On Saturday night, the Berlin Philharmonic, under the baton of its music director, Sir Simon Rattle, gave LA...
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Review: ‘The Barber of Seville’ (a POP opera)
By now, regular Culture Spot readers should know that Pacific Opera Project offers the best value in opera in town....
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...
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 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: 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: Wicked Lit in Altadena
Does it seem too early to think about Halloween, Day of the Dead and other such seasonal spookiness? Not if you’re...
CD Review: Honeck and the PSO Perform Tchaikovsky and Dvořák
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Reference Recordings are on a mission: to record some of the world’s greatest...