Otto Klemperer

Music review: Bernard Labadie, Benedetto Lupo with the L.A. Phil

2011-12-17 16:32:58

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The Mahler Project: The composer in L.A.

2012-01-07 16:33:09

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Kurt Sanderling dies at 98; admired conductor under Soviets

2011-09-19 00:00:00

Kurt Sanderling, who led the Leningrad Philharmonic and the East Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Soviet rule and won admirers in the West later in his career as a guest conductor for orchestras in London, Los Angeles and elsewhere, has died. He was 98....

Learning to love Gustav Mahler

2010-03-14 00:00:00

One evening in 1966, not long after the Los Angeles Philharmonic moved into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, concertgoers were surprised to find a picket line in front of the hall on opening night. Though picket lines were a dime a dozen in the '60s, this...

Music review: Gustavo Dudamel and Gil Shaham play Mozart and Berg

2009-11-20 16:32:43

Music review: Zubin Mehta returns to the L.A. Philharmonic*

2009-12-11 16:32:44

Music review: Dudamel takes on Bernstein and Gershwin at the Bowl

2010-08-04 16:33:05

PASSINGS

2009-03-21 00:00:00

Robert K. Soost Expert on citrus plants Robert K. Soost, 88, an internationally known expert on citrus breeding and a longtime professor of botany and plant sciences at UC Riverside, died of a heart attack March 8 at Petaluma Valley Hospital in...

'The Rest Is Noise, Listening to the Twentieth Century' by Alex Ross

2008-09-23 10:28:30

[This Book Review originally ran in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 11, 2007] A unified, comprehensive history of 20th century music is the philosopher's stone of modern criticism: How to transmute such vast, maddening complexity into conceptual gold? It's...

Mitchell Lurie dies at 86; world-renowned clarinetist taught at USC

2008-11-30 00:00:00

Mitchell Lurie, a world-renowned clarinetist and clarinet teacher who taught for many years at USC and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 86. Lurie, who had been in ill health in recent years, died of pneumonia Monday at his...

Riccardo Muti, el director de orquesta fiel a las partituras

2011-05-04 00:00:00

A retreat charges on

2006-06-04 00:00:00

In the summer of 1955, "Stravinsky scarcely moved from Wetherly Drive," writes Stephen Walsh in the newly published second volume of his biography of the composer. Stravinsky scarcely moved because his arthritis was acting up and because he had music to...

ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF: A supreme interpreter of Mozart, Strauss and Wolf, among others, she sang with such conductors as Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Otto Klemperer and Herbert von Karajan.

2006-08-03 23:13:58