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If you think of Ludwig van Beethoven mostly as the Ninth Symphony and the dih-dih-dih-DAH Fifth, I propose your spending his epic 250th anniversary these days by looking at him as the audacious innovator, many decades ahead of his times, as reflected in his late string quartets. He had been many things to many people: a feminist (in “Fidelio”), a freedom fighter battling oppression (“Egmont”), a master reformulator of the piano, and an unprecedented purveyor of high drama in music Read More Read More The new reality in classical music is virtual, with a totally new genre of concert: close-knit ensembles playing, even though they might never meet each other. The San Francisco Symphony tackled the mid-pandemic problem Nov. 14 with an elaborate, costly, hi-tech solution to bring forth an hour-long prerecorded program crackling with energy, talent, modernity and diversity, filmed in part “around the world,” per drum-beating press release. Featured with the classical players were contrasting figures rarely in the concert hall, like Read More Read More Dozens of wildfires all over our state right now, none completely under control, blackening a staggering 5,000 square miles. The biggest negative for most, surprisingly, is mental health. These West Coast fires are mostly in remote parts with few inhabitants, few homes. (Exception: in remote Butte County California, just this week, the tragedy of a dozen or more who lost their lives.) The situation is unexpectedly depressing, piled on top of other existing news: The killer Coronavirus that just won t Read More Read More The most telling statements are often the simplest. Instead of symphonic moving vans, we get the highly manoeuvrable vehicle of an unaccompanied instrument, telling us that more is less. No music emanating from our days of unrest is more eloquent than Anthony McGill’s brief and understated clarinet solo variant on “America, the Beautiful” that we hear on You Tube as part of his “TakeTwoKnees” series. As one of the most esteemed black figures in American symphonic music, he is a Read More Read More Currently streaming free over the web, Mozart’s early opera “Idomeneo” is a flawed masterwork wrapped in a rare treat. It fairly glows with the composer’s mature musical style in arias, ensembles and scenas, but it lacks the conciseness and sparkling libretto characteristic of his later stage pieces. For the next few weeks at any time, you can catch a very presentable, elegant and at times compelling version over the web. This was the 2011 production by Opera San Jose recalling Read More Read More NEW YORK CITY It’s as if none of us had ever heard a youth chorus before Hundreds of youngsters, age 9 on up, on stage singing, gyrating, dancing, all on pitch, despite flying about as if in a Broadway musical. It left one battle-hardened music critic nearby captivated, driven to pounding on a thigh in time to the swelling rhythms. The whole show was enough to move this writer to tears of sheer joy rarely shed. This was the prize-winning multi-racial, multi-cultural Read More Read More Among today’s mid-career violinists, the Southern Californian Leila Josefowicz proves herself a true tigress. The more challenging the score, the more she relishes bringing it to life. Where others might cringe, she revels. Composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen wrote his violin concerto in 2009, and she’s virtually owned it ever since. Thorny, prickly, super-speed, clashing, call her violin role what you will. No concerto gives the soloist a more preponderant perpetuum-mobilerole and none I venture make greater demands on the soloist. I Read More Read More The preview act of the music-director-to-be Salonen showed him to be refreshingly self-effacing, constantly putting the music at the forefront in place of the maestro or the podium. And that put a damper on any possible waves of public adulation and wonderment. He led off his guest stint with the S.F. Symphony with cannons and canons, but of a deeply grieving funereal sort, and went from the bang to the whimper, finishing with the underwhelming impact of Ravel’s fragile “Mother Read More Read More Ballet and philosophy rarely converge. But there we were, with not one but two such examples of theorizing and thought-provoking choreography, venturing to convey concepts through movement. Good luck! Trey McIntyre’s world premiere “Big Hunger” explains it all (at least in the printed notes): The big hunger in humanity is the yearning for meaning, an existential clue to purpose. The scenic design’s massive structure (Thomas Mika) was a further clue: A prominently illuminated EXIT door on stage. This could symbolize Read More Read More PALO ALTO, CA The romance of Valentine’s Day came face to face with ghoulish rituals and murder most foul by that usurper Macbeth. Disastrous? Hardly. The plucky little opera company virtually sold out the house February 14th, emulating the mouse that roared. And it brought on high drama on its opening night, overcoming almost all adversity. This was that jinxed operatic “Macbeth,” by Verdi, out of Shakespeare an unsettling tale so fearsome that theaters everywhere still leave one light burning on stage Read More Read More

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