Los Angeles

SFCV’s writers report on topics relevant to the Los Angeles area.

Richard S. Ginell - April 18, 2023

With high-energy gestures, Payare brought excitement, lighting a fire under the orchestra.

Jim Farber - April 18, 2023

Concerts from Jacaranda and the Hear Now Festival show a broad spectrum of musical possibilities.

Josef Woodard - April 17, 2023

The group’s ambitious Doppelgänger project pairs the composer’s late chamber works with challenging new commissions.

Lisa Hirsch - April 11, 2023

The composer’s dark, often mocking orchestral work shares space with Brahms’s First Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3.

Victoria Looseleaf - April 11, 2023

The company’s Digital Shorts, still available for viewing, brought together major-name creatives to invent 10-minute operatic films.

Jim Farber - April 4, 2023

The local premiere of Reich/Richter highlights a concert celebrating the 86-year-old composer’s long productivity.

Tom Jacobs - April 3, 2023

The Venezuelan conductor has been floated as a successor to Gustavo Dudamel, but right now he just wants to focus on his upcoming concerts with the LA Phil.

Tom Jacobs - April 3, 2023

SFCV chats with one of the pioneers in American composition about how the “minimalist” label doesn’t do his movement justice.

Richard S. Ginell - March 28, 2023

The newly minted Grammy Award winner delivers a remarkably polished set at The Soraya.

Josef Woodard - March 28, 2023

The premiere of Esmail’s work about water and the environment makes a powerful impression alongside Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem.