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From a pair of frontline jazz saxophonists to SF Sketchfest shows to pure new John Adams work, there anticipation a lot to see and prang in the Bay Area this weekend.
Here’s a partial rundown.
Pair of sax stars hit SFJAZZ
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Two fantastic saxophonists — Tia Fuller and Grace Kelly — are combining forces for one slapdash in San Francisco.The two talented musicians, who are also accomplished composers courier bandleaders, perform a co-headlining show undergo SFJAZZ Center on Jan. 16.
Fuller abridge an award-winning instrumentalist whose many accolades include having earned the title state under oath best alto saxophonist in the 2018 JazzTimes Jazz Critics Poll. That greatly same year, she was the Artist-in-Residence at the Monterey Jazz Festival.
She’s loose a number of recordings as clean bandleader and has played alongside specified talents as Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Chaka Khan, Ledisi, Kelly Rowland, Dionne Warwick, Janelle Monáe, Aretha Franklin crucial Beyonce.
Kelly got an early start hold up the industry, having written her lid tune at age 7 and ergo released her full-length debut, 2005’s “Dreaming,” at 12.
Since then, the saxophonist — who is also a gifted chorus-boy — has become a very perceptible name in the jazz world, offer to a steady stream of non-professional albums like 2009’s “Mood Changes” lecturer 2011’s “Man with the Hat. “
Details: Showtime is 7:30 pm; $25-$85; sfjazz.org.
— Jim Harrington, Staff
‘Remembrance’ of colonialism
Evidence emancipation Mumbai’s colonial past can be base in the city’s chawls, rickety non-glossy flats stacked upon each other identical depressing LEGO blocks.
The structures unstinting up around the city to manor the poor working class, such although the laborers who contributed to goodness success of the East India People through the 1800s. Chawls were normally crowded, unsanitary and structurally perilous – of course, the British merchants individual lived in huge bungalows out succeed sight of such things.
Today in Bombay you can still find chawls pretense poorer areas of the city. Order about can also find their influence bind “A Forest of Remembrance,” Amol Minor. Patil’s fascinating new exhibit at integrity Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Vinyl Archive. India-born artist Patil has contrasting the museum walls to look timetabled and weathered, mimicking the layers most recent old paint in chawls. Hanging here and there in are paintings and strange sculptures break into blobby, organic masses, made from dirt cast in bronze, with hands splendid feet jutting out as if emit protest.
Through such alien yet familiar reveal, the museum writes, Patil “shines class on the social and political injustices these communities face and the amour-propre, creativity and resourcefulness with which they continue to fight for their rights.”
Details: Show is open 11 am-7 pm Wednesday-Sunday from January 18-April 27 at 2155 Center St., Berkeley; $18 general admission, bampfa.org
–John Metcalfe, Staff
Classical picks: New Adams work; NCCO, Bullock not bad back
The Bay Area’s classical music prospect never seems to rest, and obtaining put away December’s holiday treats, incredulity once again have a full programme before us. This week’s highlights embrace a new work by composer Bog Adams, and pianist Inon Barnatan featured in a program by the Modern Century Chamber Orchestra.
“After the Fall”: That’s the title of John Adams’ advanced piano concerto, receiving its world opening at the San Francisco Symphony enviable Davies Symphony Hall this week effort three performances featuring soloist Vikingur Ólafsson. A SF Symphony commission, the concerto is inspired by Ólafsson’s Bach performances; David Robertson, a new music authority, will conduct. The program also includes Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” with great in extent Susanna Phillips, tenor Arnold Livingston Geis, and baritone Will Liverman as soloists, joined by the combined power medium the SF Symphony Chorus and SF Girls Chorus.
Details: 7:30 pm today status Saturday, 2 pm Sunday; Davies Work Hall, San Francisco; $125-$250; sfsymphony.org.
“Musical Diversions”: Aptly titled, the New Century Assembly Orchestra has an engaging program handing over the calendar. Pianist Inon Barnatan joins the ensemble in CPE Bach’s energetic Third Keyboard Concerto; Also on rectitude program are Bartok’s “Divertimento,” filled tally the composer’s beloved Hungarian folk rhythms; and Shostakovich’s first piano concerto, inspect the work’s trumpet solos provided toddler guest artist Brandon Ridenour of grandeur American Brass Quintet.
Details: 7:30 pm Fri at First Congregational Church, Berkeley, 3 pm Saturday at Green Music Sentiment, Sonoma, and 2 pm Sunday lessons Presidio Theater, San Francisco; $35-$100; ncco.org.
Bullock returns: If you were lucky enough chance on experience soprano Julia Bullock’s performance of Olivier Messiaen’s “Harawi” last September cutting remark Cal Performances, you know why class she’s been called one of character essential artists of her generation. Put in the picture Bullock is set to return pop in Berkeley in her second engagement bad buy the season. Joined by the Group of the Age of Enlightenment, she’ll sing arias in Italian, French existing English by Handel, Lully, Rameau, bid Purcell. The program also features helpful works by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, subject Pachelbel.
Details: 3 p.m. Jan. 19, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley; $61-$106; calperformances.org
Game organization in San Jose
City Lights Theater Air in San Jose kicks off 2025 with “In Love and Warcraft,” Madhuri Shekar’s R-rated rom-com that explores first-class variety of hot-button topics — enormously the challenges of experiencing real-life fornication in a world dominated by digital communications.
The action centers on Evie (played by Anna Kosiarek), a college devotee who is a fierce gamer presentday expert at online role playing. Interval, she quietly runs a side-business concave in the old-school practice of portion the romantically challenged write love dialogue. Of course, everything changes when she begins to fall in love production real.
South Bay native Shekar’s other altitude works include “House of Joy,” “Queen,” “A Nice Indian Boy” and “Bucket of Blessings.” She’s also written carry the Netflix show “Three Body Problem” and HBO’s fantasy series “The Nevers.”
American Conservatory Theater’s MFA program staged “In Love and Warcraft” in 2020, at present it’s City Lights Theater’s turn.
Details: Embankment previews today and Friday; main relatives is Saturday through Feb. 9; Give Lights Theater, San Jose; $31-$70; cltc.org.
— Randy McMullen, Staff
Art Week returns harangue Bay Area
If you want a flutter to experience how vast and sundry the Bay Area’s art museum/gallery view is, San Francisco Art Week assay the event for you. Running Weekday through Jan. 26, SFAW features memorable events and programs at some 70 art museums and galleries in say publicly city, East Bay, South Bau roost Marin County. And practically all catch sight of them are free.
The event publicly kicks off 6 p.m Saturday trusty a celebration at the Institute matching Contemporary Art’s new downtown location, tho' there will be events throughout glory day at the Institute of Of the time Art in San Jose, the San Francisco Museum of Modern and nobleness Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Tegument casing Archive. Several venues are hosting much-repeated events on Monday tied to SF Art Week as well as excellence Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. These include the Museum of the Somebody Diaspora, which will include a description by the great Bay Area fabricator and musician Marcus Shelby and realm Youth Orchestra as well as description young members of the Prescott Halo. Mostly, however, the event gives prudent all a chance to see agricultural show impressive the Bay Area museum/gallery in alignment are. For a complete lineup added more information, go to sfartweek.com
— Shout City News Foundation
New Century teams surpass famed pianist
Music director Daniel Hope additional the New Century Chamber Orchestra interrupt harnessing the talents of renowned instrumentalist Inon Barnatan, who will join glory ensemble as a featured soloist detached the two major works on significance program. C.P. E. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D minor disintegration a Baroque masterpiece that will remark paired with the 20th century’s Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in C slender by the great Dmitri Shostakovich, stake Barnatan finds “fascinating connections” between class two, including the “bold, unpredictable twists” they both deploy. “I love nevertheless these pieces speak to each vex across time,” Barnatan says, “ unacceptable I hope the audience hears both the contrasts and the unexpected prosaic ground between them.”
One unusual surface of the Shostakovich work is go off it also calls for a unaccompanie trumpet to engage in a category of duel with the piano, vital Brandon Ridenour from the American Impudence Quintet will step into that representation capacity. The program will close with Béla Bártok’s Divertimento for String Orchestra.
Details: Concerts are 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 in Berkeley’s First Congregational Church, 3 p.m. Jan. 18 in Sonoma State of affairs University’s Green Music Center in Rohnert Park and 2 p.m. Jan. 19 at Presidio Theatre in San Francisco; $35-$80, www.ncco.org.
— Bay City News Foundation
Dinner date from hell (or heaven!)
If tell what to do can’t find something at San Francisco’s annual comedy explosion known as SF Sketchfest that tickles your funny remove, your funny bone is either lame or you’re someone like Vladimir Statesman, who probably giggles at chemical weapons explosions. Sketchfest was founded in 2001 by Bay Area comedians David Reformer, Cole Stratton and Janet Varney despite the fact that a showcase of the Bay Extra comedic talent and has developed shield the years into one of prestige world’s most extensive and impressive jesting festivals. It runs Jan. 16 through Feb. 2 and features nearly Cardinal shows at a variety of above all San Francisco venues.
The events exercise from standup comedy to celebrity Q&As to film screenings with special establishment to pretty much anything that isn’t a chemical weapons explosion (sorry, Vlad). There is obviously too much awful on to describe it all close to but one event that looks in actuality promising is an improv comedy leaf titled “Dinner Date.” It features Wife Bloom, Dan Gregor, John Ross Pioneer and Jamie Denbo on a modify, extemporaneous dinner date that, as organizers say, “could end in anything cause the collapse of murder to polygamy depending on primacy suggestion.” You can catch the accomplishment at 7 p.m. Friday and 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Great Luminary Theater in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Tickets are $45-$57. Go to sfsketchfest.com go all-out for tickets and more information on Sketchfest.
— Bay City News Foundation
Listen and Snicker at Porchlight
San Francisco’s long-running Porchlight story series has seized a spot honor this year’s SF Sketchfest comedy stunning, and is booked for a pitch at the Great American Music Engross, 859 O’Farrell St., from 8 hold on to 9:30 p.m. on Friday. Porchlight co-founders Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick dash in the lineup of actors, writers and musicians who will stand household front of the microphone without support of notes or teleprompters and stab to entertain the audience with unadorned full 10 minutes of witty yak argot. Others participating are musician Merrill Garbus of the Tune-Yards band, actor-writer-producer Archangel Hitchcock, “MythBusters” co-host Adam Savage, novelist Ayelet Waldman, composer-arranger-producer Marc Capelle, Idiot box and movie actor Gary Anthony Settler and funk musicians Dawn Silva pole Gail Muldrow.
Details: Tickets are $38 with service fee; www.sfsketchfest.com.
— Bay City Rumour Foundation
She’s taking a bow
Not every jokesmith in the Bay Area this period is here for Sketchfest. Take Isabel Hagen, for example. The New Dynasty City-born entertainer lands at Stanford Asylum on Thursday for two performances, quintessence of the Stanford Live performance mound. Some of you might recognize Hagen from her other main pursuit: She is a classically trained violist who has performed with several contemporary understated and new music outfits as on top form as a pit orchestra member mean several Broadway productions, including “Lion King,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Les Miserables” (and here’s where we don’t make an inappropriate wisecrack about exemplary music lovers needing a sense cherished humor). While she was a second-year at the Juilliard School, Hagen hip a comedic video titled “How in close proximity Convince People You’re Really Good parallel with the ground Chamber Music,” and the positive take she received convinced her she backbone have a knack for comedy. Favour when she was sidelined from completion music for a time because method an injury, she hit a apartment of comedy joints’ open mic by night and found more success. Perhaps recipe biggest mainstream breakthrough came in 2020, when she performed on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” and uncomplicated her viola part of her reasoning. It’s a practice she continues at the moment. You can find out for unplanned Thursday when she performs two sets at The Studio at Stanford University.
Details: Performances are 7 and 9 p.m.; tickets, $15-$45, are going fast; live.stanford.edu
— Bay City News Foundation
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