This week's classical picks include performances by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich, Nigel Armstrong and Andrew Shulman. more ›

Ralph Kirshbaum is kind of a big deal, and is performing with LACO this weekend. more ›

All this talk about Siri reminds us of good our friend Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey. You know what else does? Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra, which the Pacific Symphony is performing this Thursday Friday and Saturday at 8 PM. more ›

Good news! LACO announced their 2011-2012 season and Jeffrey Kahane's contract has been renewed for two more seasons. Next season highlights include some Golijov, chef and music pairings, Ralph Kirshbaum, and some father-son collaborations with Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane (composer/vocalist). more ›

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra wants to take you on an exciting musical journey, where the listener can travel back in time to 1787 Prague and the debut of Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D major, and then to the genre-bending realm of the work of Derek Bermel's Mar de Setembro (“September Sea”), and we are giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the Saturday, May 14th performance. more ›

Next weekend, LACO brings Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker to LA to perform Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. If you missed out in January, don't miss out on this weekend's program which includes Dvorak's Serenade in E Major for Strings and John Harbison's Gli accordi più usati (“The Most Often Used Chords”). more ›

If you haven't entered to win tickets to go see LACO perform Beethoven's 7th Symphony, click here. You can double your chances by entering on Facebook as well. Carl St. Clair is conducting, so you can see what all the fuss is about without driving all the way to the OC. more ›

We return to our regularly scheduled programming to announce the opening of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's 2010-2011 season, this Saturday and Sunday. One of the most well known violinists in the world, Leila Josefowicz, is to perform the Prokofiev Violin Concerto no. 1 with the orchestra, along with conductor... more ›

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is busy these days, performing beautiful music this weekend in Glendale and in Westwood, followed up by a performance next Thursday in Santa Monica. The latter concert is part of their "Westside Connections," which presents chamber music with a twist--in lieu of program notes, works are introduced from stage and there is a question-and-answer session. This is one of those unique value-added aspects that makes LACO a premiere orchestra in Los Angeles. more ›

The clip above is an excerpt from an opera by John Adams. This opera will be one of the pieces performed this week in Los Angeles. It's interesting to see the progression of music from the Baroque period into the 21st century. These concerts this week allow you to see this progression first-hand (although the jump might be so drastic that you might find it difficult to make any connections, if at all). more ›

Maurice Ravel was born on March 7th, 1875. The French composer is famous for his lush melodies and brilliant orchestration (see Ravel's orchestration of Mussgorsky's Pictures at an Exhibition). His piano works are considered some of the most difficult to perform on piano even to this day (see Scarbo). Martha Argerich is considered one of the premier interpreters of Ravel; she will perform La Valse and the Piano Concerto in G Major with the LA Phil this week. Since she is in high demand, she is scheduled to play four concerts this week, from Thursday to Sunday. She has been flaky in the past few years for various reasons, but there seems to be no issues this time (she performed Prokofiev 3rd last year as well) and you will be in for a treat. more ›

For the first time, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra this year is producing a series of concerts, entitled Westside Connections, that take "a look at the connections between music and other artistic disciplines." Last month, former National Endowment for the Arts chairman and Californian poet Dana Gioia took the stage with the music group and next week Thursday three-time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will read poetry between Mozart's Quintet in E-flat major for Piano and Winds and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”). more ›

With Christmas rapidly approaching, we are taking this opportunity to inform you about ALL of the upcoming holiday concerts. Although you'll be hard-pressed to find any high quality freebies these days, you can always count on some free concerts to keep your family/date entertained for a few hours. All the free concerts are listed in bold. We will list them in chronological order, after a few updates. If there is an event you feel is missing, please feel free to add them in the comments section. more ›

Our contest for tomorrow night's Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concert featuring a Marimba concerto has come and gone, but that doesn't mean there are not other perks to be had. more ›

Since Los Angeles isn't much of a Winter wonderland, one way we try to get into the Christmas spirit is by watching some wonderful concerts by our local artists and establishments. First off is Handel's , a three hour long masterpiece (luckily they have an intermission) with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Disney Hall. Luckily if you can't make it tonight, there is a repeat of the program on the 15th. The exciting thing about this concert though, is it's a sing-along! After this, you can mention on your resume or biography that you performed at the Disney Hall! Now isn't that something. more ›

The LACO has been a major contributor to the music scene in Los Angeles for 40 years. You've probably heard their musicians in many movies, music recordings, and seen them (the mural of an orchestra on the 110? The LACO). How about seeing them live? LAist has covered them several times before, and this year is a good year to check them out for yourself. more ›

Now that it's officially Autumn, the Los Angeles classical music scene begins to populate the already crowded local culture calendars. One of those groups you've probably seen a multitude of times, but never have heard a note plucked or bowed from them. That's because a mural of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) towers over the 110 Freeway downtown in Kent Twitchell's "Harbor Freeway Overture." This week, LACO begins their 07/08 season on on... more ›