Music News

Janos Gereben - October 22, 2013

Humanities West will celebrate both its own 30th anniversary and the Verdi bicentennial on Nov. 1 and 2, with a program of lectures, discussions, and musical performances on the subject of "Verdi’s Masterwork: Opera and the Birth of Modern Italy." The venue is the Marines’ Memorial Theater.

Janos Gereben - October 22, 2013
SFO Orchestra, with Nicola Luisotti and Giuseppe Finzi in front Photo by Cory Weaver
SFO Orchestra, with Nicola Luisotti and Giuseppe Finzi in front
Michael Zwiebach - October 17, 2013

Charles Ives was a terrific young musician, son of a bandleader, who went to Yale and studied composition with the highly regarded Horatio Parker. But he had wild musical ideas in his head and his Yankee practicality discouraged him from trying to push those ideas through a conservative musical establishment.

Janos Gereben - October 15, 2013
Inside a matryomin: is there a radio in there? (Note to friends in Japan: that's a joke) Photo by Lucy Craft
Inside a matryomin: is there a radio in there?
Janos Gereben - October 15, 2013
Seattle's money-making <em>Ring</em> Photo by Rozarii Lynch
Seattle's money-making Ring
Janos Gereben - October 15, 2013
Nadine Sierra
The winner: Nadine Sierra

Merola/Adler alumna soprano Nadine Sierra shared first prize in the Neue Stimmen Singing Competition in

Janos Gereben - October 15, 2013
Deborah Voigt and Grane of <em>Götterdämmerung</em>
Deborah Voigt and Grane of Götterdämmerung

Deborah Voigt and Joyce DiDonat

Janos Gereben - October 15, 2013
Dancers' Group event in S.F. City Hall
Dancers' Group event in S.F.
Janos Gereben - October 15, 2013

Last week, without seeing an announcement, we ventured to say that Emmanuel Morlet, the recently appointed artistic director of Green Music Center has left the organization some time ago.