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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Just How Flooded is Lincoln Center?

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The New York Philharmonic has just issued a press release noting that the concert they have scheduled for 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday evening, at...
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Google on Windows 8

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You may have seen indicators that the Windows 8 user interface is vastly different from anything that has come before it. It looks sort of l...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Thar She Blows!

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San Francisco Opera was a co-commissioner of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's Moby-Dick , an adaptation of Herman Melville's towering s...

Sing Along with SFRV

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San Francisco Renaissance Voices has a fund-raising singalong this Wednesday, Halloween. It should be great fun! Cut & paste from thei...

Expectations

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What I expected: Kristin Sigmundsson to sound awful, based on June's Magic Flute Brian Mulligan to be a very good King's Herald ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Einstein on the Beach

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My SFCV review of Einstein on the Beach  went up around 1 p.m. today, just as the Lohengrin  prelude started. I think I did not quite succe...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Hans Werner Henze

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Composer Hans Werner Henze has died, age 86. Obituaries are starting to appear in English: Boulezian is currently writing about Henze, f...

No Lysistrata

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Jacques Desjardins writes to tell me that Opera Parallel felt that after producing The Great Gatsby , it would be premature to stage Lysistr...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Separated at Birth?

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Take a look at Thomas Deneuville's photos of Philip Glass and Steve Reich on the blog I Care If You Listen .
Monday, October 22, 2012

More of How We Do It

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Google allowed a television crew onto the Lenoir data center floor , briefly and with a senior vice president as tour guide.
Friday, October 19, 2012

Ensemble > Opera Parallel

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Ensemble Parallel has changed its name to Opera Parallel and announced a full season of opera: February 15, 16, and 17: Golijav's Ain...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Corporate Governance and the Return of James Levine

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Last week, the Met released information about James Levine's long-awaited return to the podium; at the same time, the Times posted an ex...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

How We Do It

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Today, Google is revealing more about our data centers than we ever have before. The Official Google Blog has the basic story , with links t...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

And a Very Happy Birthday

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The great composer Kaija Saariaho is 60 today, October 14, 2012. Here's her Fall , for harp and electronics.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Future Seasons

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I've put up a Future Seasons page for San Francisco Opera: information found on the web, blabbed by singers, etc.
Friday, October 12, 2012

Tickets Offered (Not by Me)

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A friend writes: Speaking of Moby Dick, I have a ticket for the performance on the 30th, but won't be back by then. We'll be under...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Now We Know

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A press release from the Met announces some upcoming conducting engagements for Music Director James Levine, starting next spring. The detai...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

SFO Moby-Dick Video

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Sigh. SFO has a video posted on YouTube with excerpts from Moby-Dick . At the end of the video, you see the fully-lighted interior of the...
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San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Lineup

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SFS has announced their chamber music series for the 2012-13 season, and it's a first-class mix of the familiar and unfamiliar. Updating...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Separated at Birth?

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On one side, we have I Capuleti at San Franciso Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, on the other side, Phantom of the Opera someplace or o...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

NCCO, Britten & Bartok

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I had originally decided not to attend NCCO's first program, then had a change of plans and   Patrick had an available ticket. So off t...
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Monday, October 01, 2012

MacArthur Fellows 2012

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The fellowships have been announced ! Several are musicians or closely connected to music: Claire Chase , brilliant flutist and founder o...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Leontyne Price Debut

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So the SF Opera program has a long article on company history. It's got some mighty awkward writing, but that's not the primary thin...

Capuleti Roundup

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Read all about it: Janos Gereben (Opera West) Opera Tattler . Yeah, the scene changes! Man, they were tedious. Lisa Hirsch (and on thi...

Dumb and Dumber

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But with some great singing: reviewing I Capuleti e i Montecchi  at San Francisco Opera . If you don't believe me about Nicole Cabell ...