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 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 ...

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 ...