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ReviewTabla great Zakir Hussain’s last work, ‘Murmurs in Time,’ sets the stage for a new generation
Third Coast Percussion gives the L.A. premiere of Zakir Hussain’s last major work, “Murmurs in Time,” at the Nimoy, a final ode to the tabla great’s vast range
From Gustavo Dudamel to Esa-Pekka Salonen to Claire Chase to Peter Sellars, classical music had many bright spots in 2025.
We hang out with L.A. laptop composer Carl Stone in Tokyo as he prepares for the premiere of ‘Daimatsu’ at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
Frank Gehry, through making concert halls that inspired new ideas, wound up doing more to advance music than anyone else in the 21st century.
Herbert Ross’ beloved L.A. Opera production of Puccini’s ‘La Bohème,’ first seen in 1993 and many times revived, is back with a new cast, conductor and director
“The Monkey King,” a new opera by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang based on a popular Chinese folktale, has proved a major hit for San Francisco Opera.
Brahms’ viola-infused string quintets and sextets have in them the essence of amber autumn, and three major L.A. institutions coincidentally turned to them over six November days.
The Master Chorale performs the L.A. premiere of David Lang’s ‘before and after nature,’ concerned with environmental sustainability and social justice
Zubin Mehta, at 89 an L.A. icon, returns to the L.A. Phil, of which he is conductor emeritus, to conduct one of his specialties, Bruckner’s massive 8th Symphony
ReviewHildegard von Bingen was a saint, an abbess, a mystic, a pioneering composer and is now an opera
L.A. Opera presents the world premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s ‘Hildegard,’ about the mystical 12th century composer/abbess St. Hildegard von Bingen.
