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The ZOFO duet CD has now been released

Last August the ZOFO duet pianists (Keisuke Nakagoshi and Eva-Maria Zimmermann) gave a preview recital in the Noontime Concerts™ series at...
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Composer interview: Chris Hajian discusses UNRAVELED and FIRST POSITION (2)

  • Chris Hajian
  • April 13, 2012
And I think there is a third nuance that you address, probably without even thinking about it, and it is something I don’t think ever really...
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The San Francisco Symphony centennial on DVD

At the beginning of this month, SFS Media, the media distribution division of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS), released San Francisco Symphony at...
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Esa-Pekka Salonen to tour the East coast with Leila Josefowicz

Those who follow my San Francisco site may have noticed that one of the most interesting concerts by the San Francisco Symphony last month took...
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A populist performance of abstract dance

Last week I reported that, in accordance with one of the last wishes Merce Cunningham expressed before his death on July 26, 2009, the price of...
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Cunningham retrospectively, Cage prospectively

The final performance by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will take place tomorrow night (New Year’s Eve) at the Park Avenue Armory in...
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Celibidache conducts French and Russian composers (and others) on EMI

I am now on the final stretch of accounting for the 48-CD anthology of concert recordings that Sergiu Celibidache made with the Munich Philharmonic...
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Under the Christmas Tree: JAMIEshow's The White Swan Doll

With only a week before Christmas, you might be scrambling to find that perfect gift for the doll collector in your life. This week, Doll...
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PBS Great Performances "The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet" tonight

Didn't you always wish you could blast through the ocean like a dolphin or mermaid? Do you love fairy tales, even ones that don't end...
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The choreographer of illusion

Since it seems to me as if I have been writing more obituaries than usual, I feel a strong urge to note that today is the birthday of Busby...
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