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There are bigger spectator sports, but none with more participants than choral singing. Surprising but true: more Americans sing in choruses, chorales, choirs, glee clubs and other vocal groups — both professional and amateur — than engage in football, baseball, tennis, even Greco-Roman wrestling.

The last time Dawn Upshaw appeared at the Ojai Music Festival was in June of 2006. Five years later, and now a cancer survivor, the renowned soprano will reprise her performance there. Here, she talks with SFCV about what makes the Festival unique, teaching at Bard college, and an exciting new collaboration with Peter Sellars.

The S.F. Symphony did some marvelous multitasking over the weekend. Even as MTT and the orchestra were in Vienna, wowing audiences with Mahler’s music on the first leg of their three-week European tour, the S.F. Symphony Chorus stayed in town to perform a splendid concert.

What do Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (premiere 1689) and Manuel de Falla’s La Vida Breve (premiere 1913) have in common? West Bay Opera does not hesitate to mate such strange, albeit intimate operatic bedfellows.

The San Francisco Symphony was in Prague on the hundredth anniversary of Gustav Mahler's death. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas shares his thoughts on the personal meaning of his musical idol's anniversary.

The NCCO's premiere of featured composer Mark O'Connor's Elevations wasn't the concert highlight — the orchestra's rare ensemble unity made everything sound great.

Episode 4: Music Festivals Part I. May is not too early to get outdoors and enjoy the arts in California. Here are several family-friendly festivals to attend, with musical choices ranging from bluegrass to world, classical to chip music.

The Joy of Gigging
"Young At Art" Festival
Chanticleer Teaches the Craft

If love is in the air in spring, that must mean that it's tango season in music. At Mission San Jose in Fremont, Aileen Chanco's Music at the Mission series concludes with a cross-genre program centered on tango nuevo creator Astor Piazzolla.

Manuel de Falla's La vida breve is one of those operas you've heard (or heard about) but rarely seen. Enter West Bay Opera's Jose Luis Moscovich, who has ingeniously solved the problem of what to pair with the tale of a woman's abandonment by a fickle lover by presenting it alongside the iconic operatic tale of abandonment, Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.