MOZART ARIAS & ENSEMBLES

FOR THE OPERA-STARVED, the Carmel Music Society once again hosts seven singers from Opera San Jose this Sunday. Click on our CALENDAR (or on the ad, left.)

“AMERICANS WE LOVE”

ENSEMBLE MONTEREY celebrates Charles Ives, Lou Harrison, and Stephen Tosh who will play the premiere of his Piano Quintet. Click HERE (or on the ad, left.)

PERFORMING ARTS PEOPLE

RICHARD SCHEININ, Santa Cruz resident, longtime music critic for the San Jose Mercury News, who has just been reassigned to cover real estate. Click HERE

CONDUCTOR STEWART ROBERTSON TO RETIRE

CARMEL VALLEY resident forced by illness to end his career. He will conduct two final concerts at Hidden Valley in early May. Click HERE

CARMEL’S SUSANNE MENTZER DOESN’T GET IT

NEITHER do I. Click HERE

COMPOSER NICO MUHLY’S NEXT OPERA

THE YOUNG (33) protégé of Philip Glass, and others, wins a second Metropolitan Opera & ENO commission for Marnie, based on the Alfred Hitchcock character, played by Tippi Hedren, of a psychopathic woman. It will debut in the Met’s 2019-20 season. Click HERE

FRESH MUSIC REVIEW

CAMERATA SINGERS of Monterey County. Click HERE

OUR NEW WEBMASTER

IS CHRIS YANG who has envisioned many ways to better reach out to our constituencies of service. We thank founding webmaster Mark Burger for building and maintaining a solid foundation for PAMB.

Scott MacClelland, editor