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Review

Operatic Heaven From Hell

Jason Victor Serinus - January 31, 2010

Ensemble Parallèle sold itself short by emphasizing that their two performances of Alban Berg’s nightmarish early-20th-century opera, Wozzeck, would fill the breach left since San Francisco Opera last performed the work in November, 1999. Heard and seen in the relative intimacy of Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the West Coast premiere of John Rea’s 21-musician chamber reorchestration needed no apologia. Ensemble Parallèle’s oft-devastating, 90-minute multimedia wow of a production was whole and complete unto itself.

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Effervescent “Pulcinella”

Georgia Rowe - January 30, 2010
It’s been a decade since the San Francisco Symphony presented an entire festival devoted to the music of Igor Stravinsky, but music lovers with fond memories of the two-week extravaganza in June 1999 had to be somewhat assuaged by the orchestra’s program last week at Davies Symphony Hall.
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Review

Dancers Lead Swan Lake Out of the Woods

Rachel Howard - January 28, 2010
No one enjoys breaking the news that San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson’s production of Swan Lake, unveiled last year, has serious flaws. After all, even a distantly faithful combination of the Tchaikovsky score and what has been handed down of the 1895 Ivanov/Petipa choreography is practically guaranteed to cast a spell on a general audience — who wants to kill that buzz?
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Brahms? A Bit Baroque?

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - January 26, 2010
On Valentine’s Day weekend, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will present an all-Brahms program, featuring the Russian virtuoso violinist Viktoria Mullova in the composer’s great D-major violin concerto. The association of this composer with this orchestra might raise some eyebrows: Doesn’t the B in the orchestra’s name stand for Baroque?
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Review

Plumbing Oceanic Depths

Jessica Balik - January 26, 2010
Even though atonal music has existed for a long time, the composer Helmut Lachenmann has observed that many listeners are still so accustomed to tonal music that tonality continues to govern their listening habits.
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Music News: January 26, 2010

Janos Gereben - January 26, 2010

Merola 2010 Performances

The San Francisco Opera

Madrigals and Motets

Steven Winn - January 26, 2010
For anyone who cares about 17th-century music, 2010 is without question a Claudio Monteverdi year.
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Review

Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart

Michelle Dulak Thomson - January 26, 2010
A number of the audience members at David Aaron Carpenter’s Sunday afternoon recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (under the auspices of San Francisco Performances) didn’t seem entirely sure what they were getting into. Viola? All 20th-century? Is it all going to be atonal?

Yes, viola; yes, all 20th-century; no, hardly at all atonal.

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Enriching Exchange: San Francisco and Shanghai Conservatories Deepen Ties

Jesse Hamlin - January 26, 2010
Violinist Yin Bin Qian wanted to study abroad after graduating from the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the oldest Western-oriented music school in China. He applied to graduate school at Yale, the Eastman School of Music, USC, and other American colleges.

Vadim Gluzman: Have Fiddle, Will Travel

Jason Victor Serinus - January 26, 2010
Few concertgoers who heard it will forget violinist Vadim Gluzman’s San Francisco Symphony debut in May 2008. Performing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.