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Review

One Voice, One Mind

Michelle Dulak Thomson - November 10, 2009

If there’s anything common to great string quartets, it’s that they have collective personalities much as great musicians have individual ones. What inflects a quartet’s performance of a work becomes, at some undefinable but high level of accomplishment, not only four individual wills but also, seemingly, one composite one.

Review

Viva Verdi! Viva Luisotti!

Olivia Stapp - November 10, 2009

Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello is the final production of San Francisco Opera’s fall season. The opera might be more commonly performed, but it makes strenuous vocal demands on the protagonist and it's difficult to find singers who have mastered the role. Fortunately, Johan Botha, a South African dramatic tenor, is more than up to the job.

Feature

Music News: November 10, 2009

Janos Gereben - November 10, 2009

The Phantom of the Legion

Organ conservator Edward Stout, organist<br> Robert Gurney at the Skinner console<br>Photos by Andrew Fox

The great Ernest M.

Review

First-Rate Russian at S.F. Symphony

Heuwell Tircuit - November 9, 2009

Leaving Davies Symphony Hall Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the San Francisco Symphony’s all-Sergei Rachmaninov program, I was wondering if I’d put on weight merely by listening to it.

Review

Philharmonia Dido Highlights Purcell Collaboration

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - November 9, 2009

“Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage, a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.”

With these words from the dedication to his Dioclesian, Henry Purcell invited future Englishmen to claim him as founder of a modern musical tradition.

Preview

PBO's Reason for the Season

Chelsea Nicole Spangler - November 9, 2009

The holiday sales are on, airlines are offering special home-for-the-holidays rates, and pop versions of holiday tunes have already hit the radio airwaves and are playing in malls. Many bemoan the commercialization of the holiday season, and long for a return to a remembered (or perhaps only imagined) past.

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Christmas Pieces, Brand New and Wonderfully Old

Joseph Sargent - November 9, 2009

Traditional December choral concerts, with their well-worn carols and holiday themes, can be great for lifting the spirits. But for concertgoers who want more than just another sing-along, San Francisco Choral Artists’ upcoming program, “Old Chestnuts, New Fire!,” offers a tantalizing alternative.

Review

Best and Brightest of Bernstein

David Bratman - November 9, 2009

Nearly 20 years after his death, the name of Leonard Bernstein still carries magic among musicians and audiences, enough to ensure a full house Saturday at Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium for “A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein.”

Review

What Dvořák Knew

Steve Osborn - November 8, 2009

On reading the score of Antonín Dvořák’s magnificent Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, Dvořák's mentor Brahms is reputed to have said, “Why on earth didn’t I know that one could write a cello concerto like this?