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Music News: September 29, 2009

Janos Gereben - September 29, 2009

Atherton's Self-Effacing New Concert Hall

Normally the way you get a story is of no interest to the reader, but this one is different — "pertinent data" was especially difficult to find ... about something that should

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Berkeley Symphony Vivifies the Immigrant Experience

Jeff Dunn - September 29, 2009
You’re stuffed into a car trunk with three people for so many hours that, when you’re let out into the dark night, your eyes don’t work at first. To your horror, you discover you’ve been dumped off in a cemetery in a foreign country. To the sound of ghostly church bells, bizarre yellow dots flash before your eyes.

An Interview With Thomas Hampson: Playing Your Game

Lisa Houston - September 29, 2009

This week Bay Area music lovers can look forward to two events featuring the music and scholarship of baritone Thomas Hampson. Tuesday evening, he will be joined at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music by curators from the Library of Congress to discuss their collaboration celebrating the history of American song.

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Heartening a/rhythmia From Alarm Without Sound

Jason Victor Serinus - September 28, 2009
Within three or four measures, the riot is in full swing. It’s as though Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti embrace under acid rain madness, while Frank Zappa and Bruce Springstein come sloshing through in quick-step fashion.
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Philharmonia Baroque, In the Thick of Friendship and Fighting

Joseph Sargent - September 28, 2009
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Amid the glamour and glitz of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s’s 2009-2010 season, the ensemble’s October concert set “The Concerto: An Adversar

An Interview With David Harrington: Forever Deepening Musical Relationships

Jeff Kaliss - September 28, 2009
In his fourth decade as a violinist and as both founder and artistic director of the award-winning Kronos Quartet, David Harrington still exudes the infectious excitement of a gifted student infatuated with experimental and global music from beyond the conservatory’s walls.
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Perahia's Welcome Return

Marianne Lipanovich - September 28, 2009
Murray Perahia

Internationally renowned pianist Murray Perahia returns to San Francisco to open the 2009–2010 season of the San Francisco Symphony’s Great Per

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Taking a Fresh Look at Otello

Jeff Kaliss - September 28, 2009
The title of the piece opening Stanford Lively Arts’ 2009-2010 season, aside from its references to Shakespeare’s play of four centuries ago and Verdi’s adaptation (as Otello) to the operatic stage in 1887, denotes a psychopathological rage based on suspected spousal infidelity. There’s a threat, with The Othello Syndrome, that lovers of classical literature and music might be driven into a simila
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Puppets and Gender Bending in the Baroque Style

Lisa Hirsch - September 28, 2009
When is an opera not an opera? When it’s the opening work in a grand entertainment for visiting royalty ...
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Brewer Breathes Life Into American Songs

Georgia Rowe - September 28, 2009
The American song repertoire is often overlooked in vocal recitals, though it wasn’t always thus; as Christine Brewer observed in her splendid recital Sunday afternoon at Hertz Hall, sopranos including Eileen Farrell, Kirsten Flagstad, Eleanor Steber, and Helen Traubel used to regularly include English-language songs in their programs. Citing those artists as primary influences, Brewer made a sele