Sarah Willis has been a horn player with the Berlin Philharmonic since 2001. She was even surprised when she won the audition! "At the end of the audition when everyone came out and congratulated me, ...

The Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra returned to the unlikely concert venue of the Del Mar Surf Cup Sports Park Saturday evening, a happy occasion. Saturday evening was also the 20th anniversary of ...

In an exciting new event, Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ), in association in the upcoming NZSO Mozart Festival in Wellington, presents Jonathan Crayford's Mozart Mix, a night of improvisation and ...

On Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, composer Alexandre Desplat was asked to bring a sense of vital modernity to a classic tale. When the two-time Oscar winner spoke with Gerwig about the film early on, he ...

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For Mozart devotees, the appeal of his music lies in the proportionate blend of charm, ingenuity and surprise. It’s the proportions that matter, that make Mozart Mozart. Mimicking those proportions ...

The 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth won’t be officially observed until next season, but since there is so much glorious music to be enjoyed, why wait? Music of the Baroque decided to celebrate ...

Quasimodo will be singing and ringing bells this weekend. For something inspired by a Disney movie, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” sure talks a lot of death, damnation and burning people at the stake.

For decades now Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt has been best known for using old instruments and the original notes to make his classical music performances sound as close to the original as ...