Harlow Robinson

Tod Machover’s raucous theater piece is at UCLA this month, part of the Herb Alpert School of Music’s anniversary for Schoenberg.

Julia Adolphe’s Chrysalis, her third LA Phil commission focusing on metamorphosis, shares the bill with music by Maurice Ravel.

Louise Farrenc’s enchanting Nonet, along with recent works by Nokuthula Ngwenyama and Sarah Gibson, highlight an imaginative program.

The Polish-Soviet composer has more of his work revived in a Recovered Voices concert at the Colburn School.

On its debut album, Censored Anthems, chamber orchestra Parlando looks at composers working within the restrictions of socialist realism.

The composer’s latest works are tributes to musicians he has long championed: Julius Eastman and Morton Feldman.

Under guest conductor Matthias Pintscher, LACO plays standards by French composers with the requisite elegance and lyricism.

Brett Mitchell leads the orchestra congenially, with Inon Barnatan soloing in Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement.

The group’s latest concert, “Lift Every Voice,” comforts fire-ravaged Los Angeles the day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

It’s not easy to parse the composer’s ironic, often anguished music, even 50 years after his death.