Features

Eight exciting new opera projects vie for one commission, as Aperture’s first year reaches its concluding episodes.

A new SFMOMA retrospective of the experimental artist’s work emphasizes his relationship with and ideas about music. Is it time for classical musicians to take him seriously?

The brilliant Baroque violinist died in June, leaving an impressive legacy. Here’s our guide to some of her best work.

Your cheat sheet to great music festivals across California and the West — live and virtual.

Listen in this week as the “mama bear of the Bay Area jazz scene” reluctantly wraps up her long run on KCSM.

Aaron Lington’s performance of Bach chorales might be a little unusual, but then, so is everything that the inclusive Little Village Foundation records.

“Recovered Voices” is a thread that runs through the LA Opera music director’s four decades of recordings.

Festivals and orchestras have been programming composers like Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Harold Shapero, and more in recent years. Leon Botstein and Gil Rose explain the newfound interest.

A selection of choice cuts from the Venezuelan conductor’s extensive and wildly eclectic catalog.

Sentimental Journey captures war-era jazz as played by a swinging service band for troops stationed in the Pacific theater.