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San Francisco Symphony’s longtime and beloved music director reflects on his first conducting gig, his mentors, his orchestra’s various personalities, and today’s challenges for arts organizations.

Steve Reich’s tribute to those who died at Ground Zero involves prerecorded speech and evokes emotions of sadness and transcendence.

If you’re crazy about opera and great singing, there’s a wide field to play this fall. Here’s a list of the best possibilities.

More epic love story than 9/11 drama, Heart of a Soldier, which premieres at San Francisco Opera in Sept., will present the big themes of classic operas in a modern context.

Beyond bland generalities and faked goodwill, the 10 candidates for mayor of San Francisco have ideas about funding the arts and using them to better the city and its communities.

Tune up for Youth Ensemble Auditions
Free Master Class by Baritone Thomas Hampson
Brazil in Golden Gate Park

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra plays unforgettable concerts on its Chicago/East Coast tour, which brought the musicians even closer together as artists.

It will never be “same old, same old,” if you organize your concert calendar around these new and unusual concerts.

Pretty much the pick of this week's concerts is the San Francisco Choral Society's full-scale production of Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah.

In recital at Old First Concerts this weekend, cellist Robert Howard (San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque) and his duo partner Elizabeth Dorman offer a variety of interesting music beginning with one of my personal faves, Toru Takemitsu (Orion).