Robert Commanday was a prominent music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle for nearly thirty years and the founder of the San Francisco Classical Voice web site. His papers provide significant documentation about classical music, ballet, and opera in the San Francisco Bay Area, but most especially for the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, and the Opera and Ballet's orchestras. Also included is information regarding local and visiting groups that performed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Commanday also shared an intimate connection to the Museum as a past member of its Board of Trustees.
