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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Like a lightning bolt that starts a fire, the world premiere of composer John Adams' and Peter Sellars' latest collaboration, "Girls of the Golden West," scorched the hallowed walls of the War Memorial Opera House last week.
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.