Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What follows are some of my favorite musical memories from the past year. But if I can inspire you to remember just one thing from ...

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...

Young musicians with a mission remind us of the true power of music. National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Colburn Orchestra lead the way, with help from ...

With Christmas over and New Year's just ahead, let’s look back at the year that was 2024 for classical music in San Diego. Superstar pianist Lang Lang performed at the Rady Shell in April and the ...

200 years after it was first known to have been performed in 1784, in 1984 the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) recorded Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major (K. 361) — also known as the ...

Classical music has been on the front lines in a year marked by division and distraction, protest and intolerance, war and suffering. A pro-Palestinian UCLA student encampment fell under violent ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to selections from recordings of a new John Adams opera, Chopin études by Yunchan Lim, Brahms works by Igor Levit and more. Los Angeles ...

The album Revolución Diamantina, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is devoted to the music of Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz. The year 2024 was an emotional roller coaster ...

Between his 4th and 5th symphonies, Tchaikovsky composed his unnumbered "Manfred Symphony" in 1885. The Symphony was inspired by the 1817 Lord Byron dramatic poem "Manfred" in which the title ...

As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of the year has a lot more to do with lasting impressions than definitive rankings. This was a year of big tours and bold ...