Los Angeles Philharmonic News

Clearly, the West Coast, Left Coast festival would have been remiss without nodding to Frank Zappa, one of Los Angeles' greatest and least easily categorized musical mavericks, whose work was the star of Tuesday's Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Frank Zappa would give you a sneer and a sarcastic response whenever the word "respectable" was mentioned, but in fact, he did want to be recognized as a serious American composer - if on his own terms.

The Classical Kaleidoscope concert series will host a free concert at 7:15 p.m. Dec.

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel wears one. Hans Graf at the Houston Symphony does not.

A week after raising the roof of Walt Disney Concert Hall with a powerful reading of Verdi's Requiem, Gustavo Dudamel, still in demonstration mode as the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, went in a different direction.

November is always packed tightly with important classical music events but this year's schedule is even more noteworthy, due in part to the Los Angeles Philharmonic's three-week-long "West Coast/Left Coast" festival.

Three Jewish classical musicians at the height of their powers will come together here next weekend for the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the Kansas City Symphony.

The American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, who appears Thursday night at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, has sung major opera roles in some of the largest and most important houses in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala.

Brooklyn-based experimental rockers, Dirty Projectors , will make their debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday, February 27, in a co-headlining performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic .

Gustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdi's Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Matthew's presents pianist Andrew von Oeyen in a solo recital of music by Liszt, Schubert and Mozart on Friday, November 13 at 8 p.m. at St.

The "cover" photograph for the DG Concerts release of the performance of Mahler's first symphony by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel Having been interested enough in Gustavo Dudamel's debut as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to write about both its broadcast on Public Television and the Deutsche ...

The public face of American orchestral music changed radically this autumn. For the first time, conductors from ethnic minorities have taken the helm at two of the country's most important ensembles.

Gustavo Dudamel is the conductor and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 4:42PM EDT T in Toronto on Monday The Glenn Gould Foundation really hit the jackpot when it picked Jose Antonio Abreu as the latest winner of the $50,000 Glenn Gould Prize.

Maestro Manfred Honeck is crafting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra into a graceful ensemble capable of the subtlest of Viennese nuances.

WHEN a music director takes the helm of a major American orchestra, the inaugural concert should be not just a musical celebration but a statement of artistic mission.

Be glad that you're not Gustavo Dudamel this week. The new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic - and easily the world's hottest young conductor - is the subject of PBS's Great Performances in a presentation that, when not devoted to actual music-making, is so embarrassing or full of hyperbole that a lesser being would hide in a locked ...

In fall 2009, music sensation Gustavo Dudamel will become the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Music is in the air at PBS. Take your front row seats to the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a new young superstar assumes the conductor's baton.