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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

San Francisco Symphony 2022-23

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Esa-Pekka Salonen Photo by Minna Hatinen, courtesy of San Francisco Symphony San Francisco Symphony announced its 2022-23 season today. I...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Museum Mondays

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Golden arm and hand Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC November, 2013  
Friday, March 25, 2022

Friday Photo

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Mérode Altarpiece, by Robert Campin The Cloisters, NYC February, 2010  
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Belated Museum Mondays

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Effigy of Don García de Osorio (detail) Victoria and Albert Museum, London November, 2019  
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Professor Jane Carr

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Professor Jane Carr, far left, judging a kata contest. Healdsburg, 1987 Professor Jane Carr, 10th degree black belt, whom I'd known for ...
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Goings-on at San Francisco Symphony

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Davies Symphony Hall at Night Regular readers and fans of San Francisco Symphony know that the orchestra has many openings, following a larg...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Nikola Printz Schwabacher Recital Media Round-Up

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Nikola Printz, mezzo-soprano, with Jon Mendle, guitar (and theorbo). They're performing Schubert. Photo by Kristen Loken, care of San Fr...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Friday Photo

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  Métro stop Blvd. Richard Lenoir Paris 2019
Monday, March 14, 2022

Trinity Church Fires Julian Wachner

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Monument in the Trinity Church graveyard Well, that didn't take long. On February 28, Trinity Church learned of a sexual assault allegat...

Museum Mondays

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  Household Shrine and Household Goods from Villa B Last Supper at Pompeii Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco August, 2021
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Friday, March 11, 2022

Friday Photo

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Dry ice from food delivery service Oakland, CA February, 2022  
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Regional Opera Companies

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On Twitter this morning, I mentioned that I appreciate Joshua Kosman taking note in his LVO Otello  review  of the value of what regional co...
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Otello at Livermore Valley Opera

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My SFCV review of Livermore Valley Opera's Otello  is now posted . Briefly, it is a rave. Joshua Kosman also raved , more eloquently tha...
Monday, March 07, 2022

Museum Mondays

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Fresco of Bacchus and Mount Vesuvius Last Supper at Pompeii Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco August, 2021  
Sunday, March 06, 2022

Belated Friday Photo

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Dodge Rambler Grove St., San Francisco March, 2022  
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Classical Music and the Invasion of Ukraine

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Mark Rothko Untitled ("Blue and Yellow", 1954) It appears that the international career of Putin-loving conductor Valery Gergiev i...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2022

Update on MTT

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Michael Tilson Thomas Photo by Brandon Patoc (c), 2019 Courtesy of San Francisco Symphony Well, damn. MTT, who was diagnosed last year with ...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Museum Mondays

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  Architectural frieze? of religious figures Metropolitan Museum of Art February, 2018  From the museum's web site: Six Apostles from Re...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Friday Photo

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Our CSA sent two bags of mesclun instead of one and maybe overboard with the greens in general.  
Monday, February 21, 2022

Museum Mondays

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Statue of a Satyr with a Panther Last Supper at Pompeii Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco August, 2021  
Friday, February 18, 2022

Now Streaming: Paris Opera Les Troyens

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This is the production I saw three years ago in Paris, during the 350th anniversary season of the Paris Opera. It was a season of big operas...
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Friday Photo

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  Items in a storefront window Spitalfields, London May, 2014
Monday, February 14, 2022

Museum Mondays

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  Midcentury interior Geffrye Museum of the Home, London May, 2014
Friday, February 11, 2022

Hans Neuenfels

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The German director, of spoken theater and opera, died earlier this week of COVID-19. He was 80. I haven't seen anything indicating that...

Friday Photo

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Front hallway from living room. Before plaster repair, floor refinishing, and painting. Front hallway from living room. After plaster repair...