Features

Jeff Kaliss - November 13, 2017

The composer talks about Girls of the Golden West, premiering next week at San Francisco Opera.

Andrew Gilbert - November 2, 2017

Where can you hear great jazz in the Bay Area? Our compendium reveals all.

Janos Gereben - October 31, 2017

Kronos pursues 50 new quartets, music at the Filipino Film Fest, and a deluxe John Adams release.

Allan Kozinn - October 27, 2017

With the structure in place, Bang on a Can continues to spread its gospel, looking forward rather than at its accomplishments.

Mark MacNamara - October 24, 2017

The dynamic duo of chamber music have extraordinary vision and extraordinary influence. Here’s a portrait of these charismatic arts leaders.

Janos Gereben - October 17, 2017

Notes from our roving reporter on the Golden West, Korea, and 11th-century Sicily

Allan Kozinn - October 14, 2017

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.

Katharine Dimitruk - October 8, 2017

Our roving photographer takes a visual tour of one of the City’s great festivals.

Jeff Kaliss - October 8, 2017

American jazz in India? Prolific percussionist and creative force Zakir Hussain tells how it happened and his part in the story.

Janos Gereben - October 3, 2017

The larynx is queen at the Pacific Voice Conference, a film festival celebrates dance, and Dennis Russell Davies heads to Brno.