New voices, plus return visits from internationally leading artists,
 keep Monday Evening Concerts the hottest concert series on the
  West Coast. Two of the world’s most musically exciting pianists,
   Alexei Lubimov and Alexander Lonquich, are featured in programs
    of extreme contrast and extreme connection. Steven Schick and
     his San Diego percussion group call down music from the stars
      in a major work by the great Gérard Grisey. L.A.’s own wild Up
       sheers from European avant-garde classics to amazing outsiders
        from the Philippines. Master of the unpredictable, Rolf Riehm
         brings a new work on the death of Pasolini. Younger composers
          introduce themselves. Nothing in common here except urgency.