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MakeMusic Universal File Format Comes to SmartMusic

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Michael

…le format (.smp). Because the new file format is both forward and backward compatible, we will no longer have these incompatibilities between Finale and SmartMusic versions. The current version of SmartMusic will be able to read accompaniments created in future versions of Finale. Just as before, the current version of Finale will be able to create accompaniments for later versions of SmartMusic. This new file format is a key part of the moderniza… Continue reading →

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Coming Up: Mason Bates’ Mass Transmission

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Michael

…ntemporary Music. A few weeks ago I heard the Chicago Symphony perform his latest orchestral work, Alternative Energy. It turned out to be his best orchestral work that I’ve heard yet. Once again I had that jolt of recognition. The beginning of the second movement, where the orchestra segues from a huge crescendo into a burst of sound based on samples from the FermiLab particle accelerator was literally jaw dropping. I’d never heard anything like… Continue reading →

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Coming Up: Debussy

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Michael

…re doing the full incidental music in a semi-staged production. The work becomes a multi-media pageant complete with narrator, soloists, chorus, and orchestra. If you’ve seen SFS semi-staged productions before, you know they can make remarkable use of the Davies Symphony Hall space. You can see the projections in the publicity photo above, but there’s more to the staging than that. Anne Patterson is the director and designer; Michael Tilson Thomas… Continue reading →

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Coming Up: Brahms and Schütz

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Michael

…motets on the Koch International label – now out of print, but available from used stores at Amazon and elsewhere. What a beautiful recording, conducted by the late Craig Smith. It includes several motets composed to texts that Brahms also used in A German Requiem. It’s a fun challenge to combine the very different vocal and choral styles needed by Schütz and Brahms in the same concert…. Continue reading →

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Coming Up: Verdi Requiem

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Michael

…for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus’s performances of the Verdi Requiem, coming up next week. The Verdi Requiem turns out to be one of music notation’s record holders. No other work in common Western music notation has more augmentation dots on a note than the 4 dots Verdi uses in setting “Salva me” in the Rex tremendae portion of the Sequence: This is one of many cases of a stuttering rhythm in the Sequence, helping to convey a sense of fear an… Continue reading →

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Coming Up: Mahler, Duruflé, Beethoven

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Michael

…nus Dei, a choral transcription of his Adagio for Strings, was done by the composer. The rest were arranged by others, including a beautiful 16-part a cappella version of Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen. Ragnar Bohlin will conduct; he also arranged the Schubert and Schumann songs that we’ll perform with our wonderful pianist, Matthew Edwards. Tickets are available online and at the Davies Symphony Hall box office. The San Francisco Sym… Continue reading →

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Coming Up: Turandot

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Michael

…he chance to perform it as part of a volunteer chorus may well be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The same is true for the chance to see and hear it in an intimate 425-seat house. I haven’t actually run the numbers on this, but it usually seems like an opera chorus is on stage for maybe 1/4 or 1/3 of an opera. Sometimes, as in the case of the Mozart / Da Ponte operas – or Puccini’s own Madama Butterfly – the percentage of stage time is much less…. Continue reading →

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Coming Up: Ravel and Bernstein at San Francisco Symphony

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Michael

…nclude last month’s Spring Choral Concert, but that was the reduced instrumentation for organ, harp, and percussion. With full orchestra it is even more glorious. The Ravel of course is one of the most beautiful works ever written. The Suite No. 2 that is often done comes from the third act of the ballet. In this concert we are doing the entire wonderful score. Performances are May 19, 20, 21 and 23 at Davies Symphony Hall. The weekday concerts ar… Continue reading →

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