The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: SoundBox
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* Notes *SoundBox's latest program, titled Outré, featured French avant-garde music over seven centuries. Beautifully curated, the engaging music ranged from Pérotin's polyphonic Sederunt principes with a cappella male voices and portative organ to Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité celeste for solo piano and instrumental ensemble, including the many gongs seen in the photograph to…
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My preview of San Francisco Opera's series at the Taube Atrium Theater and new audience initiatives for classical music organizations such as SoundBox, PIVOT, and Berkeley RADICAL is up on KQED Arts. I heard no less than three performances at the Wilsey Center for Opera: the first iteration of ChamberWORKS that I already described, an…
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