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Stephen King’s gloomy, claustrophobic tale, Dolores Claiborne appeals to composer Tobias Picker, for its portrait of an uncompromising woman.

The first recipient of a New Voices joint commission, Zosha di Castri talks about her music and being plucked from graduate school into the limelight.

In its season opener, the San Francisco Symphony delivered jazz-age style with verve and necessary brashness.

Heart-wrenching, muscular star performances plus a rafter-shaking Chorus send this S.F. Opera production into the stratosphere.

In order for practice to make perfect, you need to be organized. Here are four hints on how to get the most out of practice time.

This playlist features music that evokes night in many different senses of the word. There’s beautiful melody, but also some surprises.

The campus has gone from a rented-out church basement to its own building, the student body has grown from 13 kids to 80, but the Crowden School’s innovative curriculum is still young at 30 years old this year.

There’s more than one way to hear the music of Star Wars and Harry Potter next weekend and the Marin Symphony is making it easy.

Few composers can claim outstanding success in all genres of classical music; Antonin Dvořák is one of them. Dvořák, whose 162nd birthday will be commemorated on Sunday, was a star who wrote great symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, and chamber music.

Many brilliant season offerings are promised by Cal Performances, which presents world-class artists in concerts and residencies on the UC Berkeley campus.