1999 Article Index

• "Things Are Looking Up" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Music in the New Millenium)

• American Bach Soloists (Messiah)

• "Bach in Excelsis" by Alan Rich (Subject: Bach)

• New Century Chamber Orchestra
• Chanticleer
• Michelle Troise

• "S.F. Opera Finishes With The Century" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Wrap-up of the opera season)

• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Alexander String Quartet
• Richard Stoltzman
• Mills Contemporary Performing Ensemble
• Baroque Choral Guild

• "Something New, Wonderful, Different" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Andrew Imbrie CD)

• San Francisco Opera (La Bohème)
• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Philharmonia Baroque (Messiah)
• California Bach Society
• Frederica Von Stade

• "News, News--Just The Good Stuff" by Robert Commanday (Subject: C.P.E. Bach Archives in Kiev in the Ukraine)

• San Francisco Opera (Nabucco)
• Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
• Les Arts Florissants
• Les Arts Florissants
• Garrick Ohlsson
• Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (Kent Nagano)
• Composers, Inc.
• Robert Helps
• Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan)
• Orion String Quartet
• Ives String Quartet

• "A Ghost Story" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Idomeneo and the San Francisco Opera)

• Les Arts Florissants
• Les Arts Florissants
• Garrick Ohlsson
• Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (Kent Nagano)
• Composers, Inc.
• Robert Helps
• Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan)
• Orion String Quartet
• Ives String Quartet

• "In Search of Lost Time II" by Robert Commanday (Subject: The "Graying" of audiences)

• San Francisco Opera (Idomeneo)
• San Francisco Symphony (Han-na Change, Herbert Blomstedt)
• Opera San Jose (Nutcracker)
• UC Chourus and Symphony
• St. Lawrence Quartet
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Louis Lortie
• Empyrean Ensemble
• Pacific Mozart Ensemble
• Derriere Guard Festival

• "In Search of Lost Time" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Books by James Gleick and Sven Birkerts and the acceleration of everything)

• San Francisco Opera (Wozzeck)
• San Francisco Symphony (Yefim Bronfman, Yuri Temirkanov)
• San Francisco Conservatory
• Kiri Te Kanawa
• Stephen Salters
• Borodin Quartet
• Philharmonia Baroque
• SF State Chamber Singers

• "Get Up And Yell With Isaac Stern" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Isaac Stern's My First 79 Years)

• San Francisco Symphony (St. Matthew Passion, Peter Schreier)
• Golden Gate Opera (Un Ballo in Maschera)

• "Grand Delusions In L.A." by Alan Rich (Subject: Los Angeles Philharmonic all-Russian bash)

• San Francisco Symphony (Nigel Kennedy, Andres Delfs)
• Guarneri String Quartet
• National Symphony Orchestra (Mstislav Rostropovich)
• Jean-Michel Fonteneau
• John Williams
• U.C. Chamber Chorus
• Marcia Gronewold

• "Opera Broadcasts, Where To From Here?" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on KBZS-AM)

• San Francisco Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor)
• San Francisco Symphony (Yan Pascal Tortelier)
• Ian Swensen
• Stephen Hough
• Interview with Frederic Chopin
• Womens Philharmonic (Dance of Wild Angels)
• San Francisco Bach Choir
• Composers, Inc.
• Á Tempo Chamber Ensemble

• "One Woman's Historic Enterprise" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Ruth Felt)

• San Francisco Symphony (John O' Conor, Libor Pesek)
• Western Opera Theater (Don Giovanni)
• Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
• Matthew Laurence Edwards
• Marin Symphony Orchestra (Alexander Shtarkman, Gary Sheldon)
• Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

• "Follow Up and Follow Through" by Robert Commanday (Subject: San Francisco Opera's Marilyn Horne and Friends)

• San Francisco Opera (La Favorite)
• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• San Francisco Opera (Tribute to Marilyn Horne)
• San Francisco Opera (La Favorite)
• Garrick Ohlsson
• Magnificat (La serva padrona)
• Takacs Quartet

• "From Stuttgart, San Francisco Opera's Next General Director" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Pamela Rosenberg to succeed Lotfi Mansouri)

• San Francisco Symphony (Robin Sutherland, Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Kronos Quartet
• Takacs Quartet
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Sarah Ganz, Donna Bruno, David Lockert
• The Whole Noyse
• Reah Sadowsky
• Terrie Baune and Deborah Clasquin
• Vallejo Symphony (Helene Wickett, David Ramadanoff)

• "Singing Like Gold" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Singers with longevity)

• San Francisco Opera (Louise)
• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Anna Carol Dudley
• Jupiter Quartet

• "Symphony Opening, The Long And Short Of It" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Opening of the 88th season)

• Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Hercules)
• San Francisco Opera (Un Ballo in Maschera)
• Judith Nelson
• Los Angeles Opera (Samson et Dalila)

• "Another Opening, Another Show?" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Season Openings)

• SF Orchestra split

• "What A Difference A Year Makes" by Robert Commanday (Subject: First anniversary of SFCV)

• Listeners' Box

• Hollywood Bowl

• "Trouble In River City" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Rebirth of the Sacramento Symphony)

• Redwoods Music Festival
• Asian Youth Orchestra
• San Francisco Lyric Chorus

• "Here Comes Youth" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Youth orchestras)

• Festival Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor)
• Cabrillo Music Festival
• San Francisco Opera (Merola Program Grand Finale)
• Music Academy Of The West

• "Newspapers! And Then There Was One" by Robert Commanday (Subject: SF Examiner's purchase of SF Chronicle and California newspaper coverage of the arts)

• Midsummer Mozart Festival
• Chanticleer
• San Francisco Choral Society

• "Recording Around The Bay" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Bay Area CD recordings)

• Midsummer Mozart Festival
• Merola Opera Program (The Italian Girl in Algiers)
• Hollywood Bowl

• "Programming, An Art And A Cause" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Symphony programming)

• Listeners' Box

• Carmel Bach Festival
• Berkeley Opera (Serpentina)
• Clark Griffith

• "Festivals! Festivals?" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Summer festivals)

• Listeners' Box

• Carmel Bach Festival
• Mendocino Music Festival
• Carmel Bach Festival
• Berkeley Opera (Tales of Hoffmann)
• Francine Lancaster and Roger Wesmeyer

• "Really Learning It--An Option?" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Samuel Sanders and accompanists)

• Listeners' Box

• San Francisco Opera (Merola Program, Don Giovanni)
• Festival Opera (The Marriage of Figaro)
• Bentley, Klingelhoffer, Cogan Trio
• Oregon Bach Festival
• Oregon Bach Festival

• "A Summer Engagement" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Summer renewal and focused listening)

• Music in the Mountains
• Cleveland Orchestra (George Szell)

• "Inspiring With Stravinsky" by Robert Commanday (Subject: SF Symphony's Stravinsky Festival)

• San Francisco Symphony (Michelle De Young, Richard Clement, Grant Youngblood, Michael Tilson Thomas)
• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Marin Summer Opera (Heaven Ablaze In His Breast)

• "What Constitutes Opera" by Robert Commanday (Subject: The role of music in operatic story-telling)

• San Francisco Opera (Die Götterdämmerung)
• San Francisco Symphony (Peter Serkin, Michael Tilson Thomas)
• San Francisco Symphony (Mavericks concert, Michael Tilson Thomas)
• San Francisco Symphony Musicians
• Pocket Opera (Mary Stuart)

• "Here's To Our Musicians, And Those Coming Up" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Praise for SF Musicians and Irving M. Klein string competition)

• San Francisco Opera (Das Rheingold)
• San Francisco Opera (Die Walküere)
• San Francisco Opera (Siegfried)
• San Francisco Symphony (Richard Clement, Lisa Vroman, Michael Tilson Thomas)
• San Francisco Opera (Stravinsky Festival, Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Berkeley Symphony (Kent Nagano)
• Karol Radziwonowicz
• San Francisco Choral Artists
• Film Review (Red Violin)

• "Our One And Only" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Agnes Albert)

• U.C. Davis Music, Dramatic and Dance Depts.
• Old First Concerts tribute to John Bodo
• Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Tristan und Isolde)

• "The Beethoven Imperative Notes from Los Angeles" by Alan Rich (Subject: Beethoven)

• The Women's Philharmonic
• San Francisco Girls Chorus
• Gian-Carlo Menotti's (The Consul)
• San Jose Choral Project

• "Let's Hear It for Ockeghem" by Alan Rich (Subject: Early Music specialists, Magnificat and Anonymous 4)

• Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan)
• Alexander and Chamberlain String Quartets
• New Century Chamber Orchestra
• Midsummer Mozart Festival
• Rodney Gilfry
• Norman Shankle

• "A Memoir and a List, Part Two" by Alan Rich (Subject: Alan Rich's memoir)

• San Francisco Symphony
• Ives Quartet
• Runnicles and Friends
• Cinnabar Opera Theater

• "A Memoir and a List, Part One" by Alan Rich (Subject: Alan Rich's memoir)

• Pacifica Quartet
• San Francisco Symphony (George Benjamin)
• Peggy Kriha Dye

• "A Matched Quartet" by Tom Heimberg (Subject: 10th annual Ellen M. Egger quartet concert)

• Anonymous 4 and Lionheart
• California Bach Society
• Teatro Bacchino (Aminta e Fillide)
• San Francisco Symphony
• Santiago Rodriguez
• Earplay

• "Now What It Is, But How" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Original forms of music defying categorization)

• Listeners' Box

• Stephen Kovacevich
• Oakland Symphony (Yakov Kasman, Michael Morgan)
• California Composers
• San Francisco Opera Center (Cosi fan tutte)
• David Russell
• Ruth Ann Swenson

• "Win Some, Lose Some, Lose Some" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Reviews of some peak season concerts)

• Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
• Santa Rosa Symphony (Jeffrey Kahane)
• Ensemble Intercontemporain
• Philip Glass Ensemble
• New Century Chamber Orchestra
• Stephen Kovacevich
• Aurora Quartet
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

• "Make Music Not War" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: War Requiem at the Santa Rosa Symphony)

• Guarneri Quartet
• Dawn Upshaw
• Dubravka Tomsic
• San Francisco Symphony (Jiri Belohlavek)
• Murray Perahia
• Redwood Symphony (Eric Kujawsky)
• James Westman
• Berkeley Symphony (Kent Nagano)

• "Classical Music Radio, A Phoenix? Well, Maybe" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Public Radio cuts)

• Composers, Inc.
• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Joshua Bell
• Women's Philharmonic

• "Get Me To The Church Intime" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Concerts at low-cost venues)

• Listeners' Box
• Op-Ed

• San Francisco Symphony (Roberto Abbado)
• Other Minds Festival

• "Computers Can't Sing" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: In classrooms, computers in are in and music is out)

• Marin Symphony (Gary Sheldon)
• California Youth Symphony (Leo Eylar)
• Schumann Symposium Concert
• Paul Dresher Ensemble

• "Music's Great Evangelist" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Yehudi Menuhin)

• San Francisco Symphony (Herbert Blomstedt)
• California Bach Society
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Angelika Kirschschlager
• Yefim Bronfman
• Fou Ts'ong
• Manuel Barrueco and Emmanuel Pahud

• "Fusion and Confsion" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Yehudi Menuhin)

• Berkeley Opera (Peony Pavilion)
• San Francisco Symphony (Jeffrey Tate)
• Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
• Golden Gate Opera (Plump Jack)
• Jeffrey Kahane and Fred Hersch
• Mel Ulrich

• "Re-Living The Opera Experience--On The Air!" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Re-hearing broadcasts)

• Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan)
• Padua Chamber Symphony
• Wendy Chen
• Berkeley Contemporary Music Players
• Aurora Strong Quartet
• Masterworks Chorale

• "Not "Where Are The Composers?" Where Are Their Advocates?" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Composer's Advocates)

• San Francisco Symphony (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
• Santa Rosa Symphony (Jeffrey Kahane)
• Robert McDuffie
• Tokyo String Quartet
• West Bay Opera (Carmen)
• Carmina Quartet
• William Wellborn
• Berkeley Opera (Don Giovanni)
• Chorovaya Akademia

• " Semi-annual 'Stockholders' Report--To and, With Luck, From..." by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Taking stock of SFCV)

• Feature

• Evgeny Kissin
• Composers, Inc.
• Munich Chamber Orchestra
• Orlando Consort
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players

• "Acknowledgement, Long-Delayed But Welcome" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: NY Times Music Department)

• Classical Philharmonic
• Juilliard String Quartet
• Ahn Trio
• Christoph Pregardien
• Clavion Quartet

• "After Lotfi Mansouri--Who and What Next?" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Lotfi Mansouri steps down as General Director of SF Opera)

• Feature (Philadelphia Orchestra)

• Lynn Harrell Philharmonic
• Orchestra Sonoma (Nan Washburn)
• Emerson String Quartet
• Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
• Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan)
• Empyrean Ensemble
• Earplay
• Opera San Jose (Don Giovanni)

• "Robert Shaw, Master Builder" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Robert Shaw)

• Santa Rosa Symphony (Jeffrey Kahane)
• Peter Serkin
• Marin Symphony (Gary Sheldon)
• Alexandra Hawley and David Tanenbaum
• Lamplighters
• Women's Philharmonic

• "The San Francisco Opera Coming Up Short" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Leadership at the SF Opera)

• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Ben Heppner
• Vallejo Symphony (David Ramadanoff)
• New Century Chamber Orchestra
• Lisa Delan and Kristin Pankonin

• "The San Francisco Symphony In Retrograde" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: Programming at the SF Symphony)

• New York Philharmonic
• San Francisco Opera (Madama Butterfly)
• San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Renee Fleming
• David Finckel and Wu Han
• Peter Grunberg
• Lilya Zilberstein

• "Leave Well Enough Alone" by Robert P. Commanday (Subject: The film Hilary and Jackie)

• Songs Sad And Sardonic
• Weill And Brecht Meet Charles Lindbergh
• News Feature (Mozart for Rats, and Other Wonders)