Beethoven: Adelaide Beethoven: Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II Beethoven: Sonatina for Mandolin Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
09/19/13 @ 20:00	Concert	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Mahler: Symphony No. 9
05/09/13 @ 20:00	Concert	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Beethoven: Three Equali Adams: Absolute Jest Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
09/26/13 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Mahler: Blumine Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 Copland: Music from the film Our Town Debussy: La Plus que lente Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring Sibelius: Valse Triste Rachmaninoff: Vocalise Delibes: Cortège de Bacchus from Sylvia
06/19/13 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Gil Shaham, violin	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Stravinsky: Agon Stravinsky: Violin Concerto Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
11/08/13 @ 18:30	Concert	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3 Mackey: Eating Greens Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 Copland: Symphonic Ode
03/06/13 @ 20:00	Concert	San Francisco Symphony	Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Yuja Wang, piano	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Adams, Samuel Carl: Drift and Providence Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 Brahms: Symphony No. 1
10/10/13 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Mendelssohn: Suite from A Midsummer Night's Dream Adès: Scenes from The Tempest Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht
12/19/13 @ 20:00	Concert	San Francisco Symphony	Ragnar Bohlin, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Händel: Messiah
11/20/13 @ 10:00	Rehearsal	San Francisco Symphony	Simyon Bychkov, conductor	Davies	San Francisco	Program	Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
11/02/13 @ 17:30	Indian	Slide guitar	Debashish Bhattacharya, slide guitar Arup Chatterjee, tabla	Shirdi Sai Parivar	Milpitas	Program	Raga Kedar Raga Desh
04/18/13 @ 18:00	Reception	Vernissage	Gordon Huebner	Private	Sonoma	Program