Music News

March 15-17, Mondavi Center, Davis: Cashore Marionettes. If you missed this amazing performance a year-and-a-half ago, when it was in Berkeley, here’s another chance, though for many it would mean a bit of a drive. While the fantasy element is strong and entertaining, what’s really amazing in this show is the precision in the puppets’ movements.

Fifteen thousand people sang during the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Every two weeks, the Kids Around the Bay column profiles one of the local school music programs, to provide parents with a sense of the resources and philosophy offered, as well as how programs compare. This week we spoke with composer and jazz pianist Eddie Mendenhall, music director with the Stevenson School on the Monterey Peninsula.

In the ongoing story about arrests for the

Composers, Inc. had a long run in San Francisco, but it is leaving the city. A concert on April 9, in Old First Church, will be the group's last event here.

Looking forward to Monday night's "Behind the Curtain: Planning an Opera Season" presentation by San Francisco Opera's Director of Music Administration Kip Cranna and Associate Director of Production Jennifer Good, I was disappointed when other work (look around SFCV this week) piled up and ma