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Vallejo's Fortune

Jesse Hamlin - April 20, 2009
David Ramadanoff
David Ramadanoff first encountered Carl Orff’s irresistible Carmina Burana as a student at Temple University in the late 1960s, sing
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American Voices

Jason Victor Serinus - April 20, 2009
Covered Wagon

Faster than a buckin’ bronco, the venerable Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe are hitching a ride

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Suite Smell of Success

Steve Osborn - April 20, 2009
Bruno Ferrandis
A ballet suite is not a symphony, but don’t tell that to Bruno Ferrandis.

Sérgio Assad

Brian Gleeson - April 20, 2009
Life is full for guitarist and composer Sérgio Assad. The Brazilian performs with his brother, Odair, in arguably the best guitar duo on the planet, tours for other ensemble projects, and teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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Power Play

Michael Zwiebach - April 20, 2009

The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and their indefatigable music director, Nicholas McGegan, were in top form as they tore into Handel’s oratorio Athalia Saturday night. That means that a writer can only cast about for enough synonyms for the word wonderful.

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Rigoletto Meets the Mob

Jason Victor Serinus - April 20, 2009
Twenty minutes after the scheduled beginning of San Francisco Lyric Opera’s matinee performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto, General Manager Bob Scher stepped before the Cowell Theater curtain to speak. Thank God, the delay was due, not to a last-minute indisposition, but to the late, “I’m sure she’ll be here any minute,” arrival of a violinist.
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A Rare Treat From a Treble Duo

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - April 20, 2009
You don't very often encounter ensembles specializing in music of the French salon. Even more rarely do you get to hear a pardessus de viol duo. Put those two conditions together and you've got the Catacoustic Consort, whose debut on the San Francisco Early Music Society's concert series (heard Saturday at St.
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Tepid Carmen

Georgia Rowe - April 20, 2009
Under the right circumstances, Carmen can turn up the heat like no other opera. Opera San José’s serviceable new production keeps it at a steady simmer, but never quite reaches the boiling point.

With opera companies across the country feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, it makes sense to produce bankable hits such as Bizet’s 1875 melodrama.

Mozart's Turn

Heuwell Tircuit - April 20, 2009
This year’s season of the Avedis chamber music concerts has been devoted to small surveys of a given composer and his associates, per program.
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Brave New World: The YouTube Orchestra's Maiden Voyage

George Loomis - April 16, 2009

NEW YORK — The YouTube Symphony Orchestra gave its first — and as far as anyone knows, only — concert last night and a good time was had by all. Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall glowed festively, or at least differently, with atmospheric lighting.