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Thursday evening at Stanford University’s Bing Hall, Cleve and his orchestra launched the 2015 festival — Midsummer Mozart’s 41st — with the first of two programs designed to demonstrate the endless variety in this composer’s voluminous output. On the program were an opera overture, a pair of arias, two concertos, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C-major, “Jupiter.” The performance repeats Friday in San Francisco and Sunday in Berkeley. If the results occasionally proved variable, Cleve’s approach to Mozart remains remarkably consistent. The conductor opened the program with the Overture to “The Impresario,” eliciting the kind of firm, robust playing that made this infrequently heard one-act opera seem essential. The orchestra sounded well-tuned and responsive in the warm acoustic environment of the Bing — a considerable sonic upgrade from Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater, where Midsummer Mozart played in its early days.

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I had the great fortune of growing up with just that. My mom moved here from Spain when she was 19 and raised my sister and me on healthful, comforting Spanish food. No, we didn’t eat paella every night or sit around carving morsels off a leg of jamón serrano. Meat and seafood are expensive, so traditional home-cooked dishes are either vegetarian or use small amounts of meat or seafood to flavor the rest of the dish. What we did eat were steaming bowls of lentejas (lentil stew) and pisto manchego (ratatouille) topped with fried egg, piles of repollo al pimentón (cabbage sauteed in paprika and garlic) and heaping plates of ensalada mixta — everything served with a hunk of crusty bread, of course. As kids, we didn’t realize we were eating “vegetarian” — it was just mom’s cooking.

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“By closing public counters at city hall on Fridays, staff will be able to continue to provide excellent drop-in customer service Monday through Thursday while concentrating on other necessary duties on Fridays, said City Manager Ken Nordhoff,” in the news release. Counters to be affected include. In addition, the second floor Community Development/Public Service counter on the second floor will be closed every day between noon and 1 p.m. beginning Sept. 4. People who need police assistance for emergency matters should use the red phone in the city hall lobby to ask for help, according to the release. Calls to the main city lines will automatically be routed to the city’s phone tree.