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Mark MacNamara - March 28, 2013
Emma Simpson
Emma Simpson started on electric bass ...

“Oftentimes I don’t get the respect,” Emma Simpson told us.

Jono Kornfeld - March 28, 2013
Giovanni Quinn
Giovanni Quinn

Jono Kornfeld teaches piano, theory/composition and guitar at San Francisco Community Music Center, and lectures o

Janos Gereben - March 26, 2013
Crowden School students performing at Junior Bach Photo by Kent Young
Crowden School students performing at Junior Bach
Janos Gereben - March 26, 2013

The Financial Times' Harry Eyres reports and comments on Gustavo Dudamel's appearance at the Barbican Centre:

Janos Gereben - March 26, 2013
Duniya Dance and Drum Company
Duniya Dance and Drum Company

Duniya Dance and Drum Company presents The Madness of the Elephant in Kanbar Hall at t

Janos Gereben - March 26, 2013
Laura Karpman
Laura Karpman

Stephen Paulson's Symphony Parnassus spring concert on April 7 in Old F

Janos Gereben - March 26, 2013

San Francisco Ballet's current revival of John Cranko's Onegin is getting well-deserved raves from critics and audiences, but — as usual — there is not sufficient acknowledgment of the musicians' contribution to what is, after all, "music in mo

Janos Gereben - March 26, 2013
Artist's rendering of the Wilsey Center Theater in the War Memorial Building
Artist's rendering of the Wilsey Center Theater in the War Memorial Building
Beth Hondl - March 25, 2013

Constance Hoffman is a costume designer who, as she says, tells stories. “My medium just happens to be costume.” The medium, however, requires a lot of research, especially for a Biblical epic, which could easily devolve into Cecil B. DeMille territory or stylization, which, in Hoffman’s view, wouldn’t fit this story.