Neither is she a stranger to soulsearching. Her accompanist for this program is [Jake Heggie], whose opera Dead Man Walking-based on the Helen Prejean memoir and made even more famous in the Tim Robbins film-will see at least 50 performances in this calendar year alone. Heggie wrote the part of the condemned's mother for von [Frederica von Stade] to create at the San Francisco Opera. "I was just thrilled to be part of it," she says, and of that role in particular, "It was a part I wanted to play, because the worst thing that's asked of any parent is to lose a child in any way, at any age. But one step worse is to feel that you're responsible in some way for your child's fate." Heggie also wrote song settings of von Stade's own texts that reflect on the father she never knew, Charles von...
When the San Francisco band Von Iva was selected to take part in the Jim Carrey film "Yes Man," the trio wasn't sure what to expect. Chosen to be the backing band, Munchausen by Proxy, for one of the film's actors, it's natural to assume that set off alarms -- the number of actors who think they can sing only exceeded by the number of athletes who think they can act. So when Zooey Deschanel casually said, "Oh, I have a record coming out," they nodded politely and kept any reservations to themselves.
ORION STRING QUARTET; Late Beethoven Quartets (KOCH Internatioanl Classics) **** STUART SKELTON, TENOR, THOMAS HAMPSON, BARITONE, MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS, SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY; Mahler, "Das Lied von der Erde" (SFS Media) ****
Espero que el ejemplo de [Benito Ju]árez sea realizado (entre estudiantes de origen mexicano) y que algún día veamos a alguno de ellos como gobernadores de este gran país. "Y con el apoyo de sus padres y maestros logren alcanzar sus metas, hablando no solamente en un idioma sino en dos: Inglés y Español", comentó [Velma Villegas]. Una vez en la Presidencia ordenó el fusilamiento de Maximilian von Habsburg, Archiduque del Imperio Austro-Hungaro y hermano del emperador Francisco José. Acción revolucionaria de proporciones universales. Maximiliano, quien personalmente era un hombre honorable, representaba sin embargo la arrogancia del imperialismo europeo, particularmente de Francia en la figura ridícula de Napoleón III.
... Regional Commissioner of Customs in San Francisco, on April 14, 1975, upheld the $3,600 penalty. Ha...
Today's Obituaries Barker, Dahlia F. Bowles, Loretta A. DasSarma, Seba Davie, Dr. Ethel O. Eversole, Shirldean M. Fix, Bernice J. Francisco, Jewell M. Frye, Donald R. Gartin, Betty Hardman, Regena Jarrell, Ramona Jarrell, Roger S. King, Jeanne P. LeMaster, Christopher T. Lester, Richie L. Lucky, Brent M. Massengill, Bobby W. Sr. McCormick, Larry J. Jr. Milton, Bill W. Rhodes, Ronald A. Sr. Smith, Thelma C. Smith, Virginia L. Starcher, David R. Stringer, Donald L. Taylor, Robert E. Toney, Hassel L. Von Blond, Nancy Walker, Connie J. Washington, Victor A. Waugh, Roy M. Withrow, Vernon E. Zirkle, Anna L. Dahlia Faye Barker
Vienna is known as the birthplace or adopted home of many renowned classical composers. Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus pays homage to these talents with the concert "Vienna, With Love" at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Steven Smith conducts the symphony in a program that includes works by Franz von Suppe, Johann Strauss, and Franz Schubert and features David Felberg on violin. Tickets are $18 to $65 (discounts available for children, students, and seniors); call 988-1234. The New Orleans band Cowboy Mouth -- which takes its name from a play written by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith -- hits Santa Fe on Sunday, Jan. 17, as part of its annual Mardi Gras tour. You don't have to show up in a costume, but you had better be ready to jump, jive...
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