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Review: Garrick Ohlsson at Disney Hall
On Sunday evening, the American pianist Garrick Ohlsson performed a recital of four of Beethoven’s most popular piano...
Music & Conversations With Lyris Quartet at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
One of LA’s best-kept secrets and a favorite with its substantial loyal audience, Music & Conversations will...
CD Review: ‘Intimate Letters’ by the Lyris Quartet
Since its inception in 2008, the Los Angeles-based Lyris Quartet — Alyssa Park (violin), Shalini Vijayan (violin),...
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...