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I paid for those beers, by the way. nytimes.com/2025/01/15/art…

Just when I thought good music criticism in the Bay Area was going extinct Gabe Meline's description of Carmina Burana absolutely nails it.

Not particularly sentimental, but I like to keep the ticket for the premiere of each of my pieces. So here's mine from "After the Fall" written for & played by the incredible Vikingur Olafsson last week.

SF Symphony's marketing folks are showering us with amazing revelations. Strauss's music went into eclipse after his death. No one played Rosenkavalier, Til Eulenspiegel, Heldenleben between 1948 and what? 2020? Doubtless because it was too searing & cerebral.

San Franciso Symphony is first American orchestra to let A.I. create its subscription programs. Usually they include photo of Yuja Wang, even if she's not playing that week. This program, though...hmm...well, maybe they need to work on those algorithms a bit more.

Trump signs directive to make American music great again. Will banish all minor triads. nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/…

Last week finished new orch piece for my friend & longtime fan, Marin Alsop "The Rock You Stand On," and looking forward to going to Katowice, for the European premiere & seeing my Polski friends. Marin does US premiere with The Philadelphia Orchestra (note to self: needs lots of rehearsal)

Enough with politics. Let's get real and learn how a piano makes its sounds, courtesy of Agnes, my 8 yr-old granddaughter.

Tonight in San Francisco the finale of the Vikingur/Yuja tour and the last performance of Hallelujah Junction. Finally get to hear them. I'm preparing to get roughed up.

I think I may have posted this before, but what the hell...it's one of my all-time favorite performances of anything by Australian Chamber Orchestra youtube.com/watch?v=QKvevb…

Seattle Symphony marketing department gets it RIGHT!

It may have felt good to boo JD Vance but it was the wrong thing to do. You can’t embarrass this man; and it invites payback, which will further hurt K-Center. Usha Vance likes classical music, rare exception among this awful throng of Trumpistas. nytimes.com/2025/03/13/art…

Everyone and everything is perfectly color-coded for After the Fall at Elbphilharmonie except that one damn contrabass.

The President lets it be known. Can you believe that?

Yikes. Fasten your seatbelts! youtube.com/watch?v=FqIx-7…

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"Antony and Cleopatra," starring Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock and conducted by John Adams, arrives at Metropolitan Opera tonight, running through June 7. metopera.org/season/2024-25…

I think I was at that concert, too.

Should be good! As they say, "check you local listings" for broadcast Saturday. whro.org/2025-05-20/joh…

A chance to catch up with the great Philip Glass at Geffen Hall and hear his 11th Symphony. (I conducted the world premiere of his 12th Symphony, "Lodger" with LA Phil several years ago.