Previews

JooWan Kim is perfecting his own brand of classical/hip-hop hybrid.

The Crowden Music Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a benefit concert featuring the world premiere of a new work from the composer Samuel Carl Adams, an alumnus, UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall.

San Francisco Opera's premiere of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II Show Boat on June 1 is an event that goes far beyond "just another opera."

This year's Mountain Play production of South Pacific will make a lasting impression on audiences of all ages, introducing the musical to some, and reacquainting others with songs have become American Songbook standards.

On Mother's Day, fans of Alison Faith Levy can hear her Big Time Tot Rock Band, in a program at the Contemporary Jewish museum, which opens early, at 9:45 a.m., for pre-schoolers and their families.

The free, inter-generational dance classes to teach choreographic phrases from different works by Mark Morris come to Cal Performances.

Festival Opera confronts the Holocaust in two powerful chamber operas — one created by Nazi victims in 1943, one by a hopeful contemporary team of composer-and-lyricist.

The S.F. Girls Chorus joins the Berkeley Symphony for its annual “I’m a Performer” family concerts that are part of a three-step educational program to make music accessible to everyone.

A String Quartet in Denial (Squid, Inc.) and populist conductor Benjamin Simon and his orchestra team up for a highly entertaining family concert.

Storyteller David Gonzalez opens up the world to a child's imagination with his spin on Aesop's moral tales, set to music.