by Henry Schlinger | Oct 19, 2025 | Entertainment and Events |
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra is currently on tour in Asia and, as the expression goes, “while the cat’s away… ” because on Saturday night the genre-defying Argentinian rock band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs turned the usually calm and dignified Walt Disney...
by Henry Schlinger | Oct 18, 2025 | Classical Music and Opera |
Upon leaving Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 16 after hearing Yunchan Lim perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations, I thought that my review should just be one word: Wow! Lim, the runaway winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 and, at 18,...
by Henry Schlinger | Oct 6, 2025 | Classical Music and Opera |
There was electricity in the air on Oct. 2 as the packed house at Walt Disney Concert Hall awaited the appearance of Gustavo Dudamel in his last season as the music director of the LA Phil. They waited with bated breath for two masterpieces by Stravinsky that are...
by Henry Schlinger | Sep 23, 2025 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
On Sunday, a beautiful fall-like afternoon, the New Hollywood String Quartet performed a program of all Schubert chamber music in the 100-inch telescope dome at Mount Wilson Observatory as part of the Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome series. On the program were...
by Henry Schlinger | May 27, 2025 | Classical Music and Opera |
On May 24, the 38-year-old music director of the Louisville Orchestra, Teddy Abrams, returned to Walt Disney Concert Hall to conduct works by Caroline Shaw, George Gershwin and Richard Strauss. The program began with the LA Phil commission of The Observatory, a...
