The Shape of Things to Come, 2021-22 Edition

The coronavirus cancellations and postponements are starting again.

• I've suspended my jujitsu classes indefinitely because of how contagious Omicron is.
• Music@Menlo has postponed its planned benefit to March 13. Their email didn't include the original date.
• Tulsa Opera has postponed Tobias Picker’s opera Emmeline from Friday, February 25 and Sunday, February 27 to their 2022-23 season.
• The Presidio Theater and and The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics have cancelled the February 16-27 performances of Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, which would have starred David Strathairn.
• San Francisco Performances cancelled the Saturday, February 12 Dublin Guitar Quartet performance at Herbst Theatre.
• Music at Kohl Mansion cancelled the Sunday, February 13 performance by Ida Kavafian and cellist Peter Wiley with members of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music.  
• Playful People Production moved their performances of The Pirates of Penzance to February 18—20 and 25—27.
• Boston's Odyssey Opera has postponed to the fall its planned March 19, 2022 performance of TROIKA, a trio of one-act operas by Rachmaninoff.

Received at 4:20 p.m. on January 11, from Green Music Center:

Yesterday, amid a local and regional surge in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant, Sonoma County Public Health Officer, Dr. Sundari Mase, issued a health order restricting gatherings of large groups of more than 50 people in indoor settings and groups of more than 100 people in outdoor settings.

In accordance with the recent health order, the Green Music Center is canceling the following events through February 11th:

January 21: New Century Chamber Orchestra

February 5: Family Day with Alphabet Rockers 

How long before other counties catch up?

Updated: February 9, 2022 

* The American Masters are defined here as Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, and Ellington. I mean.

** NCCO and Symphony San Jose's programs both included Appalachian Spring, which MTT conducted in November with SFS.

Older Cancellations and Postponements 

• American Bach Soloists postponed their NYE program.
• S.F. Chamber Orchestra has cancelled its NYE programs; h/t Tod Brody for this news.
• Wild Up postponed its Darkness Sounding festival from January to sometime in the spring.
• PROTOTYPE postponed its 10th anniversary festival from January, 2022, to January, 2023.
• Left Coast Chamber Ensemble has postponed its planned January program, "Living in Color", to May 22 and 23.
• Wagner concert, billed as "The Greatest Wagner Concert Ever!", postponed from January 15 to a date to be determined. This concert was to have featured soprano Othalie Graham and the Vallejeo Festival Orchestra under Thomas Conlin.
• Cutting Ball Theater postpones their upcoming show, Honestly, I’ve Never Wanted to Bash Someone in the Head with a Baseball Bat More Than I Do Right Now. 
• Berkeley Symphony has postponed its January 16 chamber music concert to June 26.
• Shotgun Players, Berkeley, has cancelled their upcoming production, Babes in Ho-lland, which was to have run from January 20 to February 6, 2022.
• Itzhak Perlman's upcoming West Coast performances have been postponed. I am aware of Seattle, SF, LA and Escondido postponements.
• SF Performances has cancelled Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih's January 29 recital, because of visa issues related to the pandemic.
• Lyric Opera of Chicago postpones Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up, which was to have opened on January 22, to a future season.
• Stanford University has cancelled all indoor events through January 28.
• American Bach Soloists has cancelled its January 21-24, 2022 program, "Sweet Harmony."
• Symphony San Jose has postponed their planned "American Masters"* program from January 22 and 23 to April 2 and 3; in addition, the program will be performed at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts rather than the California Theatre.
• New Century Chamber Orchestra has cancelled its Green Music Center concert; see the note from January 11 about Green.**
• NCCO has now cancelled all of its January concerts. If you're a ticket holder, you can exchange for a future program, donate the value of your ticket, or get a refund.
• Earplay is postponing its planned January 31 program to Fall, 2022.