Subject: Orchestral Music

• Master of Puppets

  March 11, 2009

• I Shot the Maestro

  September 25, 2007

• Zelda, Halo, BioShock get Symphony Orchestra Treatment at Video Games Live in SF

  February 21, 2008

• LastNight: Video Games Live at Nob Hill Masonic Center

  February 25, 2008

• The Day The Music [Subsidy] Died -- Peskin to Take Symphony Off Dole

  By Matt Smith SF Weekly wasn't the only one annoyed to discover that SF Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas pulls down in the ballpark of $3 million annually from symphonies that happen to be publicly-funded charities. San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin was so outraged upon reading SF Weekly's Nov. 18 column "Business Conductor," that he plans to make cutting the symphony's $1.8 million city subsidy his last public act before he retires in January. "I'm cutting th

  December 5, 2008

• Strings Attached

  November 26, 2008

• Classical & Opera

  September 3, 2008

• Gettin' brassy with the Hornucopia Festival

  September 3, 2008

• Go Grove

  August 6, 2008

• Charo says "Cuchi Cuchi" to flamenco

  June 25, 2008

• Mercury Soul Merges Visual Art with Classical Music and Contemporary Electronica

  January 30, 2008

• We Salute You

  April 15, 2009

• Tom Middleton

  December 12, 2007

• Silent Cult Flicks Gain Volume with Live Orchestras: the Valerie Project and the Willem Breuker Kollektief

  Vintage flicks Faust and Valerie a týden divu play to live musical accompaniment

  October 31, 2007

• Adams vs. Glass

  Two contemporary music giants descend upon the Bay

  September 5, 2007

• Prokofiev the Provoker

  June 6, 2007

• Wearing It Well

  September 7, 2005

• The World on a String

  As the San Francisco Conservatory of Music moves to fancy new digs, its students struggle with a shrinking professional marketplace.

  April 20, 2005

• Dances for Dark Days

  March 26, 2003

• What's Up, Doc?

  July 4, 2001

• Best Place for Old-Fashioned Fun

  May 23, 2001

• Dance to the Music

  Two local choreographers bring the songs onto the stage

  May 9, 2001

• Hear This

  February 28, 2001

• Hear This

  December 6, 2000

• Asian-American Summit

  February 16, 2000

• Hear This

  November 24, 1999

• Review

  October 20, 1999

• Boxed Ears

  From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

  October 13, 1999

• Imports and Domestics

  September 29, 1999

• Fanfare for the Common Band

  Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  April 28, 1999

• Local Rites for Universal Rights

  December 9, 1998

• Swing Shift

  December 2, 1998

• Classical Discord

  For three decades, Mariedi Anders has used Old World grace and negotiating acumen to create significant American careers for serious European musicians. Now, the doyenne of West Coast classical music agents faces a new challenge: the globalization of the

  September 3, 1997

• Recordings

  October 25, 1995

• Night+Day

  July 5, 1995

• Night+Day

  March 29, 1995

• The Roots discuss hip-hop’s second jazz age

  May 27, 2009

• They Really Are the World

  October 3, 2007

• Five Classical Music and Opera Events to See This Fall

  September 2, 2009

• Spanish Harlem Orchestra

  October 14, 2009