“Swed is the rarest of writers: a critic with deep empathy and encyclopedic knowledge who can turn the sonic details of an ...

Karina Canellakis leads the San Francisco Symphony in a program that features Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, Victoria ...

But in the long finale, “The Hero’s Retreat from the World and Fulfillment,” the music quiets. Russ de Luna’s eloquent ...

Earlier in the day, 88-year-old Charles Lloyd celebrated the 60th anniversary of the epochal Monterey performance captured on ...

Just a few months after his passing, the spirit of Michael Tilson Thomas was returned to his workplace on Friday, Oct. 2 in A ...

Avdeeva complicates this story through both the choice of works and the measured approach of her playing. By opening the ...

Three-time Grammy-winning artist Cécile McLorin Salvant delivered a magnificent vocal performance at Orinda’s Siesta Valley ...

Did anyone in your home play music while you were growing up? Not really. Both of my parents are not musical. My mom wanted ...

Fantastic Negrito \. Fantastic Negrito used to play outside Davies Symphony Hall. Last weekend, the San Francisco Symphony ...

Novak named the four movements, played without a break, after devices found in science fiction and portrayed each brilliantly ...

Since its founding 50 years ago, Kronos Quartet has revolutionized what a string quartet can be. Through collaborations with musicians and composers across the globe, commissioning initiatives, ...

Balazs Gardi. Ambrose Akinmusire came of age at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and his evolution into a creative force has ...