I am the happy author of a classical music blog for the San Francisco Examiner. I began it in May of 2008 and have been industriously posting new articles at the rate of 2 - 3 per week ever since. As a result, the blog has been acquiring a lot of material, piling up in a distinctly untidy manner. So here is my own index to S.F. Classical Music Examiner, by topic.

The Current State of Classical Music: It's Not Dead or Even Ailing

• Part 1: The Conservatories
• Part 2: Concert Halls
• Part 3: Recordings
• Part 4: Orchestras in San Francisco

San Francisco Bay Area Ensembles

• Music@Menlo (Summer 2008)
• September 2008 at the S.F. Symphony
• September 2008 at the S.F. Opera
• September 2008 at the New Century Chamber Orchestra (New Thinking for a New Century)
• October 4 in San Francisco (Conservatory Orchestra, Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, and Isabel Bayrakdarian)
• Best free (or nearly free) resources for classical music in San Francisco
• October 9-11 at the S.F. Symphony (Strauss, Mozart, Szymanowski, Tchaikovsky)

Composers and Performers

• Kalevi Aho
• Elinor Armer and Conrad Susa
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Those mighty Beethoven symphonies
• The Beethoven piano sonatas (and András Schiff)
• George Frideric Handel
• Joseph Haydn
• Herbert von Karajan
• Lilli Lehman
• Witold Lutoslawski
• Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (history and recordings)
• Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (SFS/Thomas recording, Sept. 2008)
• Igor Stravinsky
• Richard Wagner and Family

• Gay Composers
• Late-Blooming Composers

Classic Movie Music

• Part 1: Introduction, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman
• Part 2: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann
• Part 3: Dmitri Tiomkin, Miklós Rósza
• Part 4: Alfred Newman

Classical Music Downloading

• Classical music downloading: a tale of two sites
• Classical music downloading: caster a wider net

The San Francisco Symphony Discography

• Pierre Monteux (recordings from 1941 to the 1950s)
• Enrique Jordá and Josef Krips
• Seiji Ozawa and Edo De Waart
• Herbert Blomstedt
  • Part 1: The backstory to the recordings's checkered availability
  • Part 2: The recordings themselves
• Odds 'n' Ends: Hertz, Stokowski, Adams, Neale, et al.
• Michael Tilson Thomas's much-awarded discography with the SFS
• Some favorites from the SFS discography (conclusion)

Miscellaneous

• Angels, Demons, and Pianos
• How to be an audioquasiphile
• You know you're really a musician when...