Features

The String Arcade, an innovative CD project, earns seed money for a new after-school music program.

Jodi Levitz, Ives Quartet Violist and Chair of the String Department at SFCM, discusses how to balance your bow without tension, for maximum efficiency.

Here’s a playlist of some famous “alla Turca” classics, alongside Turkish music — a mutual influence that continues to this day.

Let us count the ways to catch the ever-busy, delightful San Francisco Girls Chorus this March.

The S.F. Symphony's next season will highlight the 20th anniversary of Michael Tilson Thomas as music director, and celebrate his 70th birthday at special events.

The Orchestra, a Brazilian source of pride, will give two performances featuring youthful sizzle as well as strong musicianship.

Although the Hollywood movie industry relies more than ever on huge budget action movies, the movies nominated for best score of 2013 have a much less adrenaline-pumping, ear-splitting character. Here are nominees.

The famous psychological horror story reimagined as an oratorio by teenagers at the Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts.

For first-generation electronic musicians like Don Buchla and John Bischoff, creating or remaking electronics as instruments is part of their creativity. This month they’re being celebrated at Other Minds New Music Festival.

Composer Wendy Reid swears by her parrot’s musicality and uses her live, improvised riffs in compositions she’ll be presenting at the Other Minds festival.