Orchestral Music

LA Philharmonic

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Wavelength Festival Puts an Eclectic Face on Pacific Symphony

With the seasonal upswing of festival season, it's only fitting that Orange County participates in the boom and hosts a genre-blurring festival equipped with a little something for everyone. The inaugural Wavelength Festival features big name artists from a variety of genres and OC's own Pacific Sym ... More >>

Singin' in the Rain with Live Score

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Camera Lucida

Irvine Barclay Theater

Sundays at Soka

Soka Performing Arts Center

Mozart Classical Orchestra: Happy Birthday, Mozart

Irvine Barclay Theater

André Watts Plays Brahms

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

La Boheme

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

The Problem With Romance in 'The Deep Blue Sea'

Lovers try to stay above water

Nomi

Detroit Bar

Gustavo Dudamel Appearing on Sesame Street

​LA Philharmonic's dashing music director Gustavo Dudamel is guesting on PBS' Sesame Street on Monday, Feb. 6 for the first time ever. Dudamel and Elmo are going to play together by "conducting a sheep playing a violin, an octopus playing the drums and a chorus of penguins singing opera."

Long Beach Symphony Orchestra's Enrique Arturo Diemecke Explains the Musical Joke

​Two things pop into my head when I hear the term "musical joke." One is something along the lines of Tenacious D or those classic Adam Sandler Saturday Night Live sketches. You know--stuff that's meant to be funny.The other is a lot less positive and brings to mind the word "trainwreck." We've al ... More >>

Mark Hix Big Band

Steamers Jazz Club

Five Questions with Long Beach Symphony Orchestra Singer Tony DeSare

​Here's the thing about the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra's POPS! concerts: You might not think you'd want to go, but you'd be wrong. Take me for example.When I was a wee lad, I thought the music world began at the Germs and ended at Jawbreaker. I guess you could say I've expanded my horizons sinc ... More >>

Sarah Chang

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Classical Music for Dummies: Eight Composers for the Longing Musicalista in You

Mozart: Not on the list, but doesn't he look like a hipster in this picture?​It seems like every other week I come across people who have a budding tendency within themselves to be more enthusiastic about classical music. Whether a hipster, rocker, or person somewhat regretting that he/she never ... More >>

A Tribute to Ray Charles

Long Beach Convention Center

Idina Menzel

Orange County Performing Arts Center

Leila Josefowicz

Orange County Performing Arts Center

Lynn Harrell and John Kimura Parker

Cerritos Center

La Traviata

Cerritos Center

Lecture: What Makes Music Beautiful?

Irvine Barclay Theatre

Last Saturday: Long Beach Symphony Orchestra

​ ITwo reasons brought me to the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night. First, I'm always on the prowl for something new, and to me, the symphony is definitely something new. The second reason was because I had been locked down by the flu for two weeks and I had enough of staying in bed ... More >>

Eight Questions with Rick Berry

​Rick Berry's a lot of things. Some of these things include jazz trumpeter (currently in the Hollywood Canteen Swing Band), political candidate (he ran for Long Beach city council) and gardener (he's got a killer backyard garden). But to the rest of the world, he's got a new title that is pretty d ... More >>

Pacific Symphony Offering 50% Off Tickets

Courtesy of Pacific Symphony​Who doesn't love a good sale--especially in these dreary economic times? Here's one: the Pacific Symphony is celebrating its upcoming season--their 20th year with musical director/conductor Carl St.Clair, pictured--with a chance to score some half-price tickets.Thi ... More >>

Last Night: Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara, the New Pornographers at the Hollywood Bowl

Just watch the fireworks.Last Night: Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara and the New Pornographers at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles; July 5, 2009.Better than: Staying home and celebrating the Fifth of July, the sacred holiday commemorating the cloning of Dolly the Sheep in 1996.Minor celebrity s ... More >>

OC Turns Brit as 'BritWeek' Begins

Is Tony Blair a Freemason? The video above seems to think so. Oddly, some evidence behind the claim is provided by Martin Short, although it is unclear if he was doing so as himself, Jiminy Glick, Ed Grimley, Katharine Hepburn or Jackie Rogers Jr. What is as clear as London fog is the freewheelin ... More >>

My Neighbor is Famous

Ok, not really. But he is a musician and he's playing Saturday.His name is Darrin Thaves and he's a flutist. Let me go on record right now as saying this: If you have to live within earshot of a professional musician who not only practices all day, but gives lessons in their spare time, make it a fl ... More >>

Power Piano

Rachmaninoff's Mighty Third

Kid Envy

Operatic Fusion

Salute to Vienna

Orange County Performing Arts Center

The Glory of Christmas

The Crystal Cathedral

Bright Lights

Bernstein on Broadway

Starry 
Night

Don McLean

Organ Loner

Voodoo Organist

On the Virg

Dido & Aeneas

Get Stoney

Stone Soup

Bohemian Rhapsody

Czech Philharmonic

Self-Sufficient

This OC Philharmonic design house has all the toys

Aural Reports

Beauty and Biology
DJ Ziba Z.

Gratitude for Being

Pulchritudinous Performer

Joshua Bells concert violin is easy on the ears and eyes

The Lemons of Orange

The Pacific Symphonys vanity fair

Pimp My House

The Philharmonic Society of Orange Countys annual House of Design is in full bloom

The Substitute Soundtrack

Epiphanies

Any Lengths

All about the booing at Segerstrom Hall

Strings & Things

Rage Against the Classical Machine

Christopher Russell leads the OCHSA orchestra into new terrain

Classical Punk

Bach, Bartok, Hendrix scream from Kennedy's bow