Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk were set to grapple with Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 on Wednesday night at the Soraya in Northridge. The great 1944…
Sometimes art and life can be too close for comfort. But comfort wasn't the point of composer David T. Little's "Soldier Songs." "Soldier Songs," a monodrama for baritone and chamber orchest…
Will the Los Angeles Philharmonic be Jonathon Heyward's good luck charm? Heyward, a 25-year-old American who had been part of the L.A. Phil's prestigious Dudamel Fellowship Program for condu…
"This is something you haven't seen too often," Guido Lamell, music director of the Santa Monica Symphony, said Wednesday night during the encore for the orchestra's summer fundraiser, the e…
On Sunday evening, pianist Garrick Ohlsson performed an all-Beethoven recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring four of his popular "name" sonatas: the "Pathétique," "Appassionata," "Wa…
In his book "Conducting Business,"Â Leonard Slatkin, former principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, recalls a time when bowl audiences cheered after the …