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Review

The Truth a la Fleming

Jason Victor Serinus - November 23, 2009

Eyebrows rise at the thought of Renée Fleming, a soprano who has built her reputation on the creamy beauty she brings to lyric soprano roles created by Mozart, Strauss, and others, singing the wrenching verismo repertoire of Puccini, Mascagni, Catalani, Cilea, and others. Verismo is about blood and guts, sweat and suffering, and enough over-the-top singing to sear the makeup off Fleming’s ubiquitous glamour shots.

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Showcase For Promising Soprano

Lisa Petrie - November 23, 2009
The next San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra performance, like others before it, offers a chance to hear an incredibly talented, select group of students “on their game,” expressing their repertoire with the fresh energy of youth, a willingness to take chances, and the musical chops to carry it off. Yet it is also the embodiment of one individual’s musical journey.
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Gems From Ludwig

Joseph Sargent - November 23, 2009
When it comes to Beethoven’s vocal music, the average listener’s familiarity is probably limited to a few classics: his opera Fidelio, the Missa solemnis, the final movement of Symphony No. 9.
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And Now For Something Completely Different ...

David Bratman - November 23, 2009
Tired of the usual run of jolly Christmas choral music? A nearly full house on Friday in Stanford’s spacious Memorial Church welcomed in their holiday season with a Requiem. And not just any Requiem. What the Stanford Symphonic Chorus and Peninsula Symphony Orchestra had gathered to perform under the baton of Stephen M.
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Florid Christmas Ornamentation

Kaneez Munjee - November 23, 2009
The glorious sounds of choral music for the Christmas season come in many forms, and the California Bach Society’s “Advent in Dresden 1620” concerts, presented Dec.
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Formenti's Aspects of the Divine

Janos Gereben - November 23, 2009

Marino Formenti may be an amazing virtuoso pianist, an "eccentric titan of the keyboard," and "a Glenn Gould for the 21st century," but he doesn't particularly care to be called a pianist. He considers himself a musician, who mainly plays the piano. 

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Review

Splendors of the Jon/Jon Duo

Dan Leeson - November 21, 2009

On Friday, the remarkable duo of clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu gave a sensational recital of works that covered the period from the first half of the 19th century to a celebratory composition written for the centennial of Benny Goodman’s birth, which occurs this year.

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Ablaze With Brahms

Steven Winn - November 21, 2009
The bill was all-Brahms on Friday at Davies Symphony Hall, for the first of two reverently anticipated performances by the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Master Class of Wagnerian Intensity

Jeff Dunn - November 21, 2009
It was time for students in the San Francisco Conservatory’s symphony orchestra to knuckle under. The world-famous, dandelion-headed conductor was taking time out of his busy schedule to run a master class workshop just for them. But — gasp — was he encouraging an anarchic free-for-all?

“Don’t do anything correct,” he insisted.

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Review

Banking on Greatness

Jason Victor Serinus - November 17, 2009
I have no greater joy than basking in the artistry of a great singer at the top of her form. Such was my feeling as mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, perfectly accompanied by pianist John Churchwell, began her San Francisco Performances recital Monday at Herbst Theatre.