Orchestra

The Oakland-East Bay Symphony's coming concert, Heroes and Giants, is a demonstration of Michael Morgan’s programming genius.

Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini, the imaginative musician who founded Concerto Italiano 28 years ago, will be featured on an upcoming SFS program of Mozart and Haydn.

Herbert Blomstedt leads the Symphony in what many believe is his signature piece, Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony.

The Santa Rosa Symphony performs David Carlson’s new song cycle, whose text was impassioned but mostly unintelligible.

If you’ve been avoiding “modern” music like the plague, you may not realize that fashion has brought new music back into audience-pleasing land. One of the more attractive young exponents of this trend is Kenji Bunch, the Oregon-born, multistylistic composer whose Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra brings back the glory days of melody.

Pretty much the pick of this week's concerts is the San Francisco Choral Society's full-scale production of Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah.

How often does our City’s Symphony turn 100 years old, and how often can we exult classical music en masse? Here’s the chance to celebrate the longevity and essence of the San Francisco Symphony, with a free, live concert carnival in the Civic Center Plaza.

Cabrillo wraps up its season with new works that surprise, delight, and sometimes frustrate.

When a composer has a great dance tune with no place to go, it's time to write a serenade. Serenades are on the populist end of classical music, which is why the San Francisco Symphony is devoting one of their summer pops concerts to them. Eine, kleine Nachtmusik is a case in point: We don't know why Mozart composed it, but since tunes dropped from his brain like water droplets off a wet collie, he didn't really need a reason, did he?

Acclaimed cellist Zuill Bailey talks with SFCV about his love-at-first crush with the cello, doing what he loves for a living in El Paso and Alaska, his passion for musical outreach programs, and working on the television series Oz.