December 2014 – Repeat Performances

December 29, 2014

2014 Year in Review

Looking back, a whimsical list… After years of belt-tightening, the Bay Area’s classical music scene is standing as a vibrant example of hard work and clever programming. Despite facing under-funded public arts organizations and former donors struggling to pay their rising housing costs, most groups have squeaked through another year. And surprisingly, they did it with artistic integrity and creativity. In no particular...

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2014 Year in Review

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December 15, 2014

“Elf” sleighs into SF

Santa hits town If you don’t believe in Santa Claus, you certainly don’t believe in his sleigh...

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Shotgun Players visits “Our Town”

All’s well in Shotgun Players’ Our Town We know its longitude and latitude, its population and its ethnic makeup, but the New...

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December 13, 2014

Alexander String Quartet and Greenberg in Berkeley Series

Mozart in Vienna – the good times Musicologist Robert Greenberg pooled resources with the excellent Alexander String Quartet at St. John’s Presbyterian Church in Berkeley last Saturday morning to recreate the heady music scene of eighteenth century Vienna. ...

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December 5, 2014

Paul Dresher and Amy X Neuburg venture at Cal Performances

Scripting the visual – ten composers at Cal Performances A marvelous project, three years in the making, came to fruition at Zellerbach Playhouse last Friday, December 5. Composers Paul Dresher and Amy X Neuburg joined their considerable – and considerably different – forces to create a program in which ten composers joined photographs, text and music. Titled “They Will Have Been So Beautiful: Songs and Images of Now,”...

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