Jeff Kaliss

The Kronos Quartet’s longtime violist reflects on his decades with that distinguished quartet, and on its 40th anniversary performance Sunday in Berkeley.

A Secret Rose, Rhys Chatham’s 100-guitar, “No Wave” extravaganza, is stretching new-music presenter Other Minds, socially and artistically, as well as financially.

The S.F. Symphony screened Hitchcock's Vertigo; the restored film was projected in color as the Symphony, conducted by Joshua Gersen, performed the live world premiere of Hermann's score.

Edgar Allan Poe himself enters the doomed mansion of the Usher family, in Gordon Getty’s canny setting of the famed story, heightening the dramatic impact.

More than 1,000 musicians take part this weekend in Crissy Field Broadcast, an open-space musical event by Lisa Bielawa.

In the South Bay, Indian classical music is blooming through the efforts of Indian Classic Music and Arts foundation.

Highly regarded singer/songwriter Gabriel Kahane came to Lara Downes’ The Artist Sessions at Yoshi’s, bringing hip, sardonic humor and introspective lyrics with him.

Stephen King’s gloomy, claustrophobic tale, Dolores Claiborne appeals to composer Tobias Picker, for its portrait of an uncompromising woman.

The first recipient of a New Voices joint commission, Zosha di Castri talks about her music and being plucked from graduate school into the limelight.

After successfully rebounding from colon cancer in 2010 and an embolism in July of this year, 72-year-old Plácido Domingo has proven that you can't keep a good tenor down.