This winter’s most creative and compelling classical concerts all benefit from their assiduous embrace of diverse influences, ...
Julia Wolfe’s UnEarth will be on at the Barbican in January - Barbican As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well as a pleasure. So far this year we’ve enjoyed a Proms season for ...
But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.
Certain pieces of classical music have legions of fans far beyond the concert hall. Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” has been in many movies, from “Apocalypse Now” to “The Blues Brothers.” If ...
Twenty years ago, when the Rancho Mirage Library was about to open, Joan RuBane was approached about starting a chamber music concert series for the community. The man who approached her, the late ...
The new year’s highlights include the premiere of Anthony Davis’ children’s opera, soprano Susan Narucki, a Bach choral mass ...
For classical music lovers, August — not dreary February — can feel like the longest month of the year. It’s midway between the end of the 2023-24 performing season and the beginning of the next one.
Cannons, fireworks, trumpets, and drums – with the whole orchestra to play with, classical music is the perfect accompaniment ...
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few years about the need to connect younger audiences with classical music, while also promoting emerging talent. HCL Concerts has been working in this ...