While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

It's difficult to say what makes a classical music piece transcend its era and attach itself to popular culture. Think about it. What person over the age of 40 can listen to Rossini's overture from ...

Formed in 1960 by keyboard player Mike O'Neil, who assumed the role of Nero, the band scored minor hits with rocked-up ...

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It appears that reports of classical music’s commercial death in Los Angeles have been greatly exaggerated. Radio station KUSC’s latest membership drive has proven there’s still money in it, too. The ...

Now that the holiday concerts are behind us, the classical season returns in full in February — and none too soon. Our classical music expert, Gregory Sullivan Isaacs, offers these notes on what to ...

An evening of Arnold Schoenberg and DmitriShostakovich may not be the merriest way to start off the weekend, but audience members seemed more than pleased as they filed out of Distler Hall last Friday ...

NEW YORK--Contrived by a master of the double negative, Stephen Sondheim’s saucy satires of what we aren’t often end up celebrating what we are. So, there’s a certain Sondheimian logic that “Pacific ...

Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures” is one of the master songwriter’s most rarely performed works. The show begins in 1853 and tells the tale of how an isolationist Japan was westernized when ...