Disney Hall: Upcoming Concerts & Etiquette
The very last pizzicato note of “Petrushka” in a February concert conducted by Charles Dutoit was overshadowed by someone’s badly timed cough. Therefore, I decided it’s time to publish a set of rules of etiquette for Disney Hall that have been sitting on my computer for several months now.
But, first, here are the March highlights [...]
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Conlon’s Prokofiev This weekend, James Conlon is leading the LA Phil in a series of all-Prokofiev concerts, including the Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, the “Classical Symphony”; the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10; and selections from “Romeo and Juliet.”
The concert on Saturday night began a little late not just because [...]
Review: Southwest Chamber Music and the Ascending Dragon Festival Southwest Chamber Music’s Ascending Dragon Festival opened this weekend with a set of three pre-tour concerts Friday, Saturday, and Monday. I was able to hear the Monday, March 1, concert downtown at Zipper Hall, and left not only impressed by the ensemble and programming, but also enthused about the project generally and the fine events [...]
Theater and Dance
Celebrate Dance at Alex TheatreCelebrate Dance returns to the Alex Theatre in Glendale for its fifth-anniversary show this Saturday, March 13, at 8 p.m. The festival celebrates the vibrance and diversity of our local dance community by showcasing nine Southland companies in a single evening of performance that received the Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Achievement for a [...]
Dance Review: ‘Bricklayers’ in Santa MonicaWhen Trisha Brown and her fellow dance rebels of the 1960s and ’70s began using movement “scores” – directions that require performers to solve problems in the moment of performance – in lieu of “set” choreography, the shift was both aesthetic and political. By redistributing the choreographer’s power of artistic decision to the dancers, scores [...]
Entertainment and Events
‘The Hurt Locker’ vs. ‘Avatar’It’s The Hurt Locker vs. Avatar for Best Picture this year, a true David and Goliath Oscar battle. I’m rooting for the underdog.
I saw the low-budget The Hurt Locker long before the mega-million-dollar 3D IMAX film, and when I left the theater I couldn’t imagine any other film being my Best Picture pick. I was [...]
When David Longstreth heard his music Saturday night (Feb. 27) at Walt Disney Concert Hall, his body reacted. Deft toe tapping and a kind of rhythmic saunter embodied the swells and trills of The Getty Address, played in its entirety with the small orchestra of Alarm Will Sound. The operatic and genre-dissolving 2005 album would [...]
