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April 13, Saturday, 10 a.m.

When he first heard the San Francisco School of the Arts chorus sing at a Chanticleer youth fes

Word came Tuesday afternoon concerning the delay in ratifying the tentative San Francisco Symphony contract agreement that "both parties have been working on the agreement steadily since the orchestra returned to work last week." This indicates further negotiations are under way, rather than the

Merola's 2013 summer season includes Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in venues new to the program: 600-seat Everett Middle School Auditorium and 1,700-seat Nourse Theater, in addition to Yerba Buena Gardens and the War Memorial Opera House.

Some 150 artists will come together for a musical spectacul

Into the Woods, on

Today, April 9, is National Arts Advocacy Day, the time for "speaking up in support of the arts." It is a special day of united advocacy, to contact legislators and government leaders, urging them to support the arts in words and deed.

One reason I remembered Singing the Golden State