Ron Bierman has performed on saxophone and flute in several college and other orchestras. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his studies included music theory as taught by Swiss pianist and composer Ernst Levy. His published work includes reviews of recordings, books, plays, films and live music performances for web sites and newspapers. He has an extensive library of books about music and over three thousand CDs. Now living in San Diego with his wife, he was the President of Advocates for Classical Music for more than 15 years, an organization which worked with local symphony orchestras to introduce more than 200,000 young students to the pleasures of classical music. He and his wife enjoy visiting classrooms with CDs and instruments in hand.
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First Show:
Louis Armstrong's sextetFavorite Show:
The Music ManFavorite Stories:
- BWW Interview: Frederica Von Stade of at San Diego Opera - Mezzo Soprano Frederica von Stade was the first widely recognized opera singer I ever interviewed and a pleasure to interview, pretty much the opposite of the stereotypical image of a "Diva." I was surprised to learn that the women who sang for five Presidents loved jazz while growing up, saw all the great Broadway shows and stood outside Manhattan's Metropole Cafe listening to Dizzy Gillespie when she was too young to go in.
- BWW Feature: SAN DIEGO'S CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENE - When I first came to San Diego more than 25 years ago, the theater scene was thriving, but classical music performances were few and well below the quality I expected in a city of San Diego's size. Today the picture is dramatically different. There are far more performances and their musicianship has yet to be recognized outside of the area. This feature explains why.
- BWW Review: SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY PRESENTS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH CHICK COREA at San Diego Jacobs Music Center -
- BWW Review: DR. JOHN IN SAN DIEGO at Embarcadero Marina - Jazz and classical music were my favorites when I was growing up. I still love listening to both Thelonius Monk and Leonard Bernstein. Dr. John, one of the most successful of New Orleans' many jazz musicians, was visibly ailing as he came to the stage and died not long after performing. Once he sat at the piano, he seemed 30 years younger, voice still a strange raspy pleasure and piano playing as good as any in the New Orleans style.
- BWW Review: THE FOUR TOPS AND THE TEMPTATIONS at the San Diego Symphony's Bayside Summer Nights -