Features

Great music is bursting out all over this spring. Here is our guide to some hot tickets.

Our intrepid reviewer recommends a shelfful of great reads about music and musicians culled from recent publications.

In the best-of-2017 sweepstakes, the San Francisco Symphony’s powerful rendition of Ives’s masterwork was a standout.

SFCV’s photographer captures a cast rehearsal and a school outreach program during Nutcracker season.

Offered without critique, a smorgasbord of recorded music released this year.

J'Nai Bridges, Soloman Howard, Andrea Lett, Kearstin Piper Brown, Kenneth Overton, and Ronny Michael Greenberg perform for inmates and staff at San Quentin State Prison.

Will the leading institution step up to support composers and foster new jazz voices in the Bay Area?

If you’re interested in composing for movies, TV, video games, or anywhere else, it’s no longer enough to fill up a page with notes.

The holiday season brings its bounty of Nutcrackers, carols, and a few surprises as well. Here are a few suggestions to launch you on your merry way.

A Cal Performances program offers students an opportunity to meet South African dancers and learn about Gumboot and Pantsula traditions first-hand. Our photo essay tells the story.