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.
Classical insiders, like conductor JoAnn Falletta, have major issues with the film’s veracity, but they’re still fascinated.
In Variations on a Theme by FDR, composers from John Harbison to Vijay Iyer take inspiration from emblematic American stories.