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 ...

It's difficult to say what makes a classical music piece transcend its era and attach itself to popular culture. Think about it. What person over the age of 40 can listen to Rossini's overture from ...

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It appears that reports of classical music’s commercial death in Los Angeles have been greatly exaggerated. Radio station KUSC’s latest membership drive has proven there’s still money in it, too. The ...

The last time the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – or any American orchestra, for that matter – ventured into Iran was in 1964, some 15 years before the overthrow of the Shah of Iran plunged the ...

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