The Fremont Symphony is replacing David Sloss, who headed the orchestra since 1980, and Sue Rose in what the orchestra has termed a "challenging new direction" and spurred by a new grant.
The S.F. Opera Chorus — and a star featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary In the Shadow of the Stars — has lost one of its prominent veterans.
Merola Opera Program, now in full flight, is teeming with talent, as usual, and in a somewhat arbitrary way, I am picking just two of them to tell about. Tell, that is, through a helpful third party.
In a collaboration between the S.F. Symphony, CoMM, and SFCV, an innovative, participatory program expands with a website, bringing audiences and amateur music makers even further to the heart of the Symphony.