The focus this week is on the music itself. At the top of my list is Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) by members of the LA Phil Tuesday evening at Walt Disney Concert Hall – a delightful and brilliant piece for seven instruments, three actors, and a dancer. Sunday afternoon on May [...]
Here are just a few of the great concerts this week in Los Angeles – Jacaranda’s “music at the edge” series celebrates the Liszt bicentennial, the Capitol Ensemble performs its excellent Schubert and Mozart, and the LA Phil plays Tchaikovsky and Brahms with celebrated pianist Yefim Bronfman.
Jacaranda – music at the edge
Jacaranda continues [...]
The chamber scene is in full gear with four great local organizations in action this weekend and next: the Da Camera Society, Le Salon de Musiques, Musica Angelica, and the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. My personal program favorites are Mozart’s String Quintet in G Minor, K516 by the Capitol Ensemble led by violinist Phillip Levy [...]
Music celebrities from around the globe gathered at Walt Disney Concert Hall on March 27 to celebrate and honor Ernest Fleischmann as a champion of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Fleischmann, the former executive vice president and managing director of the LA Phil whose history with the organization actually dates back to 1969, passed away June [...]
An enthusiastic and appreciative Los Angeles audience was transported to a time in Paris long past through Le Salon de Musiques with Debussy, Saint-Saens and Ravel Sunday afternoon, March 20, in the Impresario Room on the fifth floor of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Artistic Directors François Chouchan, Bernard Philippe, and Phillip Levy assembled an outstanding program [...]
The week starts with two great chamber concerts downtown Sunday afternoon, when we can hear George Crumb’s favorite soprano Tony Arnold sing his music in the acoustically superb Zipper Hall of the Colburn School, or just up the block we can enjoy a sumptuous all-French affair at Le Salon de Musiques in the Impresario Room [...]
The Pasadena Conservatory of Music (PCM) consistently organizes the finest of intimate chamber concerts to be found anywhere in Los Angeles. Its March 6 concert at the historic Hale Solar Observatory Library was brilliant in so many ways. I mean, where else would Guitarra del Sol be staged, but in a room that was [...]
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin embarked on its U.S. tour Wednesday evening, March 2, with a debut at our Walt Disney Concert Hall of its most authentic version of the “Best of German Baroque” from Bach, Telemann, and Händel.
The soloists were each remarkable, although I was especially impressed by Anna Fusek and her virtuosic [...]
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
The Baroque Variations series and Chamber Music Society bring the debut of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin to Walt Disney Concert Hall as this most distinguished group begins their two-week tour of the United States.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin was founded in 1982 in East Berlin and is [...]
World-acclaimed virtuoso pianist Simon Trpčeski returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall Tuesday evening with a program of Haydn, Chopin, Prokofiev, and the California premiere of Pande Shahov’s “Songs and Whispers.”
Two great choral events round out the week – both concerts feature fabulous editions of American history in the genre. Wednesday evening, Karen Benjamin and [...]
