The best recording of 2017, a year of living dangerously, was of Messiaen's "Quatuor pour le Fin du Temps" ("The Quartet for the End of Time").

Liner notes to the new Morrissey album "Low in High School" (Etienne) tell us it's "dedicated to Dick Gregory (1932-2017)."

"Since I've Been Gone" chronicles the time since Spangler left home to pursue a life on the stage.

Stocking still empty? You can probably grab a USB stick, download these albums, and have fine holiday gifts for the carol-starved amongst us.

The San Francisco Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras released comprehensive multimedia sets on their in-house labels last month.

The following expanded reissues by George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Jackie Shane and The Smiths are custom-made for the LGBTQ music-lovers on your holiday gift list.

Welcome to the first installment of our two-part survey of Christmas music.

"On the Proper Disposition of One's James Levine Recordings."

SoundBox, the San Francisco Symphony's experimental performance venue and live music nightclub, launched a fourth season of fashionably-later "curated" concerts last week.

She'll always be best-known as Sue Sylvester, the gym teacher you love to hate on the late, lamented "Glee." Sue is a far cry from Jane Lynch, her portrayer. Or is she?

Jane Lynch is preparing to bring her Christmas cabaret act to town.

Gay San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas, center, was one of several inductees into the California Hall of Fame Tuesday, December 5, at the California Museum in Sacramento.

One of the more remarkable projects in Jordi Savall's career, "Les Routes de L'Esclavage" ("The Routes of Slavery"), yielded a 2015 concert memorialized live on both CD and DVD.

The esteemed San Francisco Opera Chorus gave its second annual concert last week in the intimate surroundings of the Taube Atrium Theater in the Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera.