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...
by Henry Schlinger | May 20, 2025 | Classical Music and Opera |
The American organist Cameron Carpenter returned to Walt Disney Concert Hall on May 18 to perform works by Bach, Franck and Mussorgsky. The first half of the evening included the Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 by Bach and two Chorales by Franck, No. 2 in B...
by Henry Schlinger | Apr 28, 2025 | Classical Music and Opera |
When I was a young boy, my mother took me to see Arthur Rubinstein when he performed in Dallas. In my 20s, I traveled to Houston from Dallas to see Vladimir Horowitz. When I was in graduate school in Michigan, I drove to Chicago to see Maurizio Pollini. Although I...
