Bay Area arts: 9 great live shows to see this weekend

From the return of the Temptations musical “Ain’t Too Proud” to the S. F. Girls Chorus and a different take on “Frankenstein,” there is a lot to see and hear in the Bay Area this week.

Here is a partial rundown. From Bach to new music, the Bay Area’s classical music scene presents a wide variety. Here are some highlights coming our way.

Under conductor Ludovic Morlot, the San Francisco Symphony explores the intersection of visual and aural realms in this program, which features the U. S. premiere of the Symphony-commissioned “Latest” by Betsy Jolas.

Also on the program: Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” and Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, with Augustin Hadelich as soloist. 7:30 p. m.

Nov. 2-5; Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco; $25-$75; . American Bach Soloists launches its 35 season with a concert featuring the superb countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as soloist in Bach’s beloved cantata, “Ich habe genug.

” More Bach, and works by Biber and Schmelzer round out the program. 8 p. m.

Nov. 3 in Belvedere, 7 p. m.

Nov. 4 in Berkeley and 4 p. m.

Nov. 5 in San Francisco; $39-$106; . The San Francisco Symphony returns to this annual family-friendly event celebrating Latin American music and culture.

This year’s program is conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya; guest artists include Mexican vocalist and musician Edna Vasquez and Casa Círculo Cultural. 2 p. m.

Saturday; Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco; $29. 50-$150; . That’s the title of the new program by the San Francisco Girls Chorus, celebrating its 45 anniversary season as part of the statewide California Festival.

Teaming up with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, they’ll perform works by women composers including Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Caroline Shaw, and others. 7:30 p. m.

Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley; 4 p. m. Sunday at San Francisco Conservatory of Music; $35 general, $15 students; .

Halloween has come and gone, but one can enjoy the visceral thrill of being spooked out by a live performance all year round, right? That’s in the offing this weekend when the Chicago troupe Manual Cinema brings its one-of-a-kind adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece “Frankenstein” to Stanford University. The dialogue-free production combines shadow puppetry, cinematic video images, sound effects and live music in an immersive production that combines the traditional tale of a scientist and his monstrous creation with elements of Shelley’s life story. Reportedly, more than 500 puppets are employed in the show, and Manual Cinema’s patented interaction of live actors and video effects has been described as nothing less than spell-binding.

After the show, audience members are invited on stage to get a closer look at the puppets employed and interact with cast members. Presented by Stanford Live; 7:30 p. m.

Saturday, 2:30 p. m. Sunday; $16-$64; .

The miniature arts movement has set up shop in the Bedford Gallery. “Bits + Pieces: Contemporary Art on a Small Scale,” a new exhibit showing through mid-December at the Walnut Creek gallery, features miniature paintings, sculptures, needle-works, installations featuring re-created landscapes and domestic scenes and more from 16 artists. What so we mean by miniature? There is some variation in the definition recognized among the scores of groups in the U.

S. dedicated to the art form — but in general it means that the work can be no more than one-sixth the size of the actual object. The artistry is in the precise re-creation of an item’s design and others details, and often in the imaginative way a sense of perspective is established.

Hence, Andrea Fábrega’s tiny porcelain pots are displayed on a full-sized pottery wheel; and Kendal Murray’s mini-installation “Tantalize, Synchronize, Exercise!,” depicting a women lining up a golf shop atop a Volkswagen, is mounted on a compact mirror. While some art displays are full of grandeur and demand to be seen from a distance, “Bits + Pieces” is all about intimacy — and it might just change what you feel about art. Through Dec.

17; Bedford Gallery inside Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek; noon to 5 p. m. Wednesdays through Sundays; pay-what-you-can admission; .

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