Handel composed Alexander’s Feast (HWV 75) in 1736, setting a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton, in turn, adapted his ...

Lara Downes wears many hats. She’s a pianist, an educator, a recording artist, an advocate for American music and for new and ...

On his latest album, Quiet Hours, composer-pianist Ellis Ludwig-Leone has sought to restore these things to recorded music.

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 ...

The Holy Liftoff is not so much a fixed work as a loosely strung series of short, continuously played compositions that are meant to be open-ended. The flutist and entrepreneur Claire Chase has made ...

For the 68th year, the public performances of the Merola Opera Program offer an overabundance of delightful discoveries. The Saturday performance of Merola’s Schwabacher Summer Concert at the San ...

The San Francisco Symphony’s new music director, Elim Chan, hasn’t taken the podium yet, but the electricity surrounding her appointment already ignited Davies Symphony Hall. The energy from the ...

In the summer of 1980, on his first visit to the United States, British-born record collector Bob Bell realized his obsession had taken an unreasonable turn as he loaded his guilty acquisitions onto a ...

Talk about a Cinderella story! In the fall of 2016, Ryan Speedo Green, then a 30-year-old bass-baritone who was raised in a trailer park in Suffolk, Virginia, woke up to find the account of his ...

The Colburn School’s new building in downtown Los Angeles won’t just serve the conservatory’s music and dance students. The campus expansion — first announced in 2018 and taking a big step forward ...

Blessed with a voice as warm, supple and velvety as the greatest singers in jazz, Samara Joy doesn’t need to worry about pandering to an audience. Since her 2019 triumph at the Sarah Vaughan ...

What’s Basque is known to most of us as food, deployed family-style in multiple generous servings at numerous restaurants in California, Nevada, and other areas of the Basque diaspora. Now the Basque ...