The Mason House season finale is upon us, brightening up the May Gray of LA’s Westside! Dutch violinist Tosca Opdam has captivated audiences and critics alike with her luminously elegant performances and “gift for storytelling that surpasses mere virtuosity.”...
The old and the new will come together brilliantly in this presentation by Mason Home Concerts, featuring the top-notch musicians of the Webern Quartet (“Impassioned, whimsical, savage”—Alex Ross, The New Yorker). This concert offers two major works: Todd...
Illness kept me away from the season opener of the wonderful Mason Home Concerts, a very special series of chamber-music concerts held in a home “salon” on the beautiful Westside. So I am extra excited for the second concert—”Chalifour and...
We’re BAAAAACK! By popular demand, the Vieness Piano Duo—Eva Schaumkell and Vijay Venkatesh—and I will collaborate again on Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals with Ogden Nash’s cheeky narration. (Note: I will be updating a few of the verses for...
Ok, so I’ve been fan crushin’ on the Zelter Quartet for a while now, so it’s always a joy to introduce their concerts and hear them play! Their enticing program combines Schubert’s incomparable “Death and the Maiden” Quartet with...
