Novak named the four movements, played without a break, after devices found in science fiction and portrayed each brilliantly ...

Chan is also adding another concert to her 2026–2027 season schedule with SFS, which already includes scheduled Oct. 29–31 ...

The 44-year-old composer and trumpeter will return to the Monterey County Fairgrounds for the 69th Festival, running Sept. 25 ...

Silent Night, Kevin Puts’s poignant 2011 opera about a Christmas truce on the front line of World War I, will get a new production at the Metropolitan Opera this coming season. It's the piece that won ...

Before every San Francisco Symphony concert, you’ll see a black-clad figure distributing folders on the musicians’ stands. Most of the time, that’s Margo Kieser, the orchestra’s principal librarian ...

For the 68th year, the public performances of the Merola Opera Program offer an overabundance of delightful discoveries. The Saturday performance of Merola’s Schwabacher Summer Concert at the San ...

It’s a strange tale for those of us who grew up in the era of high modernism, but contemporary opera has become popular with audiences. Not the dense, uncompromising works, mind you: Harrison ...

In the flood of news about the San Francisco Symphony, from the announcement of the orchestra’s 2024–2025 season to the unexpected decision of Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen not to extend his ...

Changing the music director of a major symphony orchestra isn’t like a relay race, where the outgoing maestro just hands the baton to his successor. Now that it’s been announced that Esa-Pekka Salonen ...

Her music is unapologetically tonal, but the reason for that is simple. Deutscher has said she writes the music she wants to hear. The composer relates that when she was very small, her parents made a ...

Imagine you’re a world-famous pianist like Leon Fleisher and you’re about to play the first-movement cadenza from Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto, a passage you’ve played hundreds of times. Suddenly and ...