The composer talks about Girls of the Golden West, premiering next week at San Francisco Opera.
Where can you hear great jazz in the Bay Area? Our compendium reveals all.
Kronos pursues 50 new quartets, music at the Filipino Film Fest, and a deluxe John Adams release.
With the structure in place, Bang on a Can continues to spread its gospel, looking forward rather than at its accomplishments.
The dynamic duo of chamber music have extraordinary vision and extraordinary influence. Here’s a portrait of these charismatic arts leaders.
Notes from our roving reporter on the Golden West, Korea, and 11th-century Sicily
New music without Bang on a Can would be a lot less visible, a lot grayer, and a lot less fun. Here’s the story of their breakthrough ideas.
Our roving photographer takes a visual tour of one of the City’s great festivals.
American jazz in India? Prolific percussionist and creative force Zakir Hussain tells how it happened and his part in the story.
The larynx is queen at the Pacific Voice Conference, a film festival celebrates dance, and Dennis Russell Davies heads to Brno.