“From Isaac Stern to Barbara Eden (yes, star of I Dream of Jeannie), from Gordon Getty to Gwendoline Yeo (of Desperate Housewives) … from Jeffrey Kahane to Robin Sutherland … alumni of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music have made an impact on the world,” writes Janos Gereben in Thursday’s (8/10) San Francisco Classical Voice. “Faculty and visiting artists have included Ernest Bloch, Yehudi Menuhin, Arnold Baller, Alfred Brendel, Leon Fleisher, Placido Domingo, Beverly Sills, Pinchas Zukerman, John Adams… and Yo-Yo Ma. The school begins a year of celebrating its centennial…. It was incorporated in 1923. What happened in the fall of 1917 was the opening of the Ada Clement Piano School [which] eventually became SFCM, but back then they had only four pupils. Today, students number over 400.… In 2006 … the school [moved to its] current palatial home at 50 Oak Street in the Civic Center, with several small performance venues and the concert hall. David H. Stull became president in 2013…. The season will offer a varied, rich series of performances, beginning Sept. 16 with a free open-house event, including the Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Eric Dudley, performing works by Mason Bates, Stravinsky, and Respighi.”
Posted August 11, 2017
Pictured: San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s home on Oak Street
