In a bold and successful move, Michael Tilson Thomas and the S.F. Symphony have condensed Henrik Ibsen's 1876 Peer Gynt into an outstanding musical-dramatic multimedia production.
This year's Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival (BAYOF Hope) will be held, for the first time, in Sonoma, in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center. Information about the Sunday event is listed in the SFCV calendar.
Not gold, exactly, but grants up to $3,000: The Musical Grant Program (MGP) offers awards to chamber music projects created and produced by artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.