Features

Tal Skloot - May 31, 2011

SFCV takes you backstage to find out about all the myriad details that The Ring requires in order for the saga even to make it to the stage. It really is not your ordinary opera production.

Mark MacNamara - May 30, 2011

Travel notes from the San Francisco Symphony on its tour abroad, now playing Gustav Mahler in his hometown.

Lisa Petrie - May 26, 2011

Episode 5: Omar Shelly and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011. Violist Shelly tells SFCV about his participation in the world’s most-viewed symphony concert in Sydney, Australia, with MTT conducting. Classical music is brought to the vast YouTube “stage”.

Lisa Petrie - May 25, 2011

The YouTube Symphony concert wasn't just a young musician’s dream — performing to packed houses at the Sydney Opera House. The finale concert displaced the rock band U2 as the most-watched live music concert online.

Mark MacNamara - May 24, 2011

A riveting Irene Dalis competition brings together incredible talent, a lineup of judges to match, and promising winners, including an audience favorite who is breaking through the ice and beginning to bloom.

Janos Gereben - May 24, 2011

The Magic of 'Cloud Singing'

Just when we are beginning to comprehend cloud computing, here comes cloud singing.

Janos Gereben - May 23, 2011

There are bigger spectator sports, but none with more participants than choral singing. Surprising but true: more Americans sing in choruses, chorales, choirs, glee clubs and other vocal groups — both professional and amateur — than engage in football, baseball, tennis, even Greco-Roman wrestling.

Michael Zwiebach - May 21, 2011

The San Francisco Symphony was in Prague on the hundredth anniversary of Gustav Mahler's death. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas shares his thoughts on the personal meaning of his musical idol's anniversary.