Michael Good
@mdgood.bsky.social
Retired inventor of the MusicXML music notation format. Tenor in opera and new music choruses. Board member at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
Bravi to everyone in Chess on Broadway! What outstanding performances of this magnificent score. I thought the book also solved the main problem of the show by making the three leads more likable, softening the two men a little and making Florence more active.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Bravi to everyone in Chess on Broadway! What outstanding performances of this magnificent score. I thought the book also solved the main problem of the show by making the three leads more likable, softening the two men a little and making Florence more active.
So much for the doom-and-gloomers moaning about the San Francisco Symphony's ability to hire and retain top musicians. They've just hired a principal horn away from the London Symphony Orchestra, which is a fantastic group!
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San Francisco Symphony fills key vacancy in naming new orchestra member
Diego Incertis Sánchez, currently with the London Symphony Orchestra, is poised to succeed Robert Ward in this essential position with the San Francisco Symphony.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So much for the doom-and-gloomers moaning about the San Francisco Symphony's ability to hire and retain top musicians. They've just hired a principal horn away from the London Symphony Orchestra, which is a fantastic group!
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www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Another fine review for Samson et Dalila, this time metioning the chorus: "Bruce Olstad’s chorus handles the material adeptly, and it’s a real treat for those who enjoy choral music." There are just two more performances this weekend in Palo Alto: don't miss out.
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Review: West Bay Opera stages strong 'Samson et Dalila'
Saint-Saëns' "Samson et Dalila" is the kind of lesser known treasure that makes a great addition to any aficionado's list. With its production, West Bay Opera highlights the unique musical innovations...
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October 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Another fine review for Samson et Dalila, this time metioning the chorus: "Bruce Olstad’s chorus handles the material adeptly, and it’s a real treat for those who enjoy choral music." There are just two more performances this weekend in Palo Alto: don't miss out.
www.almanacnews.com/ae/2025/10/1...
www.almanacnews.com/ae/2025/10/1...
We're two weeks away from opening our West Bay Opera production of Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila in Palo Alto. We have a fabulous cast, wonderful dancers, and a juicy chorus part. This is a great opera that isn't done often - don't miss it! Tickets are available at www.wbopera.org/tickets-page...
September 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We're two weeks away from opening our West Bay Opera production of Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila in Palo Alto. We have a fabulous cast, wonderful dancers, and a juicy chorus part. This is a great opera that isn't done often - don't miss it! Tickets are available at www.wbopera.org/tickets-page...
RIP Robert Redford. Mick LaSalle wrote a nice tribute for @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Robert Redford didn’t just act in movies. He rewrote the rules of cinema
Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor-director and Sundance founder who has died at 89, reshaped American cinema in many ways.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
RIP Robert Redford. Mick LaSalle wrote a nice tribute for @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
What a surprise! The hotel I'm staying at in Washington, DC in 10 days is now 20% cheaper than when I booked it a month ago. I'm off to the Library of Congress for more research in the Performing Arts Reading Room. Maybe I'll see @musicologyduck.bsky.social there, but if so I wouldn't know it.
August 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What a surprise! The hotel I'm staying at in Washington, DC in 10 days is now 20% cheaper than when I booked it a month ago. I'm off to the Library of Congress for more research in the Performing Arts Reading Room. Maybe I'll see @musicologyduck.bsky.social there, but if so I wouldn't know it.
RIP Jamshied Sharifi. He joined the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble right after I left at graduation. With his fellow new band members, he took the group to some of its greatest heights. I was so happy when he became FJE director when Herb Pomeroy retired. His gifts of music will keep giving us joy.
August 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
RIP Jamshied Sharifi. He joined the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble right after I left at graduation. With his fellow new band members, he took the group to some of its greatest heights. I was so happy when he became FJE director when Herb Pomeroy retired. His gifts of music will keep giving us joy.
Thanks so much to @lisairontongue.bsky.social and San Francisco Classical Voice for this lovely review of last Saturday's Cabrillo Festival concert. It was my favorite this season. Though Gabrielle Beteag was amazing in the Heggie on Sunday. Plus the first weekend! www.sfcv.org/articles/rev...
True to Form, Cabrillo Festival Offers Moving Tribute to Queer Communities Past and Present
With works by co-founder Lou Harrison and two premieres, “Becoming” created thoughtful joy for troubled times.
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August 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Thanks so much to @lisairontongue.bsky.social and San Francisco Classical Voice for this lovely review of last Saturday's Cabrillo Festival concert. It was my favorite this season. Though Gabrielle Beteag was amazing in the Heggie on Sunday. Plus the first weekend! www.sfcv.org/articles/rev...
Cabrillo Festival's closing concert in Santa Cruz features Gabrielle Beteag singing Good Morning, Beauty by @jakeheggiemusic.bsky.social and Taylor Mac, and Adolphus Hailstork's Saxophone Concerto with @mcallistersax.bsky.social. See you Sunday, August 10 at 7 pm! cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
RISING - Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Experience the 2025 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz California, featuring 20+ composers, 3 world premieres, and 4 Festival commissions. Join us for a transformative season showca...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Cabrillo Festival's closing concert in Santa Cruz features Gabrielle Beteag singing Good Morning, Beauty by @jakeheggiemusic.bsky.social and Taylor Mac, and Adolphus Hailstork's Saxophone Concerto with @mcallistersax.bsky.social. See you Sunday, August 10 at 7 pm! cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
Cabrillo Festival's second weekend starts Saturday at 7 pm in Santa Cruz, with Cristi Mǎcelaru conducting. This concert features music by Darian Donovan Thomas, Lou Harrison, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, with concertmaster Justin Bruns as violin soloist. See you there! cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
BECOMING - Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Experience the 2025 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz California, featuring 20+ composers, 3 world premieres, and 4 Festival commissions. Join us for a transformative season showca...
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August 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cabrillo Festival's second weekend starts Saturday at 7 pm in Santa Cruz, with Cristi Mǎcelaru conducting. This concert features music by Darian Donovan Thomas, Lou Harrison, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, with concertmaster Justin Bruns as violin soloist. See you there! cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
Saturday's Cabrillo Festival concert in Santa Cruz features female composers: Rene Orth, Stacy Garrop, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and Julia Wolfe. Daniela Candillari conducts. Michelle Areyzaga and Sidney Outlaw sing in Garrop's "Fredrick and Susan B." See you there! cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
CHASING LIGHT - Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Experience the 2025 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz California, featuring 20+ composers, 3 world premieres, and 4 Festival commissions. Join us for a transformative season showca...
cabrillomusic.org
July 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Saturday's Cabrillo Festival concert in Santa Cruz features female composers: Rene Orth, Stacy Garrop, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and Julia Wolfe. Daniela Candillari conducts. Michelle Areyzaga and Sidney Outlaw sing in Garrop's "Fredrick and Susan B." See you there! cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
Cabrillo's opening night concert is Friday at 8 pm in Santa Cruz! It features works by John Corigliano, @missymazzoli.bsky.social, and Nina Shekhar, with Jennifer Koh as violin soloist. Daniela Candillari is the guest conductor. Tickets and more information here: cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
LUMINA - Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Experience the 2025 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz California, featuring 20+ composers, 3 world premieres, and 4 Festival commissions. Join us for a transformative season showca...
cabrillomusic.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Cabrillo's opening night concert is Friday at 8 pm in Santa Cruz! It features works by John Corigliano, @missymazzoli.bsky.social, and Nina Shekhar, with Jennifer Koh as violin soloist. Daniela Candillari is the guest conductor. Tickets and more information here: cabrillomusic.org/2025-season/...
Last night was the "In the Works" concert at Cabrillo Festival by members of the Conductors/Composers Workshop. It's 3 composers, 6 conductors, each work done twice. All were good but my clear favorite was Cages of Jade by Ethan Soledad, a student of @kristinkuster.bsky.social. He's a live one!
July 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Last night was the "In the Works" concert at Cabrillo Festival by members of the Conductors/Composers Workshop. It's 3 composers, 6 conductors, each work done twice. All were good but my clear favorite was Cages of Jade by Ethan Soledad, a student of @kristinkuster.bsky.social. He's a live one!
This looks like it's working - thanks for sharing!
A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
July 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This looks like it's working - thanks for sharing!
RIP the great Chuck Mangione. This week has been a doozy for musicians, actors, and entertainers. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84
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July 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
RIP the great Chuck Mangione. This week has been a doozy for musicians, actors, and entertainers. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
In honor of Iga Świątek’s Wimbledon singles championship, I made pasta with strawberries for dinner. With peak season farmer’s market strawberries, this was a grand slam. Thinking also of tennis fan @vancegilbert.com and wishing him the best.
July 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
In honor of Iga Świątek’s Wimbledon singles championship, I made pasta with strawberries for dinner. With peak season farmer’s market strawberries, this was a grand slam. Thinking also of tennis fan @vancegilbert.com and wishing him the best.
Thanks Peter for this trip down memory lane. I lived in Boston then and was watching on TV. It was so cool to hear this chant and I was proud of the classy fans at the game. It still gives me tingles thinking about that moment.
So many fun twists in this @sfchronicle.com story.
Gift link 🎁 for the S.F. fans …
🌁 👊🏼 💯
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Gift link 🎁 for the S.F. fans …
🌁 👊🏼 💯
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Why do S.F. fans chant ‘Beat L.A.!’? We traced the battle cry to its start
The chant that echoes at games across the Bay Area is part of our collective culture. We followed its origin story back across four decades and thousands of miles.
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July 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Thanks Peter for this trip down memory lane. I lived in Boston then and was watching on TV. It was so cool to hear this chant and I was proud of the classy fans at the game. It still gives me tingles thinking about that moment.
Hey, I finally saw I Confess on the big screen. So much better than seeing it on my iPad. I thought @3gjane.bsky.social would like to know. 🙂
July 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Hey, I finally saw I Confess on the big screen. So much better than seeing it on my iPad. I thought @3gjane.bsky.social would like to know. 🙂
I've set up my return visit to the Library of Congress music division for mid-July, contingent on their catalog migration project succeeding. We'll see if the specialist can enter an off-site order next week as planned. Wondering if this project affects @musicologyduck.bsky.social's work as well?
June 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I've set up my return visit to the Library of Congress music division for mid-July, contingent on their catalog migration project succeeding. We'll see if the specialist can enter an off-site order next week as planned. Wondering if this project affects @musicologyduck.bsky.social's work as well?
One of the people that Barry Vercoe pointed me to for MusicXML starting points was David Huron, who died just 10 days before Barry on June 5. Besides his work on Humdrum, listening to him was always inspirational. May his memory be a blessing. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
David Huron Obituary and Online Memorial (2025)
David Huron Obituary and Online Memorial (2025). Share your favorite memories David and celebrate their life with the Huron family on their online obituary.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
One of the people that Barry Vercoe pointed me to for MusicXML starting points was David Huron, who died just 10 days before Barry on June 5. Besides his work on Humdrum, listening to him was always inspirational. May his memory be a blessing. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
RIP Barry Vercoe, one of the pioneers for computer music software. He was my B.S. thesis advisor at MIT on some very early music notation software. 20 years later, he was the one who pointed me to the best starting points for my work on MusicXML. May his memory be a blessing. cdm.link/barry-vercoe/
Barry Vercoe, who made coding sound accessible to all, has died - CDM Create Digital Music
Barry Vercoe, composer and music scientist, founded MIT's electronic music efforts and helped shape the Lab's efforts in digital synthesis and machine listening and learning. But his biggest impact ca...
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June 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
RIP Barry Vercoe, one of the pioneers for computer music software. He was my B.S. thesis advisor at MIT on some very early music notation software. 20 years later, he was the one who pointed me to the best starting points for my work on MusicXML. May his memory be a blessing. cdm.link/barry-vercoe/
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s final concert as San Francisco Symphony music director was a fabulous performance of Mahler 2 with Sasha Cooke and Heidi Stober as soloists. The ovation afterwards wouldn’t stop until Salonen spoke a few words to the audience.
June 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s final concert as San Francisco Symphony music director was a fabulous performance of Mahler 2 with Sasha Cooke and Heidi Stober as soloists. The ovation afterwards wouldn’t stop until Salonen spoke a few words to the audience.
We ate at the table next to Julia Child one evening at the Blue Room in Cambridge. We waved to her as she made her grand tour of the dining room while leaving.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We ate at the table next to Julia Child one evening at the Blue Room in Cambridge. We waved to her as she made her grand tour of the dining room while leaving.
Michael Anthonio has given us another rave review for Otello at West Bay Opera. This production has closed, but season tickets will be on sale soon for our 70th season, featuring Samson et Dalila, Salome, and Tosca. Thanks for the coverage!
June 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Michael Anthonio has given us another rave review for Otello at West Bay Opera. This production has closed, but season tickets will be on sale soon for our 70th season, featuring Samson et Dalila, Salome, and Tosca. Thanks for the coverage!
Bravi to all at Opera Parallèle's production of Harvey Milk Reimagined! It was a stirring performance. It was strongly cast from top to bottom, and what a chorus! Fabulous orchestral playing too under Nicole Paiement's baton and strong direction from Brian Staufenbiel.
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Bravi to all at Opera Parallèle's production of Harvey Milk Reimagined! It was a stirring performance. It was strongly cast from top to bottom, and what a chorus! Fabulous orchestral playing too under Nicole Paiement's baton and strong direction from Brian Staufenbiel.