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Review

Ah, Youth!

Jeff Dunn - October 6, 2009

If you are looking for a gift for someone beginning their odyssey into classical music, you could do worse than send them the latest DGG sampler release of repertoire standards spiced with two dances by the Mexican composer Arturo Márquez.

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Preview

Anonymous 4 Reveals Sacred Secrets

Lisa Petrie - October 5, 2009

If vocal chant is the most pure, devotional form of music (as was thought in the Middle Ages), then Anonymous 4 is its guardian angel.

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Review

Bach, Stewed

Scott Cmiel - October 5, 2009
The Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita performed an ambitious, all-Bach program Friday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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Review

Three Notes, And Worlds of Them

Jeff Dunn - October 5, 2009
Would you rather focus on atoms, or planets? Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas chose both and overindulged a bit in one for Saturday’s San Francisco Symphony concert. It began with music of the Zen-inspired Italian Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), whose Hymnos took 13 minutes to elaborate just three elemental notes — D, E, and B-flat.
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Those Sensitive Salzburgians

Rebecca Liao - October 5, 2009
On most weekdays, you can probably hear a collective groan on Interstate 80 from commuters traveling to and from the Sacramento area.
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Review

Thomas Hampson Surveys American Song

Jason Victor Serinus - October 2, 2009

Midway through his Song of America recital on Wednesday, presented by San Francisco Performances, Spokane-raised Thomas Hampson paused to address the adoring Herbst Theatre audience he had sung for on 10 previous occasions. “In many of the places where I’ve presented this project," the 54-year-old baritone declared, “people ask me if I’d please sing more songs like that one called Shenandoah.

BluePrint Festival of New Music

Michael Zwiebach - September 29, 2009

The BluePrint Festival is the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's ongoing 20th century/ new music series, and it takes advantage of the Conservatory students' technical prowess and their fearlessness in approaching unusual music.

This season Music Director Nicole Paiement organizes several concerts for mixed forces, including artists from other disciplines.

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A Family Affair:Katona Twins With Nomura

Brian Gleeson - September 29, 2009
For families with young children, deciding whether to enjoy live music together is usually a matter of priorities. Weekends scheduled with wall-to-wall soccer matches, birthday parties, and assorted play dates can seem like a frenetic sprint to Monday morning.

Add to that mix the sometimes-daunting challenge of discovering an appropriate live classical music performance for children.

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Review

Grace Notes, but Not by Accident

Brett Campbell - September 29, 2009
French music, the stereotype goes, prizes clarity, elegance, balance — in a word, gracefulness. Of course, exceptions are easy to find, but last weekend’s concerts titled “Les grâces françoises: Graceful Music From France,” by the aptly named ensemble Les grâces, made a persuasive case that a consciously graceful performance style immaculately suits the polite, early-Baroque gems.
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Feature

Weathering the Financial Meltdown

Jesse Hamlin - September 29, 2009
Last November, as the economy came crashing down, San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley stepped onstage before a matinee performance of La bohème and told the audience how the company was coping with the money crunch.