Music

Single tickets for Cal Poly Arts 2025-26 are now available for purchase. More than three dozen productions from around the world come to San Luis Obispo as part of the…

The PAC was nearly packed for the final program in this year’s Festival Mozaic, and Music Director Scott Yoo and the talented musicians of the Festival Mozaic Orchestra delivered a…

It was a mild but wild 12 days of barn dances, watermelon eating contests, and overpriced product demos at the annual “biggest little fair anywhere.” And of course more live…

Mendelssohn, Thuille, Bridge, Moore   The last of this summer’s Festival Mozaic chamber concerts on Friday, July 25, was again performed in the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts…

Since its beginning, Festival Mozaic (best known for its chamber music) has featured an eclectic mix of excellent performers in a variety of genres. And this summer’s season is no…

Today on CMCR (Classical Music Concert Reviews), we’ll take a look at chamber music renovations throughout the centuries—four of them to be exact. To keep the performance times under a…

Canzona Women's Ensemble will hold auditions for its upcoming fall concert, “Heart Strings: Ties That Bind,” on August 14 in San Luis Obispo and on August 16 in Shell Beach.…

Mark Pietri and Michael Kaplan (photos courtesy Michael Kaplan).   “No sets, no costumes, just four stools.” Central Coast resident Michael Kaplan is describing his most recent work for the…

If there is such a thing as perfection in the arts, or anything else for that matter, the superb string-player squadron on hand for the opening chamber concert of this…

Photo by Luis Escobar   Nick and Nigel Bottom aim to pen the world's first musical and just maybe outshine the Renaissance rockstar known as the Bard. But along the…