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Scope and Contents “It’s not my mission to turn Davies Symphony Hall into an Imax theater,” Michael Tilson Thomas, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony, said in a recent telephone interview. “But there is a whole vocabulary to be explored here, and we’re only in the early stages of its development.”The San Francisco Symphony’s coming 100th-anniversary season, announced in detail recently, will showcase the inventive and star-spangled programming for which the orchestra has become known....

Scope and Contents "The Rothko Chapel is oriented toward the sacred, and yet it imposes no traditional environment. It offers a place where a common orientation could be found — an orientation towards God, named or unnamed, an orientation towards the highest aspirations of Man and the most intimate calls of the conscience." In 1964, Dominique de Menil commissioned the American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko to create this environment. Although he never lived to see his completed vision,...

Scope and Contents The last two weeks of San Francisco Symphony concerts might have seemed like something of a mini Mozart festival, but the most impressive performances of the fortnight actually belonged to another, far more modern composer. Morton Feldman, American maverick from New York City, got a major hearing right next to Mozart's towering Requiem. His champion, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, took a big gamble and won. It wasn't a competition, but more a vindication of MTT's long-time advocacy of...

Scope and Contents News reports regarding the Catholic church over the last few years have largely been ugly. It was thus a relief to read yesterday of praise for Pope Benedict. Though issues related to his regard for actions of Pope Pius XII in Europe during WWII are yet unresolved, his statements exonerating Jews of complicity in the death of Jesus Christ were very clear.About the Pope’s remarks Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said: “…I commend you for forcefully rejecting in your recent book a...

Scope and Contents With the sole exception of one problematic performance of his “Coptic Light” in 1986, Lincoln Center never presented any of Morton Feldman’s music during his lifetime. Indeed, even since his death, in 1987, the center has presented little of his work. A notable exception was its 1996 retrospective of Feldman’s compositions — a well-attended, highly praised series of performances, about which The New York Times’ chief critic marveled at the extraordinary beauty and strangeness of the music,...

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