At 12:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:
I never realized Sibelius was in Walnut Creek, a town I've spent quite a bit of time i
Interesting. Did you live there at one time?
If you're near there, I suggest you might want to try out some of the concerts of the California Music Festival. The concerts this year are all at the Performing Arts Center in Walnut Creek. One of my best friends, James Greening-Valenzuela (a native of Concord and a SF Conservatory grad) is the artistic director. This year their chamber music composer is Brahms and the opera is Mozart's Idomeneo. The list of events is at <http://californiamusicfestival.org/home.html>, though it's a dreadful website, and concerts begin a week from Wednesday (8/3). If you attend a concert, tell James I sent you!
Wow, that really is an awful site!. Slow and awkward, but worst of all it doesn't list any performer's names except the director and his accompanist! And the staff (I distantly know the violist listed there). Who's playing is the main reason I go to concerts - I'm afraid I don't risk performances of the likes of Brahms any more without having some sense that it's going to be someone I want to hear Not to impugn your friend and his choice of performers, I'm sure they're good, but really, not to give them billing on the site... do you know if the personnel is listed anywhere else? I'd like to know who's playing the Clarinet Quintet. Not a piece you get to hear live that often. I'd like to know the singer(s) too - Brahms Lieder well done are wonderful.
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