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Community music schools in the Bay Area and across the nation are finding innovative ways to supply and fund music education for underserved children.

La Stupenda is no more. The brilliant coloratura soprano Joan Sutherland, who died a thousand deaths onstage after emitting flawless high E-flats, died on Oct. 10 at her Swiss home near Montreux.

The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's Executive Director, Peter Pastreich, and Music Director Nicholas McGegan, are hatching big plans to bring PBO the national and international recognition it deserves.

Bay Area kids are getting their hands on some seriously old music, and loving it.

Following the San Francisco Symphony’s annual fall gala on Sept. 7, the musicians packed their instruments and headed overseas with Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas for a five-concert tour of Switzerland and Italy. Here's a report back from the musicians.

A formerly internal rift between several California Symphony board members and Music Director Barry Jekowsky opened wide enough this week to swallow up the 24-year-long relationship between the orchestra and its founding maestro, the man who put the organization on the country's musical map.

Her voice was ineffably moving, her appearances were the stuff of legend. She gave nearly 600 performances over an 18-year span. In one appearance, she received 27 curtain calls in an outpouring of adoration lasting more than 40 minutes. For many opera lovers, there is and always will be only one true diva: Maria Callas, known to her legions of fans simply as “La Divina.” A special exhibition devoted to Callas arrives in S.F. this month.