Younis Raza

  Promise fulfilled—Santa Cruz Festival delivers The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music opened in Santa Cruz August 6 and 7 with two well-balanced programs, running the gamut from energetic virtuosos to dark and disturbing excursions.   On a Wire ...

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  Cabrillo locks and loads—Santa Cruz new music festival opens Friday Dedicated musicians have been gathering from across the country this week to descend on Santa Cruz for a two-week festival that has...

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Fifth Season—a return of top names and luminous moments This July Napa Valley was again abuzz with visits by the famed and fortunate as the Festival del Sole filled Napa...

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High energy—and voltage—in SFSound concert The musician/composers of SFSound chose a program for their July 16 concert that probed the interaction between solo instruments and electronics. Introduced and organized by...

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  Camelot on the North Coast The Mendocino Music Festival opened its doors—or rather, pinned back its tent flaps—on Saturday, July 10, for the 24th season of music-making on the headlands of the picturesque village of Mendocino....

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  Experimental opera alive and well in Berkeley Artistic director Harriet March Page and composer Mark Alburger have...

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