Teddy Abrams, 26, is an established musician with a lot of good sense about what being a musician means. Here he talks about the challenges of a career in an interview with SFCV.
Naxos is offering the track "Rossini: Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture: Finale" from My First Classical Music Album for SFCV readers to download and enjoy.
Here, subject to correction and amplification by any 10- to 40-year-old with expertise, is a set of music to some of the most popular video games ever.
Are video games capable of delivering the next generation of audiences to the symphony orchestra’s door? The huge popularity of video game concerts is too real to ignore, and the S.F. Symphony is betting on selling out two video game concerts at Davies Hall.
It only took a few days for the American Bach Soloists to sell out its festival production of Heinrich Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis. For the lucky few who saw it, many of them new to ABS, it was massively entertaining.
Mary Falvey — a leader in the founding group of SFCV, a board member from the beginning, its first treasurer, and board chair since 2010 — will yield the board chair post to Alisa Won.
In honor of the huge Bach-fest going on in the Bay Area and its neighbor, Carmel, we’ve put together a mixtape of highlights of pieces you’ll be able to hear in live performance over the next month. Consider this mix an intro to Bach’s immense musical imagination.
