One of the few things everyone–and I do mean everyone–should do before they die is go to a stage production of a major opera by a world-class opera company. The San Francisco opera certainly qualifies for the latter, and Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre definitely fits the former. Last Saturday my wife and I had the [...]
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The Redwood Symphony and Conductor/Director Eric Kujawsky are to be congratulated for taking on such a challenging and remarkable work and delivering a polished, moving [...] No, the latest offering by Bay Choral Guild was not program of favorites from Woodstock. The title of last Friday’s concert, “Peace and Love” alludes to the works that made up the program. The concert we attended was the first of three over this last weekend in Campbell, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. The “Peace” part [...] One of my favorite Bay Area cultural institutions performed last night (o5 March) at the Campbell United Methodist Church. The Bay Choral Guild presented a wonderful program of some of the essential masterworks of Renaissance and later sacred choral music. The program was billed as a selection of Lenten Devotions Through the Ages, although a [...] A couple of years ago I began making 3-D collage art, otherwise known as shadowboxes, in order to… hell, I have no idea why I started doing it. Part of it was inspired by a visit to the San Jose Museum of Art where they had an exhibit of the drawings of M. C. Escher. [...] Last Saturday my spouse and I had the pleasure of listening to another excellent concert by the Bay Choral Guild at the Campbell United Methodist Church. The name of the program was “A World of Song”, a title which does not really do proper justice to the program. One of the great lessons of anthropology, art [...] This past weekend, my spouse and I recently had the pleasure of hearing the Bay Choral Guild in a concert of music by French composers. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to the Bay Choral Guild, you’re missing a real treat. This 45-voice auditioned choir consistently delivers beautiful renditions of a wide range [...] A view from the balcony of the Exploratorium on Pi Day. Photo by the author. Last Saturday we accompanied some friends of ours on a trip to the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Many, many years ago the science show Nova featured this marvelous place in one of their programs, and if I recall “The Palace of [...] A moment of epiphany for me was when I realized that there was something inherently wrong with professional sports. It wasn’t steroids or the incessant hype or the fixation on statistics down to the molecular level. It was the realization that there is something fundamentally wrong with paying someone to do your playing for you. Now [...] The San Francisco Bay Area is notorious for being full of people who have interesting ideas and, what’s more, are prone to act on them. Creativity is the lifeblood of the Bay Area not just in the sense that it provides jobs and income, but that it is something that seems to infuse the [...] |
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