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Monday, July 31, 2023

Museum Mondays

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Brünnhilde costume and winged helmet, worn by soprano Kirsten Flagstad  at the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera. Exhibit at San Fr...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Friday Photo

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Cactus flower Oakland, CA June, 2017  
Monday, July 24, 2023

Museum Mondays

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Picture Frame Sargent and Spain Palace of the Legion of Honor, SF May, 2023  
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Innovation?

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Well....when a new professional chorus sends out its first email and uses the phrase "a commitment to artistic innovation," you na...
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Friday, July 21, 2023

Friday Photo

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Stroweger PAX phone PAX = private automatic exchange War Memorial Opera House June, 2023 I suspect that it's inoperable.  
Monday, July 17, 2023

Museum Mondays

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Detail of a painting and frame John Singer Sargent and Spain Show Palace of the Legion of Honor, SF May, 2023  
Friday, July 14, 2023

Friday Photo

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Ennis House Detail from Street Los Angeles April, 2023  
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

San Francisco Symphony Contract

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch Yesterday, San Francisco Classical Voice published an article that Janos Gereben and I co-wrote. ...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Museum Mondays

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John Singer Sargent Detail of a painting Palace of the Legion of Honor May, 2023  
Friday, July 07, 2023

Friday Photo

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Ennis House Detail from the street April, 2023  
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Santa Fe Opera: A Further Cast Change

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Received earlier today: Santa Fe, NM —    The Santa Fe Opera  announces soprano  Leah Hawkins  will sing all remaining performances of  Tosc...
Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Museum Mondays

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Majorcan Fisherman John Singer Sargant, 1908 Palace of the Legion of Honor, SF May, 2023  
Monday, July 03, 2023

All of the Openings at San Francisco Symphony, Filled or Not

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  Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch San Francisco Symphony has had an enormous number of openings for the last couple of years. Here...
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San Francisco Symphony: Retirements and Other Departures

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  Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch A press release from SFS updates the personnel list with several retirements and two additional ...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

Flute Finalists?

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Davies Symphony Hall, SF Photo by Lisa Hirsch You might have noticed, over the last year or so, a number of flutists rotating through the Sa...

Ojai Music Festival Streaming

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I should have gotten this out last month, when the Ojai Music Festival was live, but I did not - oh, well! The streams are still available....

Santa Fe Opera Cast Changes

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Santa Fe Opera House from Parking Lot Photo by Lisa Hirsch I'd already read that Angel Blue would be released from some of her performan...

Arun Ramamurthy Trio

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The Arun Ramamurthy Trio has two Bay Area concerts next weekend, in Berkeley and SF. Here's how the press release describes this group: ...

LA Philharmonic on the Air

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch I have removed almost all of the information I had in this post, because a reader called to my...
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Friday, June 30, 2023

Friday Photo

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Ennis House (FLW) Street-Level Detail Los Angeles, CA April, 2023  
Monday, June 26, 2023

Museum Mondays

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John Singer Sargent From Sargent and Spain show Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco, CA May, 2023  
Friday, June 23, 2023

Belated Museum Mondays

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Portrait of Manuel Garcia (1805-1906) John Singer Sargent Painted in honor of the singer's 100th birthday in 1905 Palace of the Legion o...

Friday Photo

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Ennis House, Los Angeles Detail from street side April, 2023  
Thursday, June 22, 2023

More Saariaho

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Kaija Saariaho and librettist Amin Maalouf Adriana Mater  Symposium Santa Fe, July 2008 Photo by Lisa Hirsch Amid all the sadness about Kaij...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

El último sueño de Frida y Diego

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Gabriela Lena Frank (composer) and Nilo Cruz (librettist)'s   El   último sueño de Frida y Diego Photo by Cory Weaver, courtesy of SF Op...