This spring’s classical music calendar includes concerts featuring the instruments that led the way to the future: string quartets (in the 19th century), percussion (in the 20th), and electronic (21st ...

Every now and then, you spot an unexpected name when scanning the classical music offerings in any given season. Nina Totenberg, say. Or Rick Steves. Even Broadway legend Stephen Schwartz seems a bit ...

This spring, keep yourself sane—and even happy—with a healthy dose of classical music. Whether it’s Tchaikovsky in the park, multimedia mashups of works by the likes of Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen, ...

Along the Silk Road with Early Music Guild (April 7): First comes a narrated photographic lecture on the historic sites of the Silk Road, from China through the Middle East, followed by the concert.

San Diego’s classical-music scene is bursting this spring with an array of concerts that span the spectrum — historically informed, contemporary, mythical, women-centered, culturally diverse, ...