UCLA Live: The Upcoming Season and Free Tickets
The lineup for the UCLA Live 2010-11 season is so remarkable that each event could be considered a highlight of the season. Below, we’ve covered the dance and classical lineups. But consider also the big names scheduled in jazz, including Ornette Coleman (Nov. 3) and Chick Corea and Gary Burton (March 5), and in spoken [...]
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‘Opus’ at The Fountain Theatre We expect rock bands and rocky relationships to go hand in hand, having heard plenty of stories about drama and personality conflicts, break ups and reunions, over the decades. Even the best have not been immune — just look at The Beatles.
Since musicians are human and, as artists, maybe even more temperamental than most, it [...]
Southwest Chamber Music at The Huntington The Southwest Chamber Music Summer Festival at The Huntington begins its 17th season on July 10. Southwest Chamber Music is offering Culture Spot readers complimentary lawn tickets to one summer concert of their choice. A limited number of tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. You may request tickets by e-mailing mail@swmusic.org. Please provide the following information:
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The Production Company’s ‘Amadeus’ It’s Salieri’s play, but Mozart steals the show in The Production Company’s “Amadeus,” onstage at the Chandler Studio Theatre Center in North Hollywood, an intimate 33-seat venue that guarantees there is no bad seat.
Of course, Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning play that premiered on Broadway in 1980 is a gem. And in the capable hands of [...]
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The late days of summer are the best time of year in Los Angeles for an evening picnic; and if your main course pairs well with the finest music in LA, then what place could be better than the Hollywood Bowl?
Bramwell Tovey, principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, [...]
On Aug. 21, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles presented “Sure on this Shining Night,” an evening of classical and contemporary music from Giuseppe Verdi to Morten Lauridsen to Lady Gaga. Joining the massive group was a new entity, the GMCLA Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) Choir, and with it powerhouse young voices from nearby [...]
I imagine the artists who had the Hollywood Bowl stomping and shaking on Aug. 18 were booked well before April 20, when an explosion aboard BP’s Deepwater Horizon precipitated the unthinkable. But Wednesday’s lineup of New Orleans music legends — the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and the Neville Brothers — [...]
Southwest Chamber Music continued its great summer concert series at the Huntington Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 7 and 8, with music by Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and well-known local composer Anne Le Baron.
Debussy’s Danse sacrée et danse profane attracted me to the concert to begin with – and I was not disappointed. Alison Bjorkedal’s harp [...]
After such an enjoyable program two weeks ago, the California Philharmonic’s “Frank, Tony and the Maestro” at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Aug. 8 was not up to their usual standards. The customary thread with which Maestro Vener usually weaves together all the selections was grossly missing. The program ranged from Las Vegas-styled standards to [...]
The lineup for the UCLA Live 2010-11 season is so remarkable that each event could be considered a highlight of the season. Below, we’ve covered the dance and classical lineups. But consider also the big names scheduled in jazz, including Ornette Coleman (Nov. 3) and Chick Corea and Gary Burton (March 5), and in spoken [...]
Gustavo Dudamel had a ball at the Bowl with Gershwin and Bernstein kickin’ it Tuesday night, Aug. 3.
Gershwin’s eidetic An American in Paris was rapturous — take that, you East Coast snobs!
The large orchestration really resonated in the Hollywood Bowl, and Dudamel and the LA Phil delivered a knock-out performance. We could see the New [...]
REDCAT’s annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival draws to a close tonight (Aug. 7), but the three live performances included in this week’s show raise more than enough questions to fuel another year of artistic investigation. And as Thursday’s show sold out long before show time, get your tickets NOW and read on after.
Alexandro Segade’s [...]
The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony celebrates contributions of Jewish composers to film history with its annual concert program, Cinema Judaica, on Sunday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m., under the stars at the Ford Amphitheatre. The orchestra, led by Founder and Artistic Director Noreen Green, pays tribute to Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Steven Schwartz, Danny Pelfrey, [...]
Southwest Chamber Music continued its reputation for great programming on July 23, as Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt connected the dots for us between Mexico and Vienna with works by Silvestre Revueltas, Gabriela Ortiz, and Beethoven.
The setting was an idyllic Los Angeles summer’s eve at the Huntington. As I strolled in the gardens, dusk [...]
