Charles Ives

With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra heading home later this week from its tour of the Far East, the CSO Association is wasting no time releasing the programs and artists to be presented during the fall season at Symphony Center. The orchestra's 2013-...

Frank Zappa probably would have been intrigued. The Chicago Jazz Orchestra's brave, often brilliant, sometimes thrilling, somewhat flawed Zappa tribute at the Park West on Saturday night gave his music a spotlight it does not routinely receive in the...

Prometheus was a Titan of ancient Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods in order to enlighten mankind. By opening its Wednesday evening program at the Williams Center Wednesday night with Beethoven’s overture of that name, the Orpheus Chamber...

Compser James Matheson -- whose new violin concerto is a co-commission between the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony -- is the winner of the Charles Ives Living, an award organized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The prize...

Violinist Hilary Hahn loves to mix things up, performing brand new works of vastly different styles shoulder-to-shoulder with the more familiar classics. So it came as no surprise when she informed the audience at Central Moravian Church Saturday night...

The longtime Los Angeles-based music arranger Van Dyke Parks discusses the new collection of his early work, "Arrangements, Vol. 1," as well as his unlikely turn as Skrillex's arranger....

A review of Hilary Hahn and her encores project at Walt Disney Concert Hall...

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra began its 42nd season Saturday at the Alex Theater without its music director, Jeffrey Kahane. Sidelined by mononucleosis and reportedly told by doctors not to rehearse or perform until he’s fully recovered, Kahane...

Jacaranda, the Santa Monica new music series, began its season over the weekend with “strong sincere voices nurtured while America was inventing itself afresh,” as wrote artistic director Patrick Scott in his detailed program notes. Such invention...

Mark Swed reviews the San Francisco Symphony recording of "A Concord Symphony" and Copland's "Organ" Symphony led by Michael Tilson Thomas....

The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater in downtown Los Angeles will announce its lineup for the first half of 2011 Thursday. The roster, featuring the usual mix of theater, art, music and film, will include programs dedicated to artist-composer George......

It???s nothing new for contemporary singers to dig into the depths of the American Songbook for material. But what Thomas Hampson is up to might be considered a full-blown archeological excavation by comparison. The seminal baritone, who is in recital.......