SoCal Sunday Night

Each Sunday Night, we bring you concert broadcasts recorded live from venues across Southern California. Look forward to outstanding performances from the LA Phil, Pacific Symphony, LACO, Thornton School of Music, and more! Scroll down to listen to any on demand performances that are available!

Friendship and Harmony: Celebrating Asian and Pacific Americans in Classical Music

For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we celebrate the AAPI musicians and composers who have made an impact on classical music. Featuring music performed by Yuja Wang, Ray Chen, and the Silkroad Ensemble— and music composed by Susie Ibarra (recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and Reena Esmail.  

Unique blend of music to help you reset and relax

No matter when you need it, Robin Pressman is here with a unique blend of music to help you reset and relax.

Water Music

Let’s go dip our toes into music inspired by water.

Around the World

It doesn’t matter where in the world you’re from, music is something that helps humans express themselves. Let's travel to a few different countries and hear how people express themselves through music.

Mozart Corner

When you think “classical music,” the sound in your head… that’s probably Mozart. The boy wonder was a bit of a rascal, but... the music rocks!

The Piano

The sounds of an entire orchestra in just two hands... High and sparkling on top, low and bossy on the bottom.

Arcade Live!

Classical California and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music join forces to bring the electrifying world of video game soundtracks to life with "Arcade Live from Studio G". Jennifer Miller Hammel and composer Steven Horowitz (who leads SFCM's Technical Applied Composition, TAC, program) co-host a program that combines classical music and music for the game space. Hear old favorites differently and enjoy new discoveries with this concert recorded live at SFCM's pioneering Studio G.

Classical California Fridays

Celebrate every Friday, by joining all Classical California hosts from both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tune in all day as Jennifer, Maggie, Alan, Dianne, Brian, Robin, and Lara pass the microphone all day, bringing you the classical music and features you love.

Classical California Fridays

Celebrate every Friday, by joining all Classical California hosts from both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tune in all day as Jennifer, Maggie, Alan, Dianne, Brian, Robin, and Lara pass the microphone all day, bringing you the classical music and features you love.

Classical California Fridays

Celebrate every Friday, by joining all Classical California hosts from both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tune in all day as Jennifer, Maggie, Alan, Dianne, Brian, Robin, and Lara pass the microphone all day, bringing you the classical music and features you love.

Classical California Fridays

Celebrate every Friday, by joining all Classical California hosts from both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tune in all day as Jennifer, Maggie, Alan, Dianne, Brian, Robin, and Lara pass the microphone all day, bringing you the classical music and features you love.

Classical California Fridays

Celebrate every Friday, by joining all Classical California hosts from both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tune in all day as Jennifer, Maggie, Alan, Dianne, Brian, Robin, and Lara pass the microphone all day, bringing you the classical music and features you love.

Classical California Fridays

Celebrate every Friday, by joining all Classical California hosts from both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tune in all day as Jennifer, Maggie, Alan, Dianne, Brian, Robin, and Lara pass the microphone all day, bringing you the classical music and features you love.

Glissando Celebrates Spring and International Women's Day

Glissando is our stream for young people and families—a listening experience where your imagination runs wild. You'll hear the birds chirping and smell the flowers blooming. Plus, we’ll spotlight the women who have shaped classical music.

Dance Dance Dance!

Did you know your heartbeat changes when you dance? Your brain releases happy chemicals, your lungs work harder, and time seems to disappear. Your heartbeat might even rise to match the beat. That's the power of dance music—it literally transforms your body and mind!

Women in Classical Music

Women have shaped and changed music for centuries, making all kinds of breakthroughs that bring us to the music we have today.

Classical Americana

From jazz to bluegrass, from gospel to rock and roll - America has created so many kinds of music. Today we're taking a musical road trip across the country, starting with one of the most important American songs ever written.

The Violin

Whether a particular violin is worth a fortune or not, its true value isn't in its price tag—it's in the way the violin whispers, soars, and tell stories that stir our souls.

Spring

Spring is such a magical season—a time when nature puts on its most spectacular show.

Spring

Spring is such a magical season—a time when nature puts on its most spectacular show.

The Symphony

A symphony is like an enormous musical mural that wraps all the way around you. Each instrument plays its own colors and patterns until they all create something magnificent together.

Classical California Sing-Along Special

Celebrate a new Christmas tradition: The Classical California Sing-Along Special. Join with listeners across California and beyond as Jennifer Miller Hammel leads you through favorite carols and selections from Handel’s Messiah. Tune in to Classical California on Sat, Dec 21 st, from 3-5 PM, and check our website for the sheet music.

Classical Americana

What’s the defining sound of American classical music? What people, stories, sights and sounds throughout American history built our unique classical tradition, and where does it go from here? On Classical Americana, iconoclastic pianist Lara Downes drives you down the highways and byways of American music, with roadside discoveries and detours to the crossroads where musical traditions merge and transform. Tune in each Saturday 5PM-6PM.

The Holidays

A tribute to that special time of year.

The Holidays

A tribute to that special time of year.

Winter

Let's take a music trip through the magic that is winter!

Winter

Let's take a music trip through the magic that is winter!

The Lullaby

Some famous - and surprising - examples of music to make you sleepy.

The Celesta

Let's dig into some seriously mysterious music.

The Metropolitan Opera Broadcast

Featuring full-length productions of the latest the Met has to offer, each Saturday morning from December through May.

Celebrating Christmas throughout the Americas

Holiday music from Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world, celebrating the rich traditions and vibrant sounds of the season.

In the Halls of Thornton

Host Suraj Partha takes you to the USC Thornton School of Music for a concert series called In the Halls of Thornton! Feel the excitement and hear the music crowding the halls of this dynamic music school – from compositions by star faculty to performances by rising stars.

Spooky Surprise

For the week of Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos, Glissando has a couple of "Spooky Surprises" for you! At the top of each 20-minute segment of Glissando, get ready for ghosts, ghouls, and jump-scares.

2024 Top 250 Classical Favorites

The music that captures the spirit of the Golden State. Tune in to the new 2024 Classical California Ultimate Playlist. An incredible list of wonderful music chosen by the people who love it…you!

Choral Music

What’s the oldest instrument?... Well, it’s the one nearly all of us are born with. The voice!

Fall

It’s getting a bit cooler, the leaves of the trees are changing, people are back to school…

Back to School

We're zooming into one of the most fun parts of school: the arts classes. Visual art, theater, music, and dance!

Back To School

It’s getting a bit cooler, the leaves of the trees are changing, people are back to school…

Emotions

Music helps us express our emotions, share our deepest secrets, feel the lows and highs of life. Sometimes at the same time, even.

America's musical voices: Past to present

Lara Downes presents a non-stop stream of familiar favorites and discoveries celebrating America's classical music canon.

Love Songs

Love is awkward and wonderful, and everyone does crazy things because of it!

A Special Broadcast: "Credo"featuring the LA Master Chorale and Lara Downes

Classical California brings you into Walt Disney Concert Hall for an inspiring concert from the LA Master Chorale, hosted by Solomon Reynolds.

LA Opera On Air

KUSC’s resident opera expert Jennifer Miller Hammel takes you through some of the LA Opera’s most exciting productions.

Magical Music

Spellbinding music that features wizards, witches, sorcerers, and enchanting spells!

The Harp

It's dreamy, it's otherworldy—and you hear it every 20 minutes at the beginning of every Glissando segment!

The French Horn

The French Horn is the gentle giant of the orchestra… a musical shapeshifter morphing into so many different characters and moods.

Jazzy Classical

The first music style born right here in America—jazz—meets classical music!

Fantasyland

Myth and legends, fairy tales and fables. What secrets can we uncover in this land of endless possibility?

The Summer Olympics

Let's go for gold!