The French pianist Hélène Grimaud gave a hypnotic performance on April 19 at Walt Disney Concert Hall,...
New CDs from Delos featuring music by Erwin Schulhoff and Mark Abel
Delos records has released two new CDs of contemporary music, broadly defined. The music spans 100 years and dates...
CD Review: Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and James MacMillan’s Larghetto for Orchestra
Opening and listening to a new CD by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (yes, I still listen to CDs)...
Review: Dudamel Conducts the LA Phil in Works by Schoenberg and Strauss
Gustavo Dudamel, image courtesy of LA Phil Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil are back, and Walt Disney Concert Hall is...
Rennie Harris Funkedified @ the FORD
Bringing hip-hop from the streets of Philadelphia to international stages and academic towers, Rennie Harris brings...
Review: ‘Mysterious Circumstances’ at the Geffen Playhouse
David Grann, a journalist who writes nonfiction that reads like fiction, has written compelling books about a British...
Concerts at Mt. Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory — the scientific marvel above Pasadena, atop Mount Wilson — is hosting a six-month series of...
Review: LA Opera’s ‘El Gato Montés’
LA Opera’s 1994 production of Manuel Penella’s “El Gato Montés” starred Plácido Domingo as the bullfighter. In the...
Review: Salonen conducts Stravinsky
On Saturday night, Esa-Pekka Salonen returned (did he ever really leave?) to Southern California to conduct his old...