Jim Farber

Monday Evening Concerts is the city’s longest-running new-music series, but many similar efforts in L.A. share the same family tree.

The music of composers Leilehua Lanzilotti and inti figgis-vizueta is featured in an outdoor setting.

Spectacularly cast and flawlessly performed, the show is bound to leave any Wagnerite at Disney Hall begging for another Ring installment.

The pianist, who’s known for her advocacy of underrepresented composers, gives commanding performances of modern classics as well.

The pianist/composer’s Natural Machines blurs the lines between art and technology in a harmonious way.

Etienne Gara’s ensemble is one of several young groups in L.A. that are shaking up formats and programing in a welcome way.

Derrick Wang’s funny, sharply observed one-act pairs well with Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury.

The Los Angeles Master Chorale premieres Billy Childs’s rhapsodic ode to his mother.

Nina C. Young, Koh’s neighbor, composed Traces for her, and it’s the highlight of a concert conducted by Jeffrey Kahane.

The collaborative work involves L.A.’s recent poet laureate, composer Sarah Hennies, and a women’s whistling group.