Peter Maxwell Davies

Works described as avant-garde still often look back, and that gave some unity to very different pieces at Monday night's MusicNOW concert at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. All from the 21st century, the scores were by British, American and...

Mark Swed looks at how Ken Russell was influenced by music and how he influenced music....

Oxford University Press has confirmed that an abridged version of William Walton's "Crown Imperial March" will be the recessional music played when Prince William and Kate Middleton walk back down the the aisle at Westminster Abbey after their wedding...

When it comes time for “Green Umbrella,” the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s bold, bright and long-standing new-music series, the spotlight is typically on music of our time. On Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, however, it was time to pay homage........

Manchester, England If you live in Los Angeles long enough, you forget how intoxicating height can be. Here I was, 23 stories up in the coolest new hotel in northwestern England, looking across several counties and several centuries. The bar at the...