In a Cal Performances concert that seemed designed to push contrasts, you came away with a sense of the quartet’s remarkable unanimity.
After more than 50 years, the iconoclast composer’s five-part opera is given its first full reading.
The band of jazz virtuosos goes full tilt on a wide-ranging set that brings out the best in each player.
Finding roses among the thorns with L.A.’s new-music mavens.
The singers are superb, but the production’s temperature is curiously cool.
Every detail of the performances elicited the underlying spirit of these Baroque masterworks.
A lost Shostakovich piano trio emerges in “Art Under a Tombstone.”
Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution and the premiere of Sky Macklay’s Swarm Collecting highlight a diverse program.
The flamenco phenom and his ensemble lift spirits in a whirlwind of music, motion, and passion.
Here’s a group of experienced players that give thoughtful, passionate performances of new music, and do all the little things, too.
