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Pierre Boulez talking about Sur Incises, which you can hear this Tuesday with Boulez himself conducting the LA Phil. The Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group is putting on a free concert on Tuesday at 8 PM at what is soon to be named the "Ernest Fleischmann Square". The naming of the square takes place at 1 PM at 1st and Grand, between the Disney Hall and the Music Center.

If you can't make it to the LA Opera for Britten's Turn of the Screw, Alisa Weilerstein is making her return to the Disney Hall (you might remember her from last year's performance of the Dvorak Cello Concerto) with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in an all-Russian program.

March 7th: The Joffrey Ballet makes their Santa Barbara debut Monday night at 8 PM. The company has the distinction of being the only dance ensemble to appear on the cover of TIME, should be a nice performance if you're in the area. The performance is at the Granada Theatre and you can get tickets here.

It's a good week to be in LA. Dudamel returns to conduct Bruckner, eighth blackbird is performing in Fullerton, and Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic this Tuesday at the Disney Hall.

It's worth watching Dialogues of the Carmelites just for this. The LA Opera kicks off their next production, Rossini's Il Turco In Italia (society had an obsession for Turkish things way back when). If you missed their first performance yesterday, they have another next Sunday at 2 PM and four performances in March. For a recap on the story, click here (think love pentagon[?]).

Photo by M.Tammaro/Virgin Classics, used with permission Although we're used to seeing newer and younger artists make their debut with the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl, Gautier Capuçon is an exception. Capuçon is already an established musician (well, at least in Europe), and the demand for him has risen considerably stateside as evidenced by his upcoming solo performances with the LA Phil and the SF Symphony (with Charles Dutoit). The cellist is making...

One of the oldest (and most famous) Russian string quartets visits LA to perform a few works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Borodin. Tickets are 15-45 dollars and the concert takes this place next Sunday at 3:30 PM, at Beckman Auditorium in CalTech. For more information, click here.

Some mood music for Valentine's Day. If you're one of the 22% of Americans that don't watch the Super Bowl, you can either check out some of the hottest restaurants in town, go to Disneyland (no lines!) or check out Camerata Pacifica today at 3 PM at the Temple Beth Torah in Ventura. The chamber music ensemble is performing works by Clementi, Schumann, Debussy, and Currier. If you can't make it out there for one reason or another, they are performing at the Huntington Library in Pasadena at 8 PM on Tuesday and on Thursday at 8 PM at Zipper Hall in Downtown.

The Mouse House is a little quiet these days since the LA Phil is on tour for the next few weeks (you can follow their trip on their twitter page and on KUSC's). If you don't mind driving out to the OC, Brazilian pianist Arnaldo Cohen is performing with the Pacific Symphony and Carl St. Clair. The program features Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 ("the Emperor"), a musical tour de force (sorry for the generic description)...

Photo by pareeerica via Flickr One of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, see what all the fuss is about this Tuesday at the OC Performing Arts Center when Lang Lang performs Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto. The concert starts at 8, and includes Shostakovich's Festive Overture and Tchaikovsky's Suite from "Swan Lake" (you know, like that movie). If you're looking for something a little more current, USC has it's annual concert...