2000 Article Index

• "Master Class!" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Master Classes)

• Music Shorts

• Clavion Ensemble
• Chanticleer
• San Francisco Symphony

• "Christmas Oratorio, Leipzig to New York" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Leipzig sings Weihnachts-Oratorium, Cantatas 1-3, with the New York Philharmonic)

• Music Shorts
• Listeners' Box [missing]

• San Francisco Symphony
• Magnificat
• Steven Osborne
• The Metropolitan Opera (Rosenkavalier)
• Pacific Mozart
• Eroica Trio
• Baroque Choral
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• San Jose Chamber Orchestra
• San Francisco Conservatory

• "Changes at the Top" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Management changes at Columbia Artists Management Inc.,announcement of Nancy Bechtle's departure)

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Opera
• San Francisco Symphony
• Philharmonia Baroque
• Jeffrey Kahane
• California Bach Society
• Composers Inc.
• Pepe Romero and Cem Duruoz
• SF State Youth Orchestra Violinists
• Schwungvoll
• San Francisco Choral Artists

• "Changes at the Top" by Robert Commanday (Subject: NY Philharmonic search for a new artistic director/conductor)

• Marin Symphony
• Bach and Mahler

• "The 'Autumn Leaves' of Choral Singing" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Independent Concert Choirs)

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Opera (Rosenkavalier)
• San Francisco Symphony
• Academy of Ancient Music
• Shirai
• Shirai
• Oakland East Bay Symphony
• Deborah Voigt
• New Century Chamber Orchestra
• San Francisco Choral Society
• San Jose Symphony
• Trio

• "Birthday Boy, At 100 and Undiminished" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Aaron Copland)

• Listeners' Box

• Psappha Ensemble
• San Francisco Symphony
• Berkeley Symphony
• Empyrean Ensemble
• Steve Reich Ensemble
• Ives Quartet
• Minyoung Lee

• "After Long Absence, Chamber Opera!" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Ronald Caltabiano's Marrying The Hangman)

• Listeners' Box

• San Francisco Opera (Semele)
• Arkadi Volodos
• Alexander Quartet
• San Francisco Symphony
• Santa Rosa Symphony
• Les Percussions de Strasbourg

• "Witchcraft Down South" by Alan Rich (Subject: Bostridge and the Philharmonic's Chamber Music Society at Gindi Auditorium)

• Music Shorts

• Kremerata Baltica
• Emerson String Quartet
• Ian Bostridge
• San Francisco Symphony
• Hilary Hahn
• California Symphony
• Earplay
• Daniel Glover
• Whole Noyse & Sex Chordae
• Bach Aria Group

• "Countering The Desensitization Virus" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Overly familiar works or "favorites")

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Opera (L'Elisir)
• San Francisco Symphony
• NDR Symphony
• Daniel Mueller-Schott
• Left Coast Ensemble
• California Bach Society
• Napa Valley Symphony
• Robert Schwartz
• Mills College
• San Jose Symphony

• "Music's Silent Majority" by Robert Commanday (Subject: How culture affects the way we listen to music)

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Symphony
• West Bay Opera (La Traviata)
• Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
• Composers Inc.
• Murray Perahia
• Del Sol String Quartet
• Lynn Schugren
• San Francisco Symphony Musicians
• Canin-Varga-Bogas Trio

• "Virtuosity As A Virtue" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Terminology: "Virtuosity")

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Opera (Deadman)
• San Francisco Symphony
• Haydn Ensemble Berlin
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Fremont Symphony
• jean Jeanrenaud

• "The Tree Fall Was Heard" by Michelle Dulak (Subject: San Francisco Conservatory)

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Symphony
• Womans Philharmonic
• Takacs Quartet
• Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players
• Jean-Michel Fonteneau and Ian Swensen
• Magnificat

• "Program Notes — Boon, Bone, or Bane?" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Program Notes)

• San Francisco Opera (Baby Doe)
• San Francisco Symphony
• Evgeny Kissin
• Mark Morris Dance Group
• Mills College
• Augarten Ensemble
• Scott Tennant (San Francisco Guitar Quartet)
• Placidalia, the Empire

• "The Conductor Search Comes Home To Roost" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Conductor Searches)

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Opera (Tsar's Bride)
• Kirov Orchestra
• String Trio

• "Fleeting Memories of Music Past" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Music and Memory)

• Music Shorts

• San Francisco Opera (Luisa Miller)
• Tribute to Mansouri
• Opera San Jose (Onegin)
• Philharmonia Baroque
• Los Angeles Opera (Aida and Cenerentola)
• Chinese National Orchestra

• "Hearing Is Believing" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Visual and Vocal Performances)

• Music Shorts [Missing]

• San Francisco Symphony
• Petaluma Music Festival
• Daniel Reiter and Natalie Cox

• "Ring the Merry Bells on Board Ship" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Lamplighters' Pinafore)

• Music Shorts

• Midsummer Mozart Festival
• Lamplighters
• Ahn Trio
• microFestival (musique Acousmatique)
• Musica Angelica (Hollywood Bowl, Lang Lang, Andre Watts, Beyond Baroque Sound Fest III)

• "JUILLIARD! (Part I)" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Juilliard: A History by Andrea Olmstead)

• San Francisco Opera (Don Giovanni) [missing]
• Soli Deo Gloria & Teatro Bacchino
• Bryn Terfel
• UC Collegium Musicum and Chamber Chorus (The King's Noyse)
• San Francisco City College [missing]

• "Whatever Happened To What's His Name?" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Roger Sessions and Darius Milhaud)

• Frederica von Stade and Jake Heggie
• West Bay Opera
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Womens Philharmonic
• Opera down South

• "Early Music Takes Center Stage" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Berkeley Festival and Exhibition)

• San Francisco Symphony
• Schwabacher Debut Recital
• San Jose Chamber Orchestra
• Robin Sutherland
• Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
• San Francisco Youth Symphony
• Master Sinfonia
• Sonos
• Gold Coast Chamber Players

• "Symphonically Speaking, What's Happening?" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Symphonies searching for conductors)

• Angela Hewitt
• San Francisco Symphony
• Helene Grimaud
• San Francisco Chamber Singers
• William Wellborn
• New Century Chamber Orchestra
• California Bach Society
• Nagano-Reiss-Hersh Trio
• Electronic Music Festival
• Electronic Music Festival

• "Manning The Ramparts...Still" by Robert Commanday (Subject: NY Times column on serialism)

• Listeners' Box

• Haken Hagegard
• Berkeley Contemporary Music Festival
• San Francisco Opera Center (Herring)
• Haken Hagegard
• San Francisco Symphony
• Musica Pacifica (Ellen Hargis)
• Gil Shaham
• Antigoni Goni Karin Schaup

• "Making A Stand On A Burning Deck" by Robert Commanday (Subject: New York Times Arts and Leisure puff piece on Mark O'Connor)

• Listeners' Box

• Yo-Yo Ma (Mark Connor, Edgar Meyer)
• San Francisco Symphony
• New York Ensemble for Early Music
• Composers Inc.
• Marion verbruggen (American Bach Soloists)
• Keller String Quartet
• San Francisco Conservatory
• Opera Review
• Hopkinson Smith

• "Put Your Words Where Your Mouth Is" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Anunciation in Opera)

• Philharmonia Baroque
• Czech Philharmonic
• English Concert
• Marin Symphony
• Other Minds Festival
• Other Minds Festival
• Pacific Mozart Ensemble
• Adesson Percussion Ensemble
• Peninsula Symphony

• "Some Apples! Some Oranges!" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Fremont Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony)

• Thomas Quastoff
• Eroica Trio
• San Francisco Conservatory
• David Golub
• Earplay
• Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
• Baroque Choral Guild
• Lawrence Ferrara and Tom Leisek
• Cygnus Ensemble

• "The Visualizing Thing" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Seeing Music)

• Alexander String Quartet
• St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
• California Bach Society
• Emil Miland and Lois Brandwynne
• Allyson McHardy and Todd Geer
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Worn Ensemble

• "In Search of Leadership" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Artistic Leadership)

• Stern-Ma-Laredo-Ax
• Marin Symphony
• Berkeley Symphony
• Anne-Sophie Mutter
• Women's Philharmonic
• Gabriela Montero
• Kristin Clayton
• Weilerstein Trio
• West Bay Opera

• "Come On In. The Water's Fine." by Robert Commanday (Subject: Taking stock of SFCV)

• Music News
• Listeners' Box

• New Century Orchestra
• San Francisco Symphony
• The Tallis Scholars
• Emanuel Ax
• Composers Inc.
• Estonian Chamber Choir (Tallinn Chamber Orchestra)
• William Corbett-Jones

• "Parents In The Van Guard" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Parental involvement in learning and music)

• Op-Ed

• Santa Rosa Symphony
• Wendy Hillhouse
• Jacques Thibaud Trio
• Wolfgang Holzmair
• San Francisco Symphony
• California Symphony
• San Francisco Conservatory Music
• Gold Coast Chamber Players
• Petersen String Quartet

• "Amplified Singing or 'The Witch's Curse'" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Amplification of Singers)

• San Francisco Symphony
• Foxglove Ensemble
• San Jose Symphony
• Bielawa
• Magnificat
• Movie Review

• "Dreaming With The Lights On" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Critics who review the audience)

• San Francisco Symphony
• Oakland East Bay Symphony
• Janet Packer
• Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
• Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet
• Kazuhito Yamashita
• College of Marin
• Philharmonia Baroque
• Napa Symphony Orchestra
• San Francisco Sinfonietta

• "A Dual Treasure" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Bonnie Hampton and Nathan Schwartz)

• Thomas Hanson
• San Francisco Symphony Players
• San Francisco Symphony
• SF Contemporary Music Players
• Itzhak Perlman
• New Century Chamber Orchestra
• Cho-Liang Lin and Andre Schub

• "Early Music? Now Mainstream" by Robert Commanday (Subject: Early Music Movement)

• San Francisco Symphony
• Royal Philharmonic
• Midsummer Mozart
• Sanford Dole Ensemble
• American Bach Soloists
• Master Guild Chamber Music

• "In Their Hands, The Violin's Future" by Robert Commanday (Subject: 21st Century Violinists, Vol. 1)

• Sacramento Philharmonic
• Santa Rosa Symphony
• San Francisco Symphony
• American Baroque
• Arlekin String Quartet
• Vera Breheda and Jerry Kuderna
• Glimmerglass & Metropolitan Operas

• "Looking Forward" by Robert Commanday (Subject: The New Year)

• Northern Kunju Theater