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Let Us Now Arrange Famous Composers

David Bratman - September 14, 2009
Compared to other forms of music-making, classical music is noted for keeping to the original score rather than arranging works anew for each performer. Leonard Bernstein once even suggested that “exact music” would be a better name.

Entering a Many-Splendored Chamber

Jaime Robles - September 14, 2009
The first musical loves of Dominique Pelletey, the visionary behind Chamber Music Day, were folk, punk, and experimental pop. His current love, classical chamber music, offers him the same intimacy, approachability, and focus, but has given him more through its complexity and beauty.
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Thoroughly Handeled

Joseph Sargent - September 14, 2009
Year after year, San Francisco’s early music aficionados can rely on Bay Area ensembles to offer a steady diet of Handel’s music — everything from operas, oratorios, and instrumental works to the inevitable holiday Messiah. In 2009, marking the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death, many of these performances take on special significance.
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Exuberantly Baroque

Joseph Sargent - September 14, 2009
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s opening concert of its 2009-2010 season, “Apotheosis of the Dance,” was an exercise in transcending the traditionally defined eras of musical history.
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Top Trios Open Top Series

Lisa Petrie - September 14, 2009
This October, don’t miss a chance to hear what a bright new generation of piano trios is bringing to the stage. Two young yet established groups come to the Bay Area to open two favorite chamber music series with a flourish. The Trio Con Brio Copenhagen kicks off the season for Music at Kohl Mansion on Oct.
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Listening to Thomas Hampson's America

Jason Victor Serinus - September 14, 2009

After several decades of championing American art song, baritone Thomas Hampson refuses to let the major label slowdown hold him back. Instead, he’s started the Thomas Hampson Media label, and launched a full-out multimedia American song assault, as well.

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Trovatore Signals a New Dawn at San Francisco Opera

Steven Winn - September 13, 2009

It’s a curious fact about Il trovatore, Verdi’s "magnificent demonstration of unprincipled melodrama," as Joseph Kerman called it, that this 1853 potboiler contains so much dramatically still water. No sooner does the curtain rise than a captain launches into a lengthy, action-stalling account of events that happened years before. And that’s not the only instance of extended exposition in Salvatore Cammarano’s creaky libretto, based on the Antonio Garcia Gutierrez play.

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Real Vocal String Quartet

Michael Zwiebach - September 9, 2009
Real Vocal String Quartet

Founded by Turtle Island Quartet founding member Irene Sazar, the Real Vocal String Quartet dares to improvise, play clubs, and em

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Thomas Schultz

Michael Zwiebach - September 9, 2009
Thomas Schultz
Despite celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Old First Concerts has an undeservedly low profile in the Bay Area.

A Lang Lang Primer

Jason Victor Serinus - September 8, 2009
As he prepares to open the San Francisco Symphony’s 2009-2010 season Wednesday with Prokofiev’s challenging Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26, in Davies Symphony Hall, 27-year-old Lang Lang seems to have embraced his superstar pianist reputation — and run with it.