Concerts / Events

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDBLUM CHARM Well, it’s my first time with Jeff Goldblum and his Mildred Schnitzer Orchestra, which played last night at Disney Hall. Here’s how it goes: Actor extraordinaire Goldblum plays kind of a compère, loosely introducing his friends in the house, or playing trivia between numbers. His incredible band evokes a…

A TRIUMPHANT ANDRIESSEN Dutch-born composer Louis Andriessen worked in numerous styles of musical modernism over the course of a prolific career that began in the 1950s and continued until shortly before his death last summer. In recent years the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned and premiered several Andriessen pieces and even issued recordings conducted by orchestra…

Best known as the successful former Music Director of the Seattle Symphony, French conductor Ludovic Morlot led one of Shostakovich’s greatest symphonies last week, depicting the despair in his Tenth with an uplifting mournful passion. The opening movement can feel ponderous in the wron g hands, but here it exuded constant momentum. Even with a…

Rediscover Los Angeles through a fabulous night of music and history… THIS WEEKEND ONLY! Saturday, March 12, 7:30 pm, and Sunday, 13, 2022, 3 pm and 7 pm. MORE INFO & TICKETS The program, MUSE/IQUE  & RACHAEL WORBY: SUNRISE ON SUNSET, features an ensemble of L.A.’s finest instrumentalists and singers in a night of fabulous music…

Thor Steingraber, the Executive and Artistic Director of The Soraya concert space in Northridge, has transformed this amazingly gorgeous hall from a college adjunct into a world-class location for the arts — one of the best in Southern California. On March 10, Joshua Bell and Academy of St Martin in the Fields return to the…

The American Youth Symphony (AYS), led by Music Director Carlos Izcaray, returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall on the LA Phil’s “Sounds About Town” series on Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Works by Brian Raphael Nabors, Jennifer Higdon, Unsuk Chin, Jimmy Lopez, Tchaikovsky and Izcaray complete a program that celebrates cultural diversity through…

JAZZING UP THEIR GAME AT THE SORAYA The Soraya has long been at the epicenter of Jazz in LA’”from CSUN’s nationally respected Jazz studies program, to The Soraya’s stellar reputation for Jazz programming.  This year, The Soraya dials up its investment in America’s one true original art form with its first annual, month-long jazz Festival Jazz…

A GRAND AVANT-GARDE EVENING ON GRAND AVENUE Tuesday of last week was a quiet night in downtown Los Angeles, January’s usual gloom conspiring with new waves of COVID statistics to keep people home. The sidewalks of Grand Avenue and its surrounding areas were just about empty. Still, the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s characteristic glint warded…

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES INITIAL LINEUP FOR  2022 HOLLYWOOD BOWL JAZZ FESTIVAL Beloved Festival Celebrates 42nd Year in 2022 Artists Slated to Appear Include The Roots, Gregory Porter, Tower of Power, Terri Lyne Carrington, Femi Kuti, Cory Wong, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, José James, Gerald Clayton, Azar Lawrence, Gordon Goodwin and more June 25–26, 2022,…

DUKING IT OUT In 1943, Duke Ellington premiered two works about the experience of Black Americans’”one, Black, Brown, and Beige, traced their collective history and another,  New World A-Coming, imagined a hopeful future. Ellington wrote about the latter in his biography, “I visualized this new world as a place in the distant future, where there would…