The show at the Valley Performing Arts Center in L.A. featured the New West Symphony and a lot of lesser-known musical highlights.
New settings of the Nobel winner’s classic songs raise philosophical questions about the relationship of text and music.
The American master’s turbulent, challenging music arouses powerful responses.
A curious program pairs Ives with Dvořák and a misplaced serving of Gershwin.
From von Biber’s bombastic Battalia to the subtleties of a recent Andrew Norman piece, the NCCO played everything with grace and beauty.
Martian invasion threatens L.A. Philharmonic concert!
In an ambitious program featuring pipa player Wu Man, the orchestra showed power in excess, with less finesse.
Music Director Valery Gergiev showed off an orchestra in peak condition in a concert featuring flashy pianist Denis Matsuev.
Chen is the second candidate in the orchestra’s music-director search and showed many strengths in her weekend set.
Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben flirt with storytelling but hold back secrets.
