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Friday, May 29, 2026

Daniel Harding, Please Fly Me to Paris.

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Daniel Harding Photo: Polly Brown, Courtesy of Los Angeles Philharmonic No kidding: my summer vacation starts with an Air France flight from...

Friday Photo

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Cauliflower Civic Center Farmers Market, San Francisco March, 2026  
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Luna Composition Lab

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New York Times screencap Ellen Reid and Missy Mazzoli in Reid's Brooklyn loft/studio I've had a busy few weeks, and the biggest stor...

Los Angeles Philharmonic Die Walküre

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch I don't usually do review round-ups for performances I haven't seen, but in this case,...

Wo bleibt Elektra?

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Dover Score of Richard Strauss's Elektra (Black background, white type, different beige and black graphical motifs running across the sc...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Opera Parallèle 2026-27 Season

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Opera Parallèle has a fascinating season planned for 2026-27. Here's the repertory and descriptions of the three operas they'll perf...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Belated Museum Mondays

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Afrofuturism Display Photos of works by Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, N.K. Jemison, Ytasha L. Womack, and others; a typewriter. San Franci...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Friday Photo

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Tristan und Isolde Curtain Call Photo Metropolitan Opera, NYC April, 2026  
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Elim Chan, Music Director Designate of the San Francisco Symphony

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Elim Chan Cody Pickens, courtesy of San Francisco Symphony . Big news from Davies Symphony Hall this morning: Elim Chan, 39, will be the nex...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Museum Monday

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Virgin and Child School of Donatello Raphael: Sublime Poetry Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC April, 2026  

Belated Friday Photo

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Plaque honoring Willa Cather 5 Bank St, NYC May, 2016  
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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Now We Know

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Davies Symphony Hall Home of the San Francisco Symphony Back in December, 2024, when SFS was threatening drastic cuts in the Symphony Chorus...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

MTT Update

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Michael Tilson Thomas Photo by Brandon Patroc, courtesy of San Francisco Symphony My post on the occasion of MTT's death has grown by q...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Museum Mondays

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Annunciation, by Raphael  Raphael: Sublime Poetry Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC April, 2026  
Friday, May 08, 2026

Friday Photo

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See at a New York City Subway Stop Prospect Heights, Brooklyn April, 2026  
Thursday, May 07, 2026

What I've Been Up To

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Chevy Chase Rose Mine is blooming right now. I've had a few articles published recently besides the MTT obit. Silent Cinema, and Its Mus...
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Monday, May 04, 2026

Museum Mondays

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Green glass vase Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC November, 2013  
Friday, May 01, 2026

Friday Photo

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Buildings, Downtown San Francisco April, 2026  
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Another Amazing Recital from Claire Chase

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Claire Chase Photo by David Michalek The post title says it all: flutist Claire Chase was here the other week, playing another group of work...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Cal Performances 2026-27

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Cal Performances presents the West Coast premiere of William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load , an epic theater work that explores the st...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Museum Mondays

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Raphael From "Raphael: Sublime Poetry," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC April, 2026 The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an i...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Michael Tilson Thomas

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Michael Tilson Thomas visits Google November, 2008 Photo by Lisa Hirsch (I took many photos that day, but most of them are a little blurry b...
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Monday, April 20, 2026

San Francisco Symphony 2026-27

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Davies Symphony Hall Home of the San Francisco Symphony Photo by Lisa Hirsch Well, okay! San Francisco Symphony announced their 2026-27 seas...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

La Belle et la Bête at Opera Parallèle

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Chea Kang as Beauty, Hadleigh Adams as the Beast Photo: Stefan Cohen Opera Parallèle, March, 2026 A spectacular presentation of Philip Glass...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Season Announcement Season

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It's that time of year, and I will try post at least some  analysis of orchestral seasons across the country and how they are doing repe...
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