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The creative bond behind a new oratorio commissioned by the San Francisco Girls Chorus explains the genesis of the work and their interest in women of the Bible.

Celebrating the April 21 Brazilian holiday, Tiradentes’ Day, our Brazil Mixtape blurs the boundaries between classical and popular music, reflecting the blurred boundaries between the races in Brazil, a great place to listen to and to visit.

Two weeks after word about a tentative collective bargaining agreement between San Francisco Symphony and Musicians Union, Local 6, AFM, the two sides announced ratification of a 26-month contract.

People of any age in any place can appreciate how the composers represented on this mixtape turned rain and wind into evocative pieces of music, much of it based on mythical and religious stories.

Composer Jonathan Berger is making music out of auditory hallucinations in two fascinating new one-act operas, part of Stanford’s Music and the Brain conference.

When is an agreement not an agreement? The short answer: if it's not ratified. The long story, of course, is more complicated.

An endorsement of the passage of Bill AB 580 and funding for the California Arts Council.

With this list, you’ll find a variety of reasons to smile and laugh, getting some of that best medicine along with some memorable melodies.

After a weekend of lengthy and intensive contract talks, on the 18th day of a strike, musicians and the administration of the San Francisco Symphony reached a tentative agreement.

Here’s a playlist of concerto movements and Handel oratorio choruses in that 18th-century tradition.