Can the modern piano evolve any further? Pianist and inventor Christopher Taylor thinks so, and has been laboring to perfect a two-keyboard instrument, performing with an early near-equivalent wherever he can.
You expect to see a folk singer with a battered guitar busking at a train station, but an operatic baritone? A quartet of cellos? Here’s what that’s about.
There are dozens of ways to organize musical meter, but only some of them are common in Western classical styles. This week's Playlist samples some of the uncommon ways of organizing rhythm.
With its Brooklyn Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates a phenomenon in new music, which is (or will soon be) thriving in your neighborhood, too.
San José’s best venue for chamber music is continuing through a financial restructuring. But as the time to announce next year’s season arrives, some presenters are unsure of its availability and are making other plans.
As prom season begins, we bring you a playlist of old school ballroom dances from all over. Dance animates the majority of music, and it’s no different in the classical corner. As you make the last adjustments to your prom formal wear, it’s the perfect moment to dive into these formal dances.
The creative bond behind a new oratorio commissioned by the San Francisco Girls Chorus explains the genesis of the work and their interest in women of the Bible.
Celebrating the April 21 Brazilian holiday, Tiradentes’ Day, our Brazil Mixtape blurs the boundaries between classical and popular music, reflecting the blurred boundaries between the races in Brazil, a great place to listen to and to visit.
Two weeks after word about a tentative collective bargaining agreement between San Francisco Symphony and Musicians Union, Local 6, AFM, the two sides announced ratification of a 26-month contract.
People of any age in any place can appreciate how the composers represented on this mixtape turned rain and wind into evocative pieces of music, much of it based on mythical and religious stories.
