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.
In Variations on a Theme by FDR, composers from John Harbison to Vijay Iyer take inspiration from emblematic American stories.
The company realizes Jack Perla’s one-act An American Dream in vivid detail.
A DVD of the new ballet shows its onstage brilliance in addition to being a great score.
The Soraya brings to fruition a trilogy of works celebrating native California trees that are now threatened by climate change.
The tight-knight vocal ensemble that specializes in the music of Eastern Europe has been developing BABA with conductor Karmina Šilec.
Brubeck’s The Gates of Justice, a 1969 piece very different from his up-tempo jazz standards, gets two performances in L.A. this month.
