SM Philharmonic vows to rebuild For Evelyn Dykema, there are different sorts of music. There is what you hear on radio, TV and online. And then there are the passionate sounds of the Santa Maria Philharmonic, rising to a roar and falling to a whisper as it accompanies soloists in Georges Bizet’s fiery opera, “Carmen.”
June 16, 2013 - Santa Maria Times
Oliver Sacks in Times Online Nietzsche said, 'Bizet makes me a better philosopher',says Sacks, "and I sometimes feel that a musical background somehow organises more musical thinking."