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Music Review: Behzod Abduraimov performs Franck, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Price at Disney Hall
On Nov. 13, the 35-year-old Uzbekistani pianist Behzod Abduraimov delivered a demanding and commanding performance of four works for piano at Walt...
New Original Works festival at REDCAT celebrates with three more premieres
Week two of the New Original Works 21st annual festival of locally created music, theater, dance and media adventures continues this week at REDCAT....
CAP UCLA brings Dan Froot’s ‘Arms Around America’ to the Nimoy Theater
The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA is helping to enlarge a discussion. Interdisciplinary artist Dan Froot, along with his cohort of...
Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Juilliard String Quartet at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Everyone knows who Itzhak Perlman is, especially if you’re old enough to remember his introduction to American audiences in three appearances on...
New Original Works No. 21 at REDCAT
In its 21st iteration of the New Original Works three-weekend festival of world premiere creations in dance, music, theater and the media arts, the...
LA Opera presents Romeo and Juliet
LA Opera presents an original production of Charles Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, onstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Nov. 2 to 23. Two...
Music Reviews: The Colburn Orchestra and the Pasadena Symphony
On an otherwise slow Saturday in Los Angeles (not really — it was game two of the World Series!), two orchestras that were not the Los Angeles...
Theater Review: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson at A Noise Within
With August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, A Noise Within brings us a perfect ghost story for fall. This must-see production, directed by...
Pasadena Symphony launches season with new Music Director Brett Mitchell
Pasadena Symphony launches its 2024-25 season and a new era under Music Director Brett Mitchell — only the sixth music director to...
Piano Spheres’ 30th anniversary season
To celebrate its landmark 30th anniversary season, Piano Spheres presents ‘30 for 30,’ a special initiative that will commission 30 composers...
A Noise Within presents August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson
On the heels of critically acclaimed A Noise Within productions of Gem of the Ocean, Seven Guitars, Radio...
Topanga Film Festival brings Senegalese dance to LA
In its 19th iteration at Froggy’s, a family-friendly seafood watering hole above Malibu, the Topanga Film Festival takes residence this Thursday,...
LACO launches its 2024/25 Orchestral Series with bass-baritone Dashon Burton
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 2024/25 Orchestral Series launches with TRAILBLAZERS: MARTÍN + BRAHMS + BURTON, featuring Music Director Jaime...
The London Philharmonic Orchestra with Randall Goosby at The Soraya
On Thursday night, you didn’t have to go to London to hear the London Philharmonic Orchestra. You didn’t even have to go to Walt Disney Concert...