Arts & Events

Press Release: Classical at the Freight: Kay Stern & Friends

From Margot Smith
Wednesday February 04, 2015 - 12:57:00 PM

A Freight favorite and concertmaster of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Kay Stern returns to our stage with a gaggle of SFCO All-Stars in tow, and a program of string quartets guaranteed to warm your cockles and banish your blues. With Jory Fankuchen (violin), Darcy Rindt & Ben Simon (viola), and Robert Howard (cello). Classical at the Freight
Monday, February 9 @ 8pm
Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse

Mozart String Quintet in C minor, K. 406
Brahms String Quintet in G major, Op. 111


This is a ticketed event: $9 in advance/$11 at the door. SFCO members get two tickets for the price of one! Make sure to show your membership card at the door.> Click here for more information -more-


Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Mozart and Mendelssohn

Reviewed by James Roy MacBean
Friday January 30, 2015 - 03:32:00 PM

In their second of two concerts at Davies Symphony Hall on Monday evening, January 26, 2015, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, led by Music Director Iván Fischer, presented a program of music by Mozart and Mendelssohn. Leading off the program was Mozart’s overture to The Magic Flute. This familiar work combines seriousness, marked by the three-fold chords that begin the overture and are later repeated, with the giddy high spirits associated in the opera with Papageno. Con-ductor Ivan Fischer led a brisk interpretation of this overture, although to my mind he allowed too long a pause before and between the three-fold chords, especially when they reappear, only in the winds, midway through this overture. Granted, it is traditional to pause here in order to mark the beginning of the ritual ordeals of Tamino and Papageno presided over by Sarastro’s priests. However, in the overture itself these pauses are not usually so long and drawn-out as was here the case. -more-