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Episode 6: Learn with the Magik*Magik Orchestra. Education director Annie Phillips talks about this unique orchestra’s approach to engaging youngsters in music.

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In a rare Bay Area appearance, the Royal Danish Ballet performs La Sylphide, a template of tragedy in the ballet canon: woman idealized, then destroyed.

Young violinists, cellists, and even one violist from the United States' elite conservatories will once again be displaying their virtuosity at the Irving M. Klein String Competition finals at Knuth Hall on the SFSU campus this weekend.

Romance is on the minds of several Bay Area groups this weekend. Chanticleer's series of spring concerts kicks off this Friday, and love poetry forms the center of their program.

Elena Sharkova, who heads the 90-voice Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale, will use her intimate knowledge of works such as Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov's 1907 All-Night Vigil, in a concert that music lovers of all kinds should make an effort to see.

In Washington State, the Icicle Creek Piano Trio makes its repertoire sound natural, but almost too easy.

An unknown sacred work by Antonio Vivaldi receives its Bay Area debut, voiced by Chora Nova.

Concertmaster Laura Albers stakes out her space in the orchestra pit, then revs up to play Wagner’s long, intense operas.

SFCV takes you backstage to find out about all the myriad details that The Ring requires in order for the saga even to make it to the stage. It really is not your ordinary opera production.