Music News

Janos Gereben - August 6, 2013

The Ernest L. and Ruth W. Finley Foundation is awarding a $500,000 grant to Santa Rosa Symphony in support of the "For the Love of Music" Transformation Campaign. The grant is in memory of Evert B. Person, the late publisher of the Press Democrat, and a prominent philantropist who died in 2011 at age 96. The Finleys were founders of the newspaper, Person was their son-in-law.

Janos Gereben - August 6, 2013
Verbier's <em>Walküre</em> with Terfel, <em>Otello</em> with Netrebko, and recital by pianist Jan Lisiecki
Verbier's Walküre with
Janos Gereben - July 30, 2013
Carlos Ott's Wenzhou Opera House
Carlos Ott's Wenzhou Opera House

Some 50 (fifty!) new opera houses have been built in China as p

Janos Gereben - July 30, 2013
Futurist music maven Nicole Paement in time-lapse photography
Futurist music maven Nicole Paement in time-lapse photography

Besides an impress

Janos Gereben - July 30, 2013
Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan at Verbier
Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan at Verbier

Maybe you caught the Gautier Capuçon-Yuja Wang recital wh

Janos Gereben - July 30, 2013
Joyce Yang: full-time piano virtuoso, part-time model Photo by Oh Seuk Hoon
Joyce Yang: full-time piano virtuoso, part-time model
Janos Gereben - July 30, 2013
Celebrating King Cyrus in music
Celebrating King Cyrus in music

You may see and hear a lot in coming days about

Janos Gereben - July 30, 2013
New Opera Association president Keith Geeslin
New Opera Association president Keith Geeslin

It's been a tough row to hoe, but San Francisco Opera Gene

Janos Gereben - July 30, 2013
Putin adds to Gergiev's collection of precious metal

Those who would begrudge Michael Tilson Thomas's $2.5 million salary from the San Francisco Symphony (on top of significant income from his New World Symphony and dozens of guest-conducting gigs), sh