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New Classic LA is a website engaged with the avant garde music scene in Los Angeles.

Founded in 2011 by Nick Norton and now run by Richard An, we feature concert reviews, interviews with artists, and a calendar of events we think our readers will be interested in.

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Upcoming Concerts

Saturday, April 20 2024
  • Pasadena Symphony Presents Vivaldi Four Seasons feat. Violinst Charlotte Marckx
    Ambassador Auditorium
    2:00 PM

    In our long tradition of featuring the stars of tomorrow here today, multiple prize-winning violinist Charlotte Marckx brings Vivaldi’s most cherished concertos to life with her technical chops.

    Si-ang Chen Adagio
    Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
    Puccini Crisantemi
    Vivaldi Four Seasons

    Dudamel Conducting Fellow Linhan Cui leads the orchestra for this season finale of Baroque masterworks and Award-winning Chinese Composer Si-ang Chen’s beautifully sonorous Adagio.

    Pasadena Symphony
    Linhan Cui conductor
    Charlotte Marckx violin

    2:00pm & 8:00pm
    Tickets start at $40. Buy here: https://www.avpress.com/local-events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/event/2003895-pasadena-symphony-presents-vivaldi-four-seasons-feat-violinst-charlotte-marckx

Wednesday, April 24 2024
  • Hear Now Music Festival
    2022 Arts & Archives
    8:00 PM

    Electroacoustic concert in collaboration with People Inside Electronics with Brightwork Ensemble

    a place without language or streets, Jack Herscowitz
    Antibodypolitic Running Spring, Alexander E. Miller
    black_may, James C. Leelayuvat (World Premiere)
    Eikosany Study, Daniel Corral
    Drones,Improvisations, Refrains, John Kennedy (World Premiere)
    Because Patterns/Deep State, Isaac Schankler

Thursday, April 25 2024
  • Hear Now Music Festival
    2220 Arts & Archives
    8:00 PM

    Chamber Concert
    Lyris Quartet, Brightwork Ensemble, and HEX

    Trio Contraptions, piano trio Ryan McWilliams
    Softly Speaks the Wind, Madeline Barrett (World Premiere)
    Le Train. Oscar Pan
    Adrenaline, Feona Lee Jones (LA Premiere)
    Octet, Jeonghyeon Joo
    In Waves, Kion Heidari
    Traveling Symphony, Donald Crockett