I’m not crazy about pumpkin spice anything, but one thing I definitely look forward to each fall is Wicked Lit — the...
CD Review: Honeck and the PSO Perform Beethoven and Strauss
The new release in the Pittsburgh Live! series is a revelatory performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat...
Review: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Gloria’ gets West Coast premiere from Echo Theater Company
MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins worked at “The New Yorker,” but has said in interviews that...
CD Review: ‘Time and Distance’ by Mark Abel
Composer Mark Abel’s 2018 DELOS CD release, Time and Distance (DE 3550), features acclaimed Los Angeles area...
O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ with Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville at the Wallis
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills presents the Bristol Old Vic’s award-winning...
Review: The LA Phil’s Schumann Focus Series With Mitsuko Uchida
On Saturday night, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of its music director, Gustavo Dudamel, performed...
Review: LA Opera’s ‘Rigoletto’
Rigoletto is a study in contrasts — light and dark, tender and brutal, funny and sad. LA Opera’s current production...
Review: Jeremy Denk at the Wallis
On April 25, the American pianist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Jeremy Denk performed a recital of works by Mozart,...
Review: Dudamel Conducts Bernstein and Beethoven
What do you get when you combine the most exciting young conductor in the world today with one of the world’s best...