Music

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 19: Martinai Trio with pianist Ayke Agus, South Pasadena Public Library.

Sept. 21: The Irish Tenors: John McDermott, Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan, Greek Theatre.

Sept. 21: Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara.

Sept. 24: Scott Tennant, guitar, Murphy Hall, Loyola Marymount University. Also Sept. 25.

Sept. 25: L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Sept. 25: Don Cossacks Song and Dance Ensemble of Rostov, Cerritos Center.

Sept. 26: Karen Basrak, cello, Beverly Hills Library.

Sept. 26: Andrew York, guitar, Shannon Center, Whittier.

Sept. 26: Robert Haag, piano, El Camino Center.

Sept. 26: Beverly Hills Symphony, Greystone Mansion.

OCTOBER

Oct. 1: Chanticleer, El Camino Center.

Oct. 1: St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Palisades.

Oct. 1: Pacific Symphony, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Oct. 2: L.A. Mozart Orchestra, Wilshire-Ebell Theatre.

Oct. 2: Chanticleer, with Frederica von Stade, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Oct. 2: Santa Barbara Symphony opening, Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara. Also Oct. 3.

Oct. 3: Eroica Trio, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Oct. 3: Short Trip Home: Joshua Bell, Sam Bush, Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Oct. 3: St. Andrew’s, Newport Beach: Mozart Classical Orchestra. Also Oct. 5 at Irive Barclay Theatre.

Oct. 4: Duncan Gifford, piano, Cerritos Center.

Oct. 6: Moscow Radio State Symphony, Civic Theatre, San Diego.

Oct. 7: Moscow State Radio Symphony, Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara.

Oct. 8: Jon Nakamatsu, piano, Marsee Auditorium, El Camino Center.

Oct. 8: New West Symphony, Thousand Oaks. Also Oct. 9, Oxnard.

Oct. 8: San Diego Symphony, Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego. Also Oct. 9 and 10.

Oct. 9: Southwest Chamber Music, Pasadena Presbyterian Church.

Oct. 9: Moscow State Radio Symphony and Chorus, Cerritos Center.

Oct. 10: World Festival of Sacred Music opening, Hollywood Bowl.

Oct. 11: Moscow State Radio Symphony, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Oct. 12: Southwest Chamber Music, Colburn School.

Oct. 12: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Oct. 13: L.A. Opera opening, “The Capulets and the Montagues” (Bellini), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, through Oct. 31.

Oct. 13: California EAR Unit, L.A. County Museum of Art.

Oct. 14: Opening, L.A. Philharmonic season, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Oct. 14: Guitarist Paco Pena and Inti-Illimani ensemble, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Oct. 15: World Festival of Sacred Music--the Americas, Ford Amphitheatre. Also Oct. 16 and 17.

Oct. 15: Guitarist Paco Pena and Inti-Illimani ensemble, El Camino Center.

Oct. 16: L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Oct. 16: Pasadena Symphony opening, Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

Oct. 16: Western Opera Theatre, “Don Giovanni,” El Camino Center.

Oct. 16: Openings, Long Beach Symphony Terrace Theater, Long Beach Convention Center.

Oct. 17: Guarneri String Quartet with violinist Ida Kavafian, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA.

Oct. 17: Percussionist Burhan Ocal, with Kronos Quartet, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Oct. 18: Xtet on Monday Evening Concerts opening, LACMA.

Oct. 18: St. Petersburg String Quartet opening Music Guild series, Cal State Northridge.

Oct. 18: Guarneri String Quartet, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Oct. 20: Laurie Anderson’s “Songs and Stories From Moby-Dick” opening, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Oct. 20: Soprano Kathleen Battle, Cerritos Center.

Oct. 20: Pacific Symphony. Orange County Performing Arts Center. Also Oct. 21.

Oct. 21: L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Oct. 21: National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

Oct. 21: Debussy Trio, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Oct. 21: San Diego Symphony, Jeffrey Kahane, guest conductor, Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego. Also Oct. 22 and 23.

Oct. 23: Ricardo Cobo, guitar, Murphy Hall, Loyola Marymount University.

Oct. 23: Emerson String Quartet, Sherwood Auditorium, La Jolla.

Oct. 24: The Mozartean Players, Le Petit Trianon, Pasadena (Historic Sites series).

Oct. 24: Amy and Ray Iwazumi, violins, Sundays at Two series, Beverly Hills Library.

Oct. 24: Jonathan Biss, piano, Pepperdine University, Malibu.

Oct. 24: Symphony in the Glen, Griffith Park.

Oct. 24: Emerson String Quartet (Coleman Concerts), Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena.

Oct. 24: William Hall Master Chorale, St. Andrew’s, Newport Beach.

Oct. 24: L.A. Master Chorale season opening, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Oct. 24: American Youth Symphony opening, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Oct. 24: Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay opening, Norris Theatre, Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Oct. 25: Jeffrey Siegel, pianist, in Keyboard Conversations, Skirball Center.

Oct. 26: L.A. Mozart Orchestra; Anonymous 4; Zephyr Chorus, Lucinda Carver, conductor,: “Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Oct. 26: Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara.

Oct. 27: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, John Mauceri, conductor, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Oct. 27: Verbruggen Ensemble, LACMA.

Oct. 27: Chamber Music Palisades, St. Matthew’s Church, Pacific Palisades.

Oct. 28: James Galway, flute, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Oct. 29: L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Oct. 29: Wihan Quartet, Doheny Mansion (Historic Sites series), West Coast debut.

Oct. 29: The Clerks’ Group (Renaissance vocal music), Schoenberg Hall, UCLA.

Oct. 29: National Symphony and Pacific Chorale, Orange County Performing Arts Center, “Poetry of Earth/Oedipus Rex.” Also Oct. 30.

Oct. 30: Kronos Quartet and film, “Dracula,” music by Philip Glass, Royce Hall, UCLA. Also Oct. 31.

Oct. 30: Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Warren Jones, piano, Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara.

Oct. 31: Bridge Ensemble (piano quartet), Shannon Center, Whittier.

Oct. 31: National Symphony, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 1: Sonor ensemble on Monday Evening Concerts, LACMA.

Nov. 1: James Galway, flute; Phillip Moll, piano, Civic Theatre, San Diego.

Nov. 2: “Dennis Cleveland” (Mikel Rouse), multimedia opera, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center. Through Nov. 6.

Nov. 3: Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Nov. 4: Budapest strings (Historic Sites series), Park Plaza Hotel.

Nov. 5: Theatre of Voices, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA.

Nov. 5: San Diego Symphony, Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego. Also Nov. 6 and 7.

Nov. 6: L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Nov. 6: Borodin Quartet, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA.

Nov. 6: Southwest Chamber Music, Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Also Nov. 9, Colburn School.

Nov. 6: Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia, Cerritos Center.

Nov. 6: Santa Barbara Symphony, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara. Also Nov. 7.

Nov. 7: Gay Men’s Chorus of L.A., Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood.

Nov. 7: Musica Antiqua Koln, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Nov. 7: L.A. Philharmonic, El Camino Center.

Nov. 7: Mozart Classical Orchestra, St. Andrew’s, Neport Beach.

Nov. 7: Jan-Erik Gustafson, cello; Noreen Cassidy-Polera, piano, opening season, Athenaeum, La Jolla.

Nov. 8: L.A. Philharmonic New Music Group, opening Green Umbrella series, Japan America Theatre.

Nov. 8: Makoto Nakura, marimba, Cerritos Center.

Nov. 8: Jacques Thibaud String Trio, Cal State Northridge (Music Guild). Also Nov. 9, Cal State Long Beach; Nov. 10, Wilshire-Ebell Theatre.

Nov. 9: Opera Pacific opening, “La Traviata” (Verdi), Orange County Performing Arts Center. Also Nov. 11, 13 and 14.

Nov. 9: Leila Josefowicz, violin, Sherwood, La Jolla.

Nov. 10: L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also Nov. 11 and 14.

Nov. 12: St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Palisades.

Nov. 12: New West Symphony, Oxnard. Also Nov. 13, Thousand Oaks.

Nov. 13: Pasadena Symphony, Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

Nov. 13: Ann Blyth and Bill Hayes, vocalists, Orange Coast College.

Nov. 13: L.A. Philharmonic, Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego.

Nov. 14: Schidlof Quartet, Lanterman House, La Canada Flintridge (Historic Sites series).

Nov. 14: Philip Quint, violin, Pepperdine University, Malibu.

Nov. 14: New York Chamber Soloists (Coleman Concerts), Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena.

Nov. 15: Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble (Monday Evening Concerts), LACMA.

Nov. 16: L.A. Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, Gindi Auditorium.

Nov. 16: Les Arts Florissants: Purcell’s “King Arthur,” Santa Ana High School.

Nov. 17: Angeles String Quartet, LACMA.

Nov. 17: Pacific Symphony, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Nov. 18: L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also Nov. 19, 20 and 21.

Nov. 18: Hilary Hahn, violin, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA.

Nov. 19: L.A. Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, Zipper Hall, Colburn School.

Nov. 19: Coro de la Universidad Veracruzana, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Nov. 19: Muir Quartet, Doheny Mansion.

Nov. 19: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, five “Brandenburg” Concertos, Royce Hall, UCLA. Also Nov. 20, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

Nov. 20: Pacific Symphony (Classical Connections), Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Nov. 20: Long Beach Symphony, Terrace Theater, Long Beach.

Nov. 21: Albert Wong, piano (Sundays at Two), Beverly Hills Library.

Nov. 21: Pacific Chorale opening, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Nov. 21: Christopher Taylor, piano, Athenaeum, La Jolla.

Nov. 21: American Youth Symphony, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Nov. 22: Los Angeles Piano Quartet, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Nov. 23: Susan Svrcek, piano (Piano Spheres), Neighborhood Church, Pasadena.

Nov. 23: Gosta Winbergh, tenor, Pepperdine University, Malibu.

Nov. 26: L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also Nov. 27 and 28.

Nov. 28: L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Robert Kapilow, conductor, “Elijah’s Angel” and “Polar Express,” Cerritos Center (Family series).

Nov. 29: Monday Evening Concerts: Three Nights of Percussion, with Steven Schick, LACMA. Also Dec. 1 and 6.

Nov. 29: Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Cerritos Center. 1999 Holiday Pops Tour.

Nov. 30: Mari Kodama, piano, Beethoven sonata recitals, Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Also Dec. 2, Colburn School; Dec. 14, Pasadena Presbyterian; and Dec. 16, Colburn School.

DECEMBER

Dec. 1: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, John Alexander Singers, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Dec. 2: Borromeo String Quartet, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Dec. 3: L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also Dec. 4 and 5.

Dec. 3: San Diego Symphony, Copley Symphony Hall. Also Dec. 4 and 5.

Dec. 4: Glendale Symphony opening, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

Dec. 4: Borromeo String Quartet, Sherwood Auditorium, La Jolla.

Dec. 5: Aulos Ensemble, with soprano Julianne Baird (Coleman Concerts), Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena.

Dec. 5: Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, Norris Theatre, Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Dec. 6: L.A. Philharmonic Chamber Music; Lynn Harrell, cello, Zipper Hall, Colburn School.

Dec. 7: Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara.

Dec. 8: Vermeer String Quartet, LACMA.

Dec. 8: Pacific Symphony, Orange County Performing Arts Center. Also Dec. 9.

Dec. 9: L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Chorale, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also Dec. 10, 11 and 12.

Dec. 10: L.A. Chamber Orchestra and USC Chamber Singers, Royce Hall, UCLA.

Dec. 12: Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA.

Dec. 12: American Youth Symphony, Royce Hall, UCLA.