November 25-26, 2015 in Berlin, Germany, was the premiere of the 2013 version of Kaija Saariaho’s La...
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Kelsey Walsh
September 25-27 was the 2015 Kontakte Festival of new classical electronic, electro-acoustic, and so...
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Kelsey Walsh
The Berkeley Symphony’s concert on Thursday, February 6 in UC Berekely’s Zellerbach Hall featured th...
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Kelsey Walsh
On Saturday January 18, 2014, Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the San Francisco Symphony in their se...
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Kelsey Walsh
The San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of Mark Adamo’s The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene, wh...
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Kelsey Walsh
Characteristically distinctive sounds rang out throughout the day during the sixth annual Switchboar...
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Kelsey Walsh
This belated review covers an event prior to the negotiations breakdown that happened in San Francis...
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Kelsey Walsh
Most musicians and audience members alike know Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933-2010) primarily for his...
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Kelsey Walsh
I just finished reading Joel Sachs’ new book, Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music for the third time.
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Kelsey Walsh
Pairing Samuel Carl Adams' new work Drift and Providence with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony was a bold mov...
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Kelsey Walsh
Nixon in China. John Adams' first opera. San Francisco Opera’s series of performances (which began J...
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Kelsey Walsh
The Kronos Quartet’s recent concert at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Novellus Theater was unquest...
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Kelsey Walsh
Artistic director Steven Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (SFCMP) concluded t...
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Kelsey Walsh
The concluding concert in Composers Inc.’s season took place on April 24 at San Francisco’s Old Firs...
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Kelsey Walsh
The small audience who braved a rare San Francisco thunderstorm to get to Redshift’s concert on Apri...
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Kelsey Walsh
Sunday April first (no joke!) was the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival. One of several new mu...
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Kelsey Walsh
The final concert of the San Francisco Symphony’s Mavericks festival began with Steve Reich’s Music...
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Kelsey Walsh
In keeping with the idea of the Mavericks Festival presenting “new classics,” the entire first half...
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Kelsey Walsh
Ann Southam, who passed away at the age of 73 in 2010, was one of Canada’s foremost composers. Befor...
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Kelsey Walsh
