"A delicious mix of fear and excitement!" —North West End

"Make sure you have someone’s hand to hold." —Yorkshire Times

James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past...

An original story set in the world of the terrifying Paranormal Activity film franchise, this thrilling new play will haunt you long after the lights go out. We can’t say anything else.

A pair of Ravel’s impressionistic masterworks bookend this era spanning concert, led by the prodigious Matthias Pintscher. The enchanting Mother Goose Suite begins the evening amid magical pagodas and fairy gardens. The concert concludes with his dazzling and dizzying La Valse, a masterful juxtaposition of the elegance and violence of 19th-century imperial society.

In between the incomparable Emanuel Ax joins the LA Phil for Mozart’s sublime Piano Concerto No. 25. “I think there’s a grandeur about this piece,” says Ax, from its stately opening to its lyrical slow movement Ax describes as “pure magic” to the finger-twisting finale. Pintscher, one of the most exciting compositional voices of his generation, leads the LA premiere of his work neharot, a search for light in the midst of troubled times.

Concerts in the Thursday 2 subscription series are generously supported by The Otis Booth Foundation.

Grant Gershon, conductor
Tal Rosner, video
20 singers, Bang on a Can All-Stars

Grammy Award®-winner, Oscar®-nominee, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s before and after nature is a meditation on the natural world, both before human existence and after humans are gone. Lang met closely with scholars, faculty, and students in Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability and with the Doerr-affiliated Environmental Justice Working Group to gain insight and inspiration. He combined what he learned with his own readings from the past 50 years of environmental thinking, and wrote his own texts that explore the different ways we define and understand nature. He set these texts for voices and the groundbreaking musical ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars, and enlisted video pioneer Tal Rosner to invent a way to visualize the meanings of the music in video and projection. before and after nature received its world premiere performance in February 2025 at Stanford University with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Grant Gershon and Master Chorale singers.

Rodolfo is a struggling poet burning his manuscripts to keep out the winter chill. Mimi is a fellow tenant with big dreams and a deadly illness. A chance meeting has them falling in love, but when you’re at the bottom of Parisian society, every day could be your last. 

Puccini’s blockbuster opera returns to the stage starring Janai Brugger as the sweet but suffering Mimi and Oreste Cosimo as the lovestruck Rodolfo, with Gihoon Kim and Erica Petrocelli as the on-again-off-again lovers Marcello and Musetta. 

Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados leads Puccini’s transcendent score, awash in lavish Romanticism and gorgeous melodies. Director Brenna Corner helms a timeless production from Herbert Ross that the LA Times calls a “warm, nostalgic evocation of Paris in Puccini’s time.”

The Emmy® Award-winning L.A. County Holiday Celebration returns to The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, for the 66^th annual holiday variety show. Angelenos of all ages can experience L.A.’s favorite holiday tradition with a free, three-hour live performance—also broadcast on PBS SoCal—featuring more than 20 local music ensembles, choirs and dance companies. The L.A. County Holiday Celebration is Southern California's largest free holiday show, highlighting the diverse artistry, cultures and communities that call Los Angeles County home.

"A delicious mix of fear and excitement!" —North West End

"Make sure you have someone’s hand to hold." —Yorkshire Times

James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past...

An original story set in the world of the terrifying Paranormal Activity film franchise, this thrilling new play will haunt you long after the lights go out. We can’t say anything else.

"A delicious mix of fear and excitement!" —North West End

"Make sure you have someone’s hand to hold." —Yorkshire Times

James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past...

An original story set in the world of the terrifying Paranormal Activity film franchise, this thrilling new play will haunt you long after the lights go out. We can’t say anything else.

Through breath, movement, sound and shared listening, Black Planetarium from Ethiopian American artist Kidus Hailesilassie invites audiences into a collective rehearsal for other worlds of Pan-African knowledge-making. Rooted in 6,000 years of African traditions, this new work transforms the Digital Arts Space at The Music Center into a living constellation of textiles, moving image, installation and virtual reality. More than an exhibition, Black Planetarium is a vessel for ancestral memory and a space for rest, connection and imagination. Guests are invited to step inside shaded textile environments, meditative soundscapes and a VR journey that brings centuries of language and dance to life.

Rodolfo is a struggling poet burning his manuscripts to keep out the winter chill. Mimi is a fellow tenant with big dreams and a deadly illness. A chance meeting has them falling in love, but when you’re at the bottom of Parisian society, every day could be your last. 

Puccini’s blockbuster opera returns to the stage starring Janai Brugger as the sweet but suffering Mimi and Oreste Cosimo as the lovestruck Rodolfo, with Gihoon Kim and Erica Petrocelli as the on-again-off-again lovers Marcello and Musetta. 

Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados leads Puccini’s transcendent score, awash in lavish Romanticism and gorgeous melodies. Director Brenna Corner helms a timeless production from Herbert Ross that the LA Times calls a “warm, nostalgic evocation of Paris in Puccini’s time.”