Since its inception in 2008, the Los Angeles-based Lyris Quartet — Alyssa Park (violin), Shalini Vijayan (violin),...
Classical Music and Opera
Music Review: Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil in San Francisco
A bit of Los Angeles’ music culture came to San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall on Halloween night, Oct. 31, when the...
Free Tickets to Montreal’s collectif9 at Theatre Raymond Kabbaz
Theatre Raymond Kabbaz presents Montreal’s cutting-edge classical nine-piece string band, collectif9, on Nov. 4....
CD Review: ‘Home Is a Harbor’ by Mark Abel
“Art music” is a coded phrase for music that most people would consider strange, offbeat or eccentric. Mark Abel’s...
Review: Dudamel Conducts the LA Phil in Mahler’s Ninth
On a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Gustavo Dudamel conducted the LA Phil in one work, the monumental Symphony No. 9 by...
Review: Dudamel Conducts Brahms With Joshua Bell and Strauss
Gustavo Dudamel was back in town on Sunday to conduct the LA Phil in a program including the Brahms Violin Concerto in...
Review: LA Opera’s ‘Macbeth’ With Plácido Domingo
How perfect that LA Opera programmed “Macbeth” during the Halloween season. (I say season because we all know that...
Review: The LA Phil Performs Ravel and Stravinsky
The 38-year-old Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado was in town on Sunday to lead the LA Phil in a sonically...
Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra Perform at VPAC
On Oct. 5, the former music director and conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic was in town to conduct his...