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 | Thu Aug 21 New York's intrepid Wordless Music Series concludes its 07-08 season with a surprise San Francisco debut, reprising the centerpiece of the inaugural Wordless Music Orchestra concerts from last January by presenting the West Coast premiere of Popcorn ... More |  |
| Tue Sep 09 The conventional wisdom about Americans–that we’re isolated from the world, politically fragmented, and inclined toward material pleasure–isn’t just flawed, it may be 180 degrees from the truth. Drawing on thousands of in-depth surveys, John Zogby, P... More | |
| Fri Sep 12 Founder and Chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis is dedicated to bringing about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In this lecture, Diamandis will discuss a new class of X PRIZEs which are larger in purse size and far m... More |
| Sat Sep 13 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg’s inaugural set of concerts as NCCO Music Director will include a selection of Brazilian and Argentine music, featuring herself as soloist on Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires and Ginastera’s Glosses on Themes by Pablo... More | |
| Thu Sep 25 A special kick-off concert in honor of HELLO, CAROL! A Celebration of Carol Channing, the first major retrospective exhibition ever mounted on the life and work of this Broadway and Hollywood legend, will be held on Thursday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m... More | |
| Tue Oct 21 9th Annual Brower Youth Awards celebration On October 21 six young environmental leaders will be given the Brower Youth Award in San Francisco. Join us for an exciting awards ceremony! Tuesday, Oct 24, 7:30 pm-10:00 pm. free and open to the public fo... More |
| Wed Oct 22 Jimmy Scott is the ultimate soul survivor, a haunting jazz crooner whose influence filtered through American music long before he attained late-career recognition as a jazz treasure. At 83, his sense of time remains impeccable, and he is a master sto... More |
| Thu Oct 23 A rare U.S. concert by an icon from the 1960s free jazz era! Known for his collaborations with New Thing avatars Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane, Shepp refined an Afrocentric methodology on his classic albums Fire Music and The Magic of Ju-Ju. Shepp c... More |
| Sat Oct 25 Two thrilling young talents, both from the former U.S.S.R, highlight the global reach of jazz. Milman, 25, was born in the Ural Mountains and discovered jazz while living in Israel. A massive star in Canada, the sultry Toronto-based chanteuse won a J... More |
| Sun Oct 26 Always a formidable improviser, alto saxophonist Maceo Parker was baptized by the two supreme prophets of funk, James Brown and George Clinton. After a quarter century of collaborating with the two soul visionaries he started spreading the gospel of ... More | |
| Sat Nov 01 Like his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is equally gifted as a performer and entertainer. His Grammy-winning discography contains work as a founding member of the Cuban supergroup Irakere, classical recordings, and the score for th... More | |
| Sat Nov 01 Like his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is equally gifted as a performer and entertainer. His Grammy-winning discography contains work as a founding member of the Cuban supergroup Irakere, classical recordings, and the score for th... More | |
| Sun Nov 02 There could not be a better time for the re-emergence of Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra. A seminal figure since anchoring Ornette Coleman’s revolutionary 1950s quartet, bassist Haden fomented his own revolution on his debut album as a lea... More | |
| Sun Nov 02 There could not be a better time for the re-emergence of Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra. A seminal figure since anchoring Ornette Coleman’s revolutionary 1950s quartet, bassist Haden fomented his own revolution on his debut album as a lea... More | |
| Wed Nov 05 Toumani Diabaté is the living voice of one of the most beautiful sounds in the world: the African kora, a 21-string West African harp that has been played by griots in the Diabaté line for 71 generations. Born in Mali, he has collaborated with artis... More | |
| Thu Nov 06 Musically and geographically, Natacha Atlas has always been an itinerant. The Anglo-Egyptian singer has spent more than a decade fusing electronic beats with North African and Arabic music, finding links between seemingly disparate musical genres, ex... More | |
| Fri Nov 07 A double dose of soul is just what the doctor ordered. Dr. Lonnie Smith that is, the reigning old-school Hammond B3 maestro who’s been handing out funkified prescriptions since breaking in with George Benson in the mid-1960s. Another 1960s B3 avatar,... More | |
| Tue Nov 18 - Wed Nov 19 "The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in t... More | |
| About Herbst Theatre The Herbst Theatre, located in the center of the War Memorial Veterans Building, is a vital and active performance venue for numerous organizations presenting a wide range of artistic, cultural and entertainment programming. Originally designed as the Veterans Auditorium, the theatre was refurbished and renamed Herbst Theatre in 1977. It was on this stage that the United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, making the Herbst Theatre of singular and international historic importance. |
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