2019 cultural events
This page lists 54 cultural events I attended in 2019. 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 2019 to date:
- Nathaniel Stookey's Ivonne at West Edge Opera's Snapshot: a stunning work in a fabulous dramatic performance by Marnie Breckenridge.
- I've heard many great string quartets in my lifetime, but none better the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Flawless intonation, amazing dynamics, wonderful playing; just awesome, another triumph for over-achieving Noe Valley Chamber Music.
- Cinnabar Theater's delightful Barber of Seville, with compelling performances all around. A very special shout-out to Cinnabar's music director (and my good friend) Mary Chun, who made my highlights list twice (conducting WEO's Ivonne as noted above).
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
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| Date | Category | Description | Performers | Venue | City | Works | ||||
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| 10/01/19 @ 20:00 | Theater | All's Well that Ends Well | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Allen | Ashland OR | Program | Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well | |||
| 10/02/19 @ 20:00 | Theater | Macbeth | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Allen | Ashland OR | Program | Shakespeare: Macbeth | |||
| 10/02/19 @ 13:30 | Theater | Indecent | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Bowmer | Ashland OR | Program | Vogel: Indecent | |||
| 10/01/19 @ 13:30 | Theater | As You Like It | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Bowmer | Ashland OR | Program | Shakespeare: As You Like It | |||
| 10/03/19 @ 13:30 | Theater | Between Two Knees | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Thomas | Ashland OR | Program | The 1491s: Between Two Knees | |||
| 05/03/19 @ 20:00 | Concert | Cal Performances | Silkroad Ensemble | Zellerbach | Berkeley | Program | Heroes Take Their Stands | |||
| 09/26/19 @ 18:00 | Memorial | Kyle Stolmack Celebration of Life | Millhouse | Castle Rock CO | Program | |||||
| 07/20/19 @ 15:00 | Memorial | Susan Riggins memorial | St. Eustace | Lake Placid NY | Program | |||||
| 08/09/19 @ 20:30 | Opera | Orfeo et Euridice | West Edge Opera | Bridge Yard | Oakland | Program | Gluck: Orfeo et Euridice | |||
| 08/11/19 @ 15:00 | Opera | Threepenny Opera | West Edge Opera | Bridge Yard | Oakland | Program | Weill: The Threepenny Opera | |||
| 08/10/19 @ 20:30 | Opera | Breaking the Waves | West Edge Opera | Bridge Yard | Oakland | Program | Mazzoli: Breaking the Waves | |||
| 06/09/19 @ 14:00 | Opera | The Barber of Seville | Cinnabar Theater | Cinnabar | Petaluma | Program | Rossini: The Barber of Seville | |||
| 04/08/19 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Earplay | Earplay | Atrium | San Francisco | Program | Murail: Les Ruines circulaires Jordan: Feel Bauckholt: String Trio McCaffrey: Here Come the Waterworks Chang: Frozen Sparkles Murail: Garrigue |
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| 02/11/19 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Earplay | Earplay | Atrium | San Francisco | Program | Blumberg: Aura Kim, Hi Kyung: Untamed Brush I Murail: Paludes Alessandrini: Hommage à Purcell Nichols: Flutter, Pulse, and Flight |
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| 01/20/19 @ 15:00 | Opera | Snapshot 2019 | West Edge Opera | Atrium | San Francisco | Program | Cox: The Road to Xibalba Ratay: Medicus Mortem Stookey: Ivonne Eshima: Zheng |
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| 10/17/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Christian Măcelaru, conductor Jacob Nissly, percussion |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Schoenberg, Adam: Losing Earth Boulanger, Lili: D'un matin du printemps Moussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition |
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| 02/07/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Gil Shaham, violin Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mackey: Portals, Scenes and Celebrations Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 |
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| 04/11/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Emanuel Ax, piano Andrey Boreyko, conductor |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau |
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| 06/06/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor David Fray, piano |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mozart: Ballet music from Idomeneo Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 Verdi: Overture to I vespri siciliani Elgar: In the South (Alassio) |
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| 01/31/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Herbert Blomstedt, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastorale' Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 'Scottish' |
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| 06/13/19 @ 20:00 | Concert | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mahler: Symphony No. 9 | |||
| 03/07/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Cédric Tiberghien, piano François-Xavier Roth, conductor |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Schumann: Manfred Overture Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 |
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| 05/22/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Krzysztof Urbánski, conductor | Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 'Italian' | |||
| 10/24/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Karina Canellakis, conductor Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' |
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| 05/02/19 @ 10:00 | Rehearsal | San Francisco Symphony | Marek Janowski, conductor James Ehnes, violin |
Davies | San Francisco | Program | Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannaäuser Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde |
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| 02/02/19 @ 14:00 | Theater | Seascape | ACT | Geary | San Francisco | Program | Albee: Seascape | |||
| 06/06/19 @ 20:00 | Theater | Rhinoceros | ACT | Geary | San Francisco | Program | Ionesco: Rhinoceros | |||
| 10/06/19 @ 15:00 | Chamber | SF Music Day | Chordless | Green Room | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 03/08/19 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicolas McGegan, conductor Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano Daniel Moody, countertenor |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Händel: Arias Pärt: Summa Pärt: Vater Unser Pärt: Es sang von langen Jahren Shaw: Songs Purcell: Suite from The Fairy Queen |
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| 05/20/19 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Earplay | Mary Chun, conductor | Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Wilson: Piano Trio Li: The Dunhuang Lovers Hovatter: Flowers by the Sea Murail: Treize Couleurs |
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| 02/08/19 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicolas McGegan, conductor Alana Youssefian, violin |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Beethoven: Violin Concerto Schubert: Symphony No. 6 |
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| 04/12/19 @ 19:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicolas McGegan, conductor | Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Händel: Saul | |||
| 12/05/19 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicolas McGegan, conductor Nicholas Phan, tenor |
Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Händel: Judas Maccabaeus | |||
| 10/06/19 @ 17:30 | Chamber | SF Music Day | Telgraph Quartet | Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Berg: String Quartet No. 3 | |||
| 10/17/19 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicolas McGegan, conductor | Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Händel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Händel: Suite from Terpsichore Shaw: The Listeners |
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| 11/15/19 @ 20:00 | Concert | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Jeannette Sorrell, conductor | Herbst | San Francisco | Program | Mozart: Overture to La finta seplice Grétry: Orchestral suite from Zémire et Azor Mozart: Oboe Concerto Mozart: Symphony No. 40 |
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| 01/19/19 @ 13:00 | Lecture | Wagner Society of SF | Claudia Stevens | JCC | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 09/21/19 @ 17:30 | Benefit | Klein Competition | Klein Competition | Kanbar | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 04/07/19 @ 14:00 | Chamber | Avedis | Avedis | Legion of Honor | San Francisco | Program | Bach: Trio Sonata BWV 1039 Bach: Trio Sonata BWV 1036 Bach: Concerto BWV 1057 Bach: Kaffeekantata BWV 211 |
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| 08/17/19 @ 17:00 | Theater | Border People | Dan Hoyle | Marsh | San Francisco | Program | Hoyle: Border People | |||
| 10/13/19 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Valley Chamber Music | The Westerlies | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 02/10/19 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Valley Chamber Music | St. Lawrence String Quartet Todd Palmer, clarinets |
Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Haydn: String Quartet Op. 20, No. 4 Berger: Tango alla Zingarese Beethoven: Heiliger Dankgesang Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind |
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| 11/17/19 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Valley Chamber Music | Horszowski Trio | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 Carter: Selections from Epigrams Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 |
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| 03/31/19 @ 16:00 | Benefit | Noe Valley Chamber Music | Paul Groves, tenor | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Vaughn Williams: from Four Hymns Brahms: from Sonata for Viola Bach: from Sonata for Violin Rachmaninoff/Kreisler: Two Romances Duparc: Chansons Heggie: Songs from Here and Gone Lisze: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 |
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| 05/14/19 @ 16:00 | Chamber | Noe Valley Chamber Music | Tomkins, Zivian, Stone, Bhasin and Dalby | Noe Valley Ministry | San Francisco | Program | Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4 Schumann: Quintet |
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| 04/13/19 @ 14:00 | Indian | Ali Akbar Khan birthday tribute | T.H. Subash Chandran, ghatam & konnakol Ganesh Kumar, kanjira Manik Khan, sarod Arjun Verma, sitar Shrinivas Joshi, vocal Alam Khan, sarod Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla |
Old First Church | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 05/08/19 @ 19:30 | Ballet | San Francisco Ballet | San Francisco Ballet | Opera House | San Francisco | Program | Shostakovich Trilogy | |||
| 08/07/19 @ 12:45 | Sports | SF Giants baseball | Nationals vs. Giants | Oracle Park | San Francisco | |||||
| 02/24/19 @ 20:00 | Benefit | SF Early Music Society | SF Early Music Society | Private | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 07/01/19 @ 19:30 | Chamber | House concert | Trio Naab | Private | San Francisco | Program | Bruch: Three pieces from Acht Stücke Beethoven: Piano Trio 'Ghost' |
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| 03/16/19 @ 19:00 | Jazz | Joe Lovano & Chucho Valdés | Joe Lovano, saxophone Chucho Valdés, piano |
SF Jazz | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 10/12/19 @ 21:30 | Jazz | SFJazz | Zakir Hussain, tabla Bela Fleck, banjo Edgar Meyer, bass |
SF Jazz | San Francisco | Program | ||||
| 02/23/19 @ 20:00 | Opera | Howards End, America | Earplay/RealOpera | ZSpace | San Francisco | Program | Howards End, America | |||
| 11/22/19 @ 19:30 | Chamber | Benefit Concerts at Zion | Earplay Trio | Zion Lutheran | San Francisco | Program | San Martin: Fray Ortiz, Pablo: and all the phonies go mad with joy Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 |
