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Friday, October 31, 2025

Friday Photo

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Stephenson Memorial  (Memorial to the Grand Army of the Republic) Washington, DC April, 2025 The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Pure Foolishness

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Parsifal , Act 2 Photo: Cory Weaver / courtesy of San Francisco Opera I've got many thoughts that aren't in my review, but I also ha...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Painting seen through a doorway Philadelphia Museum of Art April, 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025

Friday Photo

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The Mall Washington, DC April, 2025  
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Several Items Make a Post

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Some not-random notes: SFS Chorus Director Jenny Wong has extended her contract with the orchestra through the 2028-29 season. San Francisco...

Emerging Black Composers

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Kyle Rivera Photo courtesy of San Francisco Symphony No photographer credited. San Francisco Symphony has announced that Kyle Rivera, curren...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Snapshot, 2026, at West Edge Opera

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Snapshot is West Edge Opera's presentation of excerpts from new operas  or operas under development. Here's the schedule for 2026; b...

Why Can't I Be In Six Places at Once?

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Things I could be doing from November 12 to 16: San Francisco Silent Film Festival Parsifal  at San Francisco Opera (last performance) The ...

Museum Mondays

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  Links Together Elizabeth Catlett National Gallery of Art Washington, DC April, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025

Friday Photo

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Metro Station Washington, DC April, 2025  
Monday, October 13, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Acid Rain, side view Chakaia Booker, 2021 National Gallery of Art Washington, DC April, 2025   Acid Rain Chakaia Booker, 2021 National Galle...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Friday Photo

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Pom Pom Mushrooms Berkeley Bowl West Berkeley, CA September, 2025  
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Berkeley Symphony: Lancaster, Adams, Haydn

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Berkeley Symphony Helen Kim plays Samuel Adams's Chamber Concerto; Edwin Outwater conducts Photo: Louis Bryant III Berkeley Symphony ha...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Museum Mondays, a day late

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National Building Museum Washington, DC April, 2025  
Friday, October 03, 2025

Kavalier & Clay at the Met

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  Cover, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay I read Michael Chabon's novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay  back...
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Friday Photo

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Pink Oyster Mushrooms Berkeley Bowl West Berkeley, CA September, 2025  
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Family Matters

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Rigoletto Act 1, Scene 1 San Francisco Opera Photo: Cory Weaver I spent a lot of time over the last week with Giuseppe Verdi, in the form of...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

InterMusic SF: San Francisco Music Day

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War Memorial Opera House Vintage postcard, collection of Lisa Hirsch InterMusic SF will put on its annual San Francisco Music Day on Sunday...

West Edge Opera 2026

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West Edge Opera's 2026 Festival will include the following: Britten, The Turn of the Screw . Mark Streshinsky, dir; Jonathan Khuner, con...

The Metropolitan Opera in Saudi Arabia

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Lincoln Center Fountain Photo by Lisa Hirsch The Metropolitan Opera has decided to accept $100 million from Saudi Arabia  (gift link) and wi...
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Monday, September 29, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Ruth Asawa Detail of a drawing of the rings of a redwood tree Ruth Asawa Retrospective, SF MOMA August, 2025  
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Runnicles at San Francisco Symphony

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Donald Runnicles Courtesy of his website Well, I was extremely  happy with this week's SFS program, which featured Donald Runnicles cond...
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Department of Speculation

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Post, 2011 SFO Ring San Francisco Opera hasn't announced when they're doing the Ring  next, though since it's known that Eun Sun...
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Friday, September 26, 2025

Friday Photo

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City of Rocks State Park Faywood, NM July, 2025  
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Dead Man Walking

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Dead Man Walking Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera  Rod Gilfry as Owen Hart, Caroline Corrales as Kitty Hart, Nikola Printz as Jad Bouc...