Twenty years ago, when the Rancho Mirage Library was about to open, Joan RuBane was approached about starting a chamber music concert series for the community. The man who approached her, the late ...

I’m almost embarrassed to broach a subject like classical music in such a hip-hop saturated society. At the gym, in dining facilities, offices, and pouring out of the windows of passing cars, the ...

Not long ago, going to a classical music concert in Portland almost certainly meant spending a couple hours in the musical company of long dead European composers. Not anymore! Over the past decade, ...

While diversity may be verboten in some current political circles, it’s a definite boon in the arts, and especially in music, which has always advanced through the creative combination of diverse ...