Features

Many brilliant season offerings are promised by Cal Performances, which presents world-class artists in concerts and residencies on the UC Berkeley campus.

Music education through the ages.

This Sunday, the place to be will be the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, where tot-rocker Alison Faith Levy and her band headline the sixth annual Yerba Buena Family Day.

Victoria Young and her mother are betting that talent, discipline, and determination can make her a professional musician. They’ve made a lot of sacrifices to get this far.

Stephen King’s gloomy, claustrophobic tale, Dolores Claiborne appeals to composer Tobias Picker, for its portrait of an uncompromising woman.

The first recipient of a New Voices joint commission, Zosha di Castri talks about her music and being plucked from graduate school into the limelight.

In order for practice to make perfect, you need to be organized. Here are four hints on how to get the most out of practice time.

This playlist features music that evokes night in many different senses of the word. There’s beautiful melody, but also some surprises.

The campus has gone from a rented-out church basement to its own building, the student body has grown from 13 kids to 80, but the Crowden School’s innovative curriculum is still young at 30 years old this year.

Few composers can claim outstanding success in all genres of classical music; Antonin Dvořák is one of them. Dvořák, whose 162nd birthday will be commemorated on Sunday, was a star who wrote great symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, and chamber music.