Los Angeles

Despite the homecoming theme, the limelight was on six emerging composers for this year’s welcome return to a live festival.

The company opens its season with a new production of Verdi’s flawed masterpiece.

The new-music fest celebrates its 10th anniversary online with seven concerts featuring fresh compositions and Hear Now’s first commission.

As performances return, musicians have to be prepared for the stresses of the job. Here’s how they do it.

The company is also bringing in a new resident conductor to replace Grant Gershon, who is stepping down.

The pioneering conductor and indefatigable impresario talks about Muse/ique, her stint with Jessye Norman, and a new Nat King Cole project.

The bass-baritone created a spiritual space without dogma in a Monday Evening Concerts performance.

The West Coast premiere of Anthony Davis’s Restless Mourning highlights a chamber concert of memorial pieces.

The composer speaks about the music he’s chosen for the festival weekend — mostly other composers’ works.

The massive success of the group’s Virtual Happy Hours combines with in-person performances.