Unlike the U.S. debt ceiling's rendezvous with destiny, San Francisco Opera's budget situation is in much better shape, thanks in part to union cooperation and willingness to (pardon my French) compromise.
Episode 11: Music@Menlo Young Performers Program. Dmitri Atapine from Music@Menlo talks with Dianne about the things that make the Young Performers Program so special.
Children’s lives can be transformed at the annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances in Berkeley. Years later, careers may even bloom out of the intensive experience.
Clark Suprynowicz employs an equatorial sound world, a range of musical references, plus personal transformation, for his new opera drawn from The Tempest.
If you're not yet in full celebration of the San Francisco Symphony's 100-year existence, its luxurious hardback (remember those?), Music for a City, Music for the World, published