Esa-Pekka Salonen's two-week stint conducting the L.A. Phil in exceptional Beethoven and Boulez performances spurs more hopeful talk that he might return as music director after Gustavo Dudamel ...

Composer Gabriella Smith knows how to make a lasting impression. Her organ concerto “Breathing Forests” was a highlight of the San Francisco Symphony’s 2023-24 season, a work of tremendous power and ...

With flutist Claire Chase as this year’s music director, the California festival highlighted female composers and an array of ...

Moody Finnish prog metallers Amorphis, who recently announced they would release their brand new studio album, Biorderland, ...

New York welcomes Gustavo Dudamel as its future conductor with an honorary doctorate from Juilliard and with cheers after ...

Music Festival on Sunday and Tod Machover's opera 'Schoenberg in Hollywood' raise the question of whether there's ever been an L.A. school of music. Our critic has thoughts.

The series highlight is conductor James Gaffigan’s “Two Worlds,” a trio of programs over three nights focused on “film music by classical composers and concertos by film composers” and showcasing ...

For the L.A. Phil's Seoul Festival, leading Korean composer Unsuk Chin invites a new generation of composers largely unknown ...