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Though you won't be invited on to the dance floor, if you take in the Gold Coast Players' Rhythm and Shoes concert, you'll at least hear a stylistically varied program that's all about the power of movement and dance

This week the extremely cool Anne Sofie von Otter visits the San Francisco Symphony to perform songs by Grieg and Sibelius. Sibelius' songs are achingly Romantic and deserve to be better known, but the concert promises more than that.

The upcoming Philharmonia Baroque concerts unexpectedly celebrate the friendship of two singers.

This week's Other Minds Festival brings Louis Andriessen, a tribute to composer Henry Brant, and a wide assortment of alternative, unusual, and uncategorizable music over an intense three days.

Spell checkers go a bit crazy when anyone writes about the Pacifica Quartet. With names like Simin Ganatra, Masumi Per Rostad, Brandon Vamos, and Sibbi Bernhardsson, there’s lots of double-checking to get the names right. Even so, they admit that people still mix up their names.

What other touring orchestra posts its country's flag on stage when performing internationally? Israel's nationalistic pride is well known, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is a particularly special source of honor for Israelis.

The Vienna Philharmonic, one of the world’s great orchestras, plumbs the depths and heights of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, in its final Berkeley performance Sunday.

Highlights of the San Francisco Symphony's 2011-2012 centennial season were announced previously, but today's news is of the complete schedule, and it's stunning.

What sacred music do you set alongside Mozart’s great Requiem in a concert? The San Francisco Symphony movingly squared the circle Thursday with works by Morton Feldman and Mindaugas Urbaitis.