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Monday, January 01, 2024

Museum Mondays

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Sandro Botticelli Detail of Mystid Nativity, with demon Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Botticelli Drawings Painting lent by Na...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

A Suggestion to Non-Profit Organizations

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I just unsubscribed from the mailing list of an organization that I've been donating to for several years, and earlier this fall, I exch...
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Opera 2023

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Over at Boulezian, Mark Berry has a summary of his operatic year , and after reading it, I decided to do one myself. In the process, I disco...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Public Service Announcement: SFS/Salonen, Scriabin, Bartók Program

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Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco November, 2023 Photo by Lisa Hirsch The San Francisco Symphony program for March 1-3, 2024, is as follow...
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Monday, December 25, 2023

Museum Mondays

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  Nativity Alte Pinakothek, Munich August, 2015
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Sunday, December 24, 2023

More on Les Noces

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Last month, I reviewed San Francisco Symphony playing Steven Stucky's orchestral arrangement of Stravinsky's great ballet score Les...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

Speculation

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War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building Van Ness Ave., San Francisco Vintage postcard from my collection San Francisco Opera's 20...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Music Director Updates

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I am sadly far behind in maintaining this. Here are some updates. I'm absolutely certain that I am missing some. Donald Runnicles leaves...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Congratulations and Happy Birthday to Gordon Getty!

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Hand-Colored Vintage Postcard War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, San Francisco Collection of Lisa Hirsch Gordon Getty turns 90 ...

Update on MTT's Upcoming SFS Programs

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  Michael Tilson Thomas Photo by Brandon Patoc (c), 2019 courtesy of San Francisco Symphony MTT has withdrawn from two of his three schedule...

2023 Retrospective

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 As usual, there won't be a list of best or favorite recordings of 2023, because I don't make any kind of attempt to keep track of n...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Interviews with Robert Ward

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Now there are two very good interviews with retiring San Francisco Symphony principal horn Robert Ward: Emily Wilson , SFCV Joshua Kosman , ...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

Belated Museum Monday

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Marble Lion on a Staircase Threatening a Young Blond Woman Seated on the Stairs. Genoa, May or June 1982 Not actually in a museum, but in a ...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Blomstedt Withdraws From SFS and Other Programs

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Herbert Blomstedt San Francisco Symphony Condutor Laureate Photo courtesy of San Francisco Symphony Herbert Blomstedt, 96-year-old Conductor...

Friday Photo

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A slightly foggy mornings, office buildings,  and a temporary circus tent in downtown SF. December, 2023  
Monday, December 04, 2023

Inquiring Minds Want to Know....

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.....why the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker , and San Francisco Classical Voice all think they know better than th...
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Friday, December 01, 2023

Friday Photo

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Arcata Bay August, 2022  
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Current Auditions at San Francisco Symphony

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch Here are the currently advertised auditions : Associate principal cello, filling Peter Wyrick'...
Monday, November 27, 2023

There's Runnicles

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Tannhäuser A scene from Act 2 Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera He's conducting the Met's Tannhäuser, which opens this week. The pro...