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 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...