Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Peter Schickele is the comic genius behind the works of composer P.D.Q. Bach -- the fictional, long-forgotten, “last and least” of Johann Sebastian Bach’s numerous offspring. He’s also a versatile, ...

Cello virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein will never forget her very first instrument. The brand name was Kellogg. Growing up in a family of chamber musicians (father Don is a violinist; mother Vivian is a ...

Their bow tips rise and fall over their nine violins with the discipline of smoothly moving piston rods. Be neath the ping of a pizzicato the big-bellied strings—three violas, three cellos and a ...

The cello, ah-boy. It looks like a fiddle with a Bowflex. The cello is as brown as a honey ham, and its sound is as sweet as caramel, melted, heavy. The instrument's reputation comes from centuries of ...

Hip-hop great Nas celebrated the groundbreaking debut “Illmatic” in concert with the Berkeley Symphony at the Bill Graham ...

A warm light brightened Winthrop’s Junior Common Room on Sunday, March 9. Tiny flames came from dozens of candles that playfully set the scene for the Crimson Cellos’ Concert in Candlelight — a night ...