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The Power of the Fragmentary

Jaime Robles - November 18, 2008
When experience comes to us in fragments, we often set about building them into a pattern that can be easily and neatly understood. That’s part of our human effort to understand the world: the need to find an interpretive key to a confusing set of experiences, but what if?
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Nurturing the Singers of Tomorrow, Part 2

Jason Victor Serinus - November 11, 2008
Last week, Jason Victor Serinus investigated singer development in the San Francisco Opera Center's Merola and Adler Fellows programs.
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Nurturing the Singers of Tomorrow

Jason Victor Serinus - November 4, 2008
Who are they? Who will replace the generations of singers who thrilled us and brought us to tears when we first fell in love with opera and art song?
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Eat, Sleep, Music

Be'eri Moalem - October 28, 2008
You know you are at a music conservatory when you are sitting in a history class and, in addition to the professor's voice, you can also faintly hear a soprano wailing in the next room, a violinist practicing fast licks in the room across the hall, a trumpet being blown in the room below, and a double bass rattling the ceiling from the room above.
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Cloning El Sistema in Oakland

Janos Gereben - October 21, 2008

St. Martin de Porres is a small parochial school in North Oakland. It is named for a 17th-century Dominican brother from Peru who was famous for establishing orphanages and children’s hospitals. He was canonized in 1962.

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Cloning El Sistema in Oakland

Janos Gereben - October 21, 2008

St. Martin de Porres is a small parochial school in North Oakland. It is named for a 17th-century Dominican brother from Peru who was famous for establishing orphanages and children's hospitals. He was canonized in 1962. St.

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The Pathfinder

Georgia Rowe - October 14, 2008
We tend to think of composers in groups, whether by era, country, school, or style. Meredith Monk, however, has always stood apart from the crowd.
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Mission Blue's Small-Town Values

Jonathan Rhodes Lee - October 7, 2008
The Bay Area must be one of the few places where fledgling classical music presenters can find support in an already teeming marketplace. Now you can add another newcomer to the list of those you’ve heard of: Live at Mission Blue, a relatively young chamber music series, which opens its fifth season this Saturday evening.
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A Musical Heritage Rediscovered and Celebrated

Lisa Houston - September 30, 2008

On Saturday, October 4, at Herbst Theatre, Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian will mark the beginning of a "Remembrance Concert Tour". She will be joined by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Anne Manson.

Mission: Unusual

Jeff Dunn - September 23, 2008
Is it like this for you? You go to the market. A Whitney Houston clone is on the Muzak — again. You want to scream. Do you feel the same way when you go to the symphony and discover Brahms' Second, Dvořák's "New World," or Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on the program? If so, there's hope for you — if you move to north Phoenix.