The AFI Fest opened Wednesday night back at its home, the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and runs through Sunday, highlighted by world premieres of awaited new films from past American Film Institute Life Achievement Award […]
When Gustavo Dudamel became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic 15 years ago, the ensemble had already under Esa-Pekka Salonen become the orchestra of the future, playing far more new music than another in […]
Rhino is celebrating The Doors’ 60th anniversary with a massive release campaign including a vinyl box set, live album, and anthology book. The 6-LP box set arrives November 22nd and will surely get collectors salivating. […]
In the summer of 1965, Ray Manzarek had a chance encounter on Venice Beach with Jim Morrison, a young poet whom he knew when they were both students at UCLA’s film school. Jim told Ray […]
Renowned Mexican hitmaker Edgar Barrera has once again secured the top position in the list of nominees for the Latin Grammy Awards, receiving nine remarkable nominations for the 2024 annual ceremony. His nods include recognition […]
Natalia Lafourcade is sitting on a bench with her guitar in hand in the middle of the Blue Ribbon Garden, situated atop the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It’s a dreary Saturday in early May and […]
It was a lovely Hollywood Bowl opening night for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Warm day led to a pleasant evening with but a hint of chill in the air. The new parking scheme, with fewer […]
The Los Angeles Philharmonic led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel earned major nods Friday in the 2024 Grammy Award nominations, led by their performance of the fantastical “Adès: Dante.” Dudamel — who announced in February that […]
The Boston Symphony made the surprise announcement Monday that this fall its next president and chief executive will be current Los Angeles Philharmonic CEO Chad Smith. In his two decades at the L.A. Phil, of […]
Getty Image It’s not often that we here at Brobible dot com cover orchestra concerts. But an incredible story out of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from over the weekend just couldn’t go uncovered. The LA […]
Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Frank Gehry-designed home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a 2023-24 season that will pay tribute to the hall and its architect, the orchestra […]
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic, March 9, 2022. Chris Lee/New York Philharmonic hide caption toggle caption Chris Lee/New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic, March 9, 2022. Chris Lee/New York […]
Janet Jackson will take the stage for opening night of the Hollywood Bowl’s 2023 season. Joining her on June 10 will be Ludacris and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s own Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, […]
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel, posing during a photo session at Paris’ Opera Bastille in Sept. 2022. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images Conductor Gustavo Dudamel, posing during a […]
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have earned a Grammy Award nod for best orchestral performance alongside another L.A. nominee, conductor Christopher Rountree’s experimental new music chamber orchestra, Wild Up. The two groups are […]
Photo Credit: Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall has announced its full comeback season for 2022 through 2023, with over 150 concerts scheduled. “Since Carnegie hall re-opened from its extended closure seven months ago, it has been […]
Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are surely our two most popular and trend-setting classical pianists. They gave almost back-to-back recitals at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday and Wednesday nights, respectively, and drew expectably large, […]
Sometime after leaving Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday afternoon, milling around and talking to others struck by the power of Zubin Mehta’s performance of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, […]
The Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara has a wonderful tradition of presenting a community concert each summer, with all seats $10 for adults and free for young people 7 to 17 accompanied […]
Shared from www.latimes.com. As long as we have prisons and government, and as long as profit and power remain factors in that equation, we do well to keep the warning of “Fidelio” in our cultural […]