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The Hear Now Music Festival on Sunday and Tod Machover’s opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ raise the question of whether there’s ever been an L.A. school of music. Our critic has thoughts.
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s two-week stint conducting the L.A. Phil in exceptional Beethoven and Boulez performances spurs more hopeful talk that he might return as music director after Gustavo Dudamel departs.
Jane Fonda lends her dazzling narration to Rufus Wainwright’s enveloping ‘Dream Requiem,’ which provides some spiritual enhancement to L.A. Opera’s flashy ‘Ainadamar,’ centered on the execution of Federico Garcia Lorca.
Battling brain cancer, Michael Tilson Thomas makes his last stage appearance with a San Francisco Symphony concert that reminded us of a lifetime of greatness.
Gustavo Dudamel’s second-to-last L.A. Phil season may have seemed less ambitious, but he made more history closing it out with Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass” and a remarkable appearance at Coachella.
Visit the embattled Kennedy Center post-Trump purge, and the place can feel abandoned. Leave it to dance provocateur Mark Morris to show a way forward for the national arts center.
Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar/SZA, Ali Wong, Ricky Gervais, Buddhist art, a queer photography retrospective, the Ojai and Seoul (in L.A.!) music festivals, “Life of Pi” and “Hamlet” highlight our staff’s spring preview picks.
The exuberant French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm began a three-year L.A. Phil collaboration with sheer joy — and also some truths for a country in crisis.
The Vienna Philharmonic returned to Southern California in fine form, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin with Yefim Bronfman as soloist.
L.A. Opera sets ‘Così fan Tutte,’ Mozart’s sophisticated study of love and constancy, in a swanky American country club.
