Sydney Rachel Goldstein

Sydney Rachel Goldstein was born on Oct. 13, 1944, in San Francisco to Edward and Dorian (Goldman) Goldstein. Both parents were jewelers. She graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco and started college at San Jose State but dropped out after two weeks. Ms. Goldstein retired last year and turned over the reins of City Arts to her daughter, who is co-director with Holly Mulder-Wollan. It puts on about 50 programs a year. In 1976 Ms. Goldstein married Charles Roberts Breyer, now a senior federal judge for the Northern District of California. (His brother is Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court.) Along with her daughter and husband, she is survived by a son, Joseph Breyer; a sister, Dorian Lewis; and three grandchildren.