Music News

Michael Zwiebach - June 20, 2013
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach

A German-Jewish musician, a cellist, all of 19, makes his way to Paris to begin a virtuoso career.

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Toscanini
Recognized Soviet war role

In 1944, to honor the Allied victory in Italy, Arturo Toscanini conducted Verdi's Hymn of the Nations, buil

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013

Getting ready for the end of San Francisco Symphony's 101st season this month, turn your attention to the internet, where there is a wealth of SFS performances.

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013

East Palo Alto housing advocate William Webster appears in a new role, as the composer of The Little Match Girl, to receive its world premiere on June 20 at a Montparnasse music festival in Paris.

Webster composed the opera, based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, in the 1970s, when studying music at Stanford.

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Anne Hege
Anne Hege

Oakland-born Anne Hege, who has a master's degree from Mills College, returns from Princeton University doctoral studies to beco

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Kronos: at 40 not so old Photo by Michael Wilson
Kronos: at 40, not so old
Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013

Musicologist Fredrick Lieberman, who died on May 4, will be celebrated at the "49th day ceremony" Tibetan Buddhist Gyuto Vajrayana Center Gyuto Monastery in San José on

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Vadym Kholodenko, winning the Cliburn

Pianist Vadym Kholodenko, Gold Medalist at last week's Van Cliburn Competition finals, will be among featured artists of the

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Horne in Cannes
Horne in Cannes

Knowing that musical accompaniment for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden was played by Stephen Horne alone, I was pu

Janos Gereben - June 18, 2013
Always on top
Always on top

It might have been well anticipated, but the big news is that the Cabrillo Festival of