by Henry Schlinger | Nov 10, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
Everyone knows who Itzhak Perlman is, especially if you’re old enough to remember his introduction to American audiences in three appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show”—two in 1958 when he was just 13 years old and one in 1964, when he shared billing with the Rolling...
by Henry Schlinger | Oct 28, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
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 Philharmonic performed at different locations. At 2 and 8 p.m. at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, the Pasadena...
by Henry Schlinger | Oct 12, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera |
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 Hall. That’s because the LPO performed at The Soraya on the campus of California State University Northridge. The Soraya has...
by Henry Schlinger | Aug 9, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
The latest in Reference Recordings’ Pittsburgh Live! series with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra features two works: the monumental Symphony No. 7 in E major by Bruckner and a PSO commissioned work celebrating the 60th birthday of...
by Henry Schlinger | May 14, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera |
Yuja Wang made her annual pilgrimage to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Mother’s Day, and, no surprise, her recital was a sensation. It was visually and sonically spectacular. The two halves of her program represented a study in contrasts. The first half consisted of...
