Robert P. Commanday, founding editor of San Francisco Classical Voice, was the music critic of The San Francisco Chronicle from 1965 to 1993, and before that a conductor and lecturer at UC Berkeley.
Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Metropolitan Opera combines a rich score, matchless orchestra, cast, and direction for a fantastic operatic odyssey.
Reah Sadowsky, a pianist once hailed as a San Francisco Wunderkind alongside Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci, and Yehudi Menuhin, who then carved out a uniquely distributed career, died in her Berkeley home at the age of 96.
The brilliant new Weill Hall starred in the Green Music Center’s gala opening, eclipsing even the playing of the Santa Rosa Symphony and Lang Lang and the work of three conductors.
SFCV’s founder and long-time writer on the S.F. Symphony reviews its new official history and reports for the first time on some of what he witnessed that didn’t quite make it into the book.
