Hi, Dianne here. Welcome to our new KDFC website! Here are my top five events for this week - also - click the button to the right to search our classical events calendar

SF Performances celebrates the 75th birthday of iconic American composer Philip Glass with screenings this week of La Belle et la Bete and Koyaanitqatsi accompanied live by the Philip Glass Ensemble.  Thursday through Sunday at the Yerba Buena Center in SF. Get details.

Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin is featured in the Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand as well as Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the SF Symphony. David Robertson conducts this Wednesday through Saturday. Get complete program details.

Characterized by its stylistic freedom and juxtaposition of tonal and atonal musical language, composer Lera Auerbach’s music has been praised for being “so skillfully constructed and so rich in imaginative beauty” (San Francisco Chronicle). New Century premieres Auerbach’s String Symphony (Memoria de la Luz) alongside Wagner’s romantic Siegfried Idyll, a tribute to the bicentennial of Wagner’s birth, and Haydn’s theatrical, touching “Farewell” Symphony. Thursday through Sunday at various venues throughout the Bay Area. Here are details.

Hear the beautifully moving Rachmaninoff Vespers as sung by the Pacific Boychoir this Friday at Grace Cathedral in SF and in Oakland's Christ the Light Cathedral on Saturday night. Find out more.

The Golden Gate Park Band will present a concert on Sunday in Golden Gate Park in the music concourse. The concert will begin at 1:00pm. This will be the annual Memorial Weekend Concert devoted to Patriotic and American music, and dedicated to those who have sacrificed for their country.