Despite the homecoming theme, the limelight was on six emerging composers for this year’s welcome return to a live festival.
The company opens its season with a new production of Verdi’s flawed masterpiece.
The pianist takes unpredictable but always absorbing creative risks on his new album.
The bass-baritone created a spiritual space without dogma in a Monday Evening Concerts performance.
The West Coast premiere of Anthony Davis’s Restless Mourning highlights a chamber concert of memorial pieces.
Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Jamie Barton thrill in a festive evening that transcended a few challenges.
The tenor and pianist are in perfect synch in this savvy, well-recorded collection of songs expressing joy and sorrow.
A new disc featuring commissions for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra reveals the charms of a once-popular composer who deserves wider recognition.
The Czech National Symphony Orchestra renders three Mendoza compositions with soprano Julia Bullock and saxophonist Joshua Redman joining in.
The new chamber opera melds diverse strands of music, dance, and poetry to explore timeless themes of living in challenging times.