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!

Top 101 Classical Favorites

The music that captures the spirit of the Golden State. Tune in to the new Ultimate 101! An incredible list of wonderful music chosen by the people who love it…you!

Classical California All-Night

Every night, enjoy blissful classical music to soothe and delight you until the morning comes.

colors

What if I told you that music and colors are more connected than you think? Let’s listen to some colorful pictures!

Shakespeare

The Bard! William Shakespeare. Composers have been setting his stories to music for centuries, creating everything from delicate fairy music to passionate love themes.

Glissando Back-to-School Special

It's back-to-school time! When crisp backpacks and fresh pencils make us all feel like something new is beginning. This school year, Classical California aims to inspire a new generation to fall in love with classical music. So you're invited to the Glissando Back-to-School Special, hosted by Suraj Partha.

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 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 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 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 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 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 and Lara pass the microphone all day, bringing you the classical music and features you love.

Spanish-Classical Fiesta!

Brisa Siegel celebrates classical music composed, performed or conducted by musicians from Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. Classical music con sabor y sazón from our home to yours!

LA Opera On Air

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

Let Freedom Ring: A Musical Celebration of Juneteenth

To commemorate the Juneteenth holiday, join Lara Downes on Thursday, June 19th at 8PM for Let Freedom Ring: a Musical Celebration of Juneteenth.

Glitter and Be Golden: A Classical Celebration of Pride

Maggie Clennon Reberg explores the vast contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to the world of classical music, from early music to the great Romantics to contemporary artists with strong ties to The Golden State.

¡Fiesta Española-Clásica!

Este canal de musica celebra" la música clásica compuesta, interpretada, y dirigida por músicos de América Latina. ¡Música clásica con sabor y sazón, de nuestra casa a la tuya!

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.

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.

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!