Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Last night Marino Formenti performed the second of his two Aspects of the Divine recitals for San Francisco Performances at St. Mark's Lutheran...
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The last two chamber music recitals of the semester at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music took place yesterday at 4 PM and 8 PM. Both were in...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Music from 1919 was the title of the Faculty Artist Series recital given last night by violist Jodi Levitz with her accompanist Keisuke Nakagoshi at...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Those who read my account last week about George Benjamin's visit to the San Francisco Symphony for one of their Project San Francisco events may...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Any suggestion that pianist Marino Formenti would follow Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus, performed yesterday evening...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Regular readers have probably noticed that I have particular interest in covering performances of the music of Johannes Brahms and have been given to...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Marino Formenti's second visit to San Francisco under the auspices of San Francisco Performances began yesterday evening at St. John's Presbyterian...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
I would not want to accuse Franz Schubert of lacking a sense of humor; but in both his songs and his instrumental music he shows a strong...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
There was very little adornment in The Cherry Tree, the program of Christmas songs, carols, and ballads prepared for last night's performance by...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
It appears that both my fellow SF Classical Music Examiner, Elizabeth Morgan, and I were equally impressed with the way in which Angela Hewitt...
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