Heather Zimmerman Arts

1 month ago | paloaltoonline.com | Karla Kane |Heather Zimmerman |Heather Zimmerman Arts

This week, Los Altos Stage Company offers a fresh take on the classic love-triangle story of “Cyrano de Bergerac;” Brazilian singer-songwriter Bia Ferreira performs at Stanford Live; editors and contributors for a book about Vietnamese writers in the diaspora will discuss the book at Kepler’s; violinist and composer Chad Cannon and pianist Hui Wu play “music for the ocean” in a free concert at the Community School of Music and Arts; the Ariel Quartet performs at Kohl Mansion; the Museum of...

1 month ago | almanacnews.com | Heather Zimmerman |Heather Zimmerman Arts

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, a Los Altos-based orchestra is doing something that it doesn’t do very often: performing a concert. The Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra performs together regularly and also occasionally performs for the public. During the pandemic, the group held several outdoor performances, including a well-received Fourth of July concert; they have also donned costumes for Halloween shows, and staged concerts at the holidays, too.

1 month ago | paloaltoonline.com | Heather Zimmerman |Heather Zimmerman Arts

This weekend brings fresh perspectives on music, with a choral festival where you can take part in improvised “circle singing;” musician Allan Harris melding jazz and poetry; pianist Ben Cosgrove playing surrounded by artworks at The Foster; and violinist Chad Hoopes premiering a new work inspired by the Bay Area’s views in a concert for Music@Menlo. Plus, the city of Palo Alto hosts a festival celebrating international cultures.

1 month ago | paloaltoonline.com | Heather Zimmerman |Heather Zimmerman Arts

A ukulele band walks into Windsor Castle to play for the queen … It’s not the set-up for a joke, but rather just one of the storied places that the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has performed in its 40-year history. The orchestra, which has a repertoire so wide-ranging that it encompasses, as their bio says, “Abba to ZZ Top, Tchaikovsky to Nirvana,” performed in 2016 by royal request at a private birthday party for Queen Elizabeth II.

2 months ago | paloaltoonline.com | Heather Zimmerman |Heather Zimmerman Arts

The natural world is celebrated for its visual beauty, but also often heralded for its peace and quiet — almost an absence of sound. But if you know where to look and listen, objects like rocks, ice, shells, bones and even seaweed have their own music within them. San Francisco-based composer and performer Cheryl E. Leonard discovers and shares these sonic secrets of nature, constructing musical instruments from some objects, and composing works that draw on their hidden sounds.