Janos Gereben

About last week's bombshell of Peninsula Symphony's disappearing funds, the police investigation continues without producing results, and the organization itself is silent on the subject. We'll keep watch.

Maurice Kanbar's philantropy has been spreading around the country

Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Public Library ar

The Asian Art Museum's

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.