Music directors in San Francisco are like airports: they must have a TLA. Alongside MTT, we have NSS, aka Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, who heads the New Century Chamber Orchestra. NSS is actually the name of her music label, we did not just ascribed that tag to her. more ›

William Bolcom composed two third of the pieces in the program presented by the New Century Chamber Orchestra, in a run which opens tomorrow in Berkeley (and repeats Friday in Palo Alto, Saturday in San Francisco and Sunday in San Rafael). He is also penning a world premiere for another NCCO concert series next May. more ›