6 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2026

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Chloe Flower fuses classical and contemporary music in a style coined 'popsical'

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by ...
Chicago Tribune

Mashing up classical and pop with ‘Beethoven X Beyoncé’ at Harris Theater

Composer, conductor and producer Steve Hackman is breaking down barriers between the classical and pop music worlds, one orchestral reimagination at a time. And for the first time, the Chicago-area ...
The Village Voice

The Long-Neglected Passageway Between Classical Music, Theater, and Pop Reopens

The vast gulf we now perceive between classical and popular music didn’t exist a century or even half a century ago. Music was music. Then as now, a vastly larger audience preferred the popular kind — ...
Los Angeles Times

Our critics’ 29 most anticipated L.A. arts, theater, classical music, pop and comedy shows

Broadway shows, world-class art and concerts that crisscross the musical spectrum descend on L.A. this spring. Whatever your jam, be it painting, photography or sculpture, Beyoncé, Boulez or AC/DC, ...