Carl St. Clair will conduct the Puccini classic La Bohème one more time this Tuesday at 8 pm. The next LACMA's Sundays Live brings Juilliard's Jerome Lowenthal to perform with Nadia Schpachenko. Saturday night brings an end to Pasadena Symphony's season.
Classical Pick of the Week: La Bohème, Lowenthal at LACMA, and Brewer with the Pasadena Symphony
Classical Pick of the Week: A Various Grouping
Slim pickings to choose from this Thanksgiving week and that makes it hard to choose just one. Friday through Sunday, the LA Phil will be playing Brahms' "Double Concerto" and Dvorák's killer Symphony No. 9 "From the New World," while the LA Opera opens two shows that will play on alternating dates: Don Giovanni and La Boheme. Tonight at Sundays Live, the free concert at LACMA, is Franz Schubert's "Quintet in C Major, D. 956"...
This Week in Classical Picks: Noisy Night
If the above photo does not look anything like a night of Mozart or Tchaikovsky, you're right. Enter 20th Century Classical music where some composers went into non-linear forms, chance and improvisation. Part of the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound's (SASSAS) sound. series, "Noisy Night features eight players from heavy metal and harsh noise, two idioms with rich and similarly subversive histories. Improvisational ensembles will be created using...

