Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Salonen and Sellars and pics from the SF Conservatory of Music

 A couple of weekends ago, I met my colleagues from MCANA in San Francisco. We had a chinwaggle with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Peter Sellars with Rich Ginell, one of our critics from Los Angeles as the moderator. 


When he first came to LA, Salonen had the chance to by Stravinsky's house, which was up for sale. After much thought, he declined to purchase the house. Sellars lives in LA, and he has never learned how to drive a car. 

We also got a tour of San Francisco Conservatory's new building. It is right across from Davies Hall. 


You can see the War Memorial Opera House to the right.

This next photo has a nice view of SF City Hall.


Yes, that's a balcony with large windows. 

The conservatory is quite impressive, and all of the rooms, including practice rooms are acoustically separated/isolated. 

We also took in an excellent Don Giovanni at the opera house with Bertrand de Billy on the podium.


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