In January, I saw an unforgettably strange concert at the small NYC theater Le Poisson Rouge. Andrew W.K.-- party-rock force of nature and living animated .gif of a David Lee Roth jump-kick-- shared ...

Nicholas Méhul (1763-1817) is an intriguing transitional figure in French music, with a career that historically spanned the final years of the reign of Louis XVI and the heyday of Napoleon, and ...

The giant chandeliers were lit and the stage was set for the Spanish pianist to weave his musical magic on his Nepali audience, who had gathered to hear him play on this November 21 evening. And ...

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 ...

The movie overture—music set against a blank screen or still images before the drama unfolds—all but disappeared from film sometime in the 1970s. Once a Hollywood mainstay, overtures evolved naturally ...

The maestros and aficionados of classical music in the Valley found a common place to be on the cool evening of May 16 — the inner courtyard of Yala Maya Kendra. The first anniversary celebrations of ...

You're not too likely to encounter the music of Auber in today's opera houses and concert halls. Well, not in this country, although a few months back Belgium's Royal Wallonie Opera resuscitated his ...

The reasons why Pacific Overtures is not Stephen Sondheim’s most frequently performed musical may also explain why it is one of his best! The subject matter does not involve a central love story that ...

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 ...