Michael Zwiebach is the senior editor/content manager for SFCV. He assigns all articles and content, manages the writing staff, and does editing. A member of SFCV from the beginning, Michael holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley.
A few of the most wonderful chamber works in the world are on display on Sunday at Music at Kohl Mansion when the Miró Quartet visits on Sunday for an epic journey.
Fans of NPR's From the Top radio show are already snapping up tickets for its visit to Napa's Lincoln Theatre. If you're going to be in the area, this is certainly an event to make time for.
Glee, the T.V. show, may have given the wrong impression of what Glee Clubs actually do. They're really choruses, and often have high musical standards. For an excellent example see the Cornell Glee Club's upcoming concerts.
Almost every music fan knows that the December holiday season is high tide for choral concerts. But what do about the rest of the year? Only SFCV tracks the winter and spring doings of the Bay Area’s plenitude of choral groups.
For those who are brassed off, the annual Bay Brass Christmas celebration is here to answer your need for the smooth, polished, yet incisive sounds of the brass ensemble.
When The Magic Flute gets done family-style, it can lose some of the other impediments to enjoyment and understanding. This weekend the Rafael Film Center is showing the San Francisco Opera's 2007 one-hour version for kids.
Like just about everybody born in December, Beethoven doesn't get to celebrate his birthday in style. But thankfully Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra hasn't forgotten about B's Day.
The S.F. Girls Chorus puts on a great concert, and they will have 300 voices at their disposal for the Dec. 21 concert in Davies Hall. When the late Heuwell Tircuit wrote that they can sing anything that isn't written for basses, he meant it.
The S.F. Choral Artists are doing their best to capture both extremes of the Christmas season. If you're one of those people who wants it all, there are two more performances left of this holiday concert, as always with this adventurous group.
