‘Talent’ intrigues in portrait of cellist Paul Katz, students
August 24, 2016
Only a master documentarian can show a master teacher at work.
Rick Schultz
Horner’s ‘Pas de Deux’ gets U.S. premiere with LA Phil at Hollywood Bowl
August 17, 2016
Brooding, elegiac, melancholic, warm and uplifting have been adjectives used to describe the late James Horner’s music.
Long Beach Opera presents provocative ‘The News’
June 15, 2016
“If Jon Stewart composed an opera,” director Tanya Kane-Parry said recently, referring to the former host of the popular satirical news program “The Daily Show,” “it would be like Jacob TV’s ‘The News.’ ”
David Newman brings ‘Star Trek’ to the Bowl
June 2, 2016
Not many people can claim the kind of Trekkie credibility that composer-conductor David Newman can.
Challenging ‘Passion’ to open Ojai music festival
June 1, 2016
For this year’s 70th Ojai Music Festival, music director Peter Sellars isn’t going easy on audiences.
Jerusalem Quartet: From teenagers having fun to internationally known Israeli string ensemble
April 13, 2016
Bands formed in their members’ teen years rarely survive and thrive into their adulthood.
Alexis Gershwin carries on the family tradition
March 16, 2016
Every day, somewhere on the planet, someone is performing a song or concert composition by George Gershwin.
‘Anthracite Fields’: an oratorio in a miner key
March 4, 2016
Composers seldom find themselves underground looking for inspiration, but for “Anthracite Fields,” an oratorio for chorus and sextet about miners around the turn of the 20th century, Julia Wolfe literally immersed herself in the feel and history of coal miners’ lives.
Record label owner has an ear for the unusual
February 17, 2016
Growing up in a family of lawyers, James Ginsburg’s path might have seemed inevitable.
Pianist Fred Hersch brings jazz recitals to Doheny Mansion
December 16, 2015
Coltrane, Monk, Miles. From the start, jazz musicians were the epitome of cool.
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