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Day: January 12, 2019

The Fresh Festival Brings a “Reckoning”

The Fresh Festival Brings a “Reckoning”

The Fresh Festival, which plays at the Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco every Friday and Saturday evening in January, proposes a series of performances that show a “bold, wild, vulnerable willingness to try something new in front of your eyes, have the power to change your mind, your day, your life,” according Kathleen Hermesdorf, the Festival curator. The Festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary around the theme of “Reckoning,” a political ambition, in which “we are . . ….

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Bruckner Symphonies: Avoid the Wheezes

Bruckner Symphonies: Avoid the Wheezes

Performances of Bruckner symphonies can get reactions ranging from whee to a wheeze. The current stab at Bruckner’s Fifth certainly elicits no whee of delight—Z-z-z-z’s more than whee’s—-but the concert by the S.F. Symphony fortunately offered a first-rate Mozart Clarinet Concerto by way of compensation. As the Mozart soloist, Carey Bell made a strong case for being placed in the league of the top actives in clarinet like New Yorker Anthony McGill. His arpeggios are like waterfalls, his legatos are…

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