SF Bay Area

In their final Menlo season, David Finckel and Wu Han program music that mattered — and musicians who make it matter again.

Angie Zhang says these pianos have souls. At SummerFest, she gives three of them the chance to speak.

A Berkeley program ties Mozart's Parisian era to Enlightenment ideals, always sounds fresh, and never overstays its welcome.

Not even a Pulitzer keeps the composer from rewriting Silent Night before it returns to the Met.

Andrew Megill has it both ways in Carmel, pairing pointed Bach cantatas with a candlelit collage of Rilke-inspired choral music.

The festival's opening weekend stretches Carmel's ears with collages of old and new.

Film-score superstar A.R. Rahman turns a symphony concert into an ecstatic, genre-blurring spectacle.

Trumpeter Steven Bernstein brings his genre-devouring quartet back to its Bay Area roots for a four-night SFJAZZ residency.