The chance to hear a great living composer conducting his own music is rarity enough. But the new work John Adams has brought with him is rarer still: a composition created in the here-and-now that ...

The way we begin a story matters. Think of how a child’s eyes light up when they hear “Once upon a time. …” Can you remember the opening line of your favorite book? My own favorite starter would have ...

Some people feel like they’ve missed out because Mozart and Beethoven lived in a different century. But they’re overlooking the great artists who are in our midst today — composers writing music that ...

The Pacific Symphony’s programming of its classical orchestral series this season has been oddly and stiflingly unadventurous. With the exception of what turned out to be an ill-starred evening of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Scheherazade is the narrator of One Thousand and One Nights who avoids murder by telling page-turning stories that demand a sequel.

Conductor Mei-Ann Chen has a great answer to the question of whether she misses performing violin. No, the Taiwanese-American conductor who earned a performance degree in violin will tell you. “In ...