Janos Gereben

During his decades of work as a prominent music critic, San Francisco Classical Voice founder Robert Commanday twice served as president of the North American Music Critics Association. This is his report on the upcoming Rubin Institute of Music Criticism at the S.F. Conservatory of Music.

"Hybridization has been the force that shaped radical changes in music history since Debussy,” says JooWan Kim, leader of the

Who but top Czech musicians should celebrate Antonín Dvořák?

Surrounded by the Death of Klinghoffer controversy once again (a subject I now leave to those who haven't seen the opera and are interested only in causes that have nothing to do with music, or shall we revive the Great Wagner Dustup again?), composer John Adams is due at the Berkeley Festival of Ideas at 9 a.m. Oct. 25.