The songs of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim have long been fertile ground for reinterpretation by cabaret artists, Broadway babies, and vocalists of all stripes.
The San Francisco Symphony's recent concert performances of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta "Candide," conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, should have been the icing on the cake in the season-long celebration of the composer's birth centennial.
A recent conversation with San Francisco Opera General Director Matthew Shilvock centered on the announcement this week of repertory in the Company's 2018-19 Season.
This winter of 2017-18, whether you're all bundled up and trudging through snow and ice or wearing board shorts and soaking up the sun at the beach, remember that music makes everything better.
The 10th anniversary edition expanded reissue of Josh Groban's "Noel" (Reprise), one of the biggest-selling Christmas album of all time, now boasts six additional songs, including four newly recorded selections.
The mighty "Amens" in the final chorus of Handel's "Messiah" still echo in memory, days after personally enjoying a last live concert of 2017 at Davies Symphony Hall with the San Francisco Symphony.