Features

The uke is back, as a fun, easy-to-play, four-string instrument that’s backing up best-selling song tracks.

Episode 11: Music@Menlo Young Performers Program. Dmitri Atapine from Music@Menlo talks with Dianne about the things that make the Young Performers Program so special.

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.

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

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

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

Young People's Chamber Orchestra: New Director
Teen Theater Star's Grand Goodbye
Cazadero Offers Camp for the Entire Family

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.