In a marathon performance feat, the consummate musician performed 21 commissioned works over the course of six hours.
Artist Kim Anno curates an interdisciplinary show exploring issues of race and culture in 2017.
Some clear winners emerged from the 21-concert music fest, along with some also-ran entrants.
Martian invasion threatens L.A. Philharmonic concert!
William Kentridge fuses physics, early modernist art, jazz-age music, and colonial history in a profound multimedia revue.
Environmental sounds animate the New Zealander’s vital compositions.
Echoes of 19th-century American music permeate works by George Crumb and Caroline Shaw.
High modernism is alive and well and cellist Karttunen brought some fine, new examples to Cal Performances.
Hans Abrahmsen’s hour-long meditation, Snow, anchors an entertaining program from S.F. Contemporary Music Players.
The flute-guitar-cello trio finds surprising new voices in old music and in newly minted commissions.