If this year’s Aspen Music Festival theme of “enchantment” needed any validation, two masterpieces from the early decades provided the proof in excellent orchestra concerts Friday and Sunday in the ...

Carleen Hutchins must have seemed like an unlikely candidate to upend the world of violin-making. Not only was this New Jersey mother only an amateur at viola, she already had a day job as a grade ...

The full schedule for the San Francisco Symphony's 2008-09 season follows. All events are in Davies Symphony Hall except where indicated; (m) denotes matinee; (Friday 6.5) denotes the 6.5 Series.

Whenever there is a tough baritone part to be sung these days, the call is likely to go to a modest 42-year-old Texan named Mack Harrell. In his 15 years as a professional, he has sung such ...