This post was updated May 18 at 8:47 p.m. A Hollywood story is being told in a new way with an opera’s West Coast premiere. A production of composer Tod Machover’s piece “Schoenberg in Hollywood” will ...

There is a small and intriguingly personal sub-genre of operas about composers. Something is always up when one composer deals with another composer’s life and music. Subjects have included Carlo ...

At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza Voll In 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor and the Nazis revoked Schoenberg’s ...

The composer and critic Virgil Thomson once defined American music as music written by Americans. There is no arguing with that. Less obvious, however, is figuring out what, if anything, describes L.A ...