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Summer can be a special time to focus on what your child enjoys the most — like playing music. As registration deadlines loom, here are details on some popular choices.

Philip Glass’ Orphée earns high marks as a 20th-century alternative to Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. It just deserves a better production than the blunt, charmless staging mounted by the Ensemble Parallèle at Herbst Theatre over the weekend.

Singer/songwriter Randy Newman, who just garnered an Oscar for his Toy Story 3 song, weighs in on his latest work, in advance of his April 22 appearance at the San Francisco Jazz Festival.

The Paris Guitar Duo, in its first San Francisco outing, performed wide-ranging music with brilliance, but with odd mannerisms.

Three interpreters at Oakland East Bay Symphony's concert on Friday transformed composers’ dreams into art worthy of both praise and concern.

The Vienna Philharmonic began its Berkeley residency Friday with a concert that showed off its versatility. The three composers, all from within Vienna’s cultural orbit, were aesthetically different from each other: high Classicism from Franz Schubert, wallowing Romanticism from Richard Wagner, and violent modernism from Béla Bartók.

The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra’s free family concerts are still the best experience around for families with young kids and babes in arms. There is no pressure to sit still, and there’s plenty of engaging visual and aural stimulation for all!

News from the Kids and Families beat: A weekly roundup of what’s happening with young musicians and their dedicated educators.

Joyce DiDonato’s latest recording, DivaDivo displays an artist so on top of her form and versatile in her voice that, like her last CD, it has a good chance of snaring another round of awards.

The Israel Philharmonic is in town at the end of this weekend — there's a lot to admire in this orchestra, and it's conductor, Zubin Mehta, has had a stellar, four-decade career.