One small hazard of thematic concert programming is the risk that the peripheral works - through novelty, better execution or sheer luck - can overshadow the ostensible main event. It happened Monday ...

The City of Menlo Park hosts a wide range of classes for all ages at reasonable rates, including fitness, dance, sports, ...

Violinist Kristin Lee is a Music@Menlo festival artist. Courtesy Lauren Desberg. On a hot afternoon, the sound of a lone violinist rehearsing drifts from an open door in the still air. The campus of ...

The Music@Menlo festival’s main-stage series this summer is a set of six concerts tracing the history of chamber music from the 18th century to the present. It began last Saturday, July 15, at the ...

Music@Menlo’s annual chamber music festival happens each summer, but the organization headed by cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han has a lot going on year-round. This month brings the inaugural ...

Music@Menlo’s July 21 concert was scheduled to be a recital with violinist Kristin Lee and pianist Michael Stephen Brown. But Lee fell ill. At three days’ notice, a new program had to be concocted.

Drew Dunlevie was getting really tired of driving up to San Francisco to see shows. “It’s just far,” says the Menlo Park resident. “It’s hard to get up there on a Wednesday night.” So, in true Silicon ...