Features

Approaching the end of their collaboration, Cypress Quartet returns to their roots in a series of performances in unusual locales.

Facebook streams a Mason Bates premiere, the S.F. Girls Chorus hits N.Y.C., and the Ethnic Dance Festival bring the world to the Palace of Fine Arts.

The modern music conservatory needs to graduate healthy, aware people – and deal with the potential for abuse of the mentoring system, says arts administrator Jenny Bilfield.

The talented countertenor died April 18, 2016, at the age of 49.

There’s a fascinating and diverse group of mandolinists and mandolin orchestras in the Bay Area. Who knew?

The Jewish Museum’s Shoah concert honors Bill Graham and the Oakland Youth Symphony teams up with the Crucible for a multimedia evening of “Fire and Ice.”

In recent recordings, the S.F. Symphony gives us a bevy of Bates, Philharmonia Baroque resuscitates a serenata, and American Bach Soloists air a rarely-performed version of Handel’s Messiah.

The apparent stalling of the project to build a center for Philip Glass’s Days and Nights Festival has not slowed the composer one bit. But it’s another thing for residents to discuss as they ponder the future of Big Sur.

The voraciously curious cellist is taking it all in — music, language, running, and the interests of his young nieces.

Celebrations and farewells at S.F. Ballet, a bounty of musicals at SHN, skateboards at ChamberWORKS, and free programs at YBG.