Features

Mark MacNamara - July 19, 2011

Children’s lives can be transformed at the annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances in Berkeley. Years later, careers may even bloom out of the intensive experience.

Janos Gereben - July 19, 2011

BBC Proms: Here and Now

Wherever you may be, the "here" of the Proms is BBC-3 on the Web. The "now" extends through Sept. 10,
Janos Gereben - July 18, 2011

Great music and dance, food and wine, beautiful vistas: who could ask for anything more than what Napa’s Festival del Sole provides?

Stephanie Jones - July 12, 2011

Despite Tokyo’s post-earthquake troubles, the Pacifica Quartet enjoyed playing the Beethoven quartets in that resilient city.

Georgia Rowe - July 12, 2011

Clark Suprynowicz employs an equatorial sound world, a range of musical references, plus personal transformation, for his new opera drawn from The Tempest.

Janos Gereben - July 12, 2011

If It's July, Can the Fall Season Be Far Behind?

If you're not yet in full celebration of the San Francisco Symphony's 100-year existence, its luxurious hardback (remember those?), Music for a City, Music for the World, published
Lisa Petrie - July 7, 2011

Like other smart jazz organizations, the Monterey Jazz Festival is doing its part to develop the next wave of great players like trombonist Calvin Barthel.

Lisa Petrie - July 7, 2011

Episode 10: Calvin Barthel and Jazz’s Next Generation. Meet trombonist Barthel, member of the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra and winner of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship for study at the prestigious Berklee College in Boston.

Jason Victor Serinus - July 6, 2011

The Oakland City Council stepped up, big-time, in a budget that closes a $58 million deficit yet with no cuts to arts funding and libraries. SFCV interviews several major players to find out how that was achieved.