July 30, 2011
Berkeley’s West Edge Opera opens “Caliban Dreams”
If you go to Berkeley’s West Edge Opera production of Clark Suprynowicz and Amanda Moody’s...
July 2011
July 29, 2011
Z Room Presents … “Poetry & Motion”
Singing the wild soul ...
During the intermission to the closing concert of the summer...
July 26, 2011
Discovering Brahms in Menlo Park
Creating the context…
Johannes Brahms is often named as one of music’s gifted “three B’s.” But his musical genius was not isolated. It was stoked by Bach’s gift for counterpoint, Haydn’s wit, Mozart’s breathtaking lyricism, Beethoven’s daring and power, and Robert and Clara Schumann’s romantic intensity, along with a host of others. And...
July 24, 2011
Festival del Sole Ends with Glitter
Scottish media sensation Susan Boyle aside, most well known performers were pretty sharp even when...
July 22, 2011
Lamplighters enlighten the ‘HMS Pinafore’
We sail the ocean blue ...
For some ten years W.S. Gilbert was a reviewer for the Victorian weekly Fun, which was known as the “poor man’s Punch”; the magazine’s...
July 16, 2011
Meridian Gallery presents 8213 Physical Dance Theater
Not just another number
The Meridian Gallery is located in a narrow, elegantly designed Victorian at Powell and Sutter streets in San Francisco. Not simply a gallery, the lively...