Yo-Yo Ma

L.A. Phil announces 2013-14 season: From Amadeus to Zappa

2013-02-25 12:00:00

The music will range from A to Z -- Amadeus to Zappa, that is -- when the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates its 10th anniversary season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2013-14. In marking the occasion, the Phil also will attempt both to look back at...

Review: Caravaggio is boldly painted with music at LACMA

2013-02-08 06:00:00

Caravaggio is a great subject for music. There are fascinating parallels between the way the artist helped usher in modern painting at the turn of the 17th century and the way his Italian contemporaries Monteverdi and Gesualdo laid the foundations for...

2013 Obama inauguration avoiding classical music gaffe of 2009

2013-01-21 04:10:00

One mark of a competent chief executive – especially one responsible for leading a nation – is an ability to learn from past mistakes. On that count, President Obama’s omission of classical music from his second inauguration ceremony...

A few of her favorite things in Santa Barbara

2013-01-02 15:03:00

Every time I come to Santa Barbara, I find something new to like. Not exactly secrets, just favorite things, and I'm not talking about raindrops on roses, though they probably have those too in that golden town 90 miles up the coast from L.A. Here are...

Kennedy Center Honors' selection process set for a review

2013-01-08 08:30:00

After receiving criticism from the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, the Kennedy Center is revisiting its artist selection process for the Kennedy Center Honors.�� The Kennedy Center has announced that an 11-member artist advisory panel...

2013 Grammy Award nominees

2012-12-06 17:03:00

Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...

London Symphony to pretend to play for Olympics ceremony

2012-06-04 06:56:00

Musicians with the London Symphony Orchestra are reportedly going to have to pull a Milli Vanilli when they appear at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in London. Reports from Britain state that the orchestra will mimic playing to...

Review: 'Reinventing Bach' by Paul Elie casts a wide net

2012-09-30 00:00:00

-------------------- Reinventing Bach Paul Elie Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 498 pp., $30.00 -------------------- Halfway through reading Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that Bach...

Travel with a classic touch, and a picnic blanket, to Massachusetts' Tanglewood

2012-07-12 13:24:00

Lenox, Mass. — Travelers come to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts for the mountains and the museums, the camping and the theater, the just-off-the-boil summer days that fade into cool evenings and single-blanket nights. But most of all they...

Reader photos: Southern California Moments, Day 224

2012-08-11 16:03:48

Lady Liberty

2012-06-01 16:39:50

Friday’s Highlights: 'Goat Rodeo Live' on KOCE

2012-05-24 21:37:17

Aug. 18; with Yo-Yo Ma, Cello; Stuart Duncan, Fiddle; Edgar Meyer, Bass; Chris Thile, Mandolin

2013-03-06 12:54:00

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma reacts in mock surprise at the ovation he receives from Chicago Public School students at Swift Elementary School in Chicago.

2013-03-04 00:00:00

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs the Prelude to Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Chicago Public School students.

2013-03-04 00:00:00