SFCV’s writers report on topics relevant to the Los Angeles area. Artist Spotlight There’s No Stopping Choreographer Kyle Abraham Victoria Looseleaf - February 6, 2023 SFCV chats with the award-winning, boundary-breaking dance artist, whose company, A.I.M, comes to California this month. Music News Major California Orchestras Announce a Statewide Festival of New Music Tom Jacobs - February 6, 2023 The LA Phil, SF Symphony, and San Diego Symphony will oversee a November festival featuring more than 50 ensembles. Review Hypnotic Discord, With a Cause: Olga Neuwirth’s Die Stadt ohne Juden Josef Woodard - January 31, 2023 In a rock-solid performance by the Ensemble intercontemporain, a new musical score does everything that the 1924 film could not even imagine. Review Is Third Time the Charm for John Adams’s Girls of the Golden West? Jim Farber - January 31, 2023 The opera’s latest revision, unveiled by Adams, the LA Phil, and the original cast, makes a strong case for the work. Review Hélène Grimaud and Wild Up Meditate on the Music of Valentin Silvestrov Richard S. Ginell - January 31, 2023 Calm, peaceful works by the Ukrainian composer contrast with the Sturm und Drang of Mozart’s D-Minor Piano Concerto at The Soraya. Review Chicago Symphony Visits the West Coast in Riccardo Muti’s Farewell Season Josef Woodard - January 27, 2023 Orchestra and music director were united in splendid interpretations of Beethoven and Mussorgsky/Ravel. Review Roderick Cox and LA Phil Make the Case for Dawson’s Stirring Negro Folk Symphony Richard S. Ginell - January 24, 2023 Resurrected by determined advocates like Cox, William Levi Dawson’s symphony is definitely repertory-worthy. Review A Wrenching and Timely Rape of Lucretia From Los Angeles Opera Victoria Looseleaf - January 24, 2023 Britten’s chamber opera is brilliantly performed by students in the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Artist Spotlight Learning to Listen With Composer and Conductor Matthias Pintscher Victoria Looseleaf - January 23, 2023 SFCV chats with a leading figure in new music, who wraps up his tenure with the famed Ensemble intercontemporain this season. Feature Tackling the Bane of Musicians’ Existence: Focal Dystonia Jim Farber - January 23, 2023 At USC’s Keck School of Medicine, a multidisciplinary clinic works to treat neurological conditions that afflict instrumentalists. Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page … 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 … Next › Next page Last » Last page