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SF Opera Extends Long History Of Triumphs In ‘Ballo’

Robert P. Commanday - October 13, 2014

By Robert Commanday

SAN FRANCISCO -- With Julianna Di Giacomo in her San Francisco Opera main stage debut as Amelia, the current Un ballo in maschera ranks with some of the better ones of a past illuminated by the great stars of the last 83 years.

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Osmo Vänskä, In Job Limbo, Wields Traveling Baton

Robert P. Commanday - February 3, 2014

By Robert P. Commanday

SAN FRANCISCO - He was the beating heart of the Minnesota Orchestra. Vänskä's recent guest conducting appearance with the San Francisco Symphony made it clear why the Minnesota musicians love and need him. A CVNA commentary.

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Wu Man Presents New Pipa Concerto And Sonoma Glows

Robert P. Commanday - January 15, 2014

By Robert P. Commanday

ROHNERT PARK, CA - The culture gods are smiling on California's Sonoma County. Wu Man gave the U.S. premiere of Zhao Jiping's Concerto No. 2 for Pipa in Weill Hall, where the Santa Rosa Symphony thrives.

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‘Peter Grimes’ Nets Carnegie Triumph For St. Louis SO

Robert P. Commanday - November 26, 2013

Robert P. Commanday

NEW YORK - When the music and its making are fine enough, a decent imagination can fill in for a million-dollar staging. Anthony Dean Griffey led a grand cast with the touring Saint Louis Symphony and Chorus under David Robertson's direction.

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Analysis: Deconstructing Orchestra Debacle In Minnesota

Robert P. Commanday - November 7, 2013

By Robert Commanday

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Orchestra lockout of the past 13 months, resulting in the cancellation of the 2012-13 season and early part of the current season, shows no signs of progress.

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Deft ‘Claiborne’ Displays Validity Of Modern Opera

Robert P. Commanday - September 18, 2013

By Robert P. Commanday

Along comes Dolores Claiborne in its premiere at the San Francisco Opera, reassuring us that new opera is really possible. A composer today can write music for the orchestra that gives another level of meaning to what's being sung and is at once engaging. That composer is Tobias Picker.

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Summer Festivals: Variety Spices Musical Fare in Northern Calif.

Robert P. Commanday - May 30, 2013

By Robert P. Commanday

There's choice aplenty for music lovers in Northern California, where 11 summer festivals light up the evening skies. Here's a look ahead at those devoted to concert or art music. More U.S. and Canada festival coverage below.

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In Memoriam: Michael Steinberg

Robert P. Commanday - May 8, 2010

Ten years ago, when Michael Steinberg retired as the San Francisco Symphony's program annotator and music advisor, he had a farewell essay in the program, entitled "Why We Are Here." It is also part of the book For the Love of Music Steinberg cowrote with Larry Rothe, his long-time colleague at SFS. Steinberg, who died Sunday at age 80, wrote memorably in that essay about music and talking about music, exercising his lifelong vocation and art: "Tristan und Isolde, the very symbol for

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