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Happy New Year, Essential Arts readers! 2025 is already shaping up to be a feast of a year in terms of arts and culture in Southern California, and we here at The Times are ready to eat up. Here are ...

The Drone Art show, which takes place Friday and Saturday night at the Huntington Beach Sports Complex, features live classical musicians, thousands of candles and 500 drones.

South Bend Symphony Orchestra Music Director Alastair Willis has conducted a vast variety of concert programs with orchestras all over the world, but, he says, he has never previously taken part in a ...

Mainstream audio and video streaming services don’t offer much for classical music lovers. Fortunately, we've rounded up the best platforms dedicated to the chamber, opera, and orchestral art forms ...

Seven artists who are expanding the possibilities of one of the most traditional forms of art-making—and reshaping the way we ...

Michael Kurek is an classical music composer and professor at Vanderbilt University. Born in 1955, Professor Kurek earned his doctorate in composition from the University of Michigan and is a past ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...