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I sincerely admire Heuwell Tircuit for making his effort to delve into the coverage of this outstanding concert of All-Russian music at the San Francisco Symphony in his recent review "First-Rate Russian at S.F. Symphony". And, I am certainly sympathetic to the reasons why it can be at times so overwhelming for some western listeners (including the reviewer himself, according to his own admission) – after all, the vast and unique legacy of Russian music is still not taught even to the mus… Continue

I sincerely admire Heuwell Tircuit for making his effort to delve into the coverage of this outstanding concert of All-Russian music at the San Francisco Symphony in his recent review "First-Rate Russian at S.F. Symphony". And, I am certainly sympathetic to the reasons why it can be at times so overwhelming for some western listeners (including the reviewer himself, according to his own admission) – after all, the vast and unique legacy of Russian music is still not taught even to the mus… Continue

In his recent article, Michael Tilson Thomas (affectionately called by his local fans “MTT”), San Francisco Symphony’s Artistic Director and Conductor remarks: “Speaking at the Pittsburgh Creative & Performing Arts School, Michelle Obama gave an 11-minute address about the importance of the arts in our schools. I appreciated her expressing the conviction that the arts aren’t somehow an “extra” part of our nation’s life, but should be an essential part of it.”

I wholeheartedly agree with Mae… Continue