Review: Thomas Adès and Nico Muhly, with a Natalie Portman assist
(LA Times Dodgers)

Thomas Adès and Nico Muhly are two major composers with much in common. By his early 20s, Adès, who is now 48, had already been dubbed in his native England the next Benjamin Britten. Muhly, a decade younger, also attracted attention in his 20s as a standout student at Juilliard, a protégé of Philip...