A number of well-known composers have died on the job and received Academy Award nominations for their final works.
In his penultimate year with the orchestra, Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel plans to have fun with a favorite composer.
Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads an LA Phil premiere and then collaborates with Daniil Trifonov on Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto.
Monday Evening Concerts is the city’s longest-running new-music series, but many similar efforts in L.A. share the same family tree.