2008 Music News

May 13, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Music on the Brain
  • Sound Is in the Ear of the Beholder, But ...
  • Henkel New S.F. Opera Artistic Administrator
  • Big Challenge Grant to Green Music Center
  • Dalis Vocal Competition
  • Leyla Gencer
  • And a Woman Shall Lead Them
  • Podleś Cancels, Prina to Make U.S. Debut
  • Musica Sacra's Fauré
  • Kapell Recordings Published
  • Our Gaffigan, Their Favorite

May 6, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Serrand's Magical Multimedia Mozart
  • S.F. Ballet Season Announcement
  • Muti to Chicago
  • A.C.T Event With Lang, Chapman, Shive
  • SOS From Fremont Symphony
  • German Requiem, Big and Small
  • Whistling With Flicka: a True Story

April 29, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Bicoastal Namedropping
  • Tenor Phenoms: Villazón, Flórez
  • Andsnes Happening in Davies Hall
  • Rheingold Director 'In Conversation'
  • A Youthful Lollapalooza
  • Doctor Atomic at the Met, in Movie Theaters
  • Reno Rocks as Jekowsky Leaves
  • Winners' Concert at San Domenico
  • Rosenberg to Leave Berlin Post
  • Global Opera Experienced Locally
  • New Music From the New Works Festival

April 22, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Estonia's Singing Revolution
  • More Music-and-History, with the Akademie
  • Condemi: From Merola to the Top
  • Domingo Anniversary Concert in Movie Theaters
  • Shall We Dance ... for Free?
  • Pan-Asian Music at Stanford
  • Crowden at 25
  • All-English Program from Parnassus
  • The Geometry of Music

April 15, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • UPDATE: Rome Prize to Kurt Rhode
  • Other Sources of Music: Film, Dance
  • The Selling of ... Opera?
  • Boys Turn 60
  • And Music@Menlo Turns 6
  • Conservatory on the Air
  • Coast to Coast Chamber Music

April 8, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • S.F. Performances Sets 29th Season
  • A Berlin Scoop?
  • EuroStrident
  • Seattle's Wagner Competition Finalists
  • Peabody for MTT Files
  • EU to Ban Respighi?
  • Olivia Stapp Sets the Record Straight
  • Angel Joy Blue Makes a Name for Herself

April 1, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Another Adler Is Flying High

March 25, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Scaling the Ring
  • Laying an Easter Egg With Young Brahms

March 18, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • "Once More Unto the Breach"
  • Call & Response & Awesome Kids
  • Lucia di AT&T Park
  • PALM Resurgent: Celebrating Performance and Design
  • Festival Opera Plans
  • La Rondine Comes Home
  • MTT, ; Voigt, no

March 11, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Rohde Premiere at "Call & Response"
  • ODC's Music-in-Motion
  • S.F. Opera Films Hit the Silver Screen
  • Opera Loses Top Aide
  • S.F. Opera Films: Early Returns
  • Where to See Met Simulcasts for Free
  • Our Intelligent Symphonic Export
  • Brewer to Sing for Berkeley Opera's Supper
  • Barrueco, Galbraith at the Conservatory
  • Lortie at Herbst
  • Classical Net Back on the Air
  • Heggie Premiere in Houston

March 4, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • UPDATE: S.F. Opera Loses a Top Official
  • Big, Varied Next Season for S.F. Symphony
  • Comments on the Symphony Announcement
  • San Domenico Virtuosos Win Again
  • Madeleine Milhaud, An Appreciation
  • Giuseppe di Stefano in Memoriam
  • Lhamo Festival Opens Today
  • Switchboard to Be Activated
  • Pohjonen Debut
  • New Conductor-Hiring Paradigm

February 26, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Big, Varied Next Season for S.F. Symphony
  • S.F. Opera Goes to the Movies, Not in S.F.
  • All the Bach for Free
  • Jupiter Rises in Burlingame
  • Using Music@Menlo Hiatus Well
  • Stravinsky at Stanford
  • Iphigénie en KDFC-FM
  • Will MTT Files Be Heard Again?
  • Mordake Premiere
  • Where Are They Now? Sarah Viola
  • New Score for Old Film
  • Bravo Brave Opera!
  • Symphony's Brahms Festival
  • Peter, Wolf Take Oscar
  • SFS to Benaroya Hall
  • Report on Ives Symphony in Davis
  • Capital Britten

February 19, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Is There a Suona Player in the House?
  • More Free Concerts From SFCO
  • Free Web Site for Musicians
  • Berkeley Symphony Season, Guest Conductors

February 12, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Nixon Nixed, Crucible Substituted
  • Musical Affairs for V-Day
  • Chamber Music S.F. Season Opens
  • Ethnic Music Triumphant
  • More from (Greater) Eastern Europe
  • Big Plans for Napa Valley Symphony
  • There Is a Sondheim-There There in Oakland
  • Doctor Atomic, the Symphony
  • Bank Abandons Verbier
  • The Life — and Death — of a String Quartet

February 5, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Del Sole to Shine Again
  • Netrebko Pregnancy: Good Timing for S.F. Opera
  • Wolff to Berkeley Symphony
  • Musical Valentine, With Hope Briggs
  • Requiem for You: Art After Life
  • S.F. Concert Chorale Doings

January 29, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Get Thee to a Master Class
  • Hung-Kuan Chen Recital
  • Conservatory Capital Campaign Nets $65 Million
  • French-Israeli Tribute to Messiaen
  • Opera, Symphony in Fremont
  • OEBS Travels the World
  • Dancing at 75: Giving Americana a Leg Up
  • U2 (and You Too) Can Transcend Opera
  • Playing a Dutch Uncle to the Concertgebouw

January 22, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Meet NCCO's New Music Director
  • Phantom Halls of the City
  • Nixon Returns, Premieres
  • Miland Benefit
  • Merry January From Bach Soloists
  • Turkmenistan Re-embraces Opera
  • San Francisco Opera Plans

January 15, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • San Francisco Opera Plans
  • Those Wand'ring Minstrels of Ours
  • Horne in Remission
  • Le Cid: A Sad Coincidence
  • Parnassus Goes to School
  • China's Western Opera Comes to the West
  • East and West, the Twain Straining to Meet
  • Music on the Air
  • Uneasily Rests Voigt's Crown

January 8, 2008

By Janos Gereben

  • Hello, Farewell!
  • The Best Is Yet to Come
  • Verdi Requiem in Oakland
  • NEA Funding Increased
  • Britten in Sacramento
  • Season 13 for Other Minds
  • New Position for de Waart
  • Opera North, Opera South
  • ASCAP Awards to Del Sol, sfSound, Earplay
  • MTT Featured on PBS Documentary
  • S.F. Chamber Orchestra: Too Much Success?
  • Assad to Conservatory Faculty

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