Familiar components bring some reassurance. The usually unsung hero of the Savoy spirit is music director and lone pianist Richard Baker: sprightly, rhythmically intense, supremely elegant with ...

Known as “The Waltz King,” Strauss wrote many of the world’s most famous waltzes (“The Blue Danube,” “The Emperor”), as well as the operetta “Die Fledermaus” (The bat). Peter Kemp, The Strauss Family: ...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold famously wrote music for films and, in a sense, the 20th century was his largest score. The Austrian Jewish composer lived and worked through times of profound upheaval: two ...