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 ...

This year’s premiere, on July 7, was the Italian composer Francesco Filidei’s Accabadora , based on the late Michela Murgia’s prize-winning novel of the same name. Set in Sardinia at a time when ...

Her music is unapologetically tonal, but the reason for that is simple. Deutscher has said she writes the music she wants to hear. The composer relates that when she was very small, her parents made a ...

Given the massive reduction of support for the arts by the federal government — impacting the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, public broadcasting, and much ...

Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan, 39, will be the 13th music director in the San Francisco Symphony’s 115-year history when she begins an initial six-year term in the 2027–28 season. The position ...

In yet another change of its top-level leadership, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has named Latvian violinist Vineta Sareika as its new concertmaster. A former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, ...

Andrés Segovia performs at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1962 Andrés Segovia (1893–1987) was the most influential classical guitarist of the 20th century and remains important to music lovers of ...

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 ...

Out of both necessity and inclination, Mark Lewis has built and sustained a career in jazz by swimming against the current. An intensely lyrical alto saxophonist with a light, silvery tone and an ...