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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Music at Kohl Mansion

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I'm sorry to say that I've never been to a concert at Kohl Mansion , which for many years has had an excellent chamber music program...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

SFS: Mahler 2nd Brass

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Well, you know, they were great, but there's no space for listing them all in a review, so here they are: Horns Diego Incertis Sanchez J...
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Esa-Pekka Salonen at SFS

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Esa-Pekka Salonen and members of the San Francisco Symphony June 12, 2025 Photo by Lisa Hirsch The last few weeks have felt like all Salonen...

Belated Museum Monday

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Jan Provost, early 1500s The Annunciate Virgin; Saint Andrew with a Donor and His Sons; Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a Donor and Her D...
Friday, June 13, 2025

SF Opera: La Bohème

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Lucas Meachem as Marcello Photo: Cory Weaver, courtesy of San Francisco Opera Lucas Meachem will be singing Marcello in all  performances of...

Friday Photo

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Pelicans in flight Pillar Point, CA May, 2025  
Monday, June 09, 2025

Museum Mondays

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  Reliquary bust of St. Benedict Italian, Late 1400s Philadelphia Museum of Art April, 2025 Rear view
Friday, June 06, 2025

Friday Photo

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Great Blue Heron? Pillar Point, CA May, 2025  
Thursday, June 05, 2025

La Bohème, San Francisco Opera

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Samuel Kidd as Schaunard, Bogdan Talos as Colline, Pene Pati as Rodolfo, Karen Chia-ling Ho as Mimì, and Lucas Meachem as Marcello in Puccin...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Harvey Milk Reimagined

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  Harvey Milk Reimagined Photo by Cory Weaver, courtesy of Opera Parallèle The original  Harvey Milk , by composer Stewart Wallace and libre...
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Monday, June 02, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Taddeo di Bartolo, The Virgin and child with angels, c. 1418 Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge April, 2025  
Sunday, June 01, 2025

Tania León Receives the William Schuman Award

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Tania León Photo by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre at Columbia University Tania León  is the recipient of the 2025 William Schuman Award, w...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Sticking It Out

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Sticking It Out  is a memoir by percussionist Patti Niemi, who has been a member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1992. I'm ju...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Late Friday News Drop, LA Opera Edition

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If you're in politics, late Friday is a notoriously typical time for press releases containing bad news. Apparently that's not the c...

Friday Photo

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Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge, MA April, 2025  
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Esa-Pekka Salonen Tours with the New York Philharmonic

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Lincoln Center Fountain Photo by Lisa Hirsch A press release from the NY Philharmonic landed in my in-box a few weeks ago, and wow, it is ce...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Belated Museum Mondays

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Boys Bathing , by Edvard Munch Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA April, 2025  

New Artisitic Director at Cal Bach

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Less than a year after Paul Flight's departure from Cal Bach, the venerable chorus has appointed a new Artistic Director, Nate Widelitz....
Friday, May 23, 2025

Friday Photo

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Central Synagogue Lexington Avenue, NYC April, 2025  
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Pointer Report on Jaap van Zweden

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Pointer is a platform in The Netherlands that describes itself this way: Pointer is the platform for investigative journalism of KRO-NCRV on...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Cut Circle: Micropolyphony

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Cut Circle , a small chorus directed by Stanford music professor Jesse Rodin, is putting on a performance this Friday that I would try to g...

San Francisco Opera Orchestra

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St. Joseph's Arts Society Formerly St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Photo by Lisa Hirsch The San Francisco Opera Orchestra, under ...

Dalia Stasevska at SFS

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Dalia Stasevska conducts; Johannes Moser plays cello. Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Before we fall San Francisco Symphony, May15, 2025 Photo: Kriste...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Opera Saratoga 2025

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I cannot attend Opera Saratoga's summer season , but it's awfully interesting looking. I would love  to see La vie Parisienne ; Offe...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Altar of St. Anne, 1516 German, artist unknown Fogg Museum, Harvard Cambridge, MA April, 2025