Astor Piazzolla

Blame it on Lawrence Welk. If you're unfamiliar with that name, members of the American Accordionists' Association will give you an extra-warm welcome to their festival in Baltimore this week. Accordionists in this country have long struggled with the...

Guitarist/composer Michael Musillami's trio, his alliance with his longtime friends and collaborators, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller, is a superb, finely tuned unit, empathetic, swinging and dramatically expressive of emotions sweeping...

Violinist Eric Lawson and guitarist Jeffrey Anvinson will present a recital at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Petoskey. Tickets are not required; donations appreciated. The program will include classical works by Carulli and...

The Argentine troupe Tango Buenos Aires featured requisite slinking, slithering and strutting, as five couples hooked up, broke up and eventually reunited onstage Friday at the recently renamed Segerstrom Center for the Arts. But what the company didn’t...

A certain word tumbles frequently from Gustavo Dudamel's lips these days: marvelous, or maravilloso in his native Spanish. Ask him about the weeks he spent in L.A. last fall, when he formally took up the reins as 11th music director of the Los Angeles...

Mandolinist extraordinaire Chris Thile is only 28, but already he has shocked or changed the world in which he operates several times. First, there was his breakout work with the acoustic trio Nickel Creek. More recently with the Punch Brothers,......

The words "Charles Dutoit" have not always been paired with “well-liked.” But it does not pay, in the prickly orchestra world, to jump to conclusions. The 73-year-old conductor led an irresistibly vibrant concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in...