Michael Zwiebach is the senior editor/content manager for SFCV. He assigns all articles and content, manages the writing staff, and does editing. A member of SFCV from the beginning, Michael holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley.
We had so many possibilities for last week’s three-minute mixtape, we had to create another playlist featuring classical music’s most famous dance tunes, all under three minutes (with one minor exception).
When pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin comes to town, it’s often to play something gnarly or seldom played. In his appearances with the S.F. Symphony this time he’s scheduled for Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Here’s your SFCV cheat sheet for the opera – the background, sources, story, controversy, and some interpretive ideas, expertly boiled down to a few minutes by Kaleen Asbo.
