Features

Michael Zwiebach - April 3, 2012

Part 2: Will the plot turns in a grand opera freak you out, or bore you to tears? Depends on the work of the librettist.

Michael Zwiebach - March 27, 2012

Will the plot turns in a grand opera freak you out, or bore you to tears? Depends on the work of the librettist.

Janos Gereben - March 27, 2012

Glories of an Invisible Orchestra

Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith in Yuri Possokhov's RAkU, set to music by Shinji Eshima Photos by Erik Tomasson
Wynne Delacoma - March 25, 2012

The San Francisco Symphony opened the 10-day road show of its American Mavericks project on March 21 with works by Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, and John Adams in Chicago’s Symphony Center.

Peggy Spear - March 22, 2012

Still on the fence about summer music camps? Here are a few more to put into play.

Janos Gereben - March 20, 2012

Stillwell: First-Class First Impression

Joseph Stillwell

Rare and delightful is the discovery of a new (to me, at least) composer, springing fully formed, as it were, from the head of Apollo.

Janos Gereben - March 19, 2012

Opera companies have been disappearing lately under the continued bane of the Great Recession, and they don't return ... except one: That's S.F. Lyric Opera. After a hiatus of three years the company is producing David Lang's the little match girl passion at the ODC Theater, March 23-25.