Previews

Although the cunning folks at the San Francisco Symphony are billing this concert as “MTT Conducts Mozart and Stravinsky,” the real excitement is going to come from the local premiere of Thomas Adès' Polaris, a co-commission of the SFS, with video by Tal Rosner.

The Khmer Arts Ensemble embraces and enhances the power and beauty of Cambodian art forms.

Today, and continuing over the weekend, the New Century Chamber Orchestra opens its season by welcoming back one of its founders and its first music director, Stuart Canin.

The San Francisco Opera has front-loaded its season, and coming up this week is Renee Fleming's appearance in the title role of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.

At the Napa Symphony season opener this week, the sister act Christina and Michelle Naughton play a pair of duo piano concertos, one by Mozart and one by Poulenc.

Everybody gets to have fun with music and other performing arts — for free! — on the UC Berkeley campus.

The self-described Balkan Arabic klezmer-based, original absurdist cabaret ensemble descends on the Bay Area for two sure-to-be-wild shows.

A favorite wind quintet of mine, the Quinteto Latino, which is dedicated to bringing you the music of Mexico and South America, is playing two of the great standards of the repertory at Old First Church on Friday.

This weekend the men's chorus Chanticleer opens the season with a tour of some of the great music written about love – a topic that could fill a few years worth of concerts.

This weekend, Les Graces Baroque ensemble brings that culture to life, showcasing the music of songwriters like Carolus Hacquart the flutist and carilloneur Jacob van Eyck, and the organist Jan Pierterszoon Sweelinck.