What does it take to play a note as low as any in the orchestra? Nothing more than 16 feet of wooden tubing coiled into a compact package, plus a mouthpiece, a cane reed and a musician like San Francisco Symphony contrabassoonist Steven Braunstein. ...
It takes a certain amount of courage and caginess for a violinist to hold a stage unaccompanied for the length of a full concert program. Jennifer Koh's splendid recital in Herbst Theatre on Tuesday night confirmed - not for the first time - that she ...
What does it take to play a note as low as any in the orchestra? Nothing more than 16 feet of wooden tubing coiled into a compact package, plus a mouthpiece, a cane reed and a musician like San Francisco Symphony contrabassoonist Steven Braunstein. ...
It takes a certain amount of courage and caginess for a violinist to hold a stage unaccompanied for the length of a full concert program. Jennifer Koh's splendid recital in Herbst Theatre on Tuesday night confirmed - not for the first time - that she ...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology," Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote, "is indistinguishable from magic." To which many observers might add, black magic. The mixture of excitement and dread that attends any huge technological shift lies at the heart ...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology," Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote, "is indistinguishable from magic." To which many observers might add, black magic. The mixture of excitement and dread that attends any huge technological shift lies at the heart ...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Classical Dvorák's weighty, expansive setting of the Requiem is one of the great unknown treasures of the 19th century choral repertoire, and this live recording - at once imposing and imperfect - makes clear how much ...
Charles Ives is generally cited as the great progenitor of American classical music, but it turns out that the tendrils of his influence and his example have an international reach. Ives' transcendentalist fervor takes on a Russian cast in Victor ...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Classical Dvorák's weighty, expansive setting of the Requiem is one of the great unknown treasures of the 19th century choral repertoire, and this live recording - at once imposing and imperfect - makes clear how much ...
Charles Ives is generally cited as the great progenitor of American classical music, but it turns out that the tendrils of his influence and his example have an international reach. Ives' transcendentalist fervor takes on a Russian cast in Victor ...
