Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians perform classical music for Upper West Side voters outside the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in New York. In April, ...

Gustavo Dudamel, left, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Kristy Edmunds. (Photo illustration by Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images; Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times ...

Today would have been Ennio Morricone's 92nd birthday! Morricone is responsible for over 500 film and TV scores and is best known for his work in the Spaghetti Western genre. Some of his more popular ...

The year 2020 was, in so many ways, divided. In terms of live performances, musicians were forced to reinvent, reflect and respond from a distance and in turn I watched their concerts from the remove ...

Music this holiday season takes on heightened importance. As our world is upended, music is what we can rely on to fill our home and hearts with the holiday spirit. Who would have ever guessed that ...

2020 began with orchestral and vocal concerts, recitals and ballet. Then came March and the world stopped — but the music didn't. Ensembles and individuals innovated new ways to deliver performances ...

Principal guest conductor Gemma New leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, March 6, 2020. Brandon Wade / Special Contributor Shortly after earning the position ...

What exactly is required for a meaningful musical encounter? A big hall? A formally attired orchestra? A large, cheering audience? Turns out the answer is none of the above. This was a manifestly ...

Last month, architect Frank Gehry and Los Angeles Philharmonic CEO Chad Smith gave me a masked hard-hat tour of the nearly finished Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood. Gehry’s ...

This was the grimly honest way mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges described to me what happened this year — to her fast-rising career, and to all of classical music after the coronavirus pandemic forced the ...