With The Sound of Utopia, Michael Krielaars offers a chattily accessible survey of the musicians who lived beholden to the KGB’s whims ...

As always, great concerts have outnumbered great opera productions over a year, and all of our national orchestras can be proud of their record. I’ve sometimes started by celebrating youth, and it’s ...

Hailed as one of this era’s most adventurous interpreters of the classical organ repertoire, leading female organist Gail ...

Happy New Year to all. I truly wish everyone many blessings throughout the year. Good food, good friends, and always feeling the presence of God in your life.

You'll have to wait until April 2025 to find available seats, especially for the organ recital on Tuesday, April 1. Other ...

There was a lot of music released in 2024 in every genre imaginable. The Free Press music reviewers listened to hundreds of ...

Jorg Widmann, composer in the Ojai Music Festival (German composer worth seeking out) Tedeschi and Trucks, Santa Barbara Bowl ...

One-time KCSB programmer Brown, long based in Long Island, brings us a Saturday afternoon feast of sonic adventurism, ranging ...

(GG) Photo: Chris Lee. 5. Yuja Wang playing music of Messiaen, Debussy, Scriabin, and Chopin. As always, Yuja Wang did this ...

Olivier Messiaen’s ‘La Nativité du Seigneur’ (1936). Despite being clearly different, each version has essentially the same harmony and rhythm, while the timbre changes. The timbre can ...

Scene…Christmas with Martha Stewart took place at the Bedford Post Inn Dec. 6, the Bedford Post Inn in Bedford, N.Y. Stewart hosted an intimate tree lighting ...

Osborne’s playing throughout was mesmerising, a real master of the keyboard. His ability to draw a range of timbres and tones with such a wide range of dynamics was exceptional. In voicing the complex ...