Janos Gereben

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Rendering of Miner Auditorium, showing just a segment of the hall

SFJAZZ Building to Make a Big Splash on Music Scene

Janos Gereben - September 17, 2012

Great artist-lineups are set to open the SFJAZZ Center, the country’s first major dedicated jazz facility, in a January gala.

Review

Old Shostakovich Sounds New Again

Janos Gereben - September 13, 2012

The opening of San Francisco Symphony's second subscription series of the 101st season tonight was a blast from the past, one that spoke to a new audience.

Music News

Kent Nagano Appointment Rumor

Janos Gereben - September 11, 2012

Hamburg's new concert hall in the sky, over the Elbe River

Kent Nagano, mil

Music News

Space Scientists Stage an Opera

Janos Gereben - September 11, 2012

<em>Ground Control: an Opera in Space</em> — *Ground Control: an Opera in Space*

Space scientists from NASA Ames are producin

Music News

Maliphant Dancers in Debut

Janos Gereben - September 11, 2012

Russell Maliphant dancers in <em>AfterLight</em> — Russell Maliphant dancers in *AfterLight*

The Bay Area debut of the

Music News

Lady Antebellum in Benefit for UCSF Children's Hospital

Janos Gereben - September 11, 2012

Seven-time Grammy Award-winning trio Lady Antebellum will headline a

Measuring the Age of S.F. Opera With Radio History

Janos Gereben - September 11, 2012

San Francisco Opera's 90th season opened last weekend, and an announcement yesterday from the BBC helps to appreciate what that span of time means. It was in 1922 that the British Broadcasting Company was first heard on the air, that's how long S.F. Opera goes back in time.

Music News

Grand Opera for the Small Fry

Janos Gereben - September 11, 2012

Little Opera's Erin Bregman, with Michelle Chandra's origami butterflies Photo by Michelle Chandra — Little Opera's Erin Bregman, with Michelle Chandra's origami butterflies

Van Cliburn Public Appearance

Janos Gereben - September 11, 2012

Van Cliburn, terminally ill with cancer, is wheel-chair ridden and using an oxygen inhaler at all times. And yet, last Thursday, when his Van Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth celebrated its 50th anniversary, he was determined to attend. Friends reported that Cliburn "loaded up on oxygen in advance," and he walked on stage, spoke briefly, and walked out.