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In this profile of a local school music program SFCV spoke with Michael Pakaluk, who heads the music program at Lynbrook High School.

It’s time once again to pit your problem-solving skills against the good doctor.

With the assistance of his student Hanson Tam, SFCM Professor William Wellborn demonstrates how to generally make the melody more prominent in a thick chord cluster.

Perk up your body and spirit with this playlist welcoming spring.

As more women dare to put themselves forward in the realm of music, arts organizations — those which are not so self-destructive as to ignore the talent of half the planet’s musicians — will begin to hand them the baton more often.

We may not know much about how Bach or Mozart expected to hear their music, but we have a great deal of information about later 19th-century composers, thanks to early recordings.

Randy Porter is a larger-than-life figure to many of his middle school students. But being that big often has a different look in the inner-city.

In the latest WriteOn! Workshop, students were introduced to Indian classical music and a world premiere by an Indian-American composer. Read their reviews here.

The Bay Area's musical community is mourning the passing of San Francisco Opera's beloved veteran Italian language coach Elena Servi Burgess, known as Elena to all.

SFCM Professor William Wellborn suggests the proper approach to playing octaves with SFCM Preparatory Division student Hanson Tam, in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.