Note to Self: Find that FM Radio
I write that note to myself about four times a year, and I forget every time, and every time I miss out on a key aspect of the Illuminated Corridor…
Rova Saxophone Quartet and friends channel Buckminster Fuller
San Francisco is famous for its innovations, its open minds, and its spirit of protest. In 2005, according to Rova Saxophone Quartet member Larry Ochs, “our government was committing all…
SF Symphony serves up Mason Bates world premiere
[Ed. note: Polly Moller is not just busy telling you about concerts like the one below — while she’s out there pushing for the other guy, I want to mention…
All living composers, all the time
Or at least it sure seems that way, when you’re dealing with the Del Sol String Quartet. San Francisco’s longtime champions of new music have a drool-worthy concert on tap…
ADORNO Ensemble takes on student work
When I was an undergrad at San Francisco State University in the late 1980s, we didn’t have a new music ensemble-in-residence. Like many music majors then and now, we relied…