The Golden Gate International Children’s Choral Festival has, in seven years, become one of America’s most celebrated gatherings of young choral performers and a premiere showcase for youth choirs representing musical genres that range from historical folk to contemporary. Created and sponsored by Piedmont Choirs, the Festival has drawn performers from nations around the globe, […]
Continue readingThe SFCJQ has, since its 2002 founding, generated sheaves of critical raves for “Effortlessly and beautifully blending the realms of jazz and classical” (All Music Guide) and offering “an eclectic repertoire that delights no matter which side of the jazz/classical dichotomy you occupy” (All About Jazz). Led by local legend Gini “The Duchess” Wilson, the […]
Continue readingA Very Unusual Jazz Duo
Continue readingDick Mathias, Scott Petersen, Harvey Robb, Jeff Sanford, horns; John Capobianco, John Hunt, Rolf Johnson, Rick Walsh, Eric Wayne, brass; Randy Johnson, banjo, guitar, vocals, doombeck, xylophone; Marianne Addington, piano; Don Bennett, bass; Mark Rosengarden, drumsIf you grew up watching Looney Tunes cartoons, you were, noted the Chronicle’s Jesse Hamlin, “weaned on the fun-house music […]
Continue readingSpring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter by Kui Dong; Impromptu by Duo HuangFacing army tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989 in defiance of the People’s Republic of China, student composer Kui Dong never dreamed she would, 15 years later, be a PhD in music composition and professor at Dartmouth. Tonight she and her composer husband Duo […]
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