From one in every of hip-hop’s most inventive abilities to an artwork exhibit skateboarding and the return of Pocket Opera, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay space this weekend.
Right here’s a partial rundown.
Hip-hop star units 3 NorCal reveals
Bay Space followers have been bummed when Tyler, the Creator eliminated himself from the 2024 Exterior Lands invoice for undisclosed causes. (But, let’s face it, plenty of these frowns turned the other way up as soon as organizers introduced that none apart from Sabrina Carpenter would function the fill-in headliner.)
Nonetheless, Tyler followers did miss seeing the hip-hop famous person on the pageant. Fortuitously, they’ll have loads of possibilities to make up for that as Tyler, the Creator returns to Northern California to carry out three huge reveals.
The Grammy-winning rapper performs Sunday at Golden 1 Heart in Sacramento, Monday at Oakland Enviornment and March 5 at Chase Heart in San Francisco. (And that’s on high of the actually spectacular half-dozen gigs additionally listed on his tour schedule at Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles.)
Tyler is touring in help of his chart-topping eighth studio album, “Chromakopia,” from final yr. The report follows 2021’s “Call Me If You Get Lost.” Fellow rapper Lil Yachty — a real rising star within the hip-hop recreation — opens the reveals.
Particulars: Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. for all concert events; tickets begin at $140 (topic to alter); ticketmaster.com.
— Jim Harrington, Employees
Classical picks: Fleur Barron, Pocket Opera, extra
This week, Bay Space music organizations are providing a few of their most interesting reveals of the season. Listed below are three occasions you gained’t need to miss.
Barron returns: Again in 2023, Bay Space audiences have been fortunate sufficient to expertise the San Francisco Symphony’s manufacturing of “Adriana Mater” by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. One of many stars of the manufacturing was Singaporean-British mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, who gave an unforgettable efficiency within the title function and gained a Grammy Award for her work on the opera’s recording. Now Bay Space music followers have one other alternative to expertise her artistry, as a part of the San Francisco Performances live performance collection. She’ll carry out, accompanied by pianist Kunal Lahiry, in a wide-ranging program of works by Mahler, Messiaen, Ravel, Ruo, Weber, Weill and others.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26; Herbst Theatre, San Francisco; $50-$70; sfperformances.org.
Trifonov at Davies: On the San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen welcomes pianist Daniil Trifonov for a efficiency of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Additionally on this system: Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” together with the world premiere of Xavier Muzik’s S.F. Symphony-commissioned “Strange Beasts.” The occasion features a pre-concert discuss with Muzik, the third winner of the Rising Black Composers Challenge, and Benjamin Pesetsky.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21-22, 2 p.m. Feb. 23; $36.75-$199; sfsymphony.org.
Pocket Opera across the Bay: Pocket Opera, the Bay Space firm recognized for its English translations crafted by founder and music director emeritus Donald Pippin, launches its forty eighth season this weekend. First on the calendar is Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro, with performances in Mountain View, Berkeley, and San Francisco; still to come this season are “A Pocket Magic Flute,” Kirke Mechem’s “Tartuffe” and Offenbach’s “La Vie Parisienne.” Artists for the season embrace Bay Space star soprano Shawnette Sulker and bass-baritone Eugene Brancoveanu.
Particulars: “Marriage of Figaro,” Feb. 21 via March 2; pocketopera.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
Skateboarding historical past in artwork
Ah, 1976 – the intercalary year that noticed the U.S. Bicentennial, the start of Apple Laptop and the primary profitable Mars touchdown. And in case you have been into subculture it was a reasonably groovy yr for California skateboarding, too, as evidenced in a brand new present at Danville’s Museum of the San Ramon Valley. Jeff Heyman, a photographer primarily based in Orinda (heymanfoto.smugmug.com), spent that yr as a pupil at a neighborhood highschool the place he labored for the college rag, The Wolf Print. Considered one of his initiatives was documenting the skate boarders at Montevideo, a drainage ditch in San Ramon the place, as legend has it, a lot of the trendy sport of skateboarding started.
In “Montevideo: Skateboarding History in the San Ramon Valley,” Heyman presents 20 uncommon, black-and-white pictures displaying what was taking place at this pivotal second in historical past — younger skaters from throughout Northern California grinding, ollieing and having enjoyable within the solar, lengthy hair and naked chests and all. Test it out earlier than the exhibit rolls away on June 8.
Particulars: Hours are 1-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday and noon-3 p.m. Sunday; 205 Railroad Ave., Danville; $5 normal admission; museumsrv.org.
— John Metcalfe, Employees
Unleash the sounds — Noise Pop is again
As soon as upon a time, the phrase noise pop referred to a style of music outlined by components of rock and pop music punctured with suggestions and dissonance and informed tales about individuals who have been usually not pleased with the best way their lives have been going.
However music followers within the Bay Space have lengthy since acknowledged the phrase because the identify of an annual music pageant that brings a variety of rock and pop acts to the Bay Space for a 10-day music explosion that features some 50 concert events and different occasions. As standard, the lineup is a head-spinning mixture of A-Record rock and pop acts, together with stars like St. Vincent, the Bay Space’s personal Incredible Negrito and Demise Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard; critics darlings just like the thrilling younger hip-hop star Earl Sweatshirt and indie rockers Mercury Rev; and a boatload of rising artists that — who is aware of? — may turn out to be your subsequent favourite music act.
This marks Noise Pop’s thirty second yr, and though there is likely to be a barely heavier tilt towards established acts in comparison with its early years, the pageant is a goldmine for music nerds and informal followers alike, and ranks up there with the Sketchfest annual comedy pageant as happenings the Bay Space is actually fortunate to name its personal.
Particulars: Right now via March 2; varied San Francisco venues; Tickets range per present, all-show normal admission badges $289.71; info, full schedule, tickets and extra is on the market at www.noisepopfest.com.
— Randy McMullen, Employees
Civic Music units free concert events
Freebie of the week: The San Francisco Civic Music Affiliation is an outgrowth of types of the town’s Civic Symphony, which was based practically a century in the past by a girl whose identify free music lovers all through the Bay Space will acknowledge – Mrs. Sigmund Stern. These days, the Civic Music Affiliation continues to be related to free music – each as a group orchestra that welcomes musicians of all expertise ranges, and as a supply of free concert events within the metropolis. A type of free performances is obtainable on Saturday afternoon. The three-part program kicks off with Twentieth-century Irish/English composer Elizabeth Maconchy’s String Quartet No. 3, Op. 15.
The live performance additionally features a work by Bay Space composer, musician, trainer and self-described “inner-child advocate” Kadie Kelly, who will be part of together with her quartet to carry out her work “Storied Generations” a composition of “memory, lineage and transformation” for 3 flutists and piano. Concluding the live performance will likely be a efficiency of Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25. The efficiency runs 3 to five p.m. on the Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco. The venue is a stunning spot that hosts all kinds of musical acts and different performers.
Particulars: For extra info on Civic Music Affiliation and its schedule of free concert events, go to www.sfcivicmusic.org.
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Only for laughs
Let’s face it, we’d like comedy proper now like by no means earlier than, whether or not it’s of the escapist selection or helps us bore into the existential fact of our completely surreal world. Fortuitously, there’s plenty of it about. Considered one of this week’s Bay Space comedy reveals is a freebie that includes longtime Bay Space slapstick comedian, writer, playwright and devoted pencil musician Danny Dechi, who performs the Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St., San Francisco (bazaarcafe.com). In the meantime, San Jose Improv hosts New York comic Abby Govindan and her hit solo present “How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents” at 8 p.m. Thursday ($31.14-$83.16; improv.com/sanjose); rising-star comic and Tony Award winner Alex Edelman headlines at Stanford College’s Studio venue at 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday, offered by Stanford Stay ($40-$65; dwell.stanford.edu); veteran comic and radio persona Nathaniel Stroman, aka Earthquake, holds forth at Tommy T’s comedy joint in Pleasanton for 5 reveals Friday via Sunday ($40-$50; tommyts.com); and Sacramento filipino comic JR De Guzman brings his “Boyfriend Material” present to Cobb’s Comedy Membership in San Francisco for 5 reveals Friday via Sunday ($43-$68, topic to alter; www.cobbscomedy.com).
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Hearts on the market
In an age when immigrants within the U.S. are being focused for deportation, harassment and blaming and shaming, it’s good to come back throughout a piece that recollects a time when these looking for to participate within the American dream have been handled with extra commonsense compassion.
One such present is “The Heart Sellers,” Lloyd Suh’s 2023 play about two Asian ladies, immigrants to the U.S. within the Seventies, who meet and bond over a makeshift Thanksgiving meal whereas their husbands are working. There’s not rather more to the story than that, but the observations of two ladies who’re greeting a brand new life in a brand new world make for a comedic and infrequently poignant manufacturing. The present’s title performs off the Hart Cellar Act, which abolished immigrant quotas for some and paved the best way for extra immigrant professionals to settle within the U.S. Suh took a a lot completely different have a look at immigration with “The Far Country,” his Pulitzer Prize-finalist play in regards to the Chinese language Exclusion Act of 1882, which performed at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in spring of 2024.
“Heart Sellers,” a co-production between Aurora Theatre in Berkeley and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in Palo Alto and directed by Jennifer Chang, performs at Aurora Theatre via March 9, and will be streamed March 4-9; tickets are $23-$46; www.auroratheatre.org. The manufacturing strikes to TheatreWorks territory, the Mountain View Heart for the Performing Arts, for an April 2-27 run. Tickets are $26.75-$54; theatreworks.org.
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Love and transformation
Is there a sadder story from Greek mythology than the story of the doomed lovers Acis the shepherd and the ocean nymph Galatea? As Ovid relates it in his “Metamorphoses,” the Cyclops Polyphemus, the one-eyed large, seething with jealousy, smashed the gallant Acis to a pulp with a boulder. However the bereft Galatea, each lovely and resourceful, modified Acis into an immortal spirit of a river in order that their love would by no means die. Many have been captivated by the story, however Baroque composer George Frideric Handel in 1718 turned it right into a pastoral opera that turned the most well-liked work of his prolific output and is in actual fact, the one one in every of his operas that has by no means been out of the repertoire.
The American Bach Soloists, with an orchestra led by conductor Jeffrey Thomas, has engaged some excellent singers to deliver it to 4 completely different levels throughout the Bay Space this weekend. Singing the function of Galatea is soprano Nola Richardson, with tenor James Reese at her facet as Acis and bass-baritone Douglas Ray Williams because the brutish Polyphemus. The efficiency run begins at 8 p.m. Friday at St. Stephen’s Church in Belvedere, with repeats at 7 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, 4 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark’s Church in San Francisco and seven p.m. Monday at Davis Neighborhood Church.
Particulars: Discover tickets, $44-$111, at americanbach.org.
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