Alexander Scriabin’s music was, arguably, the catalyst that set in motion Sergei Rachmaninoff’s career as a touring...
Classical Music and Opera
LACO Performs the Music of Juan Pablo Contreras
The popular notion which finds that Western classical music is so much “dead white men’s music” is a typical, if...
Review: Jacaranda Music performs Mahler
Admirers and detractors of Gustav Mahler can often agree at least on one thing: The man had a rare gift for effective...
Review: Dilijan Chamber Series Mansurian Birthday Concert
In a recent interview, Tigran Mansurian said he considered himself a musical “grandson” of Dmitri Shostakovich, the...
Sarah Gibson Premieres Composition With LACO
Peter Oundjian, formerly of the Tokyo String Quartet, has put his chamber music days behind him and has now taken up...
Interview with Composer Tigran Mansurian
The milestone represented by the marking of one’s 80th birthday is doubtless a profound one, a token of the human...
Review: Long Beach Opera’s ‘The Black Cat’
One of the most exciting cultural institutions in the LA area is, without a doubt, Long Beach Opera. With Artistic and...
Review: Brendan White plays Liszt and Scriabin
It was an incongruous, yet curiously stimulating mingling of incense and sulphur that awaited the listener Jan. 16 at...
Free Santa Monica Symphony Concert
Celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with the Santa Monica Symphony’s annual MLK Holiday Concert on...