The Los Angeles Master Chorale opened its 2011-2012 season to a full house at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 16 with Grant Gershon and Leslie Leighton sharing the podium in a program that featured some of their all-time best music and close friends. The headline work, Lux Aeterna, by Morten Lauridsen has become a [...]
The Colburn Chamber Music Society brought Quatuor Ebène and its signature Debussy to a full house on Oct. 10 to open the 2011-2012 season at Zipper Hall. The Ebène Quartet has enjoyed meteoric fame since it was awarded “Recording of the Year” at the 2009 Classic FM Gramophone Awards for its disc of Debussy, Ravel, [...]
The Los Angeles chamber music scene has so much to offer this time of the year that it is difficult to know where to begin this week. The opening gala of the Los Angeles Master Chorale Sunday, Oct. 16, will be especially unique, and any of the outstanding instrumental groups performing this week will be [...]
The Los Angeles Philharmonic season-opening gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sept. 27 was more than just another star-studded event as eight-time Grammy Award-winning pianist Herbie Hancock, now the LA Philharmonic Creative Chair for Jazz, stepped bravely into an exciting new musical adventure. The “Rhapsody in Blue” theme sported an all-Gershwin program that featured [...]
This week is a perfect time to sample the artistry of the remarkable pianists from the Los Angeles area. There are recitals galore as the local university faculties parade, making for a fine week to focus on the classical pianists of LA. So, while we wait with anticipation for the chamber season to open, marvel [...]
Jump into the cool sounds of the summertime — the L.A. scene is hot. Ah, these summer days, these summer days!
Here are a few highlights that we think you will enjoy from the summer music calendar for August in Los Angeles.
LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl
The LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC at the Hollywood Bowl is [...]
Bravo for a bold piece of programming! Southwest Chamber Music opened its four-program Summer Festival outdoors on the art gallery loggia at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens July 9 and 10 with a fantastic first installment on its unique promise of delivering the complete body of Mozart string quintets. Hearing these magnificent [...]
Violinists and Co-directors Kevin Kumar and Maia Jasper celebrated a great first-anniversary concert of the Salastina Music Society as they closed their inaugural season June 18 at the Colburn School’s Thayer Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
The Salastina Music Society is a distinctive new element in the LA chamber music scene with a contemporary approach to [...]
The early summer schedules are free, or nearly so, and the weather is great. Ah, summertime in LA, the fiddles are jumpin’ and the listenin’ is easy!
Wednesday, June 15, if you are near Glendale or Pasadena, then why not enjoy one of these FREE afternoon chamber music concerts with lunch and a few friends? The [...]
The chamber music season in Los Angeles may be winding down for the summer, but the stages are still lively this week with four great concerts that are all worth your attention. Thursday night, don’t pass up the opportunity to hear the moving music of Steve Reich and Yotam Haber at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall. Then, [...]
