LOS ANGELES – At the beginning of the final movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the strings play a mellow, stirring hymn. Then a solo bassoon silences the warmth: A funeral dirge is passing through.

Skip Martin certainly has connections to the Mahoning Valley. Before he joined the Dazz Band in the early 1980s, he played for a couple of years in the Youngstown-based funk band Mighty Generation.

HER HAMMER, HIS AX: A WORTHY APOCALYPSE. When a battle goes south, Thor finds herself in ancient Egypt - facing a young Odinson! A misguided party of Vikings has bitten off way more than they can ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The conductors Michael Tilson Thomas and Daniel Barenboim have continued to perform as aging and illness loom. By Zachary Woolfe LOS ...