The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

This year has been a mixed bag, as usual, for most of us, I guess, but I'm also  pretty sure most of us will not be sorry to see it slid...

Is there a word for  the condition of finding the word that describes your condition? Because there should be. I recently came across the Ja...

The Saturday after the presidential election I trekked out to Herbst Theater in San Francisco to hear violinist Ray Chen as guest soloist an...

My Götterdämmerung t-shirt from my first Ring Cycle (Seattle, 1995). I am slowly emerging from a state of shock (and the shock is part...

Some local artists are raising funds for projects that sound worth supporting: Locally sourced tenor Nicholas Phan is running an IndiGoG...

U PDATE : A couple of items I forgot: Christian Reif leads the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in Henze's Maenad's Dance f...

I have a spiffy new computer, but now my home Internet service is bombing out regularly and I go days without being able to get any kind of ...

Dance Cal Performances hosts the Mark Morris Dance Group , making its annual visit with a world premiere: Layla and Manjun , based on the ...

New Century Chamber Orchestra is turning 25 this year, and to mark this milestone they have christened this their Silver Season. The other ...

The good news is that Computer Crisis 2016 is nearing an end. So I'm just going to lie low until I'm fully functional again, which s...