You know the sound. You hear it, perhaps hundreds of times, every April. But you probably don’t know how and when it came to be.

Adams’ move to L.A. was about returning to the West Coast and finding stability after bumpy stops in Las Vegas and New York.

On a recent morning at the Wortham Theater Center, home of Houston Grand Opera, the orchestra was playing through the intense score of Missy Mazzoli’s 2016 opera “Breaking the Waves.” Led by the conductor Patrick Summers, the players fine-tuned eerie …

Among the most successful music producers in the 1970s and ’80s, he helped churn out hits for acts like Queen, the Cars, Journey and Foreigner.

Her career at Israel’s national intelligence agency included working undercover before serving as deputy under three directors.

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, who clashed bitterly with traditionalists in his push for a more inclusive Roman Catholic Church, and who spoke out tirelessly for migrants …