The veteran broadcaster chats with SFCV about his new podcast project, which explores the Black experience in classical music.
The premiere of Esmail’s work about water and the environment makes a powerful impression alongside Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem.
With James Conlon conducting a sensitive account of the score, and a fine cast to boot, there is no mystery to the success of this production.
The orchestra and director Donato Cabrera brilliantly interpret pieces that would have been intimately familiar to the composer.
The U.S. premiere of Felipe Lara’s Double Concerto has the two players merging avant-garde sensibilities, with Susanna Mälkki conducting.
The USC Thornton grad is embracing multiple community roles and ignoring avant-garde hipness in favor of inclusive, polyglot music.
