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Last week, as SFCV’s newsletter was being sent out, the sale of KDFC, the Bay Area’s major classical music radio station, was announced. The station was taken on by nonprofit KUSC, a move that has caused supporters of the college radio station to protest vehemently.

Early music groups have done the Baroque concerto program, but Voices of Music is one-upping the formula for its San Francisco Early Music Society presentation.

The Oakland East Bay Symphony is doing the Brahms Requiem on Friday and it will do right by it with soloists Brian Leerhuber and Carrie Hennessy. But that's obviously not the whole story: new music by Armenian composer Avetis Berberyan, which casts the Requiem's message of solace in a wholly modern light.

Marc Teicholz of the San Francisco Conservatory gave an exquisitely sensitive and skillful recital there on Saturday, featuring new transcriptions, music associated with Segovia, and extraordinary contemporary compositions.

Music, history, and vision meet in a Gold Coast Chamber Players concert with bass-baritone Lawrence Beamen that inaugurates Lafayette’s Black History Month.

The San Francisco Symphony celebrates the Lunar New Year with its audiences each year at this festive event. Kids will enjoy the preconcert reception with arts and crafts, lion dancing, and Chinese calligraphy, and complimentary food, desserts, and tea at Davies Hall.

The famed, El Cerrito–based Arhoolie Records turns 50 years old this year, an anniversary that is being celebrated by an enormous roster of fans and artists at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in early February. Founder Chris Strachwitz recalls the label’s early days; Taj Mahal and Linda Ronstadt celebrate its triumphs.

Circus Maximus is a scream, an impressive piece of workmanship, if a debatable work for the ages. In its latest incarnation as a high-definition Blu-ray disk, it’s a first-class device for showing off your latest surround-sound system.

The young violinist Ray Chen has made a global footprint that’s only getting larger, and he has the skills of a truly musical interpreter. In advance of his performance with S.F. Symphony for its Chinese New Year concert, he talks with SFCV.