She said that the orchestra leaned to the more familiar classics and favored "big works" that used most or all of the musicians.

In "Giszelle," a French choreographer takes a new look at a host of cultural icons including that familiar 19th-century classic, "Giselle."

From the start, familiar classics provided the bulk of the programming.

Voices Raised in Song From pop tunes to sacred chants to familiar classics, choral music holds sway this week.

The frizzy-haired, bespectacled Mr Jacobs brings dramatic immediacy even to familiar classics.

Our 50-year commitment to new, experimental and perhaps controversial music, along with the familiar classics, would be unthinkable for even the best-intentioned commercial station.

So Hermes, for a moment, left its familiar classics behind and introduced some evening dresses with puffed asymmetrical skirts and trains.

Talented young dancers gave commendable accounts of excerpts from two familiar classics.

Now that the radio station emphasizes familiar classics, the monthly magazine has tried to maintain its own more venturesome path.

Though decidedly preppy (like Colonial revival Rye), these familiar classics are easy to like.