Janos Gereben

Paul Tobias

Cellist Paul Tobias, 68, died last month, after sustaining injuries in a fall.

The first of what is planned to be an annual event, the James Toland Vocal Arts Competiti

Choral singing in Estonia has significance far beyond "just music." James and Maureen

Nancy Buirski's remarkable film biography of Tanaquil Le Clercq, which had a run recently in movie theaters, will now be shown on PBS' American Masters;

Apropos the past Sunday: Against a few decent dads in opera — Peter of Hansel und Gretel, William Tell, Gianni Schicchi — the genre is teeming with bad ones, such as Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Alberich in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung (Wotan at least has some feelings for his dozens of offsprings), King Philip II in Verdi's Don Carlo, Cenerentola's f

Tomorrow, June 18, is Robert Commanday's 92nd birthday, the co-founder (with his wife, Mary) of San Francisco Cl