Mark MacNamara

The Guardian, Feb.

March 1, 6 p.m., The Community Music Center in San Francisco presents a free concert — and conversation — with classical guitarist David Russell. Scottish-born Russell resides in Spain, tours internationally and has received a long list of prestigious awards.

The enormous benefits of music in education will be on display at the upcoming San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival.

Kids Around the Bay now includes descriptions of school music programs in the greater Bay Area. It’s an effort to provide parents with a sense of the resources and philosophy offered by different schools. This week we spoke with Donn Harris, principal of Oakland School for the Arts, a charter school created in 2000 that includes both a middle school and a high school.

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 other day a book arrived in the mail: When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky (Two Arti

Deadline approaching: The Marin Music Chest, which