The conductor leads a vivid performance of Stravinsky’s Firebird that shakes Davies, while Isabelle Faust plays Berg’s Violin Concerto.
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.
Your cheat sheet to great music festivals across California and the West.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Before we fall positively overwhelms in a performance from cellist Johannes Moser and conductor Dalia Stasevska.