George Frideric Handel’s affection for Theodora, a relatively little known oratorio about a fourth-century Christian...
Classical Music and Opera
Review: Jacaranda’s ‘Hallucination’ Concert of Xenakis and Stockhausen
Jacaranda is a programming collaborative for modern music whose tagline is “Music at the Edge.” The two pieces...
Review: Olga Kern Opens Kimbell’s Piano Pavilion Auditorium
On Jan. 23 and 24, the 2001 co-Gold Medal winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Olga Kern,...
Review: Brahms Project with Emanuel Ax and Anne Sofie von Otter at Disney Hall
In “Crazy Hearts: Nashville,” a reality TV show about country music performers, a cast member consoles her recently...
Review: Jacaranda honors Karlheinz Stockhausen with Mary Bauermeister
Jacaranda pushed into a music rarely heard at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 22. Karlheinz Stockhausen’s...
Robin Ticciati, Emanuel Ax and the LA Phil Perform Brahms
On Jan. 19, the young British conductor Robin Ticciati led the LA Philharmonic in three works, Melodien by Hungarian...
Free Tickets to Jacaranda’s ‘Hallucination’
Jacaranda, the series of intimate concert adventures into the realm of new and rarely heard classical music, presents...
Pacific Opera Project’s Production of Britten’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’
While I have to admit that Benjamin Britten’s 1954 opera based on Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw is not my...
Review: Dudamel and Wang Perform Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky at Disney Hall
On Dec. 21 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the young Chinese piano phenom Yuja Wang teamed up with the slightly older...