By Lina Broydo Pianist Jon Nakamatsu and Clarinetists Alec and Jon Manasse Join San José Chamber Orchestra in Presenting the Happy New Year 2022 Concert January 2, 2022 at 3 p.m. This is a phenomenal afternoon of music virtuosos not to be missed! With the magnificent music by Chopin, Krommer, Jessie Montgomery, Mozart, Prokofiev, Gershwin and Michael Touchi …
By Lina Broydo “Tara at the Top” – Stanford Celebrates the Legendary Head Coach Tara VanDerveer December 15 at 7 p.m. Head Coach Tara VanDerveer earned her 1,099th career victory to become the winningest coach in NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball history. Join the Bay Area basketball fans and aficionados in celebration of Head Coach …
By Lina Broydo San Jose Sports Hall of Fame Honors 2021 Inductees November 16 at 5:00 p.m. James Jones (Football), Super Bowl champion wide receiver from Gunderson High School and San Jose State University; Mark Purdy (Sports Journalism), award-winning sports columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and the first journalist ever to be inducted into the …
By Lina Broydo Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love Celebration in San Francisco October 23, 2021 – April 24, 2022 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are proud to announce the West Coast debut of Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love, celebrating the remarkable career and legacy of Black fashion designer Patrick Kelly (1954–1990). The exhibition, …
By Lina Broydo Bronfman Plays Beethoven with San Francisco Symphony October 28 at 2 p.m.; October 29 & 30 at 7 p.m. Yefim Bronfman and Esa-Pekka Salonen will enrich your cultural life to the sounds of San Francisco Symphony playing Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3. The concert’s repertoire will also feature the San Francisco Symphony …
By Lina Broydo The Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2021 Enshrinement at Oracle Park in San Francisco October 4 at 5 p.m. The Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (BASHOF) Class of 2021 Enshrinement is inducting Bruce Bochy, Rickey Henderson, Natalie Coughlin, Bryant Young and Paul Cayard. This class of athletes is one …
By Lina Broydo Play “Golf For Gayle” for a Good Cause September 1, 2021 at Cinnabar Hills Golf Club in San Jose Join Randy Hahn, the experienced award winning broadcaster who provides Bay Area hockey fans with all the play-by-play action for San Jose Sharks games on NBC Sports California, and the Bay Area golf aficionados for …
By Lina Broydo Strike Up the Band as the San Jose Symphony and Opera San Jose Present a Free Concert with Pianist Jon Nakamatsu September 4th at 7 p.m.; September 5th at 5:30 p.m. Celebrate Labor Day weekend the classical way as the San Jose Symphony Orchestra teams up with Opera San Jose in presenting a musical …
By Lina Broydo The Sounds of Music by Haydn, Clyne and Mendelssohn Fill Frost Amphitheater at Stanford July 17 at 7:30 p.m. Stanford Live and San Francisco Symphony will enrich your cultural life in Silicon Valley by a beautiful concert conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. In his second appearance at Frost, Finnish composer and new music director …
By Lina Broydo July: Zoom Showcases Opera in Latin America July 11: The Zarzuela at 1p.m. July 18: Baroque Opera in the New World at 1p.m. July 25: Contemporary Latin Stage Works at 1p.m. San Francisco Opera’s Department of Diversity, Equity and Community (DEC) has announced new Opera Aficionado virtual conversations in July centered on Opera in Latin America. …