Monthly Archives: August 2008

The Demon Barber of Fremont

So reads the headline of Janos Gerberen’s rave review of Fremont Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at San Francisco Classical Voice. He did not mention the chorus other than to say that we were not large, but there were only … Continue reading

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Coming Up: The Barber of Seville

Next weekend I will be singing in the chorus of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Fremont Opera. Jonathon Field is stage director and David Sloss is conductor. This is the same artistic team that I have performed with in … Continue reading

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Cabrillo Festival 2008 – Riffs and Refrains

Cabrillo came up with another winner in last night’s concert, featuring works by Matthew Cmiel, Mark Anthony Turnage, John Corigliano, and John Adams. I was particularly taken with the Turnage and Adams works. Turnage’s concerto Riffs and Refrains featured spectacular … Continue reading

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MusicXML Support in MaxScore and BrailleMUSE

MusicXML is drawing ever closer to support by 100 applications. I recently heard about two new applications that have added MusicXML support: MaxScore is a Max object that adds music notation to the Max/MSP system, including export to MusicXML files. … Continue reading

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Cabrillo Festival 2008 – Triple Play

Saturday’s Cabrillo concert was another winner. It opened with a beautiful piece by Dorothy Chang, moved on to an intriguing work by Mason Bates, and concluded with a spectacular percussion concerto by John Corigliano with Evelyn Glennie as soloist. I … Continue reading

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Cabrillo Festival 2008 – First Night

August in Silicon Valley means that it’s time for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music over the hill in Santa Cruz. This is an amazing two-week festival of contemporary orchestral music. Since 1992, the brilliant Marin Alsop has been the … Continue reading

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