Interestingly, my two favorite concerts, thus far in the 2024-2025 Jacobs Master Works Series at the San Diego Symphony, have been dominated by pieces from the classical period of music. Obviously, ...

Discover the fascinating origins and evolution of classical music, from ancient beginnings to legendary composers like ...

Classical music fans are used to hearing the keyboard music of Mozart and Beethoven performed on massive, seven-octave concert pianos, which were first introduced in the middle of the 19th century.

Orchestral repertory gets no more standard than that offered Friday night by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. But orchestras, like cars, need periodic tuneups, and there's nothing like the Beethoven ...

The multi-talented musician, bandleader, and entertainer Jon Batiste gets so much acclaim as a pop-jazz headliner that his piano talents are sometimes ...

Thursday, June 20, saw the awakening of happy feelings upon arriving at The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival. The concert was held at The Epstein Family Amphitheatre on the campus of UC San Diego. The ...

Deveau and the Borromeo String Quartet perform piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven as chamber music on a new recording. Lloyd Schwartz says the album is "full of feeling and discovery." This is ...

Music has its seasons, and people have their needs. At some point in the autumn of 1979, I became obsessed with a few bars of Mozart. I was thirteen, fundamentally cheerful but convinced I was ...

At the end of January, I attended a “Mozart on Period Instruments” concert at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. It set me to thinking about the new audience that in recent years has been created for ...