Ivan Ilic, a pianist born in Belgrade, later a resident of Palo Alto, schooled at Berkeley and the S.F. Conservatory of Music, has gone on to graduate studies in Paris, and a career in Europe. He writes to Music News:
Strains of classical music echoed on Sunday — not inside an august concert hall — but in a bleak Chicago jail where the mostly teenage boys await trial on charges ranging from dope dealing to murder.
Scott Sandmeier has been named Music Director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, to begin with next season's first concert on September 28. He will also lead the orchestra in performances on Feb. 15 and May 3 next year.
When Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the Vienna Philharmonic last week in Festival Hall, at "The Rest Is Noise," Southbank Centre’s festival of 20th-century music, the composition of the orchestra made some encouraging news "for those who thought that the Vienna Philharmonic not only hadn’t made it to the 21st c
