From the 17th century's adventuresome Heinrich Biber (whose violin sonata mimics nightingales, hens, and quails) right up through today, composers have been fascinated with our fine-feathered friends, ...

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers plays Birds in warped time II by Somei Satoh. We hear the murmurs of the birds’ wings as they dip and soar. Join Emily Boyer after 9 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5, and on our app.

For decades, Berkeley has been one of the seats of the so-called early music movement -- that loose affiliation of recorder players, madrigal singers, harpsichord builders and historians who have ...

Classical music has a rather staid reputation in some circles, but a look at the worldwide news items from the past year suggests the “longhairs” are just as crazy as everyone else. Once again, it’s ...

Classical music uplifts listeners. It can excite, inspire, surprise and confuse. Attendees at OLLI Orchestra’s free concert, “Melody Takes Flight,” on Sunday, December 4, will probably find the last ...

With the goddess, Iris, careening, in on roller skates and a chorus, grotesquely masked in ancient Greek dramatic fashion "trucking" out to the tune of modern Jazz-blues, the 20th century A.D. and the ...

The supreme music festival of the summer is in full swing. One of the marquee events this week is “Birds in Music,” an evening with the extraordinarily dexterous pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who ...

Our music this evening includes Haydn's "Lark" String Quartet and Vaughan Williams' impression of the poem The Lark Ascending. Tune in at 8 p.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music stream. Tags ...

Classical music returns to Mockingbird Station this month with Summer Classical Music Series, beginning May 16. The series received D Magazine’s last year’s “Best of Big D” award for best summer music ...