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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera became the longest-running show in Broadway history Monday, breaking the uber-composer's own record that he set with Cats.

British rockers Nic Armstrong and the Thieves bring energy and passion to their quest of revitalizing garage rock. Their debut album The Greatest White Liar is sure to stir up memories of British invasion bands like the Stones, Beatles, and the Kinks.

Swedish pop star Jens Lekman sounds more like Lawrence Welk and Burt Bacharach than his American counterparts Kanye West and Ashlee Simpson. His deep, silky voice and instrumentation lends his music a retro pop feel, but the lyrics are too odd to be throwbacks.

With lush, mournful songs, Antony and the Johnsons have grown from cabaret act to Carnegie Hall. Singer-songwriter Antony channels artists such as Boy George and Nina Simone, earning an enthusiastic critical and popular response.

Many songs heard at Christmastime are so well known, they merely become background noise. To counteract that trend, Christmas at the World Cafe presents soulful roots music inspired by the holiday.

A manuscript in Ludwig van Beethoven's own hand was discovered in a Philadelphia seminary in July. It is expected to fetch $1.7 to $2.6 million at auction next month.

Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has released an anthology of her favorite recordings, a three-CD set called Duchess of Coolsville. David Was shares his thoughts on Jones' no-compromises approach.

Renowned Mozart scholar Neal Zaslaw explores the composer's early years. And we hear performances of three Mozart symphonies: Symphony No. 11, Symphony No. 35 and the closing movement from the Symphony, K. 96.

Filipino pianist Cecile Licad has a nightclub voice and sultry looks, but when she plays Rachmaninoff, she may as well be a native-born Russian. She talks about her career and performs on stage at the La Jolla SummerFest.

Performance Today host Fred Child has been on the road for most of August. We meet up with him in La Jolla for a SummerFest performance of the Brahms Horn Trio, Op. 40 and chat with the musicians, hornist Jennifer Montone, violinist Kyoko Takezawa and pianist Cecile Licad.