Venue: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles

The "beautiful game" and the "universal language" come together for a memorable night at the Hollywood Bowl.

Matters cosmic and earthly intersect in Slatkin's latest visit to the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Thomas Søndergård, great and not so great, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in their first Hollywood Bowl concert of the summer. 

Tough, punchy Stravinsky from guest conductor Teddy Abrams and violinist Leila Josefowicz.

Denis Kozhukhin crushes Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, but guest conductor Ryan Bancroft is overwhelmed in Shostakovich 10. 

The crossed warning searchlights were out and aircraft mostly stayed away, as Gemma New and the Los Angeles Philharmonic got to know each better in Beethoven and Schumann.

Guest conductor James Gaffigan celebrated musical Americana in a program of Copland, Barber, Ellington, and Karpman. 

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra go out on a limb for a second night at the Hollywood Bowl.