Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Resource Guide of Asian American Artists in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996)

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Since the days of the Gold Rush, Asian-Americans have made significant contributions to the Bay Area's culture.  Yet for many years th...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of An Obsession

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With  Schubert's Winter Journey we do get what the subtitle promises, an "anatomy of an obsession." -- tenor Ian Bostridge...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Community Music School String Quartet (1926), pt. 2

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Community Music Center student orchestra (1924), source: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection In our scrapbook collection we ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Community Music School String Quartet (1926)

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Community Music Center string quartet 1926 . In the courtyard of CMC. Left to right, Jeanette, Alfred, Preston, Emmet. (source: San Franci...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

The Most Requested Art, Music and Recreation Center books in November 2017

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Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 2017). Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast (Bloomsbur...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Vintage Vinyl on the 4th Floor

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We are very pleased to introduce a new collection of vinyl recordings to the San Francisco Public Library.  The Library has four " Vi...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Regional Airplay and National Charts in 1966

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The front page of the July 2, 1966 issue of Billboard magazine featured an article entitled "Detroit & L.A. Sales 'Happening ...