Edgar Meyer

Brit­ish roots mu­sic band Mum­ford & Sons took the top hon­or for its album "Ba­bel" at the 55th Grammy Awards ce­re­mony Sunday. The night mostly dis­trib­uted hon­ors broadly to an ar­ray of young­er gen­er­a­tion acts in­clud­ing New York in­die trio Fun., Aus­trali­an elec­tron­ic pop artist Gotye, rap­per-R&B sing­er Frank Ocean and Ak­ron, Ohio, rock group the Black Keys. See the complete list of 2013 Grammy winners and nominees below. #story-body-text h2 { font-weight: bold !

Music Director Jeffrey Kahane will conduct six of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's eight subscription programs in the 1998-99 season, beginning Sept. 26. The first performance will take place in Royce Hall at UCLA; thereafter, each program will be given in Royce Hall on a Friday night, followed on Saturday by a performance at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. With soprano Maria Jette as soloist, Kahane leads the first program, Sept.

Natalie MacMaster strode on stage Saturday night with the confident gait of a performer accustomed to commanding a venue -- even one as large as the Hollywood Bowl. And she proceeded to do precisely that as the guest performer in a program appropriately titled "The Highland Fling: A Celtic Celebration."

The Emerson String Quartet stormed Schoenberg Hall on the UCLA campus Sunday afternoon, beginning its program with a fast, furious, gripping and technically flawless account of Beethoven's Quartet in F minor, Opus 95. The technical perfection, but not the anger, informed as well the G-minor Quartet of Debussy, with the projection of the composer's energetic side and the strength of his melodic lines--rather than his crooning at the moon--providing profound satisfaction.

Epic in dimensions if not intentions, and bursting with sunny tunes, Schubert's Octet makes an occasion of itself whenever it appears. Thursday it turned up in the awesomely assured hands of members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, for a Chamber Music in Historic Sites concert in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

His band's latest album is called “Who's Feeling Young Now?,” but Chris Thile can now count himself a little older and wiser. On Tuesday, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is set to announce this year's recipients of its so-called genius grants, a wide-ranging list of 23 overachievers that reportedly includes Thile, according to the Associated Press . The 31-year-old mandolin whiz first found fame with the teenage bluegrass trio...

For many native Angelenos like Gail Samuel, summertime concerts at the Hollywood Bowl are a Southern California ritual as eagerly anticipated as the opening-day bite of a Dodger Dog. This year Samuel will be taking her lifelong Bowl-going habit to a new level in her recently appointed role as chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which spends its summers at the Bowl. Her programming prescription for the venue, Samuel said, will hew closely to the Bowl's decades-old philosophy.

Music Director Jeffrey Kahane will conduct six of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's eight subscription programs in the 1998-99 season, beginning Sept. 26. The first performance will take place in Royce Hall at UCLA; thereafter, each program will be given in Royce Hall on a Friday night, followed on Saturday by a performance at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. With soprano Maria Jette as soloist, Kahane leads the first program, Sept.

Edgar Meyer correctly notes that there isn't a whole lot of music for double bass and orchestra, so he has set about trying to create a repertoire himself. The protean bassist-composer already has written two concertos -- and he, Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra performed the second one at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on Saturday night. However, the Meyer Double Bass Concerto No. 2 has had a rather complex history already.