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Concert pianist gets a surprise from the past: One of her own compositions, performed in 1980, pulled from university archives for publication

November 28, 2023 All Posts 1 Comment

It was 1980 and Katrina Krimsky prepared to perform at the Piano Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York. An accomplished, but at the time not widely known pianist, she launched into one of her own compositions, a 42-minute piece called “Soundscape.”  Years later, critics praised the difficult, somewhat esoteric compositions she performed that day, ...

Chinese musicologist brings wide range of instruments and influences to teaching, movie and theater scores, original CDs and local performances

May 16, 2022 All Posts 1 Comment

It’s a chilly March evening in Glen Park. Thirty or so music fans have crowded into Bird & Beckett Books and Records, a neighborhood haunt for live jazz and poetry performances. Tonight, though, classical Chinese music is on the menu as San Francisco celebrates Chinese New Year. “How many of you are Tigers?” Betty Wong ...

Storied San Francisco dance school owes its existence to a feisty wife whose legacy is a dance “family” of 70 years

July 18, 2021 All Posts 2 Comments

The trajectory of Micky Powell’s career path was lovingly set over 40 years ago by her mother, a professional ballet and Armenian folk dancer. When Ruth Jevarian retired in 1974, she turned her Inner Sunset District school, Star Dance Studio, over to her daughter. “It was a natural thing; the studio was in the basement,” ...

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