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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Wagner & Dvorak at San Francisco Symphony

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It's a double-header of Matthias Goerne and Christoph Eschenbach this week at Davis; tonight is the last of three programs of Wagner...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mobius Trio

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Via Joe Barron comes word of a local group, the Mobius Trio , which was formed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is dedicated ...
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On Stage at SFS

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Some personnel notes, with thanks to SFS Communications for providing the information - Jeremy Epp, who is a substitute, was the excellen...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

You Need Me to Proofread Everything

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Found in a novel I'm reading: The front and back covers and the title page call the book The Atrocity Archives . The header on every pag...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Cal Performances 2013-14

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I'm sorry, I have to start out with a boring statement you've all heard from me before: once again, Cal Performances has a great sea...
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More on the BSO Season

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I count six orchestral works by living composers and six chamber works by living composers. Looks like two of the 50th anniversary commissio...
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Bill Bennett Memorial at SFS

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From the press release: The San Francisco Symphony and the family of the late William Bennett, the Principal Oboist for the Orchestra who ...

False Alarm, Sorta

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The BSO announcement went out at some point yesterday - not to me (?!), but I saw reports elsewhere. And....it's another season of guest...
Monday, April 22, 2013

"Very, very soon. :-)"

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Hmmm! IF there is a new music director, who might it be?
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Augustin Hadelich with Blomstedt, SFS

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So, two things you need to know about this week's SFS program, which I attended on Wednesday: Alone of all attendees, I hated the Beet...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Season Announcements

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I have fallen far behind in tracking season announcements. There are just a few major announcements still to come, from my perspective. Bo...
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It's a Great Day for Errors at the Times

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They need me to proofread everything they say about musicians. In the obituary for the late pianist and composer David Burge , the author...
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Which is Which?

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Sunken Garden, Secret Garden , can you tell the difference? I can assure you that SF Opera didn't make extravagant claims abo...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Sir Colin Davis

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From the LSO home page Sir Colin Davis has died at 85 . He had been in poor health for some time and I believe was hit particularly har...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

It's Over.

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San Francisco Symphony and its musicians officially ratified a new 26-month contract a day or two ago. A big sigh of relief here, and also s...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Pile-Up

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Yes, folks, it's one of those weekends , when there are about eight concerts you might want to attend. Let's take a look at the last...
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Friday, April 05, 2013

Cherkasskaya

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A large photo of Marina (or Marianna) Cherkasskaya (or Tcherkasskaya), as Bruennhilde, in the same costume she's wearing in my icon, tho...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Iain Banks is "Officially Very Poorly"

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Cover art of The Wasp Factory Linked from Iain Banks's web site Iain Banks , author of the Culture science fiction novels and ma...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Philharmonia Baroque/Nicholas McGegan: Brahms Serenades

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I've had this gem of a CD around for a while and have been listening to it a lot lately: Nicholas McGegan conducting the Philharmonia Ba...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Did Steve Ballmer Know About This?

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This is what a web search for the term google returns on Bing today: Cute!
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Strike Up the Band!

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Good news from Davies: there's a tentative agreement between the musicians and management. I'll turn the rest of this posting over t...

Stucky & Bruckner at Berkeley Symphony

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Steven Stucky (Hobermann Studio photo) To Berkeley Symphony this past Thursday night, to a program that fooled me: I thought there w...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

More on The Secret Garden

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Back when I reviewed The Secret Garden  - this seems like a lifetime ago - I promised follow-up remarks, which mostly consist of commen...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Good Friday Listening

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Parsifal excerpts, of course.  Act I Transformation music, Kna, Bayreuth 1964:   Toscanini, Prelude & Good Friday music (uh......
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

I Told You So.

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Today's SFCV Music News has a report from Jeff Dunn about SF Opera's Plan a Season workshop. He confirms that my own take on this s...
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