Features

The upcoming orchestra season offers jewels from many of the Bay Area’s fine ensembles.

Two Bay Area musicians are fearlessly taking early music to a younger audience, and having remarkable success.

Performing in front of others is a psychological challenge, and there are ways to prepare for the inevitable jitters. But the most important thing to remember about making mistakes: It's not the end of the world.

Born in the Bay Area, Classical Revolution is evolving and spreading around the globe.

To sing and understand folk music, you have to go to folk and ask them to teach you. That’s exactly what Kitka Vocal Ensemble spent this summer doing.

We keep rediscovering the inexhaustibly deep musical traditions of Africa as artists from all over the world are refreshed and inspired by them. Her'es our late-summer introduction to a few of Africa's beautiful musical traditions.

The jewel box of the Napa Valley Opera House is about to undergo major surgery in spite of heated opposition.

Our friends over at NPR are running a summer contest to decide on "the great American symphony." Since they brought it up, here’s a list of American symphonies we think you ought to give a try. 

Not the afternoon hoped for at an San Francisco Symphony pops concert at the Green Music Center.

Ever since the music industry emerged as a mass commercial enterprise, musicians have waded between that "popular" music and classical (mostly uncommercial) music. In today’s mix, we sample music by musicians who have been at the top of the music industry but have refused to be defined by it.