Composer Héctor Armienta's new opera, based on the famous novel by Rudolfo Anaya, is an ambitious work that needs to spread its wings.
A curious pairing of the hip ensemble with singer Will Oldham has curious results.
Edgy, polygenre music underscores Lamar's idiosyncratic philosophy in a 10-song cycle.
The Baroque masterpiece comes to life at Zellerbach, with an unfamiliar ending.
After only half the festival, Helgi Tomasson's company is already well-stocked with new pieces.
The whole was less than the sum of its parts in this ambitious reading of Beethoven's Ninth.
The Beninese jazz guitarist and his transnational cohort feed off each other at Yoshi's.
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier's arrangement of Daphnis et Chloé is the highlight.
An Ernő Dohnányi quartet is an unexpected pleasure.
Deprived of a Ted Hearne premiere, Gustavo Dudamel still led a fascinating concert, soon to be reprised in London.
