Music News

Between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and most of the Hamburg Ballet (exc

The American Pianists Association has commissioned works for solo piano from five women composers – Lisa Bielawa (see previous item), Margaret Brouwer, Gabriela Lena Frank, Missy Mazzoli, and Sarah Kirkland Snider.

We’ve added a new resource for parents: descriptions of school music programs in the greater Bay Area. We provide a look at the music resources and philosophy that different schools offer. This week we talked to Eugene Sor, of the Crowden School in Berkeley.

Earlier this week, the board of the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus announced that, following a year-long se

February 15, 7:30 p.m., at Pleasanton Civic Arts at the Firehouse Arts Center: A musical variety show starring kids between s

The San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival runs from March 2 to 10 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and is foc

The Swedish label BIS Records has just released the second recording of the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sibeli

Kurt Masur has suffered another bad fall, this time breaking his hip. According to Stefana Atlas, the 85-year-old maestro's operations director, he fell in his hotel room last week in Tel Aviv, where he was scheduled to conduct the Israel Philharmonic over the next two weeks. He has since undergone hip replacement surgery and has had to cancel the remainder of his concerts there.