Los Angeles

A number of well-known composers have died on the job and received Academy Award nominations for their final works.

In his penultimate year with the orchestra, Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel plans to have fun with a favorite composer.

Coppél-i.A., arriving in SoCal this week, is a contemporary telling of a classic story from choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot.

Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads an LA Phil premiere and then collaborates with Daniil Trifonov on Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto.

Monday Evening Concerts is the city’s longest-running new-music series, but many similar efforts in L.A. share the same family tree.

The six-hour double concert is filled with surprises and welcome guest appearances.

William Grant Still’s Highway 1 captures headlines, but Alexander Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf is powerful in its revival.

The pianist takes Schubert’s song as a starting point for a wide-ranging and poetic look at dream states.

The L.A. company is presenting “ACB Jazz” in an underground performance space and bringing in two comedians as well.

Musicians are expanding the Gershwin favorite to represent a more diverse understanding of America.