There is important news from the San Francisco Conservatory and the promise of more to come. At a recent gala President David H. Stull spoke both of impressive specifics and big ambitions.
Juditha is the only surviving oratorio of the four Vivaldi wrote, and it is not performed often. Nicholas McGegan, will conduct the Philharmonia Baroque in four performances.
Mad Music is the provocative, but historically and musicologically correct title for Stephen Budiansky's biography of Charles Ives, to be published by ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, on April 1.
