Features

With Lunar New Year coming up this weekend, take a few minutes to listen to these ear-opening Chinese classics.

“High art” is a vital subject for critical discourse as presenters of classical music face a multitude of challenges for their very survival.

In honor of Mozart’s birthday (Jan. 28), this week’s playlist is all-Mozart all-the-time.

The New Century Chamber Orchestra has been on tour for two weeks and SFCV asked them for some stories and reflections from the tour. Here, including an interview with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, is what they came up with.

A well-known physician who treats addiction faces his own: buying music in classical record stores.

In honor of the opening, this past week, of the SFJAZZ Center, the Presidential inauguration, and anything else that might chase the midwinter blues, we present a list of jazz classics from the BeBop era and beyond.

Dennis Wigent captures the day behind the scenes of the Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival.

The artistic chief of SFJAZZ chats with SFCV about the vision of the larger role of its new center.

SFJAZZ puts a new face on jazz in the Bay Area, with the opening of its dedicated concert hall. Here’s the inside scoop on its design and features.

No one saw it coming, but today everybody wants to write an opera, and audiences are embracing new work. San Francisco Opera’s general director has been squarely in the middle of that revival.