Tag: Beethoven

Picks of the Week: Dec. 2 – 6 (Wed. – Sun.) in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Chicago and New York City

By Don Heckman Los Angeles   – Dec. 3 – 5. (Thurs. – Sat.) The Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, presents a program of Bach and Mendelssohn. Violinist Gil Shaham is featured in a pair of Bach Concertos. The Philharmonic takes the spotlight with Mendelsohn’s Symphony No 1 and Overture for Harmoniemusik. An… Read More Picks of the Week: Dec. 2 – 6 (Wed. – Sun.) in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Chicago and New York City

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Live Chamber Music: The Elias String Quartet at the Southern Oregon University Music Recital Hall

By Don Heckman Ashland, Oregon.  The Elias String Quartet was the headliner Friday night at the SOU Music Recital Hall —  the  last ensemble in the Chamber Music Concerts 2014-2015 schedule of stellar string quartet performances.  And the  CMC  couldn’t have made a better choice to top off their string quartet season. The string quartet… Read More Live Chamber Music: The Elias String Quartet at the Southern Oregon University Music Recital Hall

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Live Music: The Tesla String Quartet at Southern Oregon University Music Recital Hall

By Don Heckman Ashland, Oregon. The performance by the Tesla String Quartet Saturday afternoon at the SOU Music Recital Hall was a virtual definition of the far ranging fascinations of string quartet music. The Tesla players – violinists Ross Snyder and Michelle Lie, cellist Serafim Smigelskiy and violist Edwin Kaplan – offered an impressive program… Read More Live Music: The Tesla String Quartet at Southern Oregon University Music Recital Hall

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Live Music: The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at Royce Hall

By Don Heckman Los Angeles CA. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra can always be counted on to deliver an evening of rich musicality. And Sunday night’s performance at Royce Hall in Westwood was no exception. The headline event in a rich program was Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. But, typically, LACO Music Director Jeffrey Kahane also… Read More Live Music: The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at Royce Hall

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Live Music: Gustavo Dudamel Conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in an evening of Beethoven.

By Don Heckman It was warm at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night – warm verging toward hot, one of those Bowl evenings when the temperature, and conversations about the temperature, can distract listeners from the music on stage. But not on this night, a night in which Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A.… Read More Live Music: Gustavo Dudamel Conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in an evening of Beethoven.

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Picks of the Week: July 21 – 27 In Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris and Tokyo

By Don Heckman It’s another warm Summer week, with many international jazz clubs shuttered in their annual July -August hiatus. But there’s still some fine music to be heard. Los Angeles – July 22. (Tues.) Strunz and Farah. The dynamic guitar duo of Costa Rica’s Jorge Strunz and Iran’s Ardeshir Farah, showcase their irresistibly eclectic… Read More Picks of the Week: July 21 – 27 In Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris and Tokyo

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Live Music: Tales of Madness and the Glass Harmonica

By Jane Rosenberg Los Angeles. Though the name, glass harmonica, sounds more like an imaginary instrument from a children’s book, it is the very real invention of Benjamin Franklin.  During a recent back stage tour of LA Opera’s upcoming production of Lucia di Lammermoor, Thomas Bloch, a renowned soloist of the glass harmonica, along with… Read More Live Music: Tales of Madness and the Glass Harmonica

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Live Music: The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at Royce Hall

By Don Heckman Always eager to display their fascination with a far-ranging selection of music, the skilled players of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra once again showcased their remarkable versatility Sunday night in a CAP UCLA concert at Royce Hall. The program reached across more than two centuries, from Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in… Read More Live Music: The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at Royce Hall

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Live Music: The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra a la carte — in Westwood and Pacific Palisades

By Don Heckman The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has been making pioneering efforts to find new methods, new settings and new approaches to presenting classical music.  Among their many programs, one of the most engaging is their fund-raising, LACO a la carte series, which showcases individual members of LACO, performing for intimate gatherings in the… Read More Live Music: The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra a la carte — in Westwood and Pacific Palisades

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