Francesca Hodges

Joined onstage by Sey and MettaShiba, singer Tirzah Mastin crafted a layered meditation of inconceivable depth.

When the Symphony has the opportunity to play with a full orchestra, Davies’ cavernous hall turns into a cornucopia, offering a multi-course meal of sound and texture galore.

The evening’s pairings of two Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart pieces with a famed Joseph Haydn symphony seemed awfully formal, but the San Francisco Symphony kept humor in its arsenal — revealing plenty of secrets from up its starched sleeves.

Booked and busy from May 7 to 8, readers treated themselves and their shelves to this year’s eighth annual Bay Area Book Festival.

Big Thief transported its Bay-Area-hailing fans to the wooden Catskills home recording studio where its past albums magically came into fruition.

Each of the program’s three pieces ran an impressive length, but under the guidance of conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the orchestra pulled off the feat with intricate execution.

Shane T, the stage name used by Shane Toriscelli, spoke to The Daily Californian in an interview taken from his new touring van he shares with indie-pop singer Ritt Momney.

Motzfeldt and Stolenberg pay special attention to visual narrative in their work, which could have been conveyed better than their stripped-back set design and relatively simple leotard costumes of their tour.

In an interview with The Daily Californian, the young artist reflected on her success in the last year and enthusiastically looked to the final remaining leg of her first U.S. tour.

A constellation of avante-garde artistry and important warnings about the abuse of nature’s delicate balance, Cornucopia burned awe and dread into the audience’s collective mind.