The San Francisco Orchestra has come up with a Vegas-like way to attract a younger audience: a nightclub built underneath the orchestra’s main concert hall with a state-of-the-art sound system, high-tech lighting and artistic video images. (April 23) AP Watch the Video at USA Today

SoundBox, the San Francisco Symphony’s attempt to draw in a younger crowd with late-evening, monthly concerts in a nightclub style setting, has been successful on a scale that probably nobody ever imagined. The Meyer Sound System has transformed an acoustically dead rehearsal stage at the back of Davies Hall into a reverberant concert hall, the […]

Last Fall, Pinna Records released Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants, performed by pianist (writer, and producer) Sarah Cahill. We talked to Cahill as she prepared for the New Music Gathering… Read the full article 

As part of a growing national movement to revitalize the symphony experience for patrons, the San Francisco Symphony recently launched SoundBox, a show series meant to create new musical experiences and entice new audiences. KQED’s Cy Musiker reports. SoundBox on KQED