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Musings on what has emerged in 2021 and what hasn't.

Marin Alsop made history when she took the baton at Baltimore Symphony. She exits now with pride — and many frustrations. Baltimore Sun 1 hr ago Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun © Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s three-week Marin Festival, which wraps up June 19 with an online gala featuring soprano Renee Fleming, is classical music’s equivalent of a farewell tour. Marin Alsop is taking her victory lap. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s three-week Marin Festival, which wraps up June 19 with an online gala featuring soprano Rene...

In addition to the musical rewards provided for the audience in S.F., this event left one eager to hear what will be happening in Berkeley in the coming years.

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, vie...