Scott MacClelland

SF Station Writer
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Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Weekend II
The festival’s second weekend took a retrospective tone with works by Putz, Adams and Glass
By Scott MacClelland (Jul 17, 2010)
FOUR OF eight works heard during the second weekend of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music took a decidedly retrospective look back that—big surprise—seduced audiences long-used to confronting the avant-garde’s cutting edge. More »
Cabrillo Festival of Contempoary Music
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s opening weekend ranged from clarity to clangor.
By Scott MacClelland (Jul 10, 2010)
THREE CHEERS for Jennifer Higdon. The 2010 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music upstaged her colleagues—with all of them present—during the two orchestral programs at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Friday and Saturday in Santa Cruz. More »
‘La Rondine' at Opera San Jose
Opera San Jose presents Puccini’s rarely performed ‘La Rondine’
By Scott MacClelland (Mar 29, 2010)
THE LATER Puccini opera that almost fell through the cracks got its local premiere at the California Theatre last weekend thank to Opera San José. Not unlike the Strauss ballet Schlagobers, La rondine was a victim of bad timing; Puccini’s “summer romance” was composed in the run up to World War I (and premiered during it at Monte Carlo), while the frothy Strauss, whose title means “whipped cream,” arrived just after the war when German theater was preoccupied with skyrocketing inflation, widespread poverty, and atoning for national war guilt. More »
Carmen
Opera San José presents Bizet's classic
By Scott MacClelland (Mar 21, 2009)
Enough good things happened at Sunday’s "Carmen" to bode even better for subsequent performances. The alternate cast for Opera San José’s new production obviously displayed well-conceived characters set within a smoothly professional environment designed to inspire as much heat as light. But this most popular of all French operas is no Sunday perambulation on La Grande Jatte. More »
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