Happy 90th birthday, Leontyne Price

“Dove sono” from “The Marriage of Figaro.”

Video: John Williams: ‘Soundings’

Happy 85th birthday to John Williams. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Video: Yuja Wang plays Bizet/Horowitz ‘Carmen Variations’

Audio: Berlioz: Overture to ‘Benvenuto Cellini’

Colin Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Happy birthday, Philip Glass

Mr. Glass is 80 today. I had the privilege of interviewing him once, and he was just great, friendly, humorous and engaging. Here’s one of my favorite pieces by him.

Review: San Diego Symphony, James Gaffigan, American music festival

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Review: At San Diego SO, An American Fest and Maestro Hunt. Classical Voice North America, Jan. 30, 2017.

Audio: a Paul Bowles field recording, Tangier, 1959

When a perfectly good field recording — early morning calls to prayer, Tangier, 1959 — meets a movable found object. Bowles kept it anyway.

Review: PKF-Prague Philharmonia, Emmanuel Villaume and Sarah Chang

Review: PKF-Prague Philharmonia delivers Dvorak, played with precision. Los Angeles Times, Jan. 27, 2017.

Review: Kronos Quartet looks to the future

Review: The Kronos Quartet. Beyond the Curtain, January, 2017.

photo: Jay Blakesberg

Audio: Debussy: ‘Nuages’

From ‘Nocturnes’. Ernest Ansermet conducts L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.