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Judith Nelson, a soprano whose dozens of recordings and countless live performances in the Bay Area and internationally set a standard for the performance of Baroque music, died Monday in a care facility in Albany after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease....

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A dozen years ago, composer John Adams and librettist Peter Sellars reinvented the Nativity oratorio with "El Niño," a brilliantly innovative work that fused biblical and contemporary texts in revelatory ways. Now they've given the piece a fittingly dynamic...

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A quarter century ago, the creative team behind "Nixon in China" - composer John Adams, librettist Alice Goodman and especially director Peter Sellars, whose idea it was - delivered a salutary blow to some widespread misconceptions about what subjects opera...

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Judith Nelson, a soprano whose dozens of recordings and countless live performances in the Bay Area and internationally set a standard for the performance of Baroque music, died Monday in a care facility in Albany after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease....

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Judith Nelson, a soprano whose dozens of recordings and countless live performances in the Bay Area and internationally set a standard for the performance of Baroque music, died Monday in a care facility in Albany after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease....

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RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Classical Handel's oratorios have been a mainstay of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's activity for decades, while his operas have gotten comparatively short shrift. This fine new release, recorded live during a superlative run of...

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One swallow may not make a summer, as the saying goes, but maybe two successive sightings of Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony portend a shift in the fortunes of this wonderful and undervalued piece? Hey, a guy can dream. A little over a month after the visiting...

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The San Francisco Symphony is joining forces with the New World Symphony and the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes in a venture to offer both commissions and professional guidance to emerging composers. Under the project, titled New Voices, a panel led by...

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The San Francisco Symphony is joining forces with the New World Symphony and the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes in a venture to offer both commissions and professional guidance to emerging composers. Under the project, titled New Voices, a panel led by...

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