Surrounded by the Death of Klinghoffer controversy once again (a subject I now leave to those who haven't seen the opera and are interested only in causes that have nothing to do with music, or shall we revive the Great Wagner Dustup again?), composer John Adams is due at the Berkeley Festival of Ideas at 9 a.m. Oct. 25.
Noe Valley Chamber Music's 22nd season features seven notable ensembles, beginning with the Hausmann Quartet on Oct. 19, at 4 p.m., in St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. The program: Haydn's String Quartet Op.33, No. 5; Gruenberg's Four Diversions for String Quartet; and Debussy's String Quartet in G Minor.
42nd Street Moon's production of Do I Hear a Waltz? — which has a very short run in the Eureka Theater, closing on Oct. 19 — has some delightful surprises, beginning with a personal one.
