If someone has never attended a symphony orchestra concert before, this is the weekend to give it a try.

Superstar Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is returning to the Los Angeles Philharmonic to take the new position of creative director beginning with the 2026-27 season, it was announced Tuesday. As ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen, shown in a file photo conducting in Disney Hall, where he once was music director. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Does last week's news that Los Angeles Philharmonic Chief ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic surrounded by performers from L.A. Dance Project on Sunday in Walt Disney ...

When Esa-Pekka Salonen announced recently that he would step down as music director of the San Francisco Symphony next year, he did not say it was to spend more time with his family. He told the truth ...

Immediately after conducting the last Los Angeles Philharmonic concert of the 2007-08 season in June, music director Esa-Pekka Salonen took off for Stockholm, where the Swedish Radio Orchestra ...

In Esa-Pekka Salonen’s radiant and surprisingly hopeful new Cello Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma is asked to be a combination wave-maker and cloud seeder. What with our winter of drought, those are not unwelcome ...