Janos Gereben

East Palo Alto housing advocate William Webster appears in a new role, as the composer of The Little Match Girl, to receive its world premiere on June 20 at a Montparnasse music festival in Paris.

Webster composed the opera, based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, in the 1970s, when studying music at Stanford.

Oakland-born Anne Hege, who has a master's degree from Mills College, returns from Princeton University doctoral studies to beco

Musicologist Fredrick Lieberman, who died on May 4, will be celebrated at the "49th day ceremony" Tibetan Buddhist Gyuto Vajrayana Center Gyuto Monastery in San José on

Pianist Vadym Kholodenko, Gold Medalist at last week's Van Cliburn Competition finals, will be among featured artists of the

Knowing that musical accompaniment for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden was played by Stephen Horne alone, I was pu

It might have been well anticipated, but the big news is that the Cabrillo Festival of

"When pleasurable music is heard, dopamine is released in the striatum — an ancient part of the brain found in other vertebrates as well — which is known to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli like food and sex and which is artificially targeted by drugs like cocaine and amphetamine," says The New York Times article

San Francisco Ballet principal ballerina Maria Kochetkova was invited to replace Alina Cojocaru, recently injured, as Odette/Odile in American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake on June 21, opposite ABT principal dancer Herman Cornejo in his ABT debut as Prince Siegfried. This is Kochetkova’s first appearance with American Ballet Theatre.