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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
This is it: 2012 is the year to impress your Valentine’s Day date by attending a showing of the vaunted, world-class San Francisco Ballet for less than what it cost you to see Transformers III: Dark of the Moon at the AMC.
Check it:
“Our gift to you: we’re offering 2-for-1 ballet tickets for Valentine’s Day! Be quick as these WILL sell out!”
So there you go. Type in the secret code and then all the available seats you can see will be marked down – for example Balcony
Center tickets will cost you just $30 a pair.
ZOMG!
Maria Kochetkova and Gennadi Nedvigin in Wheeldon’s Number Nine. © Erik Tomasson
You’re going to be seeing Program 2, which is contemporary ballet so there’s no need to study up on the plot first – just get you ticks and go.
“Join San Francisco Ballet for the return of Wayne McGregor’s stunning Chroma, an award-winning contemporary work proclaimed “ravishing on all fronts” by theSunday Times (UK), set to music compositions by Joby Talbot and arrangements by Jack White III. The evening also features Beaux, a world premiere work by acclaimed choreographer Mark Morris, and an encore presentation of Christopher Wheeldon’s breathtaking Number Nine, featuring a large ensemble of 24 dancers and set to an exhilarating score by Michael Torke.
Read the program notes.
The 2011 world premiere of Number Nine was made possible by Lead Sponsors Shelby and Frederick Gans, David and Kelsey Lamond, and Mr. and Mrs. James N. Sullivan, and by Major Sponsors Rosemary B. Baker, and Jennifer Caldwell and John H. N. Fisher, and by Sponsors Courtney Benoist and Jason M. Fish. The 2012 world premiere of Beaux is made possible by Lead Sponsors Mrs. Suzy Kellems Dominik and The Bernard Osher Foundation.”
See you there!
PROGRAM 2: OPENING NIGHT – Tuesday, February 14 – 8:00PM
Chroma
Choreographer: Wayne McGregor
Composer: Joby Talbot, Jack White III
Conductor: Martin West
Maria Kochetkova, Jaime Garcia Castilla
Frances Chung, Pascal Molat
Yuan Yuan Tan, Taras Domitro
Dana Genshaft, Anthony Spaulding
Isaac Hernandez, Garen Scribner
INTERMISSION
World Premiere
Beaux
Choreographer: Mark Morris
Composer: Bohuslav Martinů
Conductor: Martin West
Harpsichord: Bradley Moore
Jeremy Rucker*, Pascal Molat*, Benjamin Stewart*
Vito Mazzeo*, Ruben Martin Cintas*, Gennadi Nedvigin*
Sean Bennett*, Jaime Garcia Castilla*, Diego Cruz*
INTERMISSION
Number Nine©
Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon
Composer: Michael Torke
Conductor: Charles Barker
Dores Andre, Daniel Deivison-Oliveira
Vanessa Zahorian, Garen Scribner
Sarah Van Patten, Ruben Martin Cintas,
Sofiane Sylve*, Vito Mazzeo*
*Denotes premiere in role
In the event of injury or illness, casting is subject to change
Tags: Anthony Spaulding, Ballet, Beaux, Benjamin Stewart, Bernard Osher, Bernard Osher Foundation, Bohuslav Martinů, Bradley Moore, casting, Charles Barker, Choreographer, choreography, Christopher Wheeldon, civic center, Composer, Conductor, contemporary, Courtney Benoist, Cox Broadcasting, Dana Genshaft, Dance, Daniel Deivison-Oliveira, David Lamond, Diego Cruz, Dores Andre, erik tomasson, Foundation, Frances Chung, Frederick Gans, Garen Scribner, Gennadi Nedvigin, Harpsichord, Helgi Tomasson, iii, Isaac Hernandez, Jack White, Jaime Garcia Castilla, James N. Sullivan, James Sullivan, Jason Fish, Jason M. Fish, Jennifer Caldwell, Jeremy Rucker, Joby Talbot, John Fisher, John H. N. Fisher, Kelsey Lamond, Lead Sponsor, Lead Sponsors, Major, Major Sponsors, Maria Kochetkova, mark morris, Martin West, Michael Torke, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Sullivan, Number Nine, Pascal Molat, premiere, Rosemary B. Baker, Rosemary Baker, Ruben Martin Cintas, san francisco ballet, Sarah Van Patten, Sean Bennett, sf ballet, Shelby and Frederick Gans, Shelby gans, Sofiane Sylve, sponsor, Sponsors, Suzy Dominik, Suzy Kellems Dominik, Taras Domitro, valentine's day, valentines, Vanessa Zahorian, Vito Mazzeo, Wayne McGregor, world, World Premiere, Yuan Yuan Tan
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Not that you’d really be able to tell, though. Sutro Tower Inc. has just finished a project that had some of the digital TV broadcast antennas (not “antennae” – that plural term is only used for bugs in our silly English language) gaining a higher altitude.
Not much howver, maybe a seven-percent increase, max. Does that make a big difference? No, not for most people, but at least STI is trying.
Here’s the antenna of KPIX-TV (OMG, that’s the home of Eye on Blogs – big ups, Brittney Gilbert!) a way up top, like 1700 feet above sea level. Now Channel 5 is as high as possible:
Click to expand
The Future is Now, and what’s labeled “CURRENT” is history:
From this:
To this:
Well, they were still wrapping the KPIX, KRON, KTVU antenna assembly, but you get the idea.
So it looks like we’re all set with the Great Digital TV Conversion of 2009. As long as Sutro Tower doesn’t get hit by a shooting star….
…we’ll be all right.
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches 5
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg
The formerly-controversial Sutro Tower, as seen from the northwest through the window of an Emirates Airbus A380 super jumbo jet.
See the entire Sutro Tower mise-en-scene here, courtesy of Telstar Logistics’ Todd Lappin.
Tags: 2, 4, 5, 7, ABC, airlines, channel, chronicle, Chronicle Publishing, clarendon, Cox Broadcasting, emf, emirates, Examiner, fog, foggy, kgo, KGO-TV, KPIX, kqed, KRON, ktvu, little cat feet, radio, San Francisco, STI, sutro, Sutro Tower Inc, television, Telstar Logistics, Todd Lappin, tower, TV, twin peaks, Westinghouse Broadcasting
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Local writer Anne Herbert, famous for coining the phrase “practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty,” recently announced on her blog:
The closer I live to Sutro Tower, the more I think it isn’t dangerous.
O.K. then. But who says Sutro Tower is dangerous? Well, for starters, the people who live around it in the Twin Peaks area, in small neighborhoods like Clarendon Heights and Midtown Terrace. Among other things, they worry about EMF radiation. They worry that the tower might fall down.
Sutro Tower at night under a shooting star. Looks safe enough:
But there’s not much they can do about it. The time to do something would have been back in the 1960′s when it was being planned.
So, let’s take a trip down Memory Lane and check out this 35-year-old piece from Stephen R. Barnett. He alleged:
…the project was cloaked from public view by a media blackout, a conspiracy of silence hatched by the TV stations that own the tower and joined by the Chronicle and Examiner.
Them’s fighting words, don’t you think? You might not agree with his conspiratorial tone, but we all can appreciate little nuggets such as:
“It is ridiculous to assume the FCC will require the entire tower to be painted with alternate stripes of white and orange.” Wheat declared. It “will doubtless be painted a neutral color consistent with the surroundings,” he assured the Supervisors.
As you can see, it’s white and orange to keep the FAA happy. Note the newish 125-foot-long, 10-ton auxiliary antenna mounted vertically
More recently, a movement was afoot to prevent the tower from going digital, but that didn’t work out.
There are updates for the digital future slated and there’s a lot of life left in this structure, so it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
The sun always shines on TV.
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