Looking to escape? Here are two recent trips local readers took to Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. Check them out, then find more reader travel ...

Wausau native Gloria Coates, a prolific classical music composer who wrote unorthodox and dynamic symphonies, died Aug. 19 in Munich, Germany. She was 89. She was diagnosed with an inoperable form of ...

For the past 35 years of attending classical music concerts in Vacaville and the greater Bay Area, I’ve heard a lot of music, particularly German Romantic-era music from the early to late 19th century ...