With a great deal of occasions on the vacation calendar, music that celebrates the season is perhaps one of the best reward to present. The next classical occasions and live shows, listed so as of look, promise to carry winter heat and musical thrills. (The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir can also be providing vacation live shows.)
San Francisco Symphony: Davies Symphony Corridor is a one-stop store for vacation cheer, with live shows, movies with stay orchestra, and particular occasions galore. The season contains Handel’s “Messiah” (Dec. 5-6), a “Deck the Hall” live performance (Dec. 7), “Peter and the Wolf” with Nickelodeon “”Blues Clues and You!” star Joshua Dela Cruz as narrator (Dec. 14), “Holiday Gaiety with Peaches Christ” (Dec. 17), “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (Dec. 21-22), and extra.
Particulars: Dec. 5-22, $24.50-up; sfsymphony.org.
“Holiday Spectacular”: Symphony San Jose is providing this particular occasion with the orchestra, SSJ Chorale, the Cantabile Youth Singers, New Ballet, and different visitors. This system contains carols, common songs, and the present’s tribute sing-along, “The 12 Days of Silicon Valley.”
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6, 2:30 p.m. Dec. 7; California Theatre, San Jose; $35-$115; symphonysanjose.org.
Kitka: Now in its forty fifth season, the Bay Space’s revered all-woman vocal ensemble’s annual winter live performance tour is spotlighting a brand new album titled “Kolo,” a root phrase from Balkan, Baltic, and Slavic cultures that means circle, wheel, or a communal line dance. With the group’s lustrous vocal mix, it’s certain to be charming — and a very good studying expertise for households.
Particulars: Dec. 6 in Belvedere, Dec. 13 in Santa Cruz, Dec. 14 in Menlo Park, Oakland Dec. 18 and San Francisco Dec. 21; $27.50-$55; kitka.org.
“Irish Christmas in America”: The touring musical group presents songs, dances, and storytelling with a love for all issues Irish; the one-of-a-kind program features a Gaelic “Silent Night” and extra. The tour contains one night time solely in downtown Livermore. All ages are welcome.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8, Bankhead Theater, $25-$55; Livermorearts.org.
“Messiah”: Handel’s oratorio is a vacation favourite; there could also be no higher music to expertise this time of 12 months. Many corporations carry out it, however beneath conductor Jeffrey Thomas, the American Bach Soloists and Choir have risen to the highest with a practice of excellence within the Bay Space. This 12 months, they return to Grace Cathedral in San Francisco for 2 performances.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11-12; $25-$135; americanbach.org.
“In Winter’s Glow”: The San Francisco Women Refrain joins forces with the New Century Chamber Orchestra for a vacation live performance that includes the ethereal vocal sound of the refrain beneath conductor Valérie Sainte-Agathe, and the colourful taking part in of the New Century gamers led by Daniel Hope.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11, 1st Church UCC Berkeley; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Tiburon; and a couple of p.m. St. Marks Lutheran, San Francisco; $35-$80; ncco.org.
“The San Jose Nutcracker”: For a dance-infused new have a look at the time-honored “Nutcracker,” New Ballet and Symphony San Jose are teaming as much as current the vacation basic with choreography by Dalia Rawson and choreography by the Mexican folks dance firm Los Lupenos de San Jose. It’s a “Nutcracker” with new spirit.
Particulars: Dec. 13-23, with performances at 2 and seven p.m., California Theater, San Jose; $26.50-$31.50; symphonysanjose.org.
Musica Pacifica: The Bay Space-based quartet Musica Pacifica has an awesome program in retailer at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame. This isn’t your ordinary quartet — the core ensemble is recorder, violin, cello/gamba, and harpsichord; it expands so as to add oboe, percussion and extra. Becoming a member of the group is soprano Chea Kang to sing vacation favorites and classics.
Particulars: 7 p.m. Dec. 14; $62 grownup, $60 senior, $30 age 30 and beneath; musicatkohl.org.
“Peace”: The Soweto Gospel Choir returns to Cal Performances to sing its uplifting vacation live performance that includes gospel songs and spirituals, together with modern songs by Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, and others.
Particulars: 3 p.m. Dec. 14, Zellerbach Corridor, UC Berkeley; $15-$120; calperformances.org.
“Let Us Break Bread Together”: The Oakland Symphony’s annual vacation live performance all the time yields a celebration; this 12 months’s program options music director Kedrick Armstrong main the orchestra and Bay Space visitor artists in vacation songs and a tribute to the late, nice Whitney Houston.
Particulars: 4 p.m. Dec. 14, Paramount Theatre, Oakland; $25-$92; oaklandsymphony.org.
“Holiday Spectacular 2025!”: The San Francisco Homosexual Males’s Refrain, one of many Bay Space’s most beloved vocal ensembles, performs “Holiday Spectacular: Home for the Holidays,” a standard, always-uplifting occasion stuffed with vacation cheer and vocal splendor, with performances in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Particulars: 2 and eight p.m. Dec. 20 at Zellerbach Corridor, UC Berkeley; calperformances.org; and 4 and seven p.m. Dec. 24 at Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco; $30-$105; Cityboxoffice.com.
