Los Angeles

Jessie Montgomery’s appealing, resourceful L.E.S. Characters has a happy premiere alongside Charles Ives’s pastoral Symphony No. 3.

The composer and violist make music out of shared memories of the Lower East Side of New York.

With high-energy gestures, Payare brought excitement, lighting a fire under the orchestra.

Concerts from Jacaranda and the Hear Now Festival show a broad spectrum of musical possibilities.

The group’s ambitious Doppelgänger project pairs the composer’s late chamber works with challenging new commissions.

The composer’s dark, often mocking orchestral work shares space with Brahms’s First Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3.

The company’s Digital Shorts, still available for viewing, brought together major-name creatives to invent 10-minute operatic films.

The local premiere of Reich/Richter highlights a concert celebrating the 86-year-old composer’s long productivity.

The Venezuelan conductor has been floated as a successor to Gustavo Dudamel, but right now he just wants to focus on his upcoming concerts with the LA Phil.

SFCV chats with one of the pioneers in American composition about how the “minimalist” label doesn’t do his movement justice.