Small, distinguished Volti is known for more than superb choral performances — it also commissions, performs, and advocates ...
Steve Reich \. Few ensembles have forged a closer relationship with Steve Reich than the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the ...
If orchestras have personalities, then Pasadena Symphony Music Director Brett Mitchell has found his groove with the ...
The Oakland Symphony doesn’t qualify as a political organization. But the ensemble tunes into its city’s culture and concerns ...
The mood was electric when Joe Hisaishi took the stage at Davies Symphony Hall last weekend. Seeing the house packed full of ...
Hisaishi will serve as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence for the Bowl and The Ford for five years ...
Leif Ove Andsnes is always interested in exploring what he calls “the fringe repertoire” of classical music. Earlier this ...
Approaching its 60th anniversary, Pacific Chorale has built its now international reputation through adventurous programming ...
Elim Chan \. Recent upheavals at the Los Angeles Philharmonic are still reverberating in Walt Disney Concert Hall this month.
Frank Stewart. There are welcome reunions, like Marcus Roberts collaborating with the New Century Chamber Orchestra on ...
The tulle skirts associated with Romantic-era ballet were introduced in “The Ballet of the Nuns” in Act III of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le diable, which premiered at the Paris Opèra in 1831. Marie ...
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude in C Minor packs a speedy punch with its rich, complex, repetitive layers. That piece is not unlike the work of the Bay Area’s John Adams, one of the most influential ...