A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Ninety years after composer Arnold Schoenberg fled the Nazis and moved to Los Angeles, the publishing company established by his heirs was destroyed in the Palisades fire.

When the German conductor Otto Klemperer came to the city to perform at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he studied with Schoenberg. With finances tight, he took on private students, a great deal of ...

The main pack ranged from 69-year-old Roy Prescott, a radio host in North Conway making his seventh straight appearance at Otto, to new parents Sam and Kate Brakeley, and Emily and Alex Roesler ...