Janos Gereben
Janos Gereben appreciates news tips, corrections, and words of encouragement at janosg@gmail.com.
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Music News: Feb. 7, 2012
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February 7, 2012
No matter how many productions you might have seen of Mozart’s Magic Flute, almost certainly none was like what
Music News: Jan. 31, 2012
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January 31, 2012
Tchaikovsky is not always fully appreciated among listeners whose ennui is triggered too easily.
Music News: Jan. 24, 2012
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January 24, 2012
The lunar new year, which started yesterday, means celebrations for Vietnamese (Te’t), Koreans (Seol-nal), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), and many others, but the shorthand reference is usually “Chinese New Year.” And, for Chinese, Chinese-Americans, and and all San Franciscans, it is Year 4710 (or 4709 or 4649, depending).
William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan always traversed those genres, and some more. The safest description is that these buoyant, sparkling theater pieces are "G&S."
There is a story going around the Internet about the San Francisco Opera's financial problems. Curiously, it's a
Music News: Jan. 17, 2012
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January 17, 2012
The deeply moving Sunday New York Times story about
Music News: Jan. 10, 2012
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January 10, 2012
Merola Opera Program’s 55th season opens with announcements of bequests totaling $3.5 million from the Jack H. Lund Charitable Trust and the Blanche Thebom Trust. Lund was a native San Franciscan supporter of the arts whose trust fund was established in 2000, especially dedicated to the training of young musicians.
The 2012 portion of the San Francisco Symphony's centennial season opened with a marketing-trophy invitation:
Music News: Jan. 3, 2011
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January 3, 2012
Mercifully varying from the demise of 
Product of a difficult birth — of great effort, difficult fundraising, delays, and mounting costs — Sonoma State University's Donald & Maureen Green Music Center is finally reality; a splendid one.
Music News: Dec. 27, 2011
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December 27, 2011
Music News: Dec. 20, 2011
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December 20, 2011
Money problems have caught up with the
Music News: Dec. 13, 2011
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December 12, 2011
Donald Pippin marked his 86th birthday with business as usual: working.
Who knew that just a few months after the San Francisco Opera splendid Ring cycles, there would be another great Wagner experience, just across Grove Street. But so it is, and you can be part of it
Music News: Dec. 6, 2011
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December 6, 2011
“Joyce DiDonato and Susan Graham are here courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera,” Marilyn Horne told a full house in Herbst Theatre Saturday. “Richard Stillwell is here courtesy of the Chicago Lyric.
Music News: Nov. 29, 2011
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November 29, 2011
Saving cultural institutions in the days of the Supercommittee failure and continuing recession is hard enough. To build and expand are rarer than hens’ teeth.