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Theres nothing like sheer virtuosity in instantly relatable music to liven up the proceedings. In the weekends Benedict Music Tent highlights, saxophonist Steven Banks brought a high-voltage jolt to Fridays Chamber Symphony with a new, crowd-pleasing concerto written for him. Then on Sunday, violinist Gil Shaham and the Festival Orchestra reveled in Eric Korngolds ear-soothing, frankly Romantic concerto, which Jascha Heifetz debuted in 1947.

Two of the most remarkable performances of the year highlighted a strong weekend of exciting music-making at the Aspen Music Festival. It took something special to top Friday’s knockout performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 by the teenage Yunchan Lim, but Sunday’s majestic Mahler Symphony No. 3 did.

Lack of testimony from corporate owner significantly impaired corporation's case

We preview the upcoming world premiere of The Snowy Day at Houston Grand Opera with an interview with Joel Thomson who composed the score of the opera based on the classic book by the same name by Ezra Jack Keats.

There's a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond, from Paula West and Josh Kornbluth to San Jose blues and a piano superstar.

There's a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond, from Paula West and Josh Kornbluth to San Jose blues and a piano superstar.

There's a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond, from Paula West and Josh Kornbluth to San Jose blues and a piano superstar.

Theatre Aspen and the Aspen Music Festival and School announced the complete casting for the special presentation of Master Class. See who is starring, and learn how to purchase tickets!

The 9-year-old from Poland was tragically killed this summer and was honored the day before her birthday.

The San Francisco Opera (SFO) has awarded bass-baritone Philip Skinner, a Livermore favorite, its highest award, the San Francisco Opera Medal.