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Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014
Shanghai Conservatory composer Zhu Shirui (left) worked with Wei He, Ian Swensen, and Tanya Tomkins during the 2012 festival
Shanghai Conservatory composer Zhu Shiru
Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014
Gerard Mortier
Gerard Mortier

A visionary and controversial figure in opera, Gerard Mortier, died Saturday at his home in Brussels. He was 70 years old.

Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014

... as for the item above, about the New Esterházy Quartet's program, Michelle Dulak Thomson has also this to say:

Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014
Kati Kyme, Lisa Weiss, and Anthony Martin (self-effacing cellist William Skeen is out of view) Photo by Katja Zuske / Katzprints Photography
Kati Kyme, Lisa Weiss, and Anthony M
Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014
Jonathan Smucker as Tamino and Erina Newkirk as Pamina Photos by Bob Stafford
Jonathan Smucker as Tamino and Erina Newkirk as Pamina
Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014
Nathan Chan
Nathan Chan

Meanwhile, donations have kept the Peninsula Symphony operating through its

Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014

It took almost a half-year to move from suspicion to indictment and arrest, but on Feb.

Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014

ODC/Dance, Brenda Way's perpetually peripatetic dance company returns home to San Francisco now and then — for 43 annual home seasons, to be exact — and beginning March 20, it will strut its always-new stuff at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014
Eric Owens and Laquita Mitchell as Porgy and Bess Photo by Cory Weaver
Eric Owens and Laquita Mitchell as Porgy and Bess
Janos Gereben - March 11, 2014
David Gockley, with miles and miles to go Photo by Scott Wall
David Gockley, with miles and miles to go