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Cal Performances Director Matias Tarnopolsky announced today the appointment of Rob Bailis as Director of External Relations and Artis

When Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the Vienna Philharmonic last week in Festival Hall, at "The Rest Is Noise," Southbank Centre’s festival of 20th-century music, the composition of the orchestra made some encouraging news "for those who thought that the Vienna Philharmonic not only hadn’t made it to the 21st c

When Sherman Clay, a San Francisco establishment since Leander Sherman opened the first store on Ke

On the week's obituary list: Sir Colin Davis, 85, and Adolph "Bud" Herseth, 91, principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony for a

April 13, Saturday, 10 a.m.

When he first heard the San Francisco School of the Arts chorus sing at a Chanticleer youth fes

Word came Tuesday afternoon concerning the delay in ratifying the tentative San Francisco Symphony contract agreement that "both parties have been working on the agreement steadily since the orchestra returned to work last week." This indicates further negotiations are under way, rather than the

Merola's 2013 summer season includes Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in venues new to the program: 600-seat Everett Middle School Auditorium and 1,700-seat Nourse Theater, in addition to Yerba Buena Gardens and the War Memorial Opera House.