Silicon Valley Music Festival

New festival springs up in the South Bay “A small idea runs through the works,” explained musicologist Danielle Sofer before the final concert of San Jose’s newest chamber music festival. Moving from podium to piano, she illustrated with motifs that developed simply and stepwise. And thus began a not-so-simple venture. Founded by a young and sophisticated duo, the Silicon Valley Music Festival just finished its 2012 inaugural season with a...

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Garden of Memory, Piedmont

Celebrating midsummer in a place where time stands still. Oakland’s Chapel of the Chimes, a labyrinthine shrine designed by Julia Morgan, is usually as serenely quiet as the tomb, appropriate for a columbarium and mausoleum. Folding in layers...

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