Thomas Busse
Thomas Busse, www.tbusse.com, is a professional tenor.
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Chamber Music REVIEW
November 20, 2011
The Palace of the Legion of Honor does almost everything possible to sabotage a duo performing medieval love songs.
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November 12, 2011
In its 20th season, Magnificat brings an ancient biblical oratorio to life in a manner the composer would have recognized.
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November 5, 2011
A Chicago string band, despite its credible playing, comes up a bit short on forces and programming choices.
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October 30, 2011
One of America’s best early-music ensembles combines forces with a sterling but hard-to-watch countertenor.
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October 22, 2011
Creative performances and unusual music choices highlight a program of antique Gypsy music.
More about San Francisco Early Music Society »Choral REVIEW
October 16, 2011
With superb soloists and instrumentalists, Magnificat delivers a perfect rendition of Charpentier’s masque Descent of Orpheus Into the Underworld.
More about Magnificat »Opera REVIEW
September 11, 2011
Opera San José’s sumptuous new production of Idomeneo marks a step forward for the South Bay company.
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May 21, 2011
A performance by the San Francisco Bach Choir of the B-minor Mass doesn't take advantage of a wealth of resources available in the talented group.
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May 15, 2011
In a program of difficult Bach cantatas, the singers of the Pacific Collegium — men and boys — came through impressively.
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May 8, 2011
Antonio Lotti’s astonishingly good Mass emerges from history’s shadows, thanks to the American Bach Soloists’ efforts.
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March 27, 2011
The Tallis Scholars give splendid, well-blended performances of music from the Spanish Renaissance.
More about Cal Performances »Chamber Orchestra/Orchestra REVIEW
March 13, 2011
In the Marin Symphony’s lively pops-cum-masterworks concert Sunday, Bay Area composer Nathaniel Stookey ran away with the show.
More about Marin Symphony »Choral REVIEW
February 26, 2011
It would have been hard to tell, observing the small, graying audience in St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco on Saturday, that videos of the early-music band Voices of Music had received, as of this writing, 3,558,070 hits on YouTube. I suspect a good deal of those came from Web queries for the famous Pachelbel Canon, of which VOM has posted an excellent recording.
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February 16, 2011
“The Electric Voice,” Stanford Lively Arts' program of new works for electronics and voice, featuring bass Nicholas Isherwood, reinforced the contradictions and arrogance often associated with the field of highbrow electronic music.
More about Stanford Live (formerly Stanford Lively Arts) »Chamber Orchestra/Orchestra REVIEW
January 30, 2011
A concert put on by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony offered great variation in technical accomplishment — often very good — and it took on interest for the wider musical community with the appearance of Brian Thorsett and with the premiere of three songs by S.F. composer David Conte.
More about Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) »Chamber Music REVIEW
December 12, 2010
You rarely hear French Baroque music performed as exquisitely as the Aulos Ensemble did it on Sunday at Kohl Mansion. That's what 40 years of experience will get you.
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October 10, 2010
On Sunday, the Czech Nonet opened the Morrison Artists Series’ 55th season, curated by a new artistic director, composer Ronald Caltabiano. It was heartening to see a large audience (including many students) turn out for Sunday’s well-balanced, relevant, and brilliantly executed program.
More about Morrison Artists Series »Choral REVIEW
April 17, 2010
OK, I’ll admit it: I am addicted to the cable reality show Project Runway, a competition for fashion designers. The charm of the show lies in observing the designers’ genuine creativity. They are encouraged to be unique and innovative and to express their point of view as a designer while satisfying their clients and facing difficult design challenges.
More about Clerestory »Choral REVIEW
February 21, 2010
Wander through the meandering roads of San Francisco's Presidio National Park, pass the George Lucas Pavilion, cross the huge parade grounds where cute vehicles parry in jerky zigzags as San Franciscans learn to operate manual transmissions, and veer off on a smaller path before the main road and you will discover an antique, white barrack newly renovated as an open, two-story gallery space for the Walt Disney Family Museum. On Sunday, I had the good fortune to discover that the gallery is an ideal place to hear a chamber music or choral concert.
More about Artists Vocal Ensemble (AVE) »Choral REVIEW
September 20, 2009
We Americans often find the concept of an established church difficult to grasp. As our fellow citizens debate school prayer, crosses in public parks, and vouchers for religious schools, official state support of the church remains de rigueur in other lands and is an integral part of state education. This is particularly apparent at the famous British universities Oxford and Cambridge.
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