Features

Victoria Looseleaf - January 15, 2024

For its latest project, the San Francisco duo embarked on a three-week filming excursion in the California wilderness.

Andrew Gilbert - January 15, 2024

Oh is one of several women bandleaders touring California this month. She brings the music and players from her 2023 album The Glass Hours.

Emily Wilson - January 8, 2024

For the first time since the pandemic, five Bay Area student ensembles are coming together in a bash thrown by the SF Symphony.

Jeff Kaliss - January 3, 2024

Three lawyers and a judge walk into a nightclub … and do a set of American Songbook classics.

Helen Wu - January 3, 2024

Stephen Schultz wants to break the good news that the latest technology is changing the game for musicians with hearing impairments.

Jason Victor Serinus - January 3, 2024

Any comprehensive history of American classical music should include this educator who brought Indigenous traditions to the concert hall.

Emily Wilson - January 3, 2024

With an annual composition contest and a soon-to-be-released album, Witczyk proves new music can work on any instrument.

SFCV Editors - December 19, 2023

Offered without critique, a smorgasbord of music that was released this year.

Tamzin Elliott - December 12, 2023

Opera has always been a space for gender-bending. Trans artists are trying to make it work for them.

Emery Kerekes - December 12, 2023

Both Anthony Davis’s X and Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas are modern classics, and the Met gives them excellent productions.