Janos Gereben

Even a major opera star couldn't get away with the way

The American Composers Orchestra continues to be a catalyst for new American orchestral music, providing opportunities for composers through EarShot partnerships during the 2013-2014 season. The Berkeley Symphony is participating, along with the Detroit Symphony, the La Jolla Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic.

The Ernest L. and Ruth W. Finley Foundation is awarding a $500,000 grant to Santa Rosa Symphony in support of the "For the Love of Music" Transformation Campaign. The grant is in memory of Evert B. Person, the late publisher of the Press Democrat, and a prominent philantropist who died in 2011 at age 96. The Finleys were founders of the newspaper, Person was their son-in-law.