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Jazz plus a taste of the Middle East at the Carmel Bach Festival? You betcha, says the protean pianist/composer/conductor Stephen Prutsman.

In a spectacular setting on the Northern California coast, the 25th annual Mendocino Music Festival promises to deliver an irresistible range of music from artists of every stripe.

Christopher Theofanidis’ First Symphony is engaging and emotional, and will give sound systems a good workout.

As Paul Goodwin arrives from England to take the podium for his first season as artistic director of the venerable Carmel Festival, he talks to SFCV about his artistic path and beliefs.

A member of the progressive string quartet amplifies the group’s mission, methods, and music.

An eclectic musical evening showed lines blurring between classical, academic, popular, live, and electronic.

Details of the Oakland budget, including the means for closing a $58 million shortfall, are still emerging, but the City Council has preserved the entire arts funding program.

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Fourth of July Musical Fun

Northern Sinfonia is the first to cut a disc with Hans Gál’s First Symphony: at turns wry, yearning, jesting, or ceaselessly melodic. It’s paired with a “cute and perky” Schubert symphony.