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“Swan Lake” in Costa Mesa, an Indian-Bach mix with Vijay Gupta in Sierra Madre and ballet on a makeshift Television City stage are all parts of June’s dance explosion in and around L.A.
ReviewEsa-Pekka Salonen leaves the troubled San Francisco Symphony with Mahler’s call for ‘Resurrection’
Salonen ends his troubled relationship with the San Francisco Symphony with Mahler’s ferocious Second Symphony, leaving the audience roaring and musicians pounding their feet in praise.
This year’s Ojai festival, led by super-flutist Claire Chase, brilliantly featured Anaheim native Susie Ibarra, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for music.
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.
