Lou Harrison

Never, perhaps, was there a more fitting program for Jacaranda's motto "music at the edge" than the one served up Sunday evening: two rare works by two iconoclastic Pacific Rim composers, performed almost literally on the Rim itself at Santa Monica's First Presbyterian Church during a solar eclipse. Read More

James Moore doesn't know what to call it either. Read More

In the San Francisco Symphony 's four-night stand at Carnegie Hall, the centerpiece of the American Mavericks festival , the music had about as much in common with your everyday orchestral program as a dog collar has with standard concert dress. Read More

Said to be the primordial sound, many believe it was present at the creation of the universe and contains all other sounds, words and languages. Read More