From chamber music to movie scores, many high-brow composers could do it all. Chesapeake Music’s Sunday matinee “Interlude” ...

Mason Williams was in his late 20s when he wrote the instrumental hit “Classical Gas.” He was working for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the time, where he wrote some 74 shows. Later, he also ...

It was a warm Sunday afternoon in 1975 when I parked my green clunker on a side street off Mercer, across from Seattle Center. Somehow I’d learned that the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, conducted by ...

But that's not the only arthouse film starring the actor that's headed to theaters this fall. Hoffman also stars with in the classical music drama "A Late Quartet," which also features independent ...

I loved director Kenneth Lonergan's lyrical and poignant "Manchester by the Sea" — for its acting, its screenplay (it won Oscars for both) and, less obviously, its score. The director uses classical ...

I know it’s hard to believe, but the classical music world’s been getting real interesting. Over the last year a British pianist named Joyce Hatto (who passed away in June) has developed something of ...

It's a special week for movie buffs. The swanky and influential Cannes film festival is under way in the South of France. And tomorrow marks a crucial day for fans of Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Luke ...