Hisaishi will serve as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence for the Bowl and The Ford for five years ...

Leif Ove Andsnes is always interested in exploring what he calls “the fringe repertoire” of classical music. Earlier this ...

The mood was electric when Joe Hisaishi took the stage at Davies Symphony Hall last weekend. Seeing the house packed full of ...

Elim Chan \. Recent upheavals at the Los Angeles Philharmonic are still reverberating in Walt Disney Concert Hall this month.

Approaching its 60th anniversary, Pacific Chorale has built its now international reputation through adventurous programming ...

Frank Stewart. There are welcome reunions, like Marcus Roberts collaborating with the New Century Chamber Orchestra on ...

The tulle skirts associated with Romantic-era ballet were introduced in “The Ballet of the Nuns” in Act III of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le diable, which premiered at the Paris Opèra in 1831. Marie ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude in C Minor packs a speedy punch with its rich, complex, repetitive layers. That piece is not unlike the work of the Bay Area’s John Adams, one of the most influential ...

Who sang the title role in San Francisco Opera’s 1973 production of Carmen? When was Hector Berlioz’s Les Troyens first performed at the War Memorial Opera House? Which SF Opera productions were ...

Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989) was at once one of the most poetic and one of the showiest pianists of the 20th century. His superhuman finger speed, his bombastic fortissimos, and his (not occasional) ...

San Diego’s Jacobs Music Center — formerly known as Copley Symphony Hall — is at last open for business following a $125 million renovation. There were many delays, with the scheduled reopening ...

It’s merely a coincidence that Symphony San Jose’s silver anniversary aligns with the country’s 250 th birthday, but the orchestra fittingly celebrated both in its season opener with a sterling ...