THIS, as the admen might tell you, is a chamber-music year. The Lener Quartet arrives from Hungary and gets as much attention as a new dramatic soprano at the Metropolitan. More, I should add, because ...

Koutaiba Al Rahmoon tap-dances across the stage in cut-off trousers and a kitsch Christmas jumper. The Syrian drama student had never performed before coming to Europe. Four years later, he’s ...

For the past 35 years of attending classical music concerts in Vacaville and the greater Bay Area, I’ve heard a lot of music, particularly German Romantic-era music from the early to late 19th century ...