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Jesse Hamlin

Jesse Hamlin has written for The San Francisco Chronicle and other publications over the past 30 years on a wide range of music and art, covering jazz musicians and symphonic conductors, sculptors, poets, and architects. He has also written for The New York Times, Art & Auction and Columbia magazines, as well as liner notes for CDs by Stan Getz and Cal Tjader.

Articles by this Author

Opera San José Set to Soar With a Lush <em>Anna Karenina</em> - Article
August 23, 2010

Composer David Carlson was watching a rehearsal of his first opera, The Midnight Angel, at Opera Theatre of St. Louis in 1993 when Colin Graham, the company’s artistic director, sheepishly walked up, handed him an envelope, and walked away.

The Wallfisches: Winding Up Their Carmel Run - Celebrity Q&A
July 12, 2010

In 1993, a year after he’d taken over the directorship of the Carmel Bach Festival, Maestro Bruno Weil tapped the celebrated Baroque and classical violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch to serve as concertmaster for the festival orchestra. The ensemble would never be the same.

Making Music Live in the Oakland Schools - Article
April 20, 2010
Misha Dichter Rides Again - Article
February 16, 2010
Weathering the Financial Meltdown - Article
September 29, 2009
Doing the Work of Genius - Preview
July 28, 2009
An Interview With Bruno Weil - Celebrity Q&A
July 13, 2009
Robert Cole - Celebrity Q&A
May 19, 2009
Donald Runnicles - Celebrity Q&A
May 13, 2009
Deep Listening: <br>Music, Our Brains, Ourselves - Article
April 28, 2009

Like a lot of us, monkeys generally prefer a Russian lullaby to German techno music. But given a choice between music and silence, the apes opt for quiet. It seems their brains simply aren’t wired to enjoy music or pay it much mind.

“They don’t care about it,” said Vinod Menon, the noted Stanford neuroscientist who’s deeply engaged in research on music and the brain.

Vallejo's Fortune - Preview
April 20, 2009