Music News

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013

East Palo Alto housing advocate William Webster appears in a new role, as the composer of The Little Match Girl, to receive its world premiere on June 20 at a Montparnasse music festival in Paris.

Webster composed the opera, based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, in the 1970s, when studying music at Stanford.

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Anne Hege
Anne Hege

Oakland-born Anne Hege, who has a master's degree from Mills College, returns from Princeton University doctoral studies to beco

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Kronos: at 40 not so old Photo by Michael Wilson
Kronos: at 40, not so old
Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013

Musicologist Fredrick Lieberman, who died on May 4, will be celebrated at the "49th day ceremony" Tibetan Buddhist Gyuto Vajrayana Center Gyuto Monastery in San José on

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Vadym Kholodenko, winning the Cliburn

Pianist Vadym Kholodenko, Gold Medalist at last week's Van Cliburn Competition finals, will be among featured artists of the

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Horne in Cannes
Horne in Cannes

Knowing that musical accompaniment for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden was played by Stephen Horne alone, I was pu

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Always on top
Always on top

It might have been well anticipated, but the big news is that the Cabrillo Festival of

Michael Zwiebach - June 13, 2013
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss loved big orchestras.

Michael Zwiebach - June 12, 2013

By good luck, SFCV was present at the rehearsal of a pivotal scene in Act 1 of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Here's sharing that fly-on-the-wall experience.

Michael Zwiebach - June 11, 2013

New music has never been a problem for Nathan Gunn. In this interview, he talks about the challenge of playing Jesus in Mark Adamo’s opera The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.