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When I turn on my car radio in the last decades of my life, I tune it first to classical music. How and why did this come to be? I play no instruments and my ear and voice are not musically trained.

Director Todd Field has gone through great pains, including on a podcast for The Times, to explain his great effort to get the world of classical music right in “Tár.” A wealth of knowing chatter, ...

What good does classical music do us in the modern world? At the Utah Opera’s 40th Anniversary gala with Renee Fleming last week, materials in the program and a video about the Opera’s visits to ...

In Washington, politicians are yelling at each other. On cable TV, talking heads spew venom. On talk radio – well, you get the idea. But in our current troubled times, and in periods far worse than ...

Subramanian is a technology executive and classic music teacher. She lives in Carmel Valley. One of my earliest childhood memories is of listening to and learning the South Indian classical music ...

Director Todd Field has gone through great pains, including on a podcast for the Los Angeles Times, to explain his great effort to get the world of classical music right in “Tár.” A wealth of knowing ...