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 hard to listen to these zesty, robust performances of Mozart's overtures without feeling a keen desire to plunge right in to the operas they're meant to introduce - which is both the blessing and ...

Scipione Sangiovanni is competing at the Cliburn competition later this month Our classical music contributor Gregory Sullivan Isaacs updates us on what’s coming this month in choral and orchestral ...

The giant chandeliers were lit and the stage was set for the Spanish pianist to weave his musical magic on his Nepali audience, who had gathered to hear him play on this November 21 evening. And ...

The Florida Orchestra brings out the big guns with Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, best known for the 16 cannon shots symbolizing Russia's defense against Napoleon. "It's just a sensational piece of ...

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 ...

The movie overture—music set against a blank screen or still images before the drama unfolds—all but disappeared from film sometime in the 1970s. Once a Hollywood mainstay, overtures evolved naturally ...

The courtyard of Yala Maya Kendra was filled with the sweet music of tabla and jaltarang as more and more audience filtered in for the Yala Maya Classic on September 19, a classical music series that ...

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 ...

Gregory Sullivan Isaacs and I have prepared this rundown of the upcoming month in classical music news. The biggest news in local classical music is, of course, international news: The death this week ...