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The title of a Music@Menlo program, “French Connections,” raises the question: May Bach be held a father of French music as he is of trios and of preludes and fugues?

Travel in time and space, nature vs. civilization, and forms of energy generation mark the provocative works featured on Cabrillo Festival’s Saturday program.

The Cabrillo Festival soldiers on under substitute conductor Carolyn Kuan, impressing with three new or newish works.

San Francisco’s prize-winning Lamplighters put on an impressive and charming Iolanthe, with classic G&S look and style.

Opera-stars-in-the-making strut their stuff in a delightfully attractive and well-blended Marriage of Figaro.

The Lamplighters' new, live recording of Princess Ida preserves the original animation and energy of the production, enhancing memories of seeing the performance in person.

Ever since the music industry emerged as a mass commercial enterprise, musicians have waded between that "popular" music and classical (mostly uncommercial) music. In today’s mix, we sample music by musicians who have been at the top of the music industry but have refused to be defined by it.

Steve Sage’s “roots music” class at Diablo Valley College is highly popular, and the whole group takes to the stage at the end of August.