From the world’s most romantic band to all-world pianist Yuja Wang returning to the Bay Space, to a kick-butt play about play a couple of taste enhancer, there are some cool exhibits to see within the Bay Space this weekend.
Right here’s a partial rundown.
‘There is love everywhere’ with Air Provide
How else would you need to spend Valentine’s Day than with “the most romantic band in the world”?
No, we’re not speaking about Slipknot. We’re truly speaking in regards to the equally superior Air Provide, the duo that Time journal reportedly as soon as referred as “the most romantic band in the world.”
“We’ve been accused of that,” Air Provide lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock stated to this newspaper in a earlier interview. “And I accept that accusation wonderfully. We are romantic people. I think love is the most elusive emotion that has ever existed. That is why people continually fall in love, fall out love. They love their dogs. They love their cats. There is love everywhere.”
And there definitely ought to be loads love within the air when Hitchcock and longtime collaborator Graham Russell revisit their hit-filled Air Provide catalog on Feb. 14 (sure, Valentine’s Day) on the San Jose Civic.
It’s an opportunity to listen to such world-class beauties as “The One That You Love,” “Every Woman in the World,” “Lost in Love,” “Here I Am” and, better of all, the staggeringly sensible “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.”
Particulars: 8 p.m.; tickets begin $81 (topic to vary); sanjosetheaters.org
— Jim Harrington, Employees
Classical picks: Yuja Wang, Schwabacher sequence
This week’s classical music calendar provides high-octane thrills, together with the always-daring pianist Yuja Wang on the San Francisco Symphony; opera artists displaying their stuff on the Schwabacher Recital Sequence; and West Bay Opera’s “La Sonnambula.”
Wang is again: The exceptional Yuja Wang returns to Davies Symphony Corridor for 4 performances, becoming a member of music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra in two works: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 1. A choice of works by Debussy completes this system.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. at this time via Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco; $99-$399; sfsymphony.org.
Opera in recital: It’s all the time thrilling to see younger singers on the point of nice careers, and the Schwabacher Recital Sequence, offered by the Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Middle, will convey a few of program’s most interesting vocalists to the stage starting this weekend. Three occasions are on the calendar, with artists set to sing in intimate live performance packages curated by Nicholas Phan.
Particulars: 7:30 at this time at Taube Atrium Theater at Struggle Memorial Veterans Constructing, San Francisco; 7:30 March 6 at Osher Recital Corridor, San Francisco; and seven:30 April 10 at Taube Atrium Theater; every occasion $30, $75 for three-recital sequence; sfopera.com.
Opera onstage: As a part of its 69th season in Palo Alto, West Bay Opera opens a brand new manufacturing of Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” (The Sleepwalker) this weekend within the first of 4 performances led by conductor and stage director José Luis Moscovich.
Particulars: 7 p.m. Friday and Feb. 22; 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 23; Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto; $46-$125; wbopera.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
At SF Playhouse: The ABCs of MSG
It’s a poorly saved secret that many cooks within the highest ends of the restaurant business maintain a secret ingredient of their cupboard: MSG. The umami-loaded sodium salt, as soon as blamed for making you puffy and gross-feeling, is again in trend — and why shouldn’t or not it’s?
As David Chang requested: “Why was MSG villainized in Chinese restaurants, but fine when it occurred naturally in Parmesan?”
Monosodium glutamate is on the heart of a brand new present on the San Francisco Playhouse, “Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play.” Written by Keiko Inexperienced and directed by Jesca Prudencio, the plot follows a Japanese American highschool woman whose mother and father helped create the supposedly harmful and addictive taste ennhancer. She vows to save lots of the world from MSG, embarking on a time-traveling campaign via the Nineteen Nineties that touches on popular culture, anime, teen crushes, battle sequences and instantaneous ramen. In different phrases, it’s fairly a flavorful expertise, and one which BroadwayWorld has praised as “frenetic and fantastical.”
The 100-minute present (no intermission) has settled in at San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Submit St., for a run via March 8.
Particulars: Carried out Tuesdays via Sundays; $35-$135; sfplayhouse.org.
— John Metcalfe, Employees
Hoop themes at MoAD
In a fete of scheduling that appears completely timed to the NBA All-Star Sport in San Francisco this weekend, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) has opened a brand new basketball-themed exhibit by Houston-based artist Ann Johnson.
“Love + Basketball: My Freedom Got a Rim On It,” provides a group of Johnson’s big selection of interdisciplinary works, together with every thing from movies to sculptures to her acclaimed “BlingCatchers” sequence, which function regulation-sized basketball rims and backboards adorned with every thing from beads to jewellery to sneakers (Air Jordans, in fact) to crosses and extra.
“Basketball is a story intrinsic to Black America, and offers countless lessons of our excellence, resistance, and economic mobility. Ann Johnson’s work, in particular, poignantly covers so much of this experience through her art.”
The exhibit can also be a part of MoAD’s Black Historical past Month programming and kicks off a celebration of its twentieth anniversary.
Particulars: By means of March 2; Mission and third streets, San Francisco; open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays via Saturdays, midday to five p.m. Sundays (closed Mondays and Tuesdays); admission $7-$15; www.moadsf.org.
— Randy McMullen, Employees
Legion of Honor Hollywood moments
San Francisco’s majestic Legion of Honor museum – actually, you would have a pleasing time simply strolling round outdoors the place – is free to all Bay Space residents on Saturday. However on Feb. 15, you may catch two traditional films through which it performs a supporting position.
First up, at 11 a.m., is the extra intriguing providing, “Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 traditional psychological thriller. It stars James Stewart as a former police detective affected by the titular extreme worry of heights pulled right into a thriller a couple of lacking lady. Hitchcock made cinema historical past by using a particular impact often known as a “dolly zoom” to personify the results of vertigo from Stewart’s perspective. The movie exhibits the outside of the Legion in addition to an inside gallery through which a portray created for the movie, “Portrait of Carlotta,” is noticed in a key plot level. At 2 p.m., you may catch “The Wedding Planner,” a rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey (in case you didn’t get sufficient of him in all these Tremendous Bowl advertisements). The movie has obtained reasonably favorable critiques through the years though McConnaughey (who has appeared in roughly 14,000 romantic comedies) and J.Lo make an interesting on-screen couple, particularly as they’re seen strolling via the Legion’s courtyard.. The mini-film pageant is a part of the Legion’s centennial celebration.
Particulars: Movies run 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; free; you may as well take a look at the museum’s creative choices, together with one which captures numerous parts of the Legion’s storied historical past; www.famsf.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Love songs up shut and private
The Bay Space provides no scarcity of live shows of all types and genres timed to the Valentine’s Day weekend — however right here’s one that provides a singular and intriguing premise. It’s titled “The Circle: Songs from the Heart,” they usually aren’t kidding in regards to the “circle” half. It entails 4 singer-songwriters who will assemble in a small circle with the viewers seated round them, participating within the songs and swapping tales. The set checklist can be determined sort of on the game and can cowl a big selection of genres – with the caveat being that they’re all Valentine’s Day-themed. Nonetheless, all emotional ranges, from joyous to jilted, are welcome. The live performance was conceived by Bay Space singer-songwriter Sam Pond, who can be one of many performers. The others are Lizzie Water, Rick Hardin and a visitor artist to be revealed at showtime.
Particulars:8 p.m. Feb. 14; The Faight, a efficiency/artwork venue and collective in San Francisco’s decrease Haight; $23.18; ladybug-turtle-hhs9.squarespace.com.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Syncopated Women come to Livermore
Syncopated Women is a Los Angeles tap-dance outfit recognized across the globe, significantly after their look on Season 11 of Fox-TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance.” Superstar endorsement from the likes of Beyonce and Janet Jackson (each of whom know a factor or two about electrifying dance performances) haven’t damage both. The group was created by tapping celebrity Chloe Arnold, who started performing when she was 6, turned professional when she was 10 (after becoming a member of Savion Glover’s dance crew) and had her personal documentary on cable TV when she was 12. Moreover her coaching with Glover, Arnold has additionally been a protege of famed performer Debbie Allen (greatest recognized for her look on the movie and TV variations of “Fame”). Now she’s main her personal troupe of proficient tappers, who convey their tour to the Bankhead Theater in Livermore for a Valentine’s Day efficiency on Feb. 14.
Particulars: 8 p.m.; $70-$100; livermorearts.org
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
A swell fellow on the cello
World-renowned British cellist Steven Isserlis and his frequent collaborator, pianist Connie Shih, return to current one other recital for San Francisco Performances at 7:30 p.m. Deb. 15 within the Herbst Theatre. Isserlis, who performs on a classic 1726 Stradivarius on mortgage from the Royal Academy of Music, was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1998 in recognition for his contributions as a musician, an writer, an occasional conductor and a broadcaster. Shih, who’s a family identify in Canada for her many appearances on radio and TV broadcasts, made her debut at age 9 enjoying a Mendelssohn concerto with the Seattle Symphony and is at the moment on the school on the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. On their program can be cello sonatas by Beethoven, Martinu and Grieg and Nadia Boulanger’s 3 Items for Cello and Piano.
Particulars: $65-$85; sfperformances.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
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