William Bolcom

INDIAN RIVER -- For the seventh year, Gloria Kitto Lewis of Bay View will present a violin recital with her friends in the Ann Arbor Camerata. The concert will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 29, at Cross in the Woods, Indian River. They will perform...

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is all about brand-new this month. Two weeks after premiering David T. Little's Baltimore-inspired "Charm," the BSO is set to premiere another commissioned work — "Chuphshah! Harriet's Drive to Canaan," by James...

The 2012-2013 season at Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts will feature acts ranging from The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma and Huey Lewis and the News to the rock musical “Hair” and “Yellow Dubmarine,” a reggae...

1. Giving back Musicians of Christ United Methodist Church will present a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, to support a mission trip to tornado-ravaged counties in Alabama. Sponsored by the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Christ United Methodist...

Mark Swed reviews the exhilarating modern music collective wild Up, as it mashes up the avant-garde Postmodernism of Clarence Barlow with punk rock....

The Ojai Music Festival -- one of the country's premier venues for new music -- will feature a typically eclectic line-up for its 2012 edition, curated by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Prior to the summer festival, organizers will host a one-evening gala...

The Pacific Symphony has gone Greek this week with the world premiere of "Prometheus." Composer William Bolcom's new work for solo piano, orchestra and chorus will be performed Thursday through Saturday night by the Costa Mesa-based symphony. The...

Jeffrey Biegel is a pianist with a dazzling technique, superb musicianship and a flair for the unnecessary. He has recorded a piano version of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and Christmas carols from a classical pianist’s point of view. He enticed...

"Who says that only Americans know how to play Gershwin?" asks Gramophone magazine this month as it hails a new Gershwin CD from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the German orchestra that calls itself the world's oldest. "By this time possibly nobody," the British...

"Vulgar." "Clumsy." "Worthless and unplayable." These were some of the words used initially to describe Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 some 135 years ago. Indeed, they did harm to the Russian composer universally revered today but who, in his...

Sooner or later, California musicians, and especially Southern Californians, must come to terms with Hollywood. Some embrace it artistically. Others sell their souls to the studio devil. There are those who dream of a stroll down the Academy Awards aisle....