Mark MacNamara

Palo Alto High School, which opened in 1898, is right across the street from Stanford University; in fact, right across the street from Stanford in every sense. “Paly” is known for its intensely competitive academic schedule and is regularly rated among the top 30 public high schools in the state.

When he first heard the San Francisco School of the Arts chorus sing at a Chanticleer youth fes

You don’t think of it, but it can be a stigma to play in a jazz band in high school, to be a young jazz musici

Periodically, the Kids Around the Bay column profiles one of the local school music programs, to provid

Franz Joseph Haydn’s birthday is this coming Sunday, so it’s not technically his birthday week, but we’ll stretch a point this once.

“Oftentimes I don’t get the respect,” Emma Simpson told us.

March 23-34, various times in San Francisco, Oakland, an

Periodically, the Kids Around the Bay column profiles one of the local school music programs, to provide parents with a sense of the resources and philosophy offered, as well as how programs compare. This week we spoke with Colin Williams of The Bay School of San Francisco.

There’s an exciting, huge event on the horizon: April 26-28, the enterprising Volti Chamber Singers