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Monday, November 18, 2019

San Francisco Opera Chorus Concert

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The San Francisco Opera Chorus is one of the company's glories, and this week they are giving a concert. It's unfortunately on a dat...

Museum Mondays

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Knitted Socks, from central Egypt, 300-500 AD Victoria and Albert Museum, London November, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019

Friday Photo

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Looming House and Moon Melville St., Dorchester, MA October,2019
Monday, November 11, 2019

Museum Mondays

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Hyman Bloom, Seascape II Museum of Fine Arts, Boston October, 2019 "Bloom deeply admired the work of J.M.W. Turner, partic...
Friday, November 08, 2019

Friday Photo

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Looming House Melville Ave., Dorchester October, 2017
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Counting Baritones

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Received from the Met: Etienne Dupuis will sing the Count in the  February 5, 8, and 11  performances of Mozart’s  Le Nozze di Figaro , r...
Monday, November 04, 2019

Museum Mondays

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Slave Ship , JMW Turner Museum of Fine Arts, Boston October, 2019 See the MFA's web page to see the entire painting.
Friday, November 01, 2019

Friday Photo

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Lion statues Melville St., Dorchester, MA October, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

How Far Can You Get If You're a White Guy?

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Pretty far, it turns out. Over on Twitter, there's a lot of justifiable outrage over an interview by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who...
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Dandy Dandini

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From the Met, news of a cast change in next year's La Cenerentola : Vito Priante will sing Dandini in all performances of Rossini’s  ...
Monday, October 28, 2019

SFS Personnel Changes, Yet Again

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Between my last and most recent SFS concerts, Nicole Cash's name disappeared from the French horn roster in the program, and, indeed, th...
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Museum Mondays

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston October, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019

Friday Photo

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Upper West Side of NY June, 2006
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Museum Mondays

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Outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston October, 2019
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Sonic Harvest, Sunday, October 20, 2019

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A fine program tomorrow evening: Sunday, October 20, 8:00  pm Berkeley Piano Club 2724 Haste Street, Berkeley Admission $20 general, $1...

The World of Grażyna Bacewicz

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Just a reminder, slightly late, that Bard Music West's annual festival is this weekend, and this year's featured composer is the Pol...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Friday Photo

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Mosaic NYC subway stop American Museum of Natural History June, 2006
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Changes at Ojai Festival

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Earlier this month, the LA Philharmonic named Chad Smith as the orchestra's next CEO. At the time, I wondered, but did not write about, ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Upcoming: Nabucco in San Francisco

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The Claude Heater Foundation, which last year sponsored a fine Tristan und Isolde  performance in San Francisco, is back with a concert perf...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

Museum Mondays

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Mid-century modern interior Geffrye Museum of the Home London, 2014
Friday, October 11, 2019

Sibelius, Elgar, and Nielsen at the Boston Symphony

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I'm on the east coast for work (really - I work with an engineering team in Cambridge) and the BSO (the real  BSO, never mind your Balti...

Friday Photo

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Mosaic NYC subway stop American Museum of Natural History June, 2006
Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Geraldine Walther to Retire from Takács Quartet

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Well, gosh. The headline from the publicist says " WORLD RENOWNED TAKÁCS QUARTET ANNOUNCES NEW VIOLIST", but if you live in the B...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Museum Mondays

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Foliage LACMA March, 2017
Sunday, October 06, 2019

San Francisco Symphony Personnel Updates, Redux

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by me I previously reported on personnel changes at SFS in  Moving In, Moving Around, at San Francisco ...