Music News

Janos Gereben - February 19, 2013
Final scene, with Marnie Breckenridge as Margarita Xirgu Photo by Steve Barto
Final scene, with Marnie Breckenridge as Margarita Xirgu
Janos Gereben - February 19, 2013
Simon Hewett
Simon Hewett

Between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and most of the Hamburg Ballet (exc

Janos Gereben - February 19, 2013

The American Pianists Association has commissioned works for solo piano from five women composers – Lisa Bielawa (see previous item), Margaret Brouwer, Gabriela Lena Frank, Missy Mazzoli, and Sarah Kirkland Snider.

Mark MacNamara - February 14, 2013

We’ve added a new resource for parents: descriptions of school music programs in the greater Bay Area. We provide a look at the music resources and philosophy that different schools offer. This week we talked to Eugene Sor, of the Crowden School in Berkeley.

Mark MacNamara - February 14, 2013
Lisa Bielawa
Lisa Bielawa

Earlier this week, the board of the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus announced that, following a year-long se

Mark MacNamara - February 14, 2013
ABADA
ABADA

February 15, 7:30 p.m., at Pleasanton Civic Arts at the Firehouse Arts Center: A musical variety show starring kids between s

Mark MacNamara - February 14, 2013

The San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival runs from March 2 to 10 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and is foc

Janos Gereben - February 12, 2013
Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra

The Swedish label BIS Records has just released the second recording of the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sibeli