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ReviewThere’s more to Korean music than K-Pop. Young composers show how in L.A. Phil’s Seoul Festival
For the L.A. Phil’s Seoul Festival, leading Korean composer Unsuk Chin invites a new generation of composers largely unknown in the U.S. The result is an enthralling kickoff to the eight-day event.
Los Angeles Opera ends its season with a new production of Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ featuring baritone Quinn Kelsey, whose visceral energy and terrifying clown suit are the stuff of nightmares.
New York welcomes Gustavo Dudamel as its future conductor with an honorary doctorate from Juilliard and with cheers after Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 11.
The West Coast premiere of Tod Machover’s opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ is a bizarre look at uncompromising modernism and entertainment.
The Hear Now Music Festival on Sunday and Tod Machover’s opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ raise the question of whether there’s ever been an L.A. school of music. Our critic has thoughts.
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s two-week stint conducting the L.A. Phil in exceptional Beethoven and Boulez performances spurs more hopeful talk that he might return as music director after Gustavo Dudamel departs.
Jane Fonda lends her dazzling narration to Rufus Wainwright’s enveloping ‘Dream Requiem,’ which provides some spiritual enhancement to L.A. Opera’s flashy ‘Ainadamar,’ centered on the execution of Federico Garcia Lorca.
Battling brain cancer, Michael Tilson Thomas makes his last stage appearance with a San Francisco Symphony concert that reminded us of a lifetime of greatness.
Gustavo Dudamel’s second-to-last L.A. Phil season may have seemed less ambitious, but he made more history closing it out with Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass” and a remarkable appearance at Coachella.
Visit the embattled Kennedy Center post-Trump purge, and the place can feel abandoned. Leave it to dance provocateur Mark Morris to show a way forward for the national arts center.
