Hello, this is Times music critic Mark Swed. After spending some quiet moments over the Memorial Day weekend perusing Apple Music Classical, I’m filling in for the Essential Arts’ essential Carolina A ...

If you were asked to name the commanding, larger-than-life characters in the classical music world, it’s unlikely that an ...

Little by little, year after year, from one season to the next, there have been some subtle yet certain shifts in programming among local classical music organizations — in both good and not-so-good ...

Come autumn, the forces of classical music programming emerge with full force in Santa Barbara after the traditional summer lull and simmer (with the exception of the summer festival from Music ...

Happy New Year, Essential Arts readers! 2025 is already shaping up to be a feast of a year in terms of arts and culture in Southern California, and we here at The Times are ready to eat up. Here are ...

Top Sarasota arts events the week of May 31-June 6 include classical music and fringe festivals.

As Australians vote for the greatest classical music of all time, we look at who is listening, how classical music is ...

Some of this fall’s most recommended classical music shows feature music inspired by stories and voices lost to or neglected by history – including, but not limited to, women. Fortunately, the genre ...

There’s more Mozart on tap around town this spring than even the most devoted Mozartian could catch. The same, more or less, goes for fans of Mendelssohn and Verdi. Puccini, too. Yet none of those ...

San Diego’s classical-music scene is bursting this spring with an array of concerts that span the spectrum — historically informed, contemporary, mythical, women-centered, culturally diverse, ...

Some were shocked when the LA Metro police piloted a program of broadcasting loud classical music to disperse unhoused people. But it’s only the latest attempt in a sad, Kafkaesque history of ...

For many listeners, classical music conjures up images of old men in powdered wigs, ballerinas in swan-like tutus, perhaps even a season or two of Bridgerton. The origins of classical music are rooted ...