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Happy 20th Birthday CAS

Janos Gereben - May 20, 2014

Classic Arts Showcase, the late Lloyd Rigler's magnificent contribution to performing arts, is turning 20 this month.

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San Diego Opera: Reports of Demise Premature

Janos Gereben - May 20, 2014
What was to be goodbye turned out to be not farewell
What was to be goodbye turned out not to be farewell

Saved not by the bell, b

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And the Granddaddy of Them All: Fantasia

Janos Gereben - May 20, 2014
<em>The Sorcerer's Apprentice</em>
The Sorcerer's Apprentice

 Several generations in the

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Film Music Great: Ikebe

Janos Gereben - May 20, 2014
The dream-like music for <em>Kurosawa's Dreams</em> was written by Shinichiro Ikebe
The dream-like music for Kurosawa's Dreams
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Will Putin Show Up for Our Soviet Silents?

Janos Gereben - May 20, 2014
The Matti Bye Ensemble provides music for this 1928 silent film from and of <em>The Land of the Bolsheviks</em>
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Music of the Silents and World's Busiest Musicians

Janos Gereben - May 20, 2014
F. Harmon Weight's 1928 <em>Midnight Madness</em>, music by Stephen Horne (Castro, 3 p.m. May 30)
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Bing Hall: 'Open for Summer'

Janos Gereben - May 13, 2014
La Santa Cecilia to Bing Hall
La Santa Cecilia to Bing Hall

Stanford's Bing Concert Hall is the venue for St

San Diego Opera: the Corpse Has a Pulse

Janos Gereben - May 13, 2014

More than 1,600 donors have pledged $1.14 million by last weekend of the $2 million required to give new life to the officially moribund company. ABC Channel 10 reports:

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'Opera Is Alive and Needed'

Janos Gereben - May 13, 2014
The chorus of hens from Welsh National Opera's <em>The Cunning Little Vixen</em> Photo by Catherine Ashmore
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S.F. Conservatory Alumni Win Fischoff Competition

Janos Gereben - May 13, 2014

The Telegraph Quartet, of Conservatory alumni violinists Eric Chin (2008) and Joseph Maile (2012), violist Pei-Ling Lin (2012), with cellist Jeremiah Shaw, won the Grand Prize and Gold Medal in the Senior String Division at the 2014 Fischoff Competition, May 9-11, in South Bend, Indiana.