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Sun January 17, 2021 4:00pm
Virtual Sunday Concerts - Chika Inoue and Mikiko Yamaguchi
Interfaith Center at the Presidio
Tue January 19, 2021 5:00pm
Jewish Music Masterclass featuring Gerard Edery
Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Tue January 19, 2021 7:00pm
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Cal Performances Launches 12-Performance Streamed Season “At Home”
January 12, 2021
Cal Performances Launches 12-Performance Streamed Season “At Home”
BY Janos Gereben
The newly recorded concerts feature perennial favorites including the Takács Quartet, Jordi Savall, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Santa Rosa Symphony Announces a Vibrant Spring Season
January 12, 2021
Santa Rosa Symphony Announces a Vibrant Spring Season
BY Paul Kotapish
Each concert in the series features a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, SRS’s new artistic partner.
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Recording Review
January 11, 2021
Love and Passion From Catalunya
BY Jason Victor Serinus

Tenor Isaí Jess Muñoz and pianist Oksana Glouchko reveal lovely and unusual art songs.

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Recording Review
January 11, 2021
Richard Danielpour Finds His Voice in The Passion of Yeshua
BY Richard S. Ginell

The composer’s latest dramatic oratorio portrays the story of Jesus from a Jewish perspective.

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Grammy Awards Postponed, and Other Tales From Pandemic-Stricken L.A.
January 12, 2021
Grammy Awards Postponed, and Other Tales From Pandemic-Stricken L.A.
BY Peter Feher
As the coronavirus surge reaches yet another peak, the entertainment industry and music organizations extend a production hiatus.
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Wild Up Offers More Experiments in <em>Darkness Sounding</em>
January 12, 2021
Wild Up Offers More Experiments in Darkness Sounding
BY Peter Feher
The new-music group is finding even more innovative and interesting responses to the moment.
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CLICKCOACH Aims to Provide Professional Online Training for Isolated Musicians
January 12, 2021
CLICKCOACH Aims to Provide Professional Online Training for Isolated Musicians
BY Paul Kotapish
A new nonprofit connects singers and instrumentalists with advanced instructional and coaching materials via a low-cost, online platform.
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Recording Review
January 11, 2021
A Trimmed-Down Stimmung From Voices of Silicon Valley
BY Richard S. Ginell

Five works by VOSV’s Cyril Deaconoff inspired by Stockhausen augment this rare recording of the bare-bones choral work.

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Stream This!
January 12, 2021
Stream This!
BY Peter Feher

UPDATED Jan. 12: SFCV’s weekly guide to online music.

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Hawaii Opera Theatre Persists in the Pandemic With “Kanikapila”
January 4, 2021
Hawaii Opera Theatre Persists in the Pandemic With “Kanikapila”
BY Janos Gereben
Baritone Quinn Kelsey headlines a performance that combines opera and local culture.
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Book Review
January 4, 2021
Discovering Jon Hendricks in This is Bop
BY Jeff Kaliss

A new book by Peter Jones traces the influential jazz vocalist’s musical odyssey, and delves into the chemistry of his most famous collaboration.

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Upcoming Concert
The Boundary-Crossing Prototype Festival Reconceived for Video
January 5, 2021
Prototype Festival
The Boundary-Crossing Prototype Festival Reconceived for Video
BY Michael Zwiebach

Beth Morrison Projects, HERE Arts Center, and LA Opera bring Modulation, a meditation on 2020 from 13 different composers, to fruition.

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Recording Review
January 4, 2021
The Crossing’s Latest Album Seeks Solidarity and Community in COVID Times
BY Richard S. Ginell

Rising melds new performances with 15 years of archived material from the lauded Philadelphia choir.

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Music at Kohl Mansion’s Ambitious Virtual Season Unfolds
January 4, 2021
Music at Kohl Mansion’s Ambitious Virtual Season Unfolds
BY Janos Gereben
The Mansion’s famed music room goes global in a virtual season streamed from artists’ hometown venues around the world.
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