Someone a lot smarter than me made an apt, if light-hearted, comparison after the New England Patriots improbably came back from a near-dead state in the Super Bowl on Sunday.  He pointed out more than a few similarities between the Pats miraculous victory and the similarly miraculous (if not similarly heralded) victory Donald Trump […]

              We are undoubtedly going to attend more than a few excellent symphonic concerts during the calendar year 2017, but we would not be at all surprised if none of them are as superbly presented as the one offered late last month by the PKF—Prague Philharmonia.  The concert, at the Mondavi Center (on the campus […]

The degree to which Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” resonates with any particular individual probably depends on that person’s own life experiences.  For those who hold to an idealistic view of human interactions where true love conquers the worst human impulses, the thesis Pinter explores may seem hollow, if not cynical.  But for anyone who has lived […]

              Andrés Cárdenes has established himself as a premier concert violinist and a first-rate conductor, and he brought both of those talents to bear in an excellent performance by a decidedly scaled-down version of the Sacramento Philharmonic in a concert at the Community Center Theater last weekend.                The Cuban born Cárdenes, currently the Music […]