Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Steven Stucky Steven Stucky is the composer-in-residence for the '12-'13 season of the Berkeley Symphony, and the orchestra will premiere his latest: The Stars and the Roses, a trio of poems by Czesław Miłosz set
Arts & Entertainment Appomattox The most powerful moments are written for the chorus: the aforementioned opening women choir, for instance. But Glass also recycles We’re tenting tonight, a song of the era, to intense dramatic effect.
Arts & Entertainment America's Next Opera Star To conclude the apprenticeship program’s 50th season, the Merola program gave its grand finale concert last Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. The singers did not present a full fledged opera,
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: the Merola Grand Finale One would expect that the format, a sequence of arias not unlike that of Opera in the Park (Sept 10th, it's coming up), would become a bit predictable after a while. One would
