San Francisco Ballet School Mateo, and Oakland. After Bolm left in 1937, new Opera ballet mistress Mildred Hirch added a fencing master during her year-long direction; Willam Christensen, previously director of the Oakland Branch School, became SF Opera ballet master and full school director in 1938. As San Francisco Opera Ballet expanded its touring schedule, it became increasingly difficult for Christensen to serve in both of his professional capacities. In 1940, his brother Harold Christensen took over the position of school director. In 1942, the two Christensen brothers purchased both the ballet company and the school from the Opera Association, renaming the company San
San Francisco (magazine) San Francisco (magazine) San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to the people, culture, food, politics, and arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published monthly by Modern Luxury publications. There have been two separate "San Francisco" magazines published in San Francisco. One was started in the 1970s and published for many years, under a series of different publishers, until it went out of business around 1985. The magazine known as "San Francisco" has its roots starting in 1955, when San Francisco public broadcasting station KQED-TV began publishing a programming guide called "KQED in Focus". The program