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PREVIEW: Berkshire Bach presents Henry Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ at First Congregational Church on April 5
"Dido and Aeneas" is Virgil’s story of Queen Dido of Carthage, who falls in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas but is abandoned ...
No conductor? No problem — SF Symphony sets new season anyway
The orchestra will welcome such guest artists violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianists Emanuel Ax, Seong-Jin ...
S.F. Symphony faces ‘transitional moment’ without Esa-Pekka Salonen in 2025-26 season
Esa-Pekka Salonen, the esteemed outgoing music director of the San Francisco Symphony, isn’t named on the orchestra’s 2025-26 season schedule — a striking absence that underscores a shift from the ...
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S.F. Symphony’s next season has a gaping hole — and it underscores the institution’s crisis
There’s a great gaping absence in the San Francisco Symphony’s 2025-26 season: Esa-Pekka Salonen. The outgoing music director — who was supposed to carry on a four-decade tradition of excellence at ...
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How Gustavo Dudamel’s Mahler festival grooves for young and old
Some months before beginning his six-week Mahler Project in 2012, a 30-year-old Gustavo Dudamel said he was studying like crazy. Just before the first concert on Jan. 13 that year, he said ...
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Exhilarating Mahler and George Walker from the LSO at Carnegie Hall
The first concert of the outfit’s two-night stand fused one of Pappano’s specialties, the music of American composers, with a classic of the Austro-German repertoire favored by his LSO predecessor, ...