Five emerging composers premiere new works in an immersive, interactive afternoon of music with Pacific Chamber Orchestra’s 6th annual Winning Scores. Hear PCO’s exceptional musicians perform, then ...

The tulle skirts associated with Romantic-era ballet were introduced in “The Ballet of the Nuns” in Act III of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le diable, which premiered at the Paris Opèra in 1831. Marie ...

The Holy Liftoff is not so much a fixed work as a loosely strung series of short, continuously played compositions that are meant to be open-ended. The flutist and entrepreneur Claire Chase has made ...

This summer marks a momentous occasion for Music@Menlo: the final festival under the Artistic Directorship of David Finckel and Wu Han. Tickets are now on sale for Redux, a celebratory exploration of ...

Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989) was at once one of the most poetic and one of the showiest pianists of the 20th century. His superhuman finger speed, his bombastic fortissimos, and his (not occasional) ...

Jon Batiste’s appearance at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley was a religious experience. Batiste’s Berkeley outing on Saturday evening was as musically globetrotting as he is, including Brazilian samba, ...

It’s not common knowledge that the American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), who was primarily known for his visual art and sculptures, was also a passionate cross-disciplinary collaborator.

In the summer of 1980, on his first visit to the United States, British-born record collector Bob Bell realized his obsession had taken an unreasonable turn as he loaded his guilty acquisitions onto a ...

What’s Basque is known to most of us as food, deployed family-style in multiple generous servings at numerous restaurants in California, Nevada, and other areas of the Basque diaspora. Now the Basque ...

If Andrés Segovia put classical guitar on the international map, then Sérgio and Odair Assad reconfigured the entire musical atlas to reflect their far-flung passions. “We have been planning on ...

The San Francisco Arts Commission is awarding 465 grants to 393 grantees, totaling $25.26 million for 2026–2027. Recipients ...

Nimble new music group Wild Up did just that with its inaugural Democracy Sessions festival, organized with the Museum of ...