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Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013
Anzhelina Vorontsova
Anzhelina Vorontsova

In the ongoing story about arrests for the

Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013
Stephen (Matt Weimer) and Mendy( Michael Sally) in <em>The Lisbon Traviata</em>
Stephen (Matt Weimer) and Mendy( Michael Sally) in The Lisbon Traviata
Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013
Robert Vann as Alexis and Lindsay Thompson Roush as Aline in Photo by David Allen
Robert Vann as Alexis and Lindsay Thompson Roush as Aline
Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013

Composers, Inc. had a long run in San Francisco, but it is leaving the city. A concert on April 9, in Old First Church, will be the group's last event here.

Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013
Expansion plan for Orchestra Hall is contested in Minneapolis labor strife
Expansion plan for Orchestra Hall is contested in Minneapolis labor strife
Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013

Looking forward to Monday night's "Behind the Curtain: Planning an Opera Season" presentation by San Francisco Opera's Director of Music Administration Kip Cranna and Associate Director of Production Jennifer Good, I was disappointed when other work (look around SFCV this week) piled up and ma

Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013
Yayoi Kambara in <em>Triangulating Euclid</em>, a new work at ODC/Dance Photos by RJ Muna
Yayoi Kambara in Triangulating Euclid, a new work at ODC/D
Janos Gereben - March 12, 2013
Coproduction to be seen on both sides of the Bay

Lack of regional cooperation or outright collaboration has been a decades-long hobby horse of mine: I never understood why meager resources are not being pooled.

Michael Zwiebach - March 7, 2013

Maurice Ravel, composer of the Bolero, and many other less famous but more wonderful musical works, wears the birthday hat this week.

Although you'll often hear him lumped with Debussy as an "impressionist," few composers were less fuzzy and more definite than Ravel. "I tore my work out of me, drop by drop," goes the most famous quotation from this musician.

Mark MacNamara - March 7, 2013

Online education has become not only relevant, practical, and popular, but gradually more respected.