Marianne Lipanovich

Marianne Lipanovich is a writer and editor based in Redwood City. A gardening expert, she is a lifelong music lover, having learned to read music before she learned to read.

Articles By This Author

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Well-Deserved Fan-dom

Marianne Lipanovich - September 7, 2009
Joel Fan can be described in any number of ways. He’s a brilliant pianist who made his performing debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11.
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A Photo Essay From Music@Menlo

Marianne Lipanovich - August 4, 2009

A Few Notes From the Field at Music@Menlo

“It’s a wonderful, intimate setting. The musicians and programs are fabulous.”

— Terri Lahey 

“It’s nice that they have so many soloists, so many stars.”

— Steve Smith

An Interview With Menahem Pressler

Marianne Lipanovich - July 29, 2009

Legendary pianist Menahem Pressler makes his Music@Menlo debut on Sunday, Aug. 2, in a concert in Atherton titled "An Evening With Menahem Pressler."

An Interview With Jonathan Khuner

Marianne Lipanovich - June 29, 2009

Jonathan Khuner is a Bay Area classical music fixture. He is artistic and musical director for the Berkeley Opera. He also divides his time between the San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera as assistant conductor and a prompter for both companies.

The Berkeley Opera Company is doing The Ballad of Baby Doe this July. Why did you chose this opera?

An Interview With Sarah Cahill

Marianne Lipanovich - June 8, 2009
Sarah Cahill is a pianist who wears a lot of hats, which may account for her high profile among local, Bay Area pianists. She hosts the radio program Then and Now on KALW on Sunday evenings, wrote music reviews for The East Bay Express until the late 1990s, and for San Francisco Classical Voice, when it began, and has commissioned a number of new works for piano.
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Summer Festival Preview

Marianne Lipanovich - June 8, 2009
For some, summer vacation means sun, sand, and relaxation. For music lovers in the Bay Area, summer vacation means opera under the stars, symphonies by the beach, immersion in the works of a favorite composer, or listening to and trying out the latest new music and musical instruments.
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Artist Spotlight

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

Marianne Lipanovich - May 4, 2009
From May 14 through May 19, the New Century Chamber Orchestra will perform its final program of the season, titled "Shadows and Light." The conductorless string orchestra, led by one of the world’s most preeminent violinists, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, will be performing in Berkeley, Palo Alto, Marin, and San Francisco.

Nadya Tichman

Marianne Lipanovich - April 21, 2009
This week, from April 22 through April 25, the San Francisco Symphony will be performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 4 (1935), one of the composer's best. Long-time symphony member and Associate Concertmaster Nadya Tichman is the soloist for the same composer's haunting tone poem, The Lark Ascending (1914, rev. 1920).

Nicholas McGegan

Marianne Lipanovich - March 16, 2009
Catching up with Nicholas McGegan isn’t easy. He may be based in Berkeley, but as a conductor and expert in Baroque and early music, he’s in demand across the country and in Europe, with forays into Asia. But when he is at home, one of his roles is as music director laureate of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
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Completely Organic

Marianne Lipanovich - March 4, 2008

The new pipe organ at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco is making itself known among organ aficionados in the Bay Area. Not only is it beautiful to look at, with an outer case and carvings in black walnut, but it has a beautiful sound, as well. It was dedicated on March 25, 2007, and the congregation and concertgoers have spent the past year discovering just what it can do.