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The Sunday Conversation: Pianist Mona Golabek holds on to the music
L.A. concert pianist and radio show host Mona Golabek makes her theatrical debut at the Geffen Playhouse in "The Pianist of Willesden Lane,"...
Memorial Day 2012: Five things to do this weekend
Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer and a three-day reprieve in a long list of five-day (or more) workweeks. Here, we round up...
Glenn Dicterow leaving New York Philharmonic, joining USC faculty
Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for more than 30 years, will be leaving the venerated orchestra and joining the...
New West Symphony names Marcelo Lehninger as new music director
Marcelo Lehninger, the young Brazilian German maestro who serves as an assistant conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has been named...
Music review: Southwest Chamber Music enjoys Eastern flair
Southwest Chamber Music's L.A. International New Music Festival is more a Los Angeles interstitial new music festival. Skirting touristy...
Drummer-composer Matt Chamberlain talks improv and Mint residency
Unless you're a regular subscriber to Modern Drummer magazine, the name Matt Chamberlain may not ring immediately familiar to you. If you're...
Music Review: Terry Riley: "Olson III," Jacaranda at Santa Monica First Presbyterian Church
Never, perhaps, was there a more fitting program for Jacaranda’s motto “music at the edge” than the one served up...
Review: Patchy poetry in Long Beach Opera's 'Ainadamar'
Long Beach Opera's new production of Osvaldo Golijov's "Ainadamar" comes at an important time. The opera is a meditation on the Spanish poet...
Review: Ben Wendel, Dan Tepfer a rollicking jazz duo at Blue Whale
At first glance, a duet between a piano and saxophone could be considered a challenging assignment for some jazz listeners. Stripped of a...
Video game Diablo III features performance by Pacific Symphony
The Pacific Symphony performs music for an unlikely audience -- gamers battling the hellish underworlds of Diablo III.
Carl Davis joins L.A. Chamber Orchestra for a silent film special
Though Carl Davis has composed scores for such films as 1981's "The French Lieutenant's Woman," over the past three decades, he's become one...
L.A. Phil, U.K.'s Classic FM team for first overseas radio series
The Los Angeles Philharmonic will launch its first international radio broadcast partnership with England's largest classical music station.
Piano and flute in India, where the sitar is king
NEW DELHI — When Gavin Martin and his family moved here from southern India in the early '70s, the country's capital city offered...
Music review: The New York Phil makes a blistering Disney Hall debut
The New York Philharmonic became one of the last of the world's most important orchestras to finally perform in Walt Disney Concert Hall...
Los Angeles Philharmonic's 'Don Giovanni' stars the music
There've been commedia dell'arte versions of "Don Giovanni" and a 3-D version of "Don Giovanni." Mozart's terminally debauched antihero...
Review: LA International New Music Festival sets off on artful tour
Although its title suggests geo-cultural all-inclusiveness, Southwest Chamber Music’s ambitious new LA International New Music...
Review: Green Umbrella's percussion bash, gripping 'Recital 1'
For the mad month of May, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has embarked on a wildly ambitious, slightly mad operatic mission.
Michael Nyman uses Facebook to lash out at Royal Opera House
Composer Michael Nyman is using Facebook to lash out against Britain's Royal Opera House for apparently rejecting his overtures for a new...
Review: The Da Camera Players, a new incarnation, resounds
The name Da Camera Players is familiar to Da Camera Society of Mount St. Mary’s College’s Chamber Music In Historic Sites...
L.A. Philharmonic extends jazz contract with Herbie Hancock
The L.A. jazz scene will continue to be led by a legend as the L.A. Philharmonic announced a one-year extension to Herbie Hancock's contract...
Gustavo Dudamel to perform at Olympics festival in June
Gustavo Dudamel will make a few appearances this summer as part of the London 2012 Festival, the large-scale cultural celebration running...
Pope Benedict XVI to attend two classical concerts in weeks ahead
Pope Benedict XVI has long been a classical music fan and in the next few weeks, he will take time out from his schedule to attend two...
Alan Gilbert adds his personal touch to New York Philharmonic
NEW YORK — Listening is very important to Alan Gilbert.
Joseph Pereira is a different drummer
Timpanist Joseph Pereira was in the kitchen, preparing to marinate short ribs in French wine, when he made an important discovery: That nice...
Review: Simon Rattle conducts L.A. Philharmonic in welcome return
It wasn't exactly old times Thursday night when Simon Rattle finally, finally returned to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first...
Gustavo Dudamel drops out of L.A. Phil's Green Umbrella concert
Los Angeles Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel won't be conducting next week's Green Umbrella concert, as originally scheduled.
'Romeo and Juliet' ... and me
It wasn't the words of Shakespeare that sprang to mind Monday night as I found myself sitting onstage at the $240-million Renée and...
Jazz says its final goodbye on Los Angeles AM radio
A silence has descended on Los Angeles' AM radio band. On April 2, KABC's longtime morning man, Doug McIntyre, acquiesced to his management&...
Peter Sellars, Dmitri Hvorostovsky among Opera News Awards winners
Saying that he "took the starch out of the Bugs Bunny version of opera," director Peter Sellars was honored at the Opera News Awards on...
Review: L.A. Master Chorale vividly explores South American sound
Gabriela Lena Frank's "The Singing Mountaineer" is fond, alluring music that sounds like a vivid memory of a place that doesn't exist. It...
Injured conductor Kurt Masur withdraws from concerts through June
Kurt Masur, the renowned German conductor, is withdrawing from concerts through the end of June after falling off the podium last week...
Getty to cut 34 jobs, mostly in education programs
The Getty Museum announced Monday that it would cut 34 jobs, at least 10 of them through layoffs, with the goal of "realizing savings...
Opera couples debate dual role as lover and colleague
The merits of working with one's spouse can be debated endlessly, but few couples face the pressures of opera singers who share a life and...
Review: Rez Abbasi Quintet in timely concert at Blue Whale
There was a rewarding symmetry at work in Thursday night's performance by the Rez Abbasi Quintet at the Blue Whale. Not counting the...
Conductor Kurt Masur hospitalized but OK after fall off podium
Kurt Masur, former music director of the New York Philharmonic, was hospitalized after an onstage injury at Theatre des Champs-Elysees in...
Music review: Ben Johnston shines in MicroFest spotlight
More than 20 years ago, the music critic John Rockwell described Ben Johnston in the New York Times as "one of the best nonfamous...
Q & A: Herbie Hancock discusses first International Jazz Day
Have you started your International Jazz Day shopping yet?
Los Angeles Opera names Christopher Koelsch president and CEO
For the first time in five years, Los Angeles Opera will have one person overseeing both the company's artistic efforts and finances on a...
Review: Neville Marriner conducts Colburn Orchestra in tribute
Before conducting the Colburn Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday night, across the street from the newly renamed Colburn Way...
Music review: Gabriel Kahane's score is conducted by his father
Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast...
Conductor Carlo Ponti, San Bernardino Symphony part ways
After 11 years as conductor of the San Bernardino Symphony, Carlo Ponti Jr. is stepping down. His final concert of the orchestra’s...
Anoushka Shankar links songs of India and Spanish flamenco
For legendary Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar's 75th birthday, a very special guest was invited onstage to perform with the onetime Beatles...
Review: Seoul Philharmonic is here but not quite there yet
The Seoul Philharmonic wants to be the one, not just the classical music soul of Seoul, but the first Asian orchestra to make it big on...
Gabriela Lena Frank's musical flights of imagination
BERKELEY — Stories pour out of Gabriela Lena Frank like music. Sitting on an old brown leather chair in her little house, where she...
Music review: On-stage, all is well for Cleveland Orchestra
The bulletin from the Cleveland Orchestra, which performed for the first time at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on...
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