Local News Featured ‘It’s a love’: Local piano expert keeps art alive with tuning practice By Holly Rusch, Daily Journal staff Jan 5, 2026 Joe Brattesani has been in the piano business for over six decades.Â
Local News Featured Guitar shop welcomes beginner and pro musicians By Alyse DiNapoli, Daily Journal staff Sep 29, 2025 Despite playing guitar for over 20 years and working in the music businesses, Belmont resident and music lover Jim LaPlaca still considers him…
Arts & Entertainment Featured Music@Menlo takes on winds By David Bratman Daily Journal correspondent Aug 2, 2025 The Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival is dominated by music for string instruments, sometimes with piano. That’s what the prominent repertoir…
+2 Arts & Entertainment Another lively Palo Alto Philharmonic performance By David Bratman Daily Journal correspondent Apr 13, 2024 The Palo Alto Philharmonic is not an ordinary nonprofessional community orchestra. It regularly gives the first performances of major new comp…
+2 Columnists Music and memory By Eileen LiuUpdated Feb 2, 2024 Today, more than 55 million people worldwide live their day-to-day lives with some type of dementia disease, the most common being Alzheimer’s…
Obituaries George W. Simmonds Updated Apr 14, 2025 George Simmonds of San Carlos, passed away just before his 95th birthday. George was born in Halle (an der Saale) Germany. He and his parents …
Local News Featured Music at Kohl Mansion concert series to begin in Burlingame By Holly Rusch, Daily Journal staff Jan 13, 2024 The winter and spring Music at Kohl Mansion concert series — which presents chamber music education and concerts — is set to begin Jan. 28 and…
Arts & Entertainment Featured New Millennium highlights unity, glory By David Bratman Daily Journal correspondent Nov 18, 2023 The New Millennium Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Jenny Beyer Cornell, gave a concert with two illuminating features at Palo A…
Arts & Entertainment Featured Israeli Chamber Project comes to Kohl Mansion By David Bratman Daily Journal correspondent Oct 28, 2023 The Israeli Chamber Project is a consortium of musicians who collaborate to bring the mutual creativity of chamber music in various combinatio…
Obituaries Andrea Nicole Alvarado Updated Apr 13, 2025 Andrea Nicole Alvarado, age 43, passed away peacefully on September 2nd, 2023 at Stanford Hospital with her family by her side. Andrea’s final…
