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Joshua Kosman's retirement from the SF Chronicle at the end of the month, is also the end of an era in classical music criticism.

The Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth company gave its premiere performance at the Dallas Morning News Dance Festival on Labor Day weekend of...

“Being a concertmaster is terribly demanding,” she once said, “but women can handle the job as well as men can. I know that.”

On Monday evening March 14, 2022, the award-winning Venezuelan American soprano Maria Brea joins forces with pianist Max Lifchitz for an intimate recital featuring music from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the US. Included will be music by Miguel Astor, Harry Bulow, Hector Campos-Parsi, Antonio Estevez, Max Lifchitz, Sheli Nan, William Ortiz, Joseph Rivers and Joel Eric Suben.

Joshua Kosman April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 7:26 pm Wayne Peterson’s compositions showed a range of musical influences. Photo: Courtesy Grant Peterson For more than 30 years, composer and pianist Wayne Peterson taught music students at San Francisco State University. He was a fixture on the local new-music scene, reliably present at any concert where contemporary works were being performed. He composed prolifically, in an eclectic, often accessible style. Then he got an ...