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On a concert that includes works by Ligety and Faure, Christian Reif and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra end their season with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring... www.kdfc.com/arts - Jeff F.

Conductor Christian Reif leads the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in their final concert…
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A little something to send you waltzing through your Tuesday afternoon. --Robin in for Dianne

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Today is Teacher Appreciation Day. KDFC salutes Bay Area teachers, especially all our music teachers. Thank you! -Ray.

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Music inspired by its own backyard for the Peninsula Symphony this weekend, as they play Mason Bates' 'Garages of the Valley,' Brahms' 2nd, and Elgar with last year's Klein competition winner, cellist Jeremy Tai. www.kdfc.com/arts - Jeff F.

Mitchell Sardou Klein leads the Peninsula Symphony in a concert program that highlights local…
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Make sure you thank your music teacher for not being this honest during lessons.

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Noooo! -Dianne

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Portraits of the artists as young men. All day long KDFC is celebrating two big birthdays today. That's Brahms (1833) on the left
and Tchaikovsky (1840) to the right. -Ray

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Geirr Tveitt's Piano Concerto No. 4 "Northern Lights," part of an evening of concertos on Modern Times: tonight 10pm-midnight. —Alan

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With Joshua Bell at The Berkeley Symphony’s gala! -Dianne

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This weekend, the California Symphony plays the first work that Young American Composer-in-Residence Katherine Balch has written for them. www.kdfc.com/arts - Jeff F.

The final concert by the California Symphony this season, called Something Old, Something New,…
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Friday funny. Have a restful weekend!
-- Robin

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A horse called Mendelssohn (named for Felix) could take it all at Saturday's Kentucky Derby. No doubt he is also a prodigy! -Dianne

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May the 4th...be with you. It's a fun Star Wars celebration today around the world. Here's where it all started. Maybe you were at the SF opening way back in May 1977 at the Coronet Theater. Wow, is that a Ford Pinto driving by? -Ray.

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The Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco (YWCP) presents 'Liberty For All' this weekend - "music of resistance and revolution". www.kdfc.com/arts - Jeff F.

The Young Women’s Chorus, the select ensemble of the Young Women’s Choral Projects of…
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Back in Mozart's day, before the clarinet became popular, the bassoon was all the rage. Mozart's bassoonist was a superstar all over Europe. Find out more from Peter Whelan-"Proud Bassoonist" -- Robin

http://katemolleson.com/interview-peter-whelan/

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"I wanted to be a Gregorian Monk, but I never got the chants!" (Ouch!)-Dianne

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