For the 16th year, the Richmond Ermet Aid Foundation will be staging "Help Is On the Way for the Holidays" for the best of causes.

Michael Feinstein says that amidst the news and politics of this year in particular, he'd be remiss to deny his audiences a chance to indulge in the happier aspects of Christmas music.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony stuffed Davies Symphony Hall with the big and bountiful Symphony No. 4 (1916/24) of Charles Ives last week.

In "Hey Jesus," one of the tracks on his solo album "Love Is Love," Trey Pearson sings plaintively to the Lord.

Olivier Messiaen's "Quatuour pour le fin de temps" ("Quartet for the End of Time") is out in Sony's astonishingly fine new recording.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony stuffed Davies Symphony Hall with the big and bountiful Symphony No. 4 of Charles Ives last week.

With Arielle between gigs and Adam on the boards by the Bay, the pair saw an opportunity to perform together. San Francisco has long offered "A Whole New World" of un-Disneyesque couplings, so hey, why not?

San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, recently announced the end of his illustrious tenure with the treasured organization.

Anyone who is a fan of is well aware of Gary Numan's forays into science fiction. From early in his career, the song "Down In The Park" (1979) envisioned a technological nightmarish future that included "rape machines."

After pulling off a retirement stunt that would make Cher blush, LCD Soundsystem returns with the illusory American Dream.

It often has been said that Berg's Lulu was asking for it.

Currently on a breakneck fall tour with LCD, Russom is experiencing the latest phase of her transition while literally in transit.

The fourth offering of the San Francisco Opera's fall season opened last week with a lush production of l'opera tres francais de Jules Massenet, "Manon."

The San Francisco Girls Chorus and Music Director and Principal Conductor Valerie Sainte-Agathe opened the prized institution's 39th season last week at Herbst Theatre.