Outgoing L.A. Phil music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will mark the end of his tenure at the Hollywood Bowl with a performance of Mahler’s Eighth in September. Luckily there’s time between for bumming around the beach (and composing). (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
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Aleks Pevec will play the title role in “The Who’s Tommy” at Ricardo Montalban Theatre for the show’s two-week run in June. “Tommy, can you hear me?” In that new 3-D Sound system, yes. (Ryan Miller / Capture Imaging)
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There’ll be fireworks, musical and pyrotechnical, at the Hollywood Bowl when Lang Lang making his Bowl debut in “Tchaikovsky With Fireworks.” (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
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Minimalist composer Steve Reich will be a featured composer at the Ojai Music Festival, June 5-8. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
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Frontman Michael Stipe and his R.E.M. bandmates, touring in support of their new album “Accelerate,” will headline a Hollywood Bowl bill including Modest Mouse and the National on May 29. (Jens Meyer / Associated Press)
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Cyndi Lauper co-headlines the True Colors tour with the B-52s at the Greek Theatre on June 28. (Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Images)
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