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Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Festival Opera Salon Series

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Festival Opera has an excellent series of concerts coming up: SALON SERIES With the return of autumn, Festival Opera will offer its annual S...

San Francisco Opera Postpones the 2026 Opera Ball

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Postcard, c. 1930s, of the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, SF From my personal collection Received from SF Opera: SAN FRANCI...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Museum Mondays

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St. Bartholomew Altarpiece detail Master of the St. Bartholomew Altarpiece Alte Pinakothek, Munich July, 2026  
Friday, August 28, 2026

Received from San Francisco Opera

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Postcard, c. 1930s, of the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, SF From my personal collection A statement from the San Francisco...

Friday Photo

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Free air for your bicycle Le Marais, Paris, France July, 2026  
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Contract Negotiations

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Postcard of the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, SF From my personal collection Some of you will remember that San Francisco ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Apply to Luna Composition Labs

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Luna Composition Lab T-shirt The letters LUNA within thumbnail, half, 3/4, and full moons Not credited on their web site but I will try to f...

News from the BSO

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Boston Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch April, 2025 This dropped into my in-box a few hours ago: A Joint Statement from the BSO and Our Mu...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Recitative and Aria

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In his review of West Edge Opera's production of American Apollo , Joshua Kosman wrote this, right at the top: Open the score of a stan...

Museum Mondays

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Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Breughel "Madonna in a Garland of Flowers," 1616/1618, detail Alte Pinakothek, Munich July, 2026  
Friday, August 21, 2026

Friday Photo

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The wine-dark sea (the Mediterranean) The Calanques, near Cassis, France July, 2026  
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Merola Finale

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Merola Finale; all participants Photo by Kristen Loken Last Saturday, August 15, was the Merola Finale, a concert with orchestra given by th...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Broadcasts This Week

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Die Frau ohne Schatten Courtesy of Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Photo by Monika Rittershaus, copyright 2026 Vida Miknevičiūtė (Empress), A...

Luminous Refractions: SF Contemporary Music Players 2026-27 Season

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The SF Contemporary Music Players have an outstanding season of new / recent / important modern music coming up. Here it is, in brief: LUMI...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Well, I'm Back.

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What I did on my summer vacation. The spine without print under Carmen  is Werther . (Click to enlarge.) I've been back, actually, since...

Museum Mondays

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Paul Klee, Archangel Lehnbachhaus, Munich July, 2026  
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Anniversaries

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I was reminded recently of some anniversaries in my life that are clustered around June and July. June 30, 1991: I passed my shodan (first d...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Blomstedt at 99

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Herbert Blomstedt Photo by J.M. Pietsch / Courtesy of San Francisco Symphony Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor Laureate of the San Francisco Symp...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

Itinerary

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Place de la Bastille, Paris July, 2026 So I am out of town, on a European trip I'm thinking of as the follies of summer 2026, because of...