A set of three encores, each from a recent concert: First, I Musici de Montreal plays a Minuet by Luigi Boccherini in concert at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, in Michigan. Then we head to a ...

The Ladykillers: Comedy. Starring Tom Hanks and Irma P. Hall. Written and directed by the Coen Brothers. (R. 105 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) To look at the people in "The Ladykillers" -- ...

This week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini. Boccherini’s extensive output is now largely forgotten, but one work in particular, the Minuet from his fifth String Quartet ...

Who knows Boccherini’s name today for any reason other than his celebrated Minuet, used in films and television possibly more than any other piece as a shorthand way of conveying 18th-century elegance ...

Born in the same town as Puccini, Luigi Boccherini’s future lay a very long way from Europe’s major musical centres, in the isolated Gredos Mountains in Central Spain. Martin Buzacott looks at some ...

Join Scott Yoo and musicians on a night tour of Madrid to uncover Boccherini’s deep love for the city and learn how his iconic "Night Music of the Streets of Madrid" was inspired by his time in Spain, ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Luigi Boccherini, a composer who spent the majority of his life working in Spain ...

Are you familiar with the great composer Luigi Boccherini? Learn more about his life composing, with the cello, and his life in Spain! 1. At age 13, Boccherini studied the cello in Rome with renowned ...