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When he was four-years old Joshua Bell's parents found him making music by plucking rubber bands stretched to different lengths on dresser drawers.
In their recent concert, the Colorado Symphony opened with Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra before moving on to Mozart's Piano Concerto No.
Nelson Riddle, the legendary arranger/orchestrator/composer is largely responsible for what we think of as the sound of The Great American Songbook.
I love seeing in the arts when a company takes a classic work and reimagines it for a modern audience.
A romantic burlesque turns out to be an abstract path to nothingness through perverse vanity.
The Washington National Opera has gathered a company of first rate singers for a portmanteau of four, one-act operas called Written in Stone.
I flipped over Lise Davidsen when she made her Met debut in QUEEN OF SPADES—the voice, the acting, the overall subtlety--but I was still unprepared for the performance she gave as the Prima Donna who became Princess Ariadne of Crete in Strauss’s ARIADNE AUF NAXOS.
The La Jolla Music Society has been bringing some of the world’s best string quartets into the Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad.
I suppose it’s true you can always find our way back home, especially if home is where the heart is, as they say.
I admire the plucky inventiveness of the San Diego Opera.
Bold new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s iconic rendering of the classic Greek tragedy
It's not every day that Audra McDonald stands twenty feet in front of you and says, 'Tonight, we are all a part of history.
I was fortunate enough to get to head down to DeVos Hall for the first live event I have been to there in over two years, the last being to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the week the tour was put on pause due to Covid.
With only 3 days of rehearsal, Ms.
A Candlelight Christmas is a warm and welcoming way to spend a holiday evening, with something for everyone to enjoy.
Under the direction of their superb artistic director and conductor, Tony Award winner Ted Sperling, MasterVoices’ 100+ members presented “A Joyful Noise” as their 80th Season opener.
Although they don’t fill stadiums violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Yuja Wang are classical music’s equivalent of huge pop stars.
The famed Dessoff Choirs, conducted by Malcolm J.
For the first time in almost seven years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG.
The imposing mezzo soprano Stephanie Blythe is known for her roles in Wagner, Verdi and Stravinsky.
The Jacob's Masterworks Series has been the centerpiece of the San Diego Symphony's concert season for many years.
A wonderful way to start the season, 'Reunion' is a great name for this concert!
Rigoletto delves deep into the human psyche to ask questions both through its subject matter and its melding of music and voices
Classical music is supposed to be serious, difficult to understand, intimidating, right? Who are all these people laughing at what the conductor says, ordering bottles of wine, jumping up to applaud, even, gasp, clapping between movements.
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced that registration is now open for audiences to secure a free link to screen its new, original film production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, made at the Lyric Opera House.
