The celebrated Kurdish vocalist returns to San Francisco with a set that’s personal — but also unintentionally political.
After 22 years, the well-loved music director is saying farewell to the Bay Area and venturing further afield.
The company’s Digital Shorts, still available for viewing, brought together major-name creatives to invent 10-minute operatic films.
Steven Isserlis describes his decades-long odyssey of traveling with his instrument. It’s not easy, even with a travel agent named Merlin on your side.
The USC Thornton grad is embracing multiple community roles and ignoring avant-garde hipness in favor of inclusive, polyglot music.
The Beyond Bollywood exhibition at the Asian Art Museum will stir emotions as well as tell stories.
Opened just five months ago, the “sacred space” for jazz has plugged a lot of gaps for S.F.-connected musicians.
The new chamber opera about prophecy and instability is the climax of the artist’s yearlong residency at UC Berkeley.
The saxophonist/composer, a key figure in the Afrofuturist movement, celebrates 50 years of his band as he moves into new creative territory.
The conductorless chamber orchestra launches the Herbert Franklin Mells Project, performing scores that have gone unheard for almost 70 years.
