Let’s start at the beginning. Or, at least, what used to be the beginning. As someone who has been attending orchestral concerts for a very long time, I’ve noticed that over the decades we have ...

East West Players has a long history with “Pacific Overtures,” Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1976 musical about the opening of Japan to international trade by American warships in 1853 and the ...

While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

Gedde Watanabe plays the Shogun’s Mother and Jon Jon Briones plays The Reciter in East West Players’ production of Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures.” East West Players will present “Pacific Overtures,” ...

Zinman’s Beethoven symphonies won awards, and this set of the overtures has similar features – lithe, energetic conducting, lean, incisively direct interpretations. Leonore No. 3 is particularly ...