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- AN ANACHRONISM, OR RACY MODERN SEXUAL CANDOR? (8/12/2024)
- EXCESS BALLAST ENDANGERS THE TRIM SHIP (8/10/2024)
- SOCIAL CRITIQUE THROUGH OUR MODERN LENS IN OPERA (8/10/2024)
- EXEMPLARY PLAY DESPITE BUDGET CRUNCH AT SYMPHONY (7/26/2024)
- IBERIAN EAR-OPENERS (7/12/2024)
- MAHLER’S PASTORAL METROPOLIS (6/29/2024)
- KRONOS: NO CHALLENGE TOO GREAT (6/21/2024)
- VINTAGE RUSSIAN MUSIC AT THE S.F. SYMPHONY (6/14/2024)
- A MONODRAMA FOR SCENERY-CHEWING (6/10/2024)
- A NEW OPERA ON THE TOO-FREQUENT TRAGEDY (6/3/2024)
- WHEN IS THE COMPOSER NOT THE COMPOSER? (5/9/2024)
- A NEW TWO-TONE SWAN SAVES THE BALLET’S DAY (5/1/2024)
- A PRECARIOUS POLITICAL BALANCE (4/27/2024)
- SCHOENBERG’S EPIC LANDMARK CYCLE (4/22/2024)
- DANCE TROUPE’S THEATER PIECES, REVIVING A HISTORIC PAST (4/21/2024)
- THE SING-AND-SWING HISTORICAL OPERA, IN DOUBLE-BILL (4/7/2024)
- STAND BACK, MALES: TIME FOR ‘DOS MUJERES’ (4/7/2024)
- FRONT LINES OF MUSIC, AND TCHAIKOVSKY TOO (3/24/2024)
- A TIMELESS HEROINE FOR OUR TIMES (3/17/2024)
- TURNING THE BRIGHT LIGHTS ONTO SOMBER EASTER WEEK (3/10/2024)
- HARNESSING MULTIPLE SENSES FOR SYMPHONY: AN ENIGMATIC PAIRING (3/3/2024)
- OLD-NEW FORMS IN STRAVINSKY, HURDLING RIGHT OVER THE ROMANTICS (2/25/2024)
- COULD ‘SWAN LAKE’ BE AN ALLEGORICAL TALE?? (2/24/2024)
- BALLET PACKAGE: A LONDON-TO-S.F. VALENTINE (2/11/2024)
- IT ISN’T JUST YOUR OLD BALL GAME (2/5/2024)
- MORE DRILL TEAMS THAN MAGIC FIRE (1/28/2024)
- MTT/GUSTAV: AN ENDEARING LOVE FEST (1/27/2024)
- FLIGHT OF FANCY, WITH CHARISMA (1/20/2024)
- MUSIC INSPIRED BY WARTIME (1/6/2024)
- GOING TO BAT FOR BARTOK (12/29/2023)
- THE CHRIST CHILD, WITH LATINO PERSPECTIVES (12/14/2023)
- CHORUS: DOZENS UPON DOZENS (12/12/2023)
- HYBRIDIZING ‘DIDO AND AENEAS’ (12/1/2023)
- FIRES, FORESTS AND CRINGE-WORTHY EXERCISES (11/19/2023)
- RADICAL INVENTIVENESS IN STRING FOURSOMES (11/13/2023)
- NEW AND NOVEL SOUNDS (11/12/2023)
- FOLKSINGER’S MIDAS TOUCH WITH OPERA (11/6/2023)
- BEETHOVEN’S 9TH, GALLOPING IN WHEN MOST NEEDED: A NIGHT TO TREASURE (10/20/2023)
- THE NEW CONCERTO: A MINI OR A MAXI? (10/13/2023)
- S.F. SYMPHONY’S SWEET AND SPICY MODERNS WITH THE FAST-PEDALING FIDDLER (10/7/2023)
- A LIGHTNING OPERA: FLASH AND DASH PRODUCE A HIT (9/25/2023)
- HETEROGENEOUS, HILARIOUS, WITH HIP-HOP SEASONING IN THE HALLOWED HALL (9/23/2023)
- THE FINE LINES OF CLYNE’S SOUNDS (9/18/2023)
- A Tightened Vengeance Opera (9/13/2023)
- EARLY MUSIC IN THE AMERICAS, REVIVED (8/28/2023)
- UKRAINE, MOZART COMMEMORATIONS (8/19/2023)
- CORNUCOPIA ON THE DISTAFF SIDE (8/13/2023)
- HOME-STRETCH SPRINT NEEDED (8/8/2023)
- OPERATIC SEAFARERS TURNED LANDLUBBERS (8/7/2023)
- Opera Singer as Acrobat (8/4/2023)
- New Mexico’s Pre-Oppenheimer Days (8/3/2023)
- UNSUNG HERO SAVING MUSICIANS FROM THE NAZI HOLOCAUST (7/17/2023)
- THE OPERA ON FRIDA KAHLO, WHO HAD BEEN THROUGH HELL (6/14/2023)
- ANOTHER WAR, A LAST TESTAMENT (6/9/2023)
- BERKELEY’S NEW VOICES (6/5/2023)
- AN OPERA COLOSSUS AND SPLIT-LEVEL DRAMA (6/5/2023)
- MEMORIAL MUSIC FOR TODAY AND AN EARLIER TIME (5/19/2023)
- NEW “WET-INK” CHORAL MUSIC (5/15/2023)
- GOING FRENCH, SEIWERT STEPPING UP AT THE BALLET (4/30/2023)
- LOSE YOURSELF IN JULIET LOVE (4/23/2023)
- ELOQUENCE IN AFTERMATH (4/16/2023)
- The Fully Automatic Orchestra Premiered (4/14/2023)
- ECSTASY AND DESPAIR, SYMPHONICALLY (4/1/2023)
- A RARE FLOWERING IN WINE COUNTRY (3/27/2023)
- WHEN IS MUSIC NOT MUSIC? (3/20/2023)
- UNIFIED DANCER DAZZLE (3/15/2023)
- SHOOTING DOWN A RUSSIAN STAR (3/10/2023)
- WHAT OPUS WAS SHE PLAYING, ANYWAY? (3/3/2023)
- ADAMS’ METAMORPHOSIS (2/24/2023)
- THE SEA COMES TO THE SYMPHONY (2/21/2023)
- BELLISSIMO BARTÓK (2/20/2023)
- PRANKS, SPOOKS AND LOVERS ENKINDLE “FALSTAFF” (2/13/2023)
- A CHALLENGING T-SHIRT NIGHT AT THE SYMPHONY (2/3/2023)
- BALLET FESTIVAL AFTERMATH (1/28/2023)
- A HEARTFELT ACCOLADE FOR A RETURN (1/28/2023)
- STORY BALLETS’ COMEBACK IN A RARE CORNUCOPIA (1/25/2023)
- SINGER ENTERING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACES, With that Joyce Voice (1/22/2023)
- NEW BALLETS AS DRAMA, BUT ON SPEED (1/21/2023)
- MINORITIES AT WORK, HALOES AROUND THE MOON (1/14/2023)
- ‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY (12/12/2022)
- A NINTH GEARED TO OUR UNCERTAIN TIMES (12/3/2022)
- Orpheus Returns (11/21/2022)
- LEAVING A MARK ON MUSIC HISTORY (11/14/2022)
- OAKLAND’S BROAD MUSICAL HORIZON (10/16/2022)
- A LEAP INTO MUSICAL NIRVANA (9/30/2022)
- A MASTER CLASS IN MODERN BALLET (9/26/2022)
- 1938 MUSIC & SPEECH: ILL-DIGESTIBLE SANDWICHES OF HISTORY (9/18/2022)
- SHAKESPEARE: BRUSH UP YOUR LIBRETTO! (9/16/2022)
- ‘ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA’ IN MORE FORMAL, MORE MODERN ATTIRE (9/11/2022)
- A BLAZING COMET FROM THE EAST (9/9/2022)
- CARMEN CAME IN JEANS (8/18/2022)
- NEW OPERA: STRANGER THAN FICTION (8/17/2022)
- ISOLDE’S TRIUMPH (8/17/2022)
- CLOSURE AVERTED AND THE BAND PLAYED ON (8/8/2022)
- AN OPERATIC TRIFECTA, WITH PARALLELS (7/20/2022)
- Post-Millennial Symphonic Innovation (6/24/2022)
- Old Testament Meets Ancient Greeks at the S.F. Symphony (6/11/2022)
- RESOUNDING NEW-AND-OLD PIANO CONCERTO (6/6/2022)
- AN IMPROBABLE WAGNER COMIC OPERA (5/30/2022)
- Opera Resounds, despite Adversity (5/21/2022)
- Black Women’s Creativity (5/18/2022)
- WOMEN AT SYMPHONIC FOREFRONT (5/15/2022)
- STRIKING GOLD IN THE MUSICAL YUKON (5/9/2022)
- THE SUBS SAVE A CHANCEY ‘SWAN LAKE’ (5/2/2022)
- FIRE AND ICE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS MAHLER (4/23/2022)
- NEW DANCES: WIGGLE, TWIDDLE AND FIDDLE (4/11/2022)
- FROM SANITY TO NUTTINESS IN MINUTES (4/10/2022)
- WORLD PREMIERE, THEN A FIRE-BRIGADE ENCORE FOR A SURPRISING ORCHESTRA (3/29/2022)
- CELEBRATING ASIAN ARTS, DANCE (3/27/2022)
- REMARKABLE CAREER = GREAT BALLET WITCH (3/23/2022)
- BACK-ROW PLAYERS COMING TO THE FOREFRONT (3/8/2022)
- THE TIMELIEST OPERA OF THEM ALL (2/25/2022)
- NEW BALLET: NOVEL AND NIMBLE BOTS? (2/11/2022)
- FORBIDDEN LOVERS ON BALLET STAGE (2/8/2022)
- AFTER TWO YEARS, CATHARSIS (2/1/2022)
- RUSSIANS, MTT: BOTH ARE BACK (1/23/2022)
- Pandemic Trumping Premiere (1/10/2022)
- Morris-Schumann: A Winning Pair (12/18/2021)
- CLEAR SAILING FOR THE CHORUS ONCE MORE (12/14/2021)
- FORGING A PATH TOWARD RESTORATION (11/22/2021)
- SNATCHING VICTORY FROM JAWS OF DELETION (11/20/2021)
- A WELCOME, HEARTFELT RETURN (11/15/2021)
- SPANIARDS LIGHTING UP S.F. SYMPHONY (11/6/2021)
- SYMPHONY’S NEW HIGH-RPM CONCERTO (10/23/2021)
- BEETHOVEN OPERA, HELD UP (10/17/2021)
- SAN JOSE & PREMIERE LOOK TO THE SOUTH (10/4/2021)
- NEW THRUSTS, VOICES, OVATIONS (10/3/2021)
- A Pan-demic Flight of Flute and Bird (9/11/2021)
- San Francisco’s, and the tenor’s, love for Tosca (8/28/2021)
- Exemplary Maestro Michael Morgan, 63 (8/22/2021)
- AGAIN, THE SUBS SAVE THE OPERA (8/10/2021)
- Bard, Britten, Britain, Combined (8/10/2021)
- NEW OPERA, AGELESS MYSTERIES (8/10/2021)
- GOOD MANNERS = GOOD MUSIC (8/10/2021)
- Operatic Lives and Loves, despite Family (7/25/2021)
- Firsts: Overlooked composer, a bridge-crossing conductor (7/24/2021)
- BRRR’S AND BRAVOS IN OPERA, SOCIALLY DISTANCED (7/16/2021)
- New Horizons, and a Tribute (7/15/2021)
- Today’s Sounds Streaming Today (7/3/2021)
- Orchestra Coming to Grips with the Past (6/26/2021)
- PERFORMING ARTS COMING BACK IN FORCE (6/20/2021)
- Agony, Ecstasy in San Francisco (6/11/2021)
- BRACING PROGRAM, EMERGING COMPOSERS (6/5/2021)
- An Off-Season of Invention (5/29/2021)
- Strings Embark on a Never-Never Land (5/21/2021)
- MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO SYMPHONIC MUSIC (5/14/2021)
- Renée’s Art Songs Meet the Brain (5/14/2021)
- A Post-Bernstein Foray into Musical Evolution (4/22/2021)
- S.F. Symphony’s Streamlined Set, Streaming (3/16/2021)
- Ballet Blends Balanchine, Shakespeare (2/15/2021)
- Intimate Sounds of Women’s Music at Forefront (2/9/2021)
- Play Maestro, Select the First Program (1/26/2021)
- A Singer with Consummate Sensitivity (1/17/2021)
- CLEVER NEW PATH TOWARD AN OPERA PREMIERE (12/29/2020)
- Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th (12/16/2020)
- Vibrant Symphony in Technology, Diversity (11/14/2020)
- Not in Nirvana Any More (9/12/2020)
- Clarinet for our Times (7/7/2020)
- Mozart Opera Lives Again (4/21/2020)
- A YOUTH CHORUS TO OPEN YOUR EARS, WIDE (3/14/2020)
- A Concerto for the Spirit of Today (2/29/2020)
- SYMPHONY’S CANNONS AND CANONS (2/20/2020)
- BALLET’S BRAIN-TEASERS, HEAD-SCRATCHERS (2/15/2020)
- BE MY VALENTINE, MACBETH! (2/14/2020)
- MATT BROWNE’S PRICELESS SUBTLETY (2/10/2020)
- Women Conquering Berkeley (2/6/2020)
- Unfamiliar Sounds from Poland (1/31/2020)
- DIVERSITY ON MANY LEVELS (1/24/2020)
- FROM DARKEST TIMES TO BRIGHT LIGHTS (1/20/2020)
- Taking Chances on the Unpredictable Stage (1/20/2020)
- HOLOCAUST VIOLINS EVOKE MOVING PREMIERE (1/19/2020)
- AX, WOLFE, MTT AT THE SYMPHONY (1/18/2020)
- RARE DUALITY IN A NEW SONG CYCLE (1/9/2020)
- SURPRISE BAROQUE THRILLS AND TRILLS (12/31/2019)
- TAPESTRIES, AND TEMPLE-TO-TANGO TRANSITIONS (12/22/2019)
- The Beethoven-Biss ‘Moonlight’ Approach (12/15/2019)
- NEW CONDUCTOR EARNING HIS SPURS FAST (12/9/2019)
- Music To Be Seen, Not Heard (12/8/2019)
- It’s All About the Pianist Upstage (12/1/2019)
- Smuin Ballet’s Choice Holiday Show (11/26/2019)
- Orchestra with Music to be Seen not Heard (11/23/2019)
- Korea Travels to Oakland (11/15/2019)
- Blazing Sample of Wagner Opera (11/15/2019)
- Cunningham Dances Go Far Afield (11/9/2019)
- Symphony Restoring Vitality (11/4/2019)
- High-Stepping Nonpareil Russians (11/2/2019)
- Shaw Oratorio Premiere (10/20/2019)
- Concerto Bewails Losing Earth (10/18/2019)
- FIGARO GREAT, ‘MARRIAGE’ LESS SO (10/16/2019)
- The Most Versatile Composer of All? (9/28/2019)
- COMPOSER’S REVENGE ON PIANISTS (9/28/2019)
- Scaling the Himalayas of Piano Music (9/27/2019)
- Dancers Overcoming Gravity (9/21/2019)
- John Adams’ Fast-Stepping Premiere (9/20/2019)
- WARSHIP’S UNJUST JUSTICE (9/7/2019)
- GALA MTT TRIBUTES OPEN SEASON (9/4/2019)
- Chamber Music: Masters’ Youth (8/21/2019)
- PASSION-WROUGHT ‘JENUFA;’ A HOT-AND-COLD ADULT FAIRY-TALE OPERA (8/21/2019)
- Getting Wet with the Festival Orchestra (8/12/2019)
- ORCHESTRAL FEEL-GOOD LOVE-IN (8/5/2019)
- HIT OPERA: IDENTITY IN FLUX (8/2/2019)
- Chamber Music Explorations (7/29/2019)
- FAILING IS AN OPTION, NOT REALITY (7/18/2019)
- CASTING THE FIRST STONE, OPERATICALLY (7/16/2019)
- Large theater thwarts intimate baroque (6/10/2019)
- Troupe Making Silk Purse from Sow’s Ear (6/3/2019)
- UNIQUE TROUPE’S FEARLESS ‘ACROBALLET’ (6/2/2019)
- The Song of the (Unsettled) Night (5/19/2019)
- A Hope-ful Jam Session (5/12/2019)
- DANCING TO THE DESPOTS (5/8/2019)
- AROUND THE WORLD WITH KRONOS (5/5/2019)
- DANCE MADNESS AT THE SYMPHONY (5/3/2019)
- KALEIDOSCOPIC MUSICAL EXPERIENCE (4/28/2019)
- REMEMBERING ZEMLINSKY (4/15/2019)
- EXUBERANCE OVER A PRODIGAL SON (4/15/2019)
- The Nonstop Opera Composer (4/7/2019)
- THE METHUSELAH OF MAESTROS (4/5/2019)
- OPERA PREMIERE: SIZE IS IMMATERIAL (4/1/2019)
- BEST CADAVERS TO DANCE WITH (3/31/2019)
- WILL THE SMARTPHONE MIRROR THE ECLIPSE? (3/31/2019)
- BALLET: FAILURE WAS NOT AN OPTION (3/23/2019)
- MIGRANTS’ RESOUNDING ORATORIO PREMIERE (3/19/2019)
- Too Much the Gentleman (3/15/2019)
- Surprise Verdi, Surprise Troupe (2/24/2019)
- Women Battling Racial Bias (2/24/2019)
- Historical Musical: Irish vs. Blacks (2/18/2019)
- Ballet Premiere/Derniere (2/18/2019)
- Moving Story Ballet; Others, Not So Moving (2/16/2019)
- Pianist: The father of us all? (2/13/2019)
- ‘Moby Dick’ a hit despite Absent Whale (2/11/2019)
- Where There’s Hope, There’s Life (2/8/2019)
- Berkeley Symphony: Equality and Premieres (2/2/2019)
- Stunning Ballet, Miscast Music (2/1/2019)
- Salonen Came, Saw, Conquered (1/19/2019)
- Moderns Take a Raft of Cellos (1/16/2019)
- The Fresh Festival Brings a “Reckoning” (1/12/2019)
- Bruckner Symphonies: Avoid the Wheezes (1/12/2019)
- Dvorak’s Music Eloquent in Ghost Story (1/10/2019)
- Berkeley’s Show-stopper Musical (1/9/2019)
- SURVIVING BY DINT OF IRONY (1/1/2019)
- THE CAROL THAT RESCUED A FAILING CHRISTMAS (12/24/2018)
- PETITE VIRTUOSO, IMMENSE POWER (12/17/2018)
- THE UNIQUE UPLIFT TO MUSIC OF CHRISTMAS (12/13/2018)
- CHRISTMAS BALLET’S GLITZ AND DAZZLE (12/9/2018)
- ELECTRONICS ENTERING STRING QUARTET WORLD (12/3/2018)
- EVERYMAN AS HERO IN OPERA (11/23/2018)
- AT THE SYMPHONY, ANNE FRANK IS ALIVE AND WELL (11/16/2018)
- EASTERN PROGRAM, STUNNING VIOLINIST (11/10/2018)
- The Elite Mariinsky (Don’t-Call-It-Kirov) Orchestra (10/22/2018)
- THE MODERNS ARE COMING!!! (10/21/2018)
- ASHEN COMMUNITY AND ITS CULTURE: RENEWAL! (10/8/2018)
- BERKELEY’S UNIQUE VACANCY IN MUSIC HISTORY (10/6/2018)
- SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN A VINTAGE ITALIAN OPERA (10/4/2018)
- STRAVINSKY’S SUPER NOVA, REVIVED (9/28/2018)
- THE METEOR THAT WAS AND IS STRAVINSKY (9/23/2018)
- WHIRLWIND ITALIAN OPERA ABOUT BRITISH MONARCH (9/9/2018)
- PERLMAN AND HIS SIX VIOLINISTS AT SYMPHONY OPENER (9/7/2018)
- MELDING BALLET WITH JAZZ (8/29/2018)
- DEBUSSY MARCHED TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER (8/27/2018)
- A DARING FESTIVAL, VEERING TO A TRANQUIL COURSE (8/16/2018)
- SLOW CURVES AND SUBTLE SWELLS AT CABRILLO (8/14/2018)
- GETTING IN THE SWIM WITH CABRILLO’S MODERNS (8/14/2018)
- TOP-FLIGHT CHAMBER MUSIC, AND MCGILL TOO (8/10/2018)
- ATOMS, THUNDERSTORMS SHAKING UP OPERA WORLD (8/9/2018)
- ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, ON TODAY’S FRONT LINES (8/6/2018)
- MIRACLES IN MENLO, BY WAY OF THE DANUBE (8/2/2018)
- THE UNLIKELIEST STAR RECITAL’S MUSICAL FIREWORKS (7/28/2018)
- RUSSIANS’ NEW MUSICAL PERMUTATIONS (7/22/2018)
- ANTON WEBERN: DOING IT HIS WAY (7/21/2018)
- VIRTUAL TRIP TO A VERY DIFFERENT SPACE (7/14/2018)
- MUSIC TO RECALL PAST DETENTIONS (7/2/2018)
- COMING OF AGE WITH THE MAHLER SYMPHONIES (7/1/2018)
- POWER LUST AND POLLUTION IN WAGNER FINALE (6/26/2018)
- VALKYRIES GALORE, ‘CHUTING OUT OF THE SKY (6/24/2018)
- LATEST RUSSIAN PIANO SENSATION AT THE SYMPHONY (6/24/2018)
- THE WAGNER ‘RING:’ THE GREATEST SHOW (6/22/2018)
- MUSCOVITES ARE BACK WITH GLOOM AND DOOM (6/22/2018)
- INFALLIBLE CHORUS: FINALLY FALLIBLE (6/11/2018)
- CANCELLATIONS AND EAR-OPENERS, AS WOMEN DOMINATE (6/10/2018)
- MAHLER’S SYMPHONIC FAREWELL TO US ALL (5/7/2018)
- 12 BALLET WORLD PREMIERES: AND NO STUMBLES (5/5/2018)
- BJÖRK, AND OTHER NEW BALLETS (5/3/2018)
- THIRD SET OF PREMIERES: MORE BALLET DIVERSITY (4/28/2018)
- S.F. BALLET: NEW WORKS WITH STORY LINES, AND A TRUE BALLERINA (4/27/2018)
- BOUND TO OUR SMARTPHONES, SAYS WHEELDON IN DANCE (4/23/2018)
- SMUIN’S PICKETT, CANIPAROLI STELLAR (4/22/2018)
- Circadian Quartet: From Another Galaxy? (4/15/2018)
- LERA’S IRON-MAN FEAT WITH “LABYRINTH” ON PIANO (3/29/2018)
- A ‘FROM THE TOP’ FAREWELL (3/27/2018)
- A CONDUCTOR CARRIED AWAY (3/26/2018)
- COOL COPLAND, HOT UZBEK PIANIST (3/18/2018)
- YOUNG VIOLINIST TEACHING PRICELESS LESSONS (3/17/2018)
- A BLOODY BALLET HORROR STORY (3/12/2018)
- RESURRECTING FORGOTTEN OLD NEW-WORLD WORKS (3/11/2018)
- WRITING THE WRONGS ON A CHORAL LEVEL – And Averting the Coral Riffs’ Dying Off (3/10/2018)
- GLASS TREADING ON OLD GLASS (2/22/2018)
- LIGHTS, IBSEN, ACTION AT S.F. BALLET (2/18/2018)
- THE DEATH OF THE STORY-BALLET TRADITION? (2/15/2018)
- IMMORTAL SEAFARER, DOOMED TO ETERNITY AT SEA (2/12/2018)
- BISS’ IRON-MAN FEAT: SIX CONCERTOS IN THREE DAYS (2/12/2018)
- A GALA YEAR FOR PODIUM SUBSTITUTIONS (2/4/2018)
- MIXED-MEDIA CHAMBER MUSIC (2/4/2018)
- RARE RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE OPERA INVADES THE BAY AREA (1/30/2018)
- CELEBRATING LOU AT 101 (1/25/2018)
- BROAD RANGE OF AN ORCHESTRA – St. Louis’ Rich Rep, and Student Co-Plays Too (1/19/2018)
- RISING FROM THE ASHES – A Santa Rosa Symphonic Renaissance (1/16/2018)
- A SMORGASBORD WITH GERMANIC ORIGINS (1/14/2018)
- THE NOBODIES’ GREAT GIFT TO EVERYBODY (12/20/2017)
- Handel’s ‘Joseph,’ Bride, and Brothers (12/18/2017)
- LIVING WOMEN, DEAD MEN (DE)COMPOSING (12/8/2017)
- ALMA, 12, IN STRIKING U.S. DEBUT – Just Don’t Call Her the ‘New Mozart’ (12/4/2017)
- NEW OPERA VIEWS UNDERBELLY OF GOLD RUSH – John Adams’ Moving Premiere, Warts and All (11/22/2017)
- IVES’ FOURTH: WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME (11/17/2017)
- UNFAMILIAR TWISTS IN CHAMBER MUSIC – Crack Tetzlaffs in Belated Berkeley Debut (11/13/2017)
- NEW CENTURY PLAYERS’ YOUTH MOVEMENT (11/11/2017)
- RUSSIANS SERVE US AN ULTRA-GENEROUS SYMPHONIC PROGRAM (11/6/2017)
- MEXICAN-AMERICAN AMITY IN OAKLAND (11/4/2017)
- S.F. SYMPHONY TURNS TO YOUNGER FAST-RISING GUESTS (10/22/2017)
- SYMPHONY PORTRAYING AN ENTIRE LIFETIME (10/21/2017)
- Chicago Meets Berkeley – Muti’s Orchestra in Rare Campus Visit (10/14/2017)
- GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES (10/6/2017)
- SMUIN PRESENTS A TASTY SMORGASBORD OF DANCE (10/3/2017)
- BIGGER THAN LIFE, AND FANTASTIQUE (10/1/2017)
- MTT Pays Cool Tribute to Bernstein (9/24/2017)
- VIOLINIST-LEADER BRINGS NEW SPIRIT TO NEW CENTURY (9/24/2017)
- THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE MILITARY LIFE (9/19/2017)
- THE YO-YO SHOW AT THE SYMPHONY-YO (9/16/2017)
- Old-vs.-New Ballet Crisis Recalled (8/29/2017)
- JOBS, THE SMART-PHONE GUY, GOES OPERATIC (7/23/2017)
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- EXOTIC BIRD, QUEEN, FABLE: RUSSIAN TRIFECTA (7/20/2017)
- MENLO PARK: BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE BACH (7/17/2017)
- BERLIOZ STRIVING TO RECAST THE SYMPHONY (6/29/2017)
- BEETHOVEN’S LIFE, AT PIANO OR NARRATED, IS A PENINSULA SUCCESS STORY (6/25/2017)
- SYMPHONY COUNTDOWNS: MODERNS, NOVELTIES, GLITZ (6/25/2017)
- WEDDING IN INDIA: A ROUSING NEW MUSICAL (6/16/2017)
- ‘DON GIOVANNI,’ DEFTLY SUNG AND ACTED BY NEWCOMERS (6/15/2017)
- THE RIGHT ‘RITE’ WITH THE RIGHT MAESTRA (6/13/2017)
- HARBISON MORE AT HOME IN CHURCH THAN OPERA (6/8/2017)
- OAKLAND BALLET: PHOENIX RISING OUT OF THE ASHES (6/3/2017)
- MULTI-DIMENSIONAL OPERA GOING FROM MISCHIEF TO MAYHEM (5/30/2017)
- A REFRESHING RUSH OF CHOREOGRAPHY (5/26/2017)
- MULTICULTURALIST HARRISON HONORED AT CENTENNIAL (5/21/2017)
- NADJA’S FAREWELL (5/19/2017)
- WHY THE MANIA OVER THIS NEW-CONCEPT MUSICAL ‘HAMILTON?’ (5/15/2017)
- POSTMODERN IMPRESSIONS OF OLD FOLK SONGS (5/9/2017)
- Return of a Gorgeous Cinderella at SF Ballet (5/5/2017)
- Berlioz’s Requiem: A Rafter-Shaking Experience (5/4/2017)
- A RELUCTANT SYMPHONY, AND THAT FRESH VIOLIN SPIRIT (4/29/2017)
- Performance as Bio-Archive: David Gordon at ODC (4/23/2017)
- VISITING LINCHPIN POWERS SUPERB MODERNIST MUSIC-THEATER (4/23/2017)
- LOU HARRISON: VERSATILE CHAMELEON AMONG COMPOSERS (4/22/2017)
- CAPTURING THE ELUSIVE CONCERT AUDIENCE (4/16/2017)
- DID BEETHOVEN MEET DEBUSSY IN A TIME WARP?? (4/13/2017)
- CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION IN ARRESTING NEW BALLET (4/8/2017)
- EXCEPT FOR A SLIP, BALLET PERFECTION (4/8/2017)
- DUSTING OFF MAHLER’S FIRST, TENTH (4/2/2017)
- OBSCURE OLD VIENNESE SYMPHONY REVIVED (3/18/2017)
- CONDUCTOR KAHANE RETURNS TO PIANO ROOTS (3/12/2017)
- SALOME JOINS HIGH SOCIETY (3/11/2017)
- ‘HEROINE-ISM’ SPOTLIGHTED IN MAJOR ADAMS WORK (2/26/2017)
- THE NIGHT THE GUNFIRE TOOK A REST (2/26/2017)
- TERROR IN THE ELEGANT ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ BALLET (2/25/2017)
- MUSIC FROM BRAKE DRUMS—–BUT WHICH ONES?? (2/19/2017)
- THE ‘QUARTER-STAGED’ ADAMS ORATORIO (2/18/2017)
- 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLT: IN BALLET (2/6/2017)
- A PRICELESS SEGMENT AMIDST A NIGHT OF BALLET (2/5/2017)
- MUSIC GOING STRAIGHT TO THE HEART (2/3/2017)
- MAHLER’S GORDIAN KNOT OF A CANTATA (1/16/2017)
- SHOSTAKOVICH, BERNSTEIN SURPRISES (1/9/2017)
- THE SPIRIT SINGS AT CHANTICLEER (12/24/2016)
- POETIC, BUT NOT REALLY POE-ETIC (12/6/2016)
- MEZZO MASTERS BAROQUE OPERA, GERMAN LIEDER (12/5/2016)
- BERLINERS GO VIENNESE IN SAN FRANCISCO (11/24/2016)
- SHAKE AND WAKE THE PATRONS (The L.A. Philharmonic) (11/1/2016)
- ETERNAL LIFE IS NOT UTOPIA (10/29/2016)
- A DYNAMO OF A CELLIST (10/22/2016)
- STRAVINSKY REVISITED IN BERKELEY (10/10/2016)
- A FLOOD OF INSPIRED STRAVINSKY (10/9/2016)
- REVIVAL OF AN ANCIENT TALE IN DANCE AND SONG (9/30/2016)
- SMUIN’S DANCES LIVE ON (9/24/2016)
- CHANTICLEER FALLS IN LOVE (9/19/2016)
- AN ARRESTING NEW AMERICAN-AND-CHINESE OPERA (9/11/2016)
- STEVE REICH CONQUERS SAN FRANCISCO (9/10/2016)
- A UNIQUE, EMPTY-PODIUM TRIBUTE (8/13/2016)
- ORCHESTRAL PUZZLES, SCI-FI VENTURES (8/12/2016)
- ALSOP LOVE-IN AT CABRILLO (8/6/2016)
- ALSOP’S FINALE CABRILLO SEASON (8/5/2016)
- GARRETT-MOULTON’S LIVE CONSTELLATION OF DANCE (7/29/2016)
- OUTWATER ELOQUENT IN TCHAIKOVSKY (7/24/2016)
- THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! (7/20/2016)
- SEIWERT’S NEW IDEAS, DIRECTIONS IN DANCE (7/13/2016)
- REVELATIONS OF MAHLER’S ‘RESURRECTION’ SYMPHONY (7/6/2016)
- PUT AMY X ON YOUR A LIST (6/27/2016)
- A VOICE OF DECONSTRUCTION (6/25/2016)
- WOMEN AT THE FOREFRONT (6/18/2016)
- ‘JENUFA:’ COMPELLING NATIONALIST OPERA (6/17/2016)
- SMUIN BALLET: PREDICTABLY ATTRACTIVE (5/17/2016)
- CHORUSES BRANCHING OUT (5/16/2016)
- AN UNKNOWN REPERTORY OF SACRED MUSIC (5/8/2016)
- ‘TREASURE ISLAND:’ SLAM-BANG PIRACY, MUTINY, GOLD (5/8/2016)
- THE ASCENT OF JOANA CARNEIRO (5/6/2016)
- A THEATER OF FOOTBALL, DANCE (5/5/2016)
- A PROMISING RISING SPANISH MAESTRO (5/5/2016)
- OLD-RUSSIAN TRAGEDY AT S.F. BALLET (5/1/2016)
- OPERATIC ‘STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE’ IN SAN JOSE (4/29/2016)
- INNOVATIONS AT OAKLAND BALLET (4/25/2016)
- START WITH TIARAS, TUTUS (4/17/2016)
- SCIENTISTS CROSS SWORDS (4/3/2016)
- MODERNS INSPIRED BY BEETHOVEN (4/2/2016)
- SACRIFICE TO ATTAIN WISDOM, REVELATIONS (3/29/2016)
- PRIZE-WINNING PLAY ABOUT THE OFFICE SCENE (3/27/2016)
- MONTREAL SYMPHONY CROSSES THE BORDER (3/26/2016)
- OPTIMISM AS OBFUSCATION (3/25/2016)
- CURIOUS FIGHTS BY THE ACOUSTICS (3/20/2016)
- NEGLECTED JEWEL AT THE OAKLAND SYMPHONY (3/18/2016)
- DIGGING UP NEW MUSIC, DIGGING UP AN OLD POPE (3/6/2016)
- ‘THE NETHER:’ IN AND OUT OF A VIRTUAL WORLD (3/5/2016)
- INDIA’S KATHAK DANCE (3/2/2016)
- PARDON AND PERFORMANCE FOR EXCLUDED USSR COMPOSERS (2/23/2016)
- S.F. BALLET’S ARCTIC ‘SWAN LAKE’ (2/22/2016)
- THE BLACK EXPERIENCE, VIA AUGUST WILSON (2/14/2016)
- OAKLAND SYMPHONY: EAST MEETS WEST (2/12/2016)
- BEETHOVEN TAKES A BACK SEAT WITH TAO DRIVING (2/7/2016)
- AN EXEMPLARY PROGRAM BY ENGLISH VIOLINIST-LEADER DANIEL HOPE (2/7/2016)
- A DANCE-TILL-YOU-DROP PREMIERE (2/6/2016)
- MESSIANIC MESSIAEN TRAVERSING U.S. NATIONAL PARKS (1/31/2016)
- MAHLER, ADAMS, ROBERTSON: STRONG COUPLINGS (1/31/2016)
- HOT S.F. BALLET PREMIERE BY SCARLETT (1/28/2016)
- POSTMODERN DANCE, 3D, & MAKE-BELIEVE ATOMS (1/20/2016)
- RUSSIAN VOICES, FROM CELESTIAL TO DESPONDENT (1/18/2016)
- SEX RULES THE OPERA STAGE (1/14/2016)
- CHAMBER MUSIC’S ORNITHOLOGICAL CORNUCOPIA (1/13/2016)
- TAUT CULTURE-CLASH DRAMA AT BERKELEY REP (12/20/2015)
- STRIKING GOLD IN HEGGIE’S NEW VOCAL WORK (12/16/2015)
- RIGHTING RODERICK IN POE’S SHORT STORY, USHERED IN (12/13/2015)
- CHANTICLEER PERENNIALS FOR CHRISTMAS (12/12/2015)
- WOMEN VIBRANTLY AT THE FOREFRONT (12/3/2015)
- MEDIEVAL NUREMBERG BARGING INTO THE 19TH CENTURY (11/23/2015)
- FILIPINO TANDEM TALES IN A.C.T.’S ‘MONSTRESS’ (11/22/2015)
- BIGGER-THAN-LIFE ORATORIO, ABOUT ALL HUMANITY (11/15/2015)
- IN OAKLAND, THE DEAD COME BACK TO LIFE (11/14/2015)
- NEW TWISTS IN BOY-GIRL MUSICAL (11/7/2015)
- CONTEMPORARY GALLIC-BERKELEY LINKAGE (11/7/2015)
- DAZZLING RHYTHMIC INTRICACIES (10/30/2015)
- THAT FORMIDABLE MOZART CLARINET QUINTET (10/25/2015)
- THE MAESTRA’S A NATURAL FOR SIBELIUS (10/24/2015)
- MY LAI WAR DISASTER DRAMATIZED (10/10/2015)
- POPULIST FOCUS AT S.F. SYMPHONY (10/4/2015)
- SYMPHONIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN OAKLAND (10/2/2015)
- ASTONISHING OPERATIC DOINGS AT MILLS COLLEGE (9/27/2015)
- CHANTICLEER IN MUSIC (VERY) OLD, (VERY) NEW (9/24/2015)
- GRAND AND CHAMBER: OPPOSING CONCEPTS (9/20/2015)
- DANCE INSPIRED BY WRITERS (9/19/2015)
- SONDHEIM’S ‘COMPANY’ RETURNS, TRACING WAYS OF LOVE (9/12/2015)
- BEETHOVEN, THIS TIME A MITE SHEEPISH (8/30/2015)
- SALOME MEETS THE OFFICE WORKER (8/27/2015)
- CIVIL WAR, SEEN FROM THE UNDERSIDE (8/24/2015)
- WAS IT THE FAULT’S FAULT? (8/17/2015)
- SANTA CRUZ SPRINGS TO LIFE (8/16/2015)
- YES, THERE IS A THERE THERE (8/9/2015)
- BERG’S OPERA ‘LULU’ IN OAKLAND (8/8/2015)
- A ‘RIGOLETTO’ TO DIE FOR (8/7/2015)
- EMERGING YOUNG CHAMBER-MUSIC COMPOSERS (8/7/2015)
- DEKKERS’ UNIQUE AUDIENCE IMPACT (7/25/2015)
- ANNA D. SMITH’S INTERACTIVE FORM OF THEATER (7/21/2015)
- STELLAR MIDSUMMER CHAMBER CONCERTS (7/19/2015)
- BLOCKBUSTER ‘TROYENS’ RUMBLES THROUGH SAN FRANCISCO (7/3/2015)
- SAN FRANCISCO’S OPERA PREMIERE IN ITALIAN (6/30/2015)
- A SITCOM-LIKE, SEINFELD-LIKE COMEDY (6/27/2015)
- BERKELEY REP’S UPDATE, 4 CENTURIES LATER (6/21/2015)
- SAN FRANCISCO’S DANCE CORNUCOPIA (6/15/2015)
- RARIFIED ATMOSPHERE OF ‘MISSA SOLEMNIS’ (6/11/2015)
- SMUIN BALLET, THREADING THE GENRES (6/6/2015)
- UNRAVELING RAVEL’S SPANISH VEIN (6/6/2015)
- FLOCKING JOYOUS BIRDS FROM ITALY (5/31/2015)
- STUNNING SYMPHONIC NIGHT (5/23/2015)
- REQUIEM FOR A CHAMBER-CONCERT SERIES (5/23/2015)
- OAKLAND BALLET’S EFFUSIVE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY (5/23/2015)
- BERNSTEIN’S ‘CANDIDE,’ A HIT IN CONCERT (5/15/2015)
- SHIFTING SHOALS, SHIFTING FAMILY TIES (5/5/2015)
- CAN AILEY CO. BUILD UPON ITS PAST? (4/28/2015)
- UNIQUE AQUATIC CREATION AT S.F. BALLET (4/17/2015)
- RATMANSKY’S TRIUMPHAL BALLET NIGHT (4/9/2015)
- ‘TARTUFFE’ ANEW AT THE BERKELEY REP (4/5/2015)
- DUSTED OFF, FROM THE TOP SHELF (2/25/2015)