Mark MacNamara

March 15-17, Mondavi Center, Davis: Cashore Marionettes. If you missed this amazing performance a year-and-a-half ago, when it was in Berkeley, here’s another chance, though for many it would mean a bit of a drive. While the fantasy element is strong and entertaining, what’s really amazing in this show is the precision in the puppets’ movements.

Fifteen thousand people sang during the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Every two weeks, 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 composer and jazz pianist Eddie Mendenhall, music director with the Stevenson School on the Monterey Peninsula.

Online education has become not only relevant, practical, and popular, but gradually more respected.

In San Francisco, on Bush St., there stands Audium Theatre with 49 seats where listeners are surrounded by speakers in sloping

March 7. Thursday. (Tonight). 8 p.m., Freight and Salvage Coffee House, Berkeley. Jewish Music Festival. The always terrific, the legendary Theodore Bikel, along with Bosnian accordionist Merima Kljuco and, from Amsterdam, singer of Yiddish, Shura Lipovsky. Journeys through Yiddish and Bosnian/Sephardic cultures. Is this for kids?

Each week we celebrate the birthday of one composer from the SFCV composer gallery. This week’s birthday boy is Gioachino Rossini (born Feb. 29, 1792), whose career ushered in the “Golden Century” of Italian opera. The Barber of Seville is, of course, one of the best first-opera experiences for young children.

February 28 to March 9, Dan Kryston Memorial Theater: Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts

Each week the Kids Around the Bay column includes a pr