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Friday, July 30, 2021

SFS Ticketing Update

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  Davies Symphony Hall Photo by me So I managed to buy my SFS tickets today, on the last day of their free ticket offer. The process was pai...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

You'd Think This Would Be Easy.

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by me I might have mentioned that San Francisco Symphony has an unbelievably schedule this year, with a great ass...
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desert in

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desert in teaser Courtesy of Boston Lyric Opera and Long Beach Opera A new review of mine at SFVC , of the collaborative opera miniseries de...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Museum Mondays

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Medications Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garrett London, November, 2019  
Friday, July 23, 2021

Artist Change at SFS

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch You may have seen a few cast changes like this one before: Concert Update:  Cellist Joshua Roman j...

Friday Photo

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  Car Wash December, 2020 Oakland, CA
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Ian Robertson Retiring

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Sigh. San Francisco Opera announced today that their longtime chorus director, Ian Robertson, is retiring at the end of this year. He starte...

Oof.

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War Memorial Opera House Interior Photo by Lisa Hirsch A dismaying press release from the Merola Opera, SFO's young singer training prog...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Museum Mondays

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Anesthesia Set (19th c.?) Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garrett London, November, 2019  
Friday, July 16, 2021

Friday Photo

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1990s Advertising Displays Discarded recently; now I'm a little sorry about it.  
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Mark Hanson Leaving SFS

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch Oh, now, this is a big shock: SAN FRANCISCO, CA —On behalf of the San Francisco Symphony, Presiden...

Raised Eyebrows

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Santa Fe Opera House and Parking Lot Photo by Lisa Hirsch The new John Corigliano / Mark Adamo opera, The Lord of Cries , will have its worl...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

For the Day

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Monday, July 12, 2021

Museum Mondays

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Medieval Frieze Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC February, 2018  
Friday, July 09, 2021

Friday Photo

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Vegetables and fruit from Full Belly Farm (Carrots, beets, oranges, butternut squash, eggs) March, 2021  
Thursday, July 08, 2021

Santa Fe Opera 2021 Casting Updates

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Santa Fe Opera has just announced some cast changes, all owing to international travel restrictions. From the press release: Santa Fe, NM — ...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Obits from the Last Couple of Weeks

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Mimi Stern-Wolfe, pianist and impressario, died recently. She was a social activist whose callings included low-cost concerts, concerts in u...

Monday Miscellany

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Various events and other items that have landed in my inbox: The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland has a good line-up of performe...

Museum Mondays

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Bed Museum of Fine Arts, Boston October, 2019  
Friday, July 02, 2021

Friday Photo

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Foliage Laurel District, Oakland March 17, 2020  
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Whoa: San Francisco Symphony, 2021-22

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Esa-Pekka Salonen Music Director of SFS Photo by Minna Hatinen, courtesy of San Francisco Symphony The SFS home page currently has a beautif...
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Belated Museum Monday

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Plaster cast of a door Musée national des Monuments Français   Paris, February, 2019  
Friday, June 25, 2021

San Francisco Opera 2021-22 Season

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War Memorial Opera House December, 2019 Photo by Lisa Hirsch Yes, it's several days after the season announcement and I'm just  gett...
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Sigh.

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I've been to two live events in 2021, and as I started to get a ticket to a third, I was reminded of a....benefit (?)...of not having bo...

Friday Photo

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  Lichen January, 2021 ( previously )