Without in-person performances this fall, “Bay Area presenters are coming up with creative alternatives: a wide array of virtual concerts featuring new works, revivals and more,” writes Georgia Rowe in Tuesday’s (8/25) Mercury News (San Jose, CA). “The California Symphony starts its first-ever virtual season Sept. 12 with … pianist Adam Golka performing Beethoven sonatas…. Subsequent concerts promise works by American and contemporary composers as well as composers of color, including music by Paquito D’Rivera…. The ever-adventurous Left Coast Chamber Ensemble has an appealing program for September: flutist Stacey Pelinka gives the world premiere of David Dominique’s ‘Soft-Spoken,’ and joins violist Kurt Rohde and cellist Leighton Fong in Albert Roussel’s Trio for Flute, Viola, and Cello. Also on the program: Rohde’s remixes of works by Hildegard von Bingen and Joni Mitchell; and music by Beethoven and Laurie San Martin…. With his alt-classical group Mercury Soul, composer Mason Bates [is producing] a four-part concert mini-series, filmed in the atmospheric San Francisco home of St. Joseph’s Society for the Arts. Episodes open with an original piece by Bates … and include music by composers from Bach and Debussy to Anna Clyne.” Also covered are Opera San Jose, Livermore Valley Opera, and the Chanticleer ensemble.
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