Michael Good

Retired inventor of the MusicXML music notation format. Tenor in opera and new music choruses. Board member at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

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@LeonardSlatkin Thanks for the updates. Best wishes to you and your colleagues in the months ahead.

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Tickets are available online here: https://t.co/ParaXhvbdL

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We're in the midst of rehearsing Abduction from the Seraglio and have an amazing cast! The chorus only sings for 3 minutes but the opera is full of Mozart's beautiful music. Performances are October 9, 11, 17 & 18, Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. Ticket link in the first reply.

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Tickets are available online here: https://t.co/R90Aea79wY

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Thanks so much to Michael Anthonio and Parterre Box for the lovely review of Puccini's Girl of the Golden West! We have 4 more performances coming up the next 2 weekends in Santa Cruz. You can't go wrong with either of our Dick Johnsons, both are great. https://t.co/Nc9rt49OP2

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Thanks to Jens Ibsen and @SFCV for this lovely review of last Saturday's Cabrillo Festival concert: https://t.co/CmMXFjwozs

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The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music wraps up tonight. "Hope As Our Banner" features music by Eunike Tanzil, @lisabielawa, @ekatschernin, and @SeanShepherd_, along with poetry from Rita Dove. See you in Santa Cruz! https://t.co/Mc2Jx2M47l

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The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is back for weekend two! Tonight's Control concert features music by Clarice Assad, @JacksonAWaters1, @hannahishizaki, and Dan Dediu. All are either World, U.S., or West Coast premieres. See you in Santa Cruz! https://t.co/sKk1lQzzR2

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Opening Night at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is almost here! The concert opens with Vivian Fung's America the Beautiful?, followed by Pedro Emanuel Pereira's Clarinet Concerto and Philip Glass's Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln." See you in Santa Cruz.
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Wednesday is the Conductors Workshop open rehearsal at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. You get to hear the orchestra play standard rep (!) while Cristi coaches the conducting fellows. Maybe we'll hear the next Elim Chan, who was here in 2013. https://t.co/ZaVAwpTbZM

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It's almost time for the annual Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz. It's 2 weeks of new music for orchestra with lots of composers in residence. This year everything is either a world, USA, or West Coast premiere. More information here: https://t.co/d6XE6FzdTP

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@poegirl And the best use of cannons - sorry, 1812.

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Tickets are available online at https://t.co/sElrG5U4z0. Best availability is for the Friday and Saturday evening performances, May 22 and 30.

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Tosca at @WestBayOpera is coming up! Our wonderful cast is headed by Julia Behbudov, Bob Balonek, and Xavier Prado. José Maria Condemi directs and José Luis Moscovich conducts. Come see us May 22, 24, 30 & 31 at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto.

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David Huron's work on Humdrum was the other main influence, and my B.S. thesis advisor Barry Vercoe was the one who sent me their way. Now we've lost all but Walter, but their influence lives on and on.

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I was so sad today to learn that Eleanor Selfridge-Field died 2 months ago. Eleanor's and Walter Hewlett's work at the Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities was the foundation on which MusicXML was built, and Beyond MIDI was the handbook. https://t.co/sLkXUlUk6Z

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RIP Michael Tilson Thomas. I was lucky beyond words to sing for MTT during four seasons in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and to be in the audience during his 25 amazing years as music director.

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@baseballmarty Me too, but with a different team!

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To mark the expiration of my noncompete agreement, here's a new blog post summarizing the three years since my last blog post! https://t.co/Bw61eOakjY

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RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia is one of my favorite plays ever. I made sure to see Leopoldstadt on Broadway. But there are so many plays of his I haven't seen yet.

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