The music of Billy Childs, Gabriella Smith, and Steven Mackey interprets the threat to California’s oldest living things.
But those works are just an anchor for a festival that will embrace everything from the Baroque to the 21st century this season.
Music Director James Conlon devises a citywide celebration of the composer ahead of LA Opera’s production of Pelléas and Mélisande.
The Takács Quartet’s first violinist tracks his own history and those of favorite composers in Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home.
The Soraya brings to fruition a trilogy of works celebrating native California trees that are now threatened by climate change.
